My research goal is to understand if it’s possible to reconstruct financial services to serve it’s clients better than today assuming that the following hypothesis holds true : smart contracts on distributed ledgers act as disintermediation of trust agents in value exchange systems. For background reading, see the disintermediation of trust blog.

understand if it’s possible to reconstruct financial services to serve it’s clients better than today

Influenced by the structured ideation approach, I decided to start my research by looking for use-cases where value is exchanged and there are intermediaries mitigating trust issues between counter-parties, in order to first deconstruct the value proposition of trust intermediation and later reconstruct financial services meeting and exceeding trust needs but this time in a distributed and de-centralised manner.

smart contracts on distributed ledgers act as disintermediation of trust agents in value exchange systems

I picked on markets as a place to start as they are where parties engage in exchange…