immibis 1 day ago

Bitcoin can't, but defi can. An entity can issue a ERC-whatever token that acts as a bond, minted in exchange for whichever other token (e.g. ETH), and redeemable for that plus interest at their discretion (e.g. you could create a redeem queue). The bonds can be traded in secondary markets immediately upon creation - no need to file for listing (you need to create a swap pool and seed it with a little of each asset though).

An important difference is that your new token can't ever be confused with base money. In banks, we have base money, and we have bank money, and we pretend they're the same thing because banks are pretty reliable (not 100% but pretty). In crypto, the system won't let you lie like that. (Though you can create another new currency backed by a mix of currencies - this is what DAI does.)

Another important difference is trust. I can easily issue bonds in the real world and then just run off with the money and not repay them. If I try, a lot of heavily armed men will hunt me down. That doesn't really happen in crypto, and as things are now it can't happen, because if you make your identity and location known and issue crypto bonds, the same armed men will hunt you down for issuing crypto bonds instead of ordinary bonds, which is a crime itself (see what happened to Kik/Kin). So you'd have to stake something else to make people trust you.

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Jarwain 9 hours ago

I've always found it ironic how crypto basically make it not necessary to trust, but nobody trusts it.

immibis 10 minutes ago

Bitcoin is trustworthy. Monero is trustworthy. Ethereum is relatively trustworthy, but if you make a transaction that Vitalik doesn't like, he forks the whole coin to roll it back.

Is Binance Coin trustworthy? Hell no (but it's fast and cheap - because it's centralized all the transaction limits are turned up to 11). Is Terra trustworthy? It's a neat idea if it works - real-world evidence proves it doesn't. Is Jarwain-Immibis Bond Token trustworthy?