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Disintermediation
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- 2922176-002 : Algorithms substitute for human middlemen inside firms, and this substitution is what produces flatter, unmediated organizations in which the best idea, rather than hierarchical position, prevails.
- 2922176-003 : Platform disruptors such as Uber and Airbnb did not decentralize their industries by eliminating intermediaries; they decentralized by replacing incumbent intermediaries with algorithmic ones.
- 2939127-008 : The decentralization of law pursued by Legal Tech startups has broad repercussions for the legal profession, the first of which is that existing legal services are rendered increasingly irrelevant or
- 2939127-013 : The counseling, deal making, matchmaking, gatekeeping, and enforcement roles historically performed by lawyers are increasingly performed by technology, and blockchain technology and smart contracting
- 2939127-015 : Intermediaries, lawyers among them, are replaced by code, connectivity, crowd, and collaboration.
- 2939127-019 : Smart contracting on a blockchain often makes conventional legal contracting unnecessary, because smart contracts emulate the logic of legal contract clauses.
- 2939127-020 : Increased connectivity enabled by blockchain technology, combined with increased decentralization, allows the removal of intermediaries including lawyers, financial intermediaries, and platform compan
- 2939127-022 : Once blockchain technology gains wider acceptance and its applications reach consumers, existing legal processes and structures will likely be among the first processes to become redundant.
- 2939127-040 : For the parts of dealmaking and other legal tasks that cannot be placed on a blockchain, the role of non blockchainable agents of trust may expand, and blockchain driven disintermediation of law may i
- 2959730-022 : Smart contracting on the blockchain often makes legal contracting unnecessary because smart contracts emulate the logic of legal contract clauses.
- 2959730-033 : LendingRobot can charge only a 1% management fee and a maximum 0.59% annual fund expense fee because its blockchain secured business model removes the investment adviser, overhead costs, and the legal
- 2998033-001 : Blockchain technology lowers transaction costs by eliminating intermediaries, and it substitutes immutability and cryptography for the trust that intermediaries previously supplied.
- 2998033-002 : Smart contracting on blockchain platforms often makes legal contracting unnecessary, because smart contracts emulate the logic of legal contract clauses.
- 2998033-003 : Business, administrative and legal services that consist of keeping ledgers, such as notary and registry services, legal motions practice, and title companies, are likely to be among the first service
- 2998033-025 : Blockchain increases competitive pressure in the private investment fund industry because its decentralized model for financial transactions disintermediates and disrupts the existing financial infras
- 2998097-039 : Blockchain's structural characteristic as a decentralized model for financial transactions disintermediates and disrupts the existing financial infrastructure, so private funds that adopt it first dir
- 3002908-015 : Distributed networks disintermediate: because validation is distributed, a centralized validating entity such as a central bank or clearing house is not necessary to record and validate transactions.
- 3002908-018 : Smart contracting often makes legal contracting unnecessary, because smart contracts frequently emulate the logic of legal contract clauses.
- 3002908-021 : Consistent with market fragmentation and disintermediation, smaller private investment fund managers have begun to erode the power of established market institutions such as banks and insurance compan
- 3002908-022 : Post crisis regulation that restrained bank lending, particularly to SMEs, opened a new market that private investment funds moved into, accelerating their involvement in banking functions.
- 3002908-023 : Private investment funds that are first movers in implementing blockchain infrastructure in finance directly contribute to disintermediation and accelerate the evolution of blockchain infrastructure i
- 3002908-036 : Whether private investment funds succeed in disintermediating banks through blockchain implementation depends on their ability to find scale opportunities.
- 3067615-001 : Initial Coin Offerings are the most efficient means of financing entrepreneurial initiatives in the history of capital formation, because they minimize transaction cost and democratize finance while d
- 3071378-001 : Blockchain technology delivers anonymous and secure transactional guarantees through democratized trust and disintermediation, and its anti-discrimination features allow minorities and disenfranchised
- 3071378-003 : Because the public blockchain is public and immutable, the technology increases transparency while significantly reducing transaction costs, and intermediaries including lawyers are replaced by code,
- 3071378-006 : Smart contracting often makes legal contracting unnecessary because smart contracts emulate the logic of legal contract clauses.
- 3128900-016 : The protocol lowers cost because it removes the manual verification step and the associated multiplication of micro task work that centralized systems require, letting decentralized workers capture th
- 3128900-039 : Removing centralized fees produces a more efficient marketplace for workers, verifiers, and requesters alike by eliminating rent seeking intermediaries, leaving gas for posters as the only cost.
- 3227933-010 : Blockchain extends what the Internet did for information: it makes it possible to transfer and exchange value and assets without traditional centralized intermediaries, by storing information in a dec
- 3227967-018 : Because blockchain network nodes verify, validate and audit transactions both before and after execution, the model is safer than a traditional one in which transactions can only be accomplished throu
- 3227967-020 : Blockchain replaces intermediaries, bureaucracy and old fashioned procedures with the four Cs of code, connectivity, crowd and collaboration, which increases openness and speed while significantly red
- 3373393-028 : Decentralized Autonomous Organizations have begun to challenge the core belief that governance necessitates agency, because blockchain enables the removal of agents as intermediaries through code, pee
- 3405401-008 : Because the smart contract removes centralized guarantors and self regulates, only limited legal recourse remains available when execution of the contract terms goes wrong.
- 3405401-027 : Bitcoin proved that a decentralized system can automate the transfer of valuable digital currency without intermediaries and without a centralized authority for recourse, doing so efficiently, securel
- 3409548-013 : Business, administrative, and legal processes that depend on legal intermediaries may become redundant as blockchain technology advances and is accepted, with ledger keeping services such as notary an
- 3409548-024 : Because blockchain is transparent, verifiable, self-authenticating and self-enforcing, transactions can settle instantaneously at near zero cost, and it is this combination plus technology-driven demo
- 3409548-039 : The structural characteristic of blockchain as a decentralized model for financial transactions disintermediates and disrupts the existing financial infrastructure, so funds implementing it are spearh
- 3411110-007 : Because direct ownership on a blockchain removes the need for the Depository Trust Corporation to hold the certificate and for a broker to record beneficial ownership, agency costs can be cut and owne
- 3411110-012 : Transfer agents become unnecessary in blockchain based trading models because every function they perform, including maintaining the holding record, can be automated in code and is already produced by
- 3606663-005 : The assumption by ICO issuers that token sales let them circumvent securities registration and disclosure requirements proved to be a fallacy for many U.S. issuers, who faced increased SEC enforcement
- 3606663-024 : DeFi platforms grant the unbanked access to the loan market by disintermediating existing banks, connecting borrowers and lenders directly in peer to peer networks and accepting digital assets as coll
- 3606663-026 : Centralized financial technology does not complete the disintermediation it promises, because users still deal with a technology company as intermediary instead of a financial institution, which leave
- 3606663-027 : DeFi is more efficient than existing financial intermediation including FinTech, and that superior efficiency traces to its extensive reliance on code and automation, which removes large parts of the
- 3709041-002 : Blockchain technology incentivizes direct transactions between creator and consumer, including compensation, which eliminates the need for intermediation.
- 3782201-018 : Removing the middlemen who serve as business catalysts would kill the economy: liquidity would dry up because after a few people unfairly lose on business deals, no one will take the risk of initiatin
- 3782216-011 : Applying Web3 technology to chit funds replaces the foremen and their commission with smart contracts, which eliminates the risk that a foreman absconds with the fund.
- 3808867-037 : High intermediary fees in legacy payment systems make transacting economically viable only at higher transaction volumes, thereby creating barriers to entry that decentralized payment systems do not i
- 4021599-005 : Disintermediation is a key feature of blockchain technology because the technology incentivizes direct transactions between creators and consumers.
- 5254152-006 : Smart contracts, as self executing contracts with terms written directly into code, remove the need for intermediaries, which lowers costs and raises trust among participants.
- 5245185-005 : Decentralized cryptocurrency rails let AI agents autonomously control digital wallets, securing private keys, monitoring balances, and managing multiple addresses, without requiring human or instituti
- 5454054-003 : Retailer-issued stablecoins operate as an onchain Eurodollar play: they decentralize the creation of dollar-denominated liquidity, which reduces transaction costs and disintermediates traditional bank
- 5454054-020 : For tokenized stocks, smart contracts can verify ownership and holding periods directly from blockchain ledgers and trigger voucher airdrops without intermediaries, which lowers operational costs and