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Getting into the Flows – Project Breakthrough – Medium

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Regulation — ‘aligning financial regulation with the Global Goals … to make sustainable asset classes more investible at lower cost.’

From Getting into the Flows – Project Breakthrough – Medium

So, if we look at the patten of the co-evolution of money and technology what we would expect to see is the sustainable assets classes as a mechanism for deferred payment that becomes a store of value and then a means of exchange. The means of exchange then becomes a currency that denominates other transactions. Richard Roberts goes on to identify candidate currencies based on which 

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