Programmable finance, decentralized trust, digital economies, and emerging value networks.
Equips financial, policy, and civic leaders with foresight on how programmable money, identity, and trust infrastructures converge to redefine economic participation.
Lattice - DeFi & Economic Systems
This radar highlights innovative technologies designed to help people understand and navigate the future of programmable finance, decentralized trust, digital economies, and emerging value networks. We focus on cryptographic hardware, composable value layers, autonomous finance agents, and decentralized markets that are transforming how value is created, exchanged, and governed. By mapping the convergence of cryptography, blockchain technology, and economic systems, we aim to provide insights into technologies that will reshape finance, commerce, and economic organization.
This resource is free and open-access, ensuring it reaches financial professionals, developers, researchers, policymakers, and the public. In this version of the Envisioning Lattice radar, we go beyond emerging technologies by including applications, embedded finance systems, and ethical considerations around financial autonomy, privacy, systemic risk, and post-quantum economic security. This broadened focus demonstrates that the future of economic systems depends on more than just technical capability; financial inclusion, privacy protection, and systemic stability play equally important roles in ensuring these technologies create more equitable and resilient economies.
Our Work
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Developed a comprehensive research database documenting DeFi and economic system technologies across hardware, software, applications, and ethics.
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Features technologies encompassing cryptographic acceleration chips, secure IoT wallets, quantum-ready security modules, composable value layers, and autonomous finance agents.
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Four-dimensional assessment system tracking Technology Readiness Level, Impact, and Investment for each entry.
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Application-focused analysis covering programmable payments, decentralized markets, embedded finance, and tokenized assets.
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Ethical framework integration examining financial autonomy, privacy rights, systemic risk management, and post-quantum economic security.
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Ongoing research with periodic updates as new financial technologies emerge and economic applications expand.
Impact
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Provides financial professionals and developers with structured insights into emerging economic system technologies.
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Free and open-access, enabling researchers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and citizens to explore financial technologies with critical awareness.
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Financial inclusion focus presenting both technological capabilities and considerations around access, privacy, and systemic stability.
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Supports informed decision-making for financial system design, policy development, and technology adoption in economic systems.
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Comprehensive framework consolidating diverse domains (cryptography, blockchain, DeFi, embedded finance) into a unified reference system.
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Material serves as both a reference tool and governance framework for understanding how economic technologies evolve and the practices needed to ensure they create more inclusive, private, and resilient financial systems.
