# @drakefjustin: why we're building internet finance

Source: https://x.com/drakefjustin/status/1909191037161033735
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/drakefjustin-why-were-building-internet-finance?index=0x67f3ca4257c89fd1ebe78a5a5ce6c3b6efc6281751a9da2dbf7eb168241abcac3a9541ca
Submitted by tim on 2025-04-07 UTC, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

## Summary

Justin Drake argues that internet finance should be built on a set of contrasts: free trade over trade wars, permissionless innovation over bureaucracy, and sovereign individuals over intermediaries. The post frames these as a multi-decade vision rather than a four-year cycle, and it contrasts undebasable money with money printers, cryptography with aircraft carriers, and fairness by design with cronyism. It closes by stating that internet finance is coming and urging readers to believe in it.

## Article

Today's a good day to remember why we're here.

We're building the future of finance—internet finance.

Unstoppable global free trade, not trade wars.
Credible neutrality, not entrenched interests.
Permissionless innovation, not bureaucracy.
Undebasable money, not money printers.
Sovereign individuals, not intermediaries.
A multi-decade vision, not 4-year cycles.
The internet, not imperial superpowers.
Positive-sum games, not rent-seeking.
Peaceful revolutions, not warmongers.
Cryptography, not aircraft carriers.
Network effects, not isolationism.
Fairness by design, not cronyism.
Open competition, not oligopoly.
Network states, not nationalism.
Frictionless markets, not tariffs.
Innovators, not lobbyists.
Builders, not lawyers.
Devs, not politicians.

Internet finance is coming. It's built different. Believe in something.