If [Leofinance](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-what-is-leofinance) wants to be successful as a [Web 3.0](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-web-3-0) platform, it should follow the [Eurodollar System](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-eurodollar-system-market).  This is imperative for all to understand.

Before getting started, I will state that we are awaiting some [infrastructure](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-infrastructure-computer).  For that reason, this is an article meant to stimulate the mental exercise of where things need to head in the future.  It is not, per se, a call to head there now.

That said, we see Leofinance starting to excel in the area of [social media](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-social-media).  The long -form content is genre specific.  The [microblogging](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-microblogging) is now added and that is open to any topic.  We are told that shorts will be incorporated, added another valuable medium (video) to the platform.   This will also follow as a part of threads.

Here we see a solid foundation forming.  We are now to the point where covering the social media bases is forming.  Another 6 months and we should be there.

What about the financial aspect?  After all, what is Web 3.0 without [finance](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-finance)?  Here is where infrastructure is crucial.  However, after that, it is a necessary part to build out.

## The Eurodollar System

Anyone who follows me knows that I spent a lot of time studying the offshore lending system, also known as the Eurodollar System.  This is something is overlooked by most, omitting a key component to how our financial and monetary [networks](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-network) truly operate.

It is also the road map for [cryptocurrency](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/cryptocurrency).  Unfortunately, most do not realize this.

The Eurodollar system, these days, has nothing to do with the [US dollar](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-u-s-dollar).  We see the only tie is to the [unit of account](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-unit-of-account).  There was a time when [eurodollars](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-eurodollar) were a claim on US [banknotes](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-banknote) but no longer.  After all, physical [currency](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-currency) has too many problems associated with it.

People think [governments](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-government) are in control of [money](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-money).  This is categorically untrue in the majority of the cases.  Not only is 80% of the global currency under [fractional reserve banking](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-fractional-reserve-banking), it also overlooks the entire Eurodollar system.  

We also have something that is outside the scope of [central banks](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-central-bank).  As Alan Greenspan said in the June 2000 FOMC meeting, finding money was becoming a "dubious" proposition.  In other words, [the Fed](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-federal-reserve-bank-the-fed) can't even identify is since the [banks](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-bank) created so many different forms.

Essentially, the Eurodollar System is one of lending, borrowing, remittance, collateralization, and cross-border payments, all operating outside the reach of governments and central banks.  It is fully decentralized among the participants with anyone being able to participate in the same manner.  That said, it is a closed system only open to banks.

What they create is private, reserve-less bank money.

Cryptocurrency is the same, just removing the banks.

## Think Like A Banker

When it comes to the second aspect of Web 3.0, it is crucial for us to start thinking like bankers.  That might stick in the craw to some but the bottom line is you best understand their thinking.

Bankers know money.  This is something that cannot be stressed enough.  Others think they know money yet do not.  After all, find me a gold bug who can explain the Eurodollar system and how bilateral agreements operate in comparison to the repo market and what impact that has on global geo-politics.

Think I am making this up.  The answer is why sanctions tend not to work since the participants, i.e. banks, are not really concerned with [SWIFT](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-society-for-worldwide-interbank-financial-telecommunication-swift), BIS or the Fed.  

Here is a thread I sent out earlier:

 https://images.hive.blog/DQmf9Z8cQCyXJ1gcx3x81gL2uCzb4XtDparv1HFX1szkepy/leo.png 

The answer should be: NEVER.

Wait.  Doesn't it say it is always a good idea to sell on the way up?

It does if there is no other choice.  However, the goal of Leofinance should be to ensure that [LEO](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-leo) holders never sell.  

Sell is what average people do.  Bankers do something different.  Instead of sell, they collateralize.  If something has value and they are optimistic it will continue, then why sell?  The way to accomplish this is to use the asset for a [loan](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-loans) so that you get paid yet still own the asset.

Do you see how that is different?

How would you like to be able to take your LEO, at 30 cents, and put that up against a loan at 70%.  Lets say you have $3,000, you can pull out $2,100.  Now you have [liquidity](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-liquidity) to invest elsewhere.  Imagine being able to do that, swapping into [HBD](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-hive-backed-dollar-hbd), and putting $2,100 in savings earning 20%. 

This is what bankers do.  The Eurodollar system is one predicated upon the capacity of the [balance sheets](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-balance-sheet).  Each person on Leo needs to look at his or her balance sheet and how to expand it.  As the capacity of the collective gets larger, the entire system grows.

Another interesting thing happens when people collateralize: there is no sell pressure. 

If our Lion to the $3000 worth of LEO and sold it, that could put downward pressure on the price of the [token](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-token).  By putting it up against a loan, no sale takes place.  The asset is used for further economic (financial) expansion without selling the asset.

 Do you see the opportunity that can be presented?

Imagine being able to use this for options, [synthetic assets](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-synthetic-assets), interest rate swaps, or other derivatives.  Consider for a moment being able to use your LEO as [collateral](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-collateral) for a wrapped version of [bitcoin](https://leofinance.io/posts/@leoglossary/leoglossary-bitcoin).

This is banking 101.  For the past 70 years, the international financial system has been operating in this manner.  Ironically, they did it for the most part outside the view of everyone.

It is the path forward for cryptocurrency.  Withint its own world, it is the way Leofinance should be thinking.  
 
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