When you start putting together things that are being built separately, something pretty interesting seems to be taking shape around @FlareNetworks, FIP 16 and FCC. 🤔 Let's assume I'm right about two things (and I'm pretty convinced I am). 1️⃣ AIC (The AI Indexing Company) could be one of the projects Hugo has been hinting at : xitter.cf/JeeC84/status/21096498… 2️⃣ Flare is working on some kind of confidential decentralized exchange, where institutions could trade assets without publicly exposing their orders. Orders and trades could be processed inside a TEE, without putting every single transaction on-chain. I'm also pretty confident about this second part, because I found some interesting stuff on GitHub and Coston2, especially around the FCC confidential orderbook prototype. Now here's where it gets interesting... Imagine AIC launching a tokenized index on Flare. That index could generate trading activity, rebalancing, arbitrage opportunities, maybe even lending and borrowing around those assets. AIC makes fees, Flare generates network activity and fees, and some of that activity could create MEV opportunities. And I'm talking about useful MEV here, not toxic MEV like sandwich attacks or front-running. Now look at FIP-16. Flare isn't just looking at capturing part of that economic value through FIRE. FIP-16 also introduces something I find particularly interesting: the possibility to share part of those revenues with asset issuers, depending on the activity and MEV their assets generate. Think about that for a second. What if Flare is actually trying to attract companies building financial products, give them confidential computing infrastructure through FCC, and then capture part of the economic activity those products generate? And on top of that, reward those same issuers for bringing more assets and activity to the network. That's a pretty interesting business model if you ask me. And when I look at the timing of Hugo's statements, the FCC developments, the GitHub stuff, and FIP-16... I don't know, but things starts to connect in my head. Maybe FCC isn't just another technical product Flare wants to offer. Maybe FCC is what attracts financial applications, those applications bring assets and liquidity, and FIP-16 is how Flare captures and redistribute some of the value created. Basically creating an economic incentive for financial companies to build on #Flare. And honestly, I think that's a pretty strong argument to attract institutional players. This could be way bigger than just $FXRP. Of course I'm still speculating here, and I could be wrong about AIC, but I really feel there's something interesting being built behind all this. $FLR #TEEs #DeFi #Finance