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...they're pegged to the value of the US dollar. The way that stablecoins really took off initially was that on a number of crypto exchanges, people wanted to be able to buy and trade using dollars. There were this book called The Cryptopians, and it ki
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...in what stablecoins can do right now, and he's tracking how these benefits play out with real businesses across the world. I was talking a few weeks ago to someone who was using a stablecoin to send value from their wallet in The US. This person was
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...own stablecoins that are also USD denominated to the point that those new stablecoins are somewhat fungible and interchangeable with USDC and with Tether. Because if all of them are compliant, then you can trust that all of them are likely to be ulti
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...at stablecoins today, there are $230,000,000,000 market. Those $230,000,000,000 rotate on chain to the tune of about $27,000,000,000,000 last year in 2024, which was greater than Visa's total settlement volume, almost two x that. And if you kinda thi
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...is actually growing very Take a second to, quickly define stablecoins for the audience just to to get your people out. Let me define what a stablecoin is, which is that you put a dollar into a wallet somewhere, and in return, you get a digital token
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...on stablecoins per year. And there are many traditional financial institutions that are beginning to use stablecoins to rip out a lot of the back end
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point in the, like, evolution of crypto to really understand why Stablecoin is really interesting and and, like, why now and, like, why everybody is is talking about it and and excited about the things it unlocks. Yeah. So I'll, I'll take over, like,
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...other stablecoins as well. I wonder what you think of that trend, how that'll continue to pan out in the future. The details there have a lot to do with regulatory conditions. The passage of the Genius Act after it's had some time to cook and after s
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...stablecoins are, like, one to one. So it's, like, a dollar is equal to one stablecoin. And so it used to be a safe haven from crypto market volatility. That was, like, the general original thesis behind stablecoins. And now stablecoins are being seen
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...Stablecoins really grow for traditional use cases. So, you know, we've been talking about this for a long period of time. There was companies that raised a lot of money on this thesis, you know, for for years. But if you look around the actual compan
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...the stablecoins are, denominated, in or or pegged to the belt of the US dollar. And it's, of course, because we're the global reserve currency. So there's a lot of safety there. You know? I mean, there's so there's so many different reasons people ac
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...stablecoins operate, that has turned out to be an enormous business. Why? When you give them a billion dollars and get a billion dollars of stablecoins in return, they just go and put it into the bank. And, you know, when interest rates are two, thre
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...stablecoins. That's where UST falls. There are dozens of these algorithmic stablecoins that have been launched over the years.
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...Stablecoins also help with another barrier to paying people in a different country. They need to hold reserves of the local currency on their side of the border. That can be risky. Because if I need to get that money internationally quickly, it means
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...So stablecoins were really like the first hunting ground for alpha from a non directional standpoint, for us, at least. And then as the markets evolved, one of the areas that we're finding very interesting is you have public assets, whether it's Micr
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