Most blockchains weren’t built for real world finance. We sat down...

Uploaded: 2026-02-22T17:08:48.000Z
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DROPS E29: Ivo Grigorov, CEO at Real - The Trust Layer That Traditional Finance Has Been Waiting For From managing $1.2B in traditional finance to building an institutional-grade L1, Ivo is on a mission to bring real-world assets on-chain and rebuild trust between banks and crypto. We talk about: - Why trust is the missing link in tokenized real-world assets - How Real Finance is designing an L1 for banks and institutions - Turning a $100M guarantee scheme into smart contracts - Why crypto misunderstands sustainability and compounding - Bridging TradFi and Web3 with transparency, validators & on-chain metadata - Raising $29M and onboarding banks before mainnet launch And much more... Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:35 - Founder Life 2:37 - The Mission & Sacrifices 4:10 - Building globally before launch 5:00 - Background & Qualifications 6:23 - Childhood Experiences 09:58 - Co-founders & Partnership 12:55 - Credibility 15:16 - What Crypto misunderstood about TradFi? 19:39 - What TradFi misunderstood about Crypto? 24:26 - The Real Turning Point 26:46 - Credefi to Real Finance 32:00 - What’s RWA? 34:40 - What’s broken with RWAs? 36:58 - Real Finance in simple terms 38:09 - Institutional interest in Real Finance 41:28 - Success & Failures 41:58 - How Global Finance could change 43:02 - Crypto isn’t a slow process 45:35 - Conclusion

MR SHIFT 🦁

40,246 views • 5 months ago

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The Case for Stablechains - Why Payments Don’t Belong on General-Purpose Blockchains 🎙️ Payments are the oldest function in finance. The underlying rails still carry a lot of legacy weight. General-purpose blockchains gave us a crypto-native alternative, but they weren’t built for payments. Can stablechains fix the rails, the way stablecoins fixed the asset? A conversation with Brian Mehler, CEO of Stable, on where money moves next. Key timestamps: 00:00 The bull case for stablechains 07:49 Stable’s go-to-market strategy 13:20 Why Tron won stablecoin payments 17:58 What it takes for Stable to succeed 26:39 Why stablecoins and stablechains are fragmenting 34:07 Why Stable built around USDT 36:20 Why money velocity matters for stablechains

LI.FI

12,437 views • 6 months ago

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On Pass The Block this week, we've got a front-end demo showcasing the functionality of Avail Nexus in a mocked integration with Aave. In this demo, we walk through the experience for an Aave user, showcasing how simple cross-chain liquidity flows can take place with Avail Nexus. Here’s what the demo covers: 1. A user lends ETH tokens that are on the Ethereum, BNB Chain and Polygon networks. The ETH tokens are seamlessly deposited onto the Ethereum network 2. Using the deposited ETH as collateral on Ethereum, the user borrows $100k USDC on Base. 3. The user then borrows an additional $10k USDC on Polygon, still using the ETH collateral on Ethereum. All of this happens without leaving the application or manually bridging assets. Note: This is a mock-up of an Aave front-end to demonstrate the usability of apps built with Avail Nexus on the backend. Avail Nexus is a powerful, verifiable interoperability solution that can streamline the onchain experience for any integrated web3 app or blockchain network.

Avail

85,547 views • 1 year ago

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LIVE NOW - The Future of Ethereum Scaling: Native Rollups Explained Native Rollups are the next big step toward scaling Ethereum securely. In this episode, Uma Roy (CEO of Succinct) and Justin Drake (Ethereum Foundation researcher) break down what Native Rollups are, how they leverage Ethereum’s core infrastructure for execution and validation, and why they're crucial for stronger security, better composability, and sustainable Ethereum growth. Tune in to understand the evolution of Ethereum’s rollup-centric roadmap and how Native Rollups could become a foundational upgrade for Ethereum's future. -------------- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 6:41 Why Native Rollups? 16:32 Security & Composability Benefits 38:13 ZKProofs 42:52 Making L2s Native 50:48 Network Effects 52:35 Customizability Trade-Offs 58:59 Timelines 1:02:39 ETH Economic Impacts 1:05:46 Other Advantages 1:08:17 Succinct 1:08:59 1:11:32 Real-Time Proving 1:12:33 Ethereum’s Bottleneck 1:15:43 Closing & Disclaimers

Bankless

124,961 views • 1 year ago

1:37:27

LIVE NOW - Why Stablecoins Are The Banks’ Worst Nightmare What happens when stablecoins break apart the traditional business model of banks? Finance Expert & Columbia Business School Professor Charles Calomiris answers that and much more. Get ready to learn: - how the “unbundling” of payments and lending reshapes finance. - why politics matter more than technology when it comes to stablecoins. - what the stablecoin revolution could mean for the future of the dollar & currencies abroad. -------------- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 What Are Banks? 7:56 Chartered Banking 30:44 The Unbundling 51:48 Stablecoin Yield Concerns 1:01:42 Death of The Dollar? 1:15:45 Stablecoins Abroad 1:20:52 Future of The Dollar 1:24:38 Dollar as a SoV 1:32:10 Are Stablecoins Winning? 1:36:30 Closing & Disclaimers

Bankless

11,964 views • 10 months ago

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Open markets can make finance more transparent, competitive, and efficient. Paul Frambot 🦋, cofounder and CEO of Morpho 🦋, on what it means to build lending and borrowing onchain. 0:00 Intro 0:36 What Morpho actually does 5:26 Why Wall Street is paying attention now 6:46 Who’s adopting onchain finance first: Banks or asset managers? 9:57 The race for a Euro stablecoin 10:49 The future of finance, 5–10 years out 11:16 Why finance is still broken 13:30 What open mortgage and credit markets could become on open blockchains 15:14 The worst advice Paul's received as a founder 17:17 What's wrong with an $8 croissant

a16z crypto

14,166 views • 3 months ago

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The bull case for crypto isn’t memes. It’s better market structure. buffalu on why onchain finance can be cheaper, faster, and more open than the brokerage model most people use today. 0:00 Intro 0:49 What is Jito and why does it exist? 1:11 Why Solana transactions are less than a penny 2:00 What attracted Lucas to Solana from Ethereum 2:39 How Jito is like Cloudflare for blockchains 5:02 The $1,500 Ethereum transaction fee problem 7:21 The vision: all of finance onchain 7:46 Why onchain beats opening a Robinhood account 8:37 Lucas's journey from robotics to crypto 9:55 Solana's rate of improvement and Anatoly's Law 10:44 The pitch for people new to crypto 15:00 Staying lean at 21 people 15:17 Nicotine as a productivity hack 15:58 Sleep, alcohol, and the Oura ring 16:25 Movie and show recommendations 16:40 Smallest hill you'll die on: littering and shopping carts

a16z crypto

19,835 views • 3 months ago

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Verifiable AI is crypto’s true product–market fit. At DAS London by , our Chief Growth Officer, JT Rose shared a vision 10 years in the making. ☁️ EigenCloud: Ethereum’s Verifiable AI Cloud ☁️ Bitcoin gave us verifiable money. Ethereum gave us verifiable logic. Now, EigenCloud gives us verifiable intelligence. $20B in restaked assets. Hundreds of global operators, from Google to Coinbase 🛡️. The fastest-growing developer ecosystem in crypto. For the first time, you can run any compute offchain, and bring the results verifiably onchain. 🔥 Agents that trade verifiably 🔥 AI that earns, acts, and proves itself 🔥 Apps that can’t rug their users This is how we unlock the apps Ethereum was meant for from DeFi to AI to the agentic internet. The next growth driver for crypto isn’t just DeFi. It’s Verifiable AI. And it’s being built on EigenCloud and Ethereum. ☁️ Build trust ☁️ Build verifiable AI ☁️ Build on EigenCloud Timestamps: 0:06 Introduction 0:22 Who is EigenCloud 1:44 Scaling Verifiable Compute 3:02 Trillion Dollar TAM for Ethereum 5:19 Run any Compute Verifiably with EigenCloud 6:41 Programmability x Verifiability 7:10 Hyperscale Cloud vs Verifiable Cloud 8:29 Agentic Trading 9:52 Verifiable Agent to Agent Payments 11:00 Verifiable Agents 11:48 Agentic Gaming 12:36 Possibilities with Verifiable AI Cloud 14:14 Explosion of Interest from Builders 15:01 Golden Age of Innovation with Crypto x AI All slides ⬇️ 🧵

EigenCloud

88,288 views • 9 months ago

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There’s NO Chance Trillions Move Onchain Until We Solve This | Rand from Zama 00:00 Why Crypto Needs Privacy 01:24 The Biggest Problem with Public Blockchains 02:34 HTTPS for Crypto 05:38 How Zama Brings Privacy to Ethereum & Solana 06:34 Why Privacy Is Making a Comeback 08:18 Building One Privacy Layer for Every Blockchain 10:11 How Confidential Transactions Work for Users 12:17 Will Privacy Become the Default? 13:00 Confidential USDC and Private DeFi Yields 14:07 Why Institutions Can't Adopt Blockchains Yet 16:11 Zama's Story: From AI Privacy to Blockchain 19:22 The Apex/T-Rex Partnership 21:13 How Shielded Assets Actually Work 23:07 Compliance, KYC, and Preventing Illicit Activity 26:53 Zama's Goal: Encrypt 95% of On-Chain Finance 28:20 Why This Is a Winner-Takes-All Market 29:00 Zama vs. Canton Explained 30:06 Final Thoughts

The Wolf Of All Streets

185,580 views • 12 days ago

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Verifiable AI is the next frontier. At moved to x.com/ns Conference, Sreeram Kannan unveiled the next evolution of AI x Crypto. ☁️ EigenCloud: The Verifiable AI Cloud ☁️ Crypto gave us digital property, programmable money, and trustless execution. But it wasn’t built to run AI. EigenCloud changes that. Billions in verifiable compute. $20B staked in ETH and EIGEN. 100s of operators. The fastest-growing developer ecosystem in crypto. Now, for the first time, you can run any compute offchain, and bring the results verifiably onchain. 🔥 Smart contracts that think 🔥 Agents that trade 🔥 AI that can own, earn, and act onchain This is how we go from protocols → to platforms → to sovereign agents. Bitcoin scaled money. Ethereum scaled logic. Solana scaled throughput. EigenCloud scales verifiable intelligence. From agentic finance to verifiable social, from onchain games to autonomous governance, the next era of crypto isn’t just programmable. It’s intelligent. ☁️ Build Verifiable AI ☁️ Build on EigenCloud 0:07 Introduction 0:16 EigenCloud by Numbers 0:55 Build Unstoppable Verifiable Agents and Apps 1:34 Run Compute Offchain Verifiably Onchain 2:08 AWS for Crypto 3:03 Application: Agentic Finance 3:42 Application: Gaming Tournaments 4:11 Application: Social Media 4:35 Application: Agentic Governance 4:49 Application: Sovereign Agents Learn more ⬇️ 🧵

EigenCloud

97,862 views • 9 months ago

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🚨NEW: We sat down with Anthony Noto, CEO of SoFi, to discuss how the company became the first nationally chartered bank in the U.S. to offer crypto trading and why it’s now launching a native stablecoin built on Ethereum. We cover SoFi’s long-term crypto strategy, efforts to lower borrowing costs, and how the bank is shaping the next phase of digital asset adoption through stablecoins and tokenized deposits. Anthony also shares insights on market structure in 2026, the intersection of AI and blockchain, and how SoFi is positioning itself for the future of crypto banking.

Crypto In America

150,809 views • 7 months ago

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There’s no such thing as a free +10% DeFi yield Risk curators have been at the center of the storm. Steakhouse Financial’s SebVentures breaks down what most DeFi users misunderstand about yield, vault safety, and the coming stablecoin wave on Bits + Bips Plus: the liquidity problem with tokenized onchain credit funds & the role of new stablechains like Tempo and Plasma 👇 Timestamps: 🥩 0:27 Understanding Steakhouse Financial and its growth rate 🧠 2:27 What “risk curation” actually means and why Steakhouse focuses on institutions 💵 5:20 How Steakhouse Financial vaults generate stablecoin yields ⚙️ 8:07 What risk curators can—and can’t—control in a decentralized environment ⚠️ 12:56 What recent volatility revealed about #DeFi vaults and the collapse of Stream Finance 📉 17:01 Whether “safe” high yield is even possible 🧱 19:06 The liquidity problem with tokenized credit funds onchain 🌊 27:16 How Steakhouse is positioning for the stablecoin boom ⛓️ 28:52 How stablechains like #Tempo and #Plasma could change the game 🏦 30:15 Why Steakhouse plans to integrate tokenized deposits 🌍 32:23 Steakhouse’s 2026 bet on non-USD #stablecoins

Laura Shin

21,964 views • 7 months ago

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🕉️ #MANTRA Brings Real-World Assets Onchain with #Mainnet Launch. We’re thrilled to announce that the highly anticipated launch of the MANTRA Chain Mainnet will be coming in October 2024. 🔥As part of MANTRA’s vision to become the preferred ledger of record for real-world assets, the MANTRA Chain Mainnet will include key features such as: 🔒Verifiable network security and stability, mitigating counterparty risk ✅A trusted platform to deploy institutional capital onchain 👀A foundation for a globally accessible asset class, unlocking the multi-trillion dollar real-world asset economy "The launch of our Mainnet marks the culmination of years of work to bring finance onchain. We are thrilled to be at the forefront of bridging the gap between traditional and decentralized finance,” said JP Mullin (🕉, 🏘️), CEO & Co-Founder of MANTRA. “By providing on-ramps for tokens and stablecoins with world class stability and reliability, we believe MANTRA Chain will be the leading global destination for businesses and industries to access onchain financing and asset tokenization." This milestone marks a significant step towards bringing traditional finance (TradFi) onchain and provides a new home for MANTRA's native token, $OM. We want to thank our Sherpas for their unwavering support on this transformative journey to pave the way for a more inclusive and compliant future for tokenized assets. 📝 Read more: $OM #HomeForRWAs #OMtober

MANTRA | The EVM L1 for RWAs

130,756 views • 1 year ago

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RWA needs scalable infra. AI needs verifiable execution. And Avail delivers both. At the first stop of the Avail China Tour in Shanghai, the future of onchain finance took the center stage. From liquidity constraints to trillion-dollar market opportunities, speakers unpacked how RWA and AI are transforming capital markets at the infrastructure layer. We opened with Anurag Arjun breaking down Avail’s vision; how Avail DA, Nexus, and Fusion enable execution to scale, and capital to move freely across fragmented systems. Humphrey｜Crypto Research from Future3 Campus, followed with a keynote deep dive into the global RWA market, mapping out trillion-dollar opportunities, track-level insights, and core frictions still holding adoption back. And KrisLiu from Yala, laid out a clear path for RWA × DeFi integration and how onchain finance can overcome liquidity traps. In the panel moderated by MariaMa, we had Enzzo from R2 Protocol, Chuhan(Vincent)🥷 from Injective 🥷 and Gink5814.eth from ZEROBASE sharing lessons on implementation, go-to-market hurdles, and the role of ZK in RWA validation. Shanghai was just the start. We're coming to Hangzhou next. RSVP below👇

Avail

16,802 views • 1 year ago

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SINGAPORE SPECIAL: I sat down with Luca Prosperi of M0 to better understand the Trillion Dollar Stablecoin Opportunity. Luca Prosperi is founder and CEO of M0, the universal stablecoin platform, backed by over $100M and now powering the MetaMask 🦊 stablecoin mUSD. In this episode we discuss: - How MetaMask Built Their Own Dollar (Without Banking Rails) - Why Apps Need to Control Their Own Stablecoins - The Stablecoin Fragmentation Problem - From $300B to Trillions: Where Stablecoins Are Heading Full episode links below. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:53 Luca's Resolve 06:17 Founding M0 & Raising Without a Pitch Deck 09:51 The Illusion of Dollar Fungibility 11:14 Enso Ad, Relay Ad 11:50 Stablecoin Proliferation Strategy 14:09 Upstream vs Downstream Money Infrastructure 16:55 The Stablecoin Fragmentation Problem 19:00 How MetaMask USD Works 21:28 MetaMask's Partnership with Bridge 26:00 Talus Ad, Alvara Ad, Hibachi Ad 26:29 Will Consumers Notice Blockchain Money? 28:37 Second-Order Effects of Trillions in Stablecoins 30:34 The Next Major M0 Launch 32:28 HyperLiquid's Stablecoin War 34:19 Frictionless Issuance 34:42 Closing Thoughts

Robbie Klages

17,970 views • 9 months ago

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“And so when you look at anything Ondo does, they do it at an extremely high standard, like at the Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, or higher standard.” — Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink Ondo is setting the bar for tokenized finance by building truly institutional-grade products that define onchain standards: → OUSG (live): The first tokenized security to achieve material adoption, offering diversified exposure to short-duration US Treasuries with market-leading instant liquidity → USDY (live): The first freely transferable yield-bearing token secured by US Treasuries, and the most widely held tokenized Treasuries product → Ondo Nexus (live): A liquidity layer unlocking seamless redemptions for third-party tokenized Treasuries → Ondo Bridge (live): The first institutional-grade cross-chain bridge for tokenized securities → Ondo Chain (coming): A purpose-built L1 blockchain for tokenized securities → Ondo Global Markets (coming): A platform unlocking access to a wider universe of tokenized US securities such as stocks & ETFs, at scale Together, this suite of products and infrastructure forms the foundation of a new financial system—combining the accessibility of onchain rails with the rigor of traditional finance.

Ondo Finance

63,266 views • 1 year ago

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DROPS E25: Shaaran 🛸 from Multipli.fi: Why Trillions Will Soon Move On-Chain! In this episode, Shaaran breaks down why stablecoins, tokenization, on-chain yield, and the US debt system are all converging into the biggest shift crypto has ever seen - and how Multipli is building the infrastructure to power it. We talk about: - How Shaaran went from 13-year-old Solidity hacker to building a million-user exchange - Why “stablecoins aren’t stable” and how the US debt system resembles a Ponzi - Why the US wants stablecoin adoption - and why yields can’t be passed - The coming tokenization wave: gold, oil, bank reserves, sovereign wealth, everything - The coming “global hunt for yield” as trillions move on-chain - How Multipli helps any asset (BTC, gold, RWA) - generate transparent, risk-adjusted yield And much more! Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 1:29 Welcome To Drops 2:10 Having A Crazy Week 2:42 Who Is Shaaran 4:06 How Shaaran Found Interest In Ethereum 5:04 Something To Help Build Trust 6:12 You Left And Came Back, Why? 7:28 Where Does The Fire In The Belly Come From 9:04 Why Is Blockchain Beautiful 10:19 Where The Fascination With Crypto Comes From 11:39 Stable Coins Losing 5% Per Year 11:57 What Is A Ponzi Scheme 12:45 Ponzi Scheme Connected With U.S Government 15:47 When Did This System Start 17:47 How Could A 5% Rate Jump To 10% 19:03 What If The Rates Go Down 20:52 Why Stable Coins Matter For The U.S 24:56 Why The Yield Bill Not Allowed To Be Passed 26:12 Trillions Of Dollars In Banks Tokenized, Why? 30:26 0% Yield On Tokenized Assets? 31:36 No Built In Yield Explained To Mom 33:27 What Happens To Yield Once Everything’s Tokenized 35:16 Explain Multipli To Your Mom 35:50 Why Take The Risk For 3–4% Yield 38:29 How Much Bitcoin Is In Your Protocol 39:12 Explain How Blackrock Cracked The Code On ETFs 40:42 Examples Of Multipli Producing Yield 44:15 What Does Overcollaterized Mean 45:02 Risk For Losing My Gold 45:58 One Thing To Remember

MR SHIFT 🦁

63,623 views • 8 months ago

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LIVE NOW - Ethereum’s Strategic Pivot: The Plan to Restore Dominance Ethereum Foundation researchers Dankrad Feist and ansgar.eth join David Hoffman and Mippo 🟪 to discuss Ethereum's identity crisis—and how it’s turning the ship around. They break down Ethereum’s cultural and organizational challenges, the pivot toward L1 growth, and the evolving role of the Ethereum Foundation under new leadership. The conversation covers the future of base and native rollups, L2 alignment, and why Ethereum’s unique values still matter in a competitive landscape. -------------- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 5:42 Top Problems with Ethereum 12:33 Lack of Growth in Ethereum Layer 1 27:49 Ethereum’s Roadmap Dilemma 38:08 Layer 1 Scaling Progress 39:08 Ethereum L1’s Value Proposition to L2s 48:44 Base and Native Rollups Explained 57:25 Canonical EVM in a Rollup World 1:01:26 Vitalik’s Vision for L1 Scaling 1:05:59 ZK Scaling Becomes Real 1:08:12 Fast Block Times and DeFi 1:16:59 The Evolving Ethereum Core Culture 1:22:38 Other Interesting Changes 1:26:41 Ethereum’s Direction Feels Different Now 1:30:09 Closing and Disclosure

Bankless

295,432 views • 1 year ago

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NEW EP: How AI x ZK Will Power A New Era of Crypto with Scott Dykstra Smart contracts as we know them are gearing up for a huge improvement. For today’s episode, Wayne Sim & sat down with chain builder of to cover: > Evolution of Onchain Experiences > ZK Co-Processors vs. Prover Networks > Agentic Usecases For Crypto > Future of Purpose-Built Chains Full episode links below: Timestamps: 0:00 Intro to Space and Time 03:58 Smart Contract Issues 10:18 Ethereum Snarkification 13:41 New Crypto Usecases 22:00 Why Purpose-Built Chains 27:53 Serving Data to AI Agents 44:15 ZK x AI Convergence

The Rollup

37,010 views • 1 year ago

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The Blueprint for a New Financial System Michael Saylor, founder and Executive Chairman of MicroStrategy, returns to explain how Bitcoin is transforming global capital markets and redefining the future of wealth creation. Drawing from his background in science and engineering, Saylor breaks down how Bitcoin’s architecture merges technology, economics, and mathematics to create the first truly engineered form of sound money — one that’s reshaping corporate finance, investment strategy, and even national policy. In this conversation, we explore why legacy finance is structurally unsustainable, how overcollateralized digital credit could replace sovereign debt, and why Bitcoin’s “refinery model” may ignite a new era of capital efficiency. Saylor details the evolution from digital gold to digital credit, how MicroStrategy’s innovations are setting the blueprint for Bitcoin-backed balance sheets, and why governments, banks, and investors will ultimately be forced to adopt Bitcoin as the foundation of a new global financial system. Timestamps: 0:00 – Why Bitcoin Is Inevitable 4:12 – How Technology Turned Energy Into Capital 8:27 – Why 99% of Companies Are Locked Out of Capital Markets 12:38 – The “Kerosene” Metaphor: Refining Bitcoin Into Yield Instruments 18:21 – Designing Digital Credit: How It Actually Works 32:55 – How Bitcoin Becomes the Base Layer for Digital Credit 48:12 – Rebuilding Legacy Finance on Bitcoin Infrastructure 56:09 – Turning USD Yield Into Bitcoin Yield 1:12:24 – Why Bitcoin’s Refinery Model Could Spark a New Industrial Revolution 1:24:10 – How Digital Credit Will Outperform Traditional Bonds 1:38:52 – Why Governments and Corporations Will Be Forced to Adopt Bitcoin 1:52:40 – Adapting to Change — Why Relevance Is Earned Daily Note: This interview was recorded with Mark Moss on September 30, 2025, before $STRC, $STRK, $STRD, and $STRF began trading on Robinhood.

Michael Saylor

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