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Stablecoins are useless unless they solve actual business problems. Privy CEO Henri Stern reveals why Stripe acquired his company to build dominant global money rails. (0:00) Why are we even building with stablecoins? (0:36) What are Stripe's digital asset accounts? (2:04) How did Privy reach 100 million wallets? (2:44)... show more

Rex Salisbury

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Rex Salisbury3 months ago

full interview on youtube:

Megapot4 months ago

we love stablecoins

Subham Agarwal4 months ago

looking so good @sternhenri

H.E. Sheikh Saoud bin Faisal Sultan Alqasimi3 months ago

The strongest infrastructure is judged by the problems it removes for people and businesses, not by the technology it introduces.

Thesauros3 months ago

"Stablecoins are useless unless they solve actual business problems." Ramp figured it out. So did the treasuries routing into Morpho. The use case is not payments. It is yield on the float. Always was.

Biddaddy3 months ago

feels like stripe saw the writing on the wall early, rails going crypto one way or another

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How the U.S. Government Can Protect the Dollar Through Stablecoins On Unchained, Chris Giancarlo and Daniel Gorfine talk about: 🛠️ Why governments should someday operate blockchain nodes 💼 Why other countries are licensing USD stablecoins before the US 🌍 FIT21 and whether the CFTC should regulate crypto 👀 How China might white label its surveillance CBDC to other countries Timestamps: 03:50 How governments should embrace blockchain technology to become better at their jobs, according to Chris 10:06 How the financial system needs to change for the younger generations 20:21 Whether the U.S. is losing ground in terms of innovation 23:37 Why stablecoins are much more than a trading instrument for crypto 32:52 Why Daniel believes that the U.S. is making the regulation of stablecoins “far more complicated than it needs to be” 36:51 Whether the dollar should be trademarked and how stablecoins affect geopolitics 46:22 What will happen to Tether (likely one of the most profitable companies per employee in history), which is not under U.S. jurisdiction 54:18 Who should be the next chair of the SEC and the need to regulate DeFi in order for it to become mainstream 1:07:23 Why Daniel thinks that some of the criticism of the FIT21 bill “doesn’t hold water” 1:12:50 Why Chris doesn’t believe China when it says it doesn’t intend to export the digital yuan 1:18:48 Whether algorithmic stablecoins should be banned, as proposed in the Lummis-Gillibrand bill

How the U.S. Government Can Protect the Dollar Through Stablecoins On Unchained, Chris Giancarlo and Daniel Gorfine talk about: 🛠️ Why governments should someday operate blockchain nodes 💼 Why other countries are licensing USD stablecoins before the US 🌍 FIT21 and whether the CFTC should regulate crypto 👀 How China might white label its surveillance CBDC to other countries Timestamps: 03:50 How governments should embrace blockchain technology to become better at their jobs, according to Chris 10:06 How the financial system needs to change for the younger generations 20:21 Whether the U.S. is losing ground in terms of innovation 23:37 Why stablecoins are much more than a trading instrument for crypto 32:52 Why Daniel believes that the U.S. is making the regulation of stablecoins “far more complicated than it needs to be” 36:51 Whether the dollar should be trademarked and how stablecoins affect geopolitics 46:22 What will happen to Tether (likely one of the most profitable companies per employee in history), which is not under U.S. jurisdiction 54:18 Who should be the next chair of the SEC and the need to regulate DeFi in order for it to become mainstream 1:07:23 Why Daniel thinks that some of the criticism of the FIT21 bill “doesn’t hold water” 1:12:50 Why Chris doesn’t believe China when it says it doesn’t intend to export the digital yuan 1:18:48 Whether algorithmic stablecoins should be banned, as proposed in the Lummis-Gillibrand bill

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