stablecoins

✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode:
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Joining the podcast today we have the man behind the largest US based stablecoin, Jeremy Allaire, the Founder of USDC Circle.

A year ago USDC depegged in the face of major banks like SVB and Silvergate collapsing. How did Jeremy deal with that? What year is crypto in internet years? Why don’t we have a venmo for crypto yet? Fast forward to 2030, what’s the total value of stablecoins?

Stay tuned because we ask all that and much more.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
5:47 SVB Crisis Reflections
24:00 Crypto Age in Internet Terms
31:15 The Future of Stablecoins
41:42 The Crypto Venmo
56:18 Blackrock’s BUIDL Fund
1:01:44 US Government
1:16:35 USDC vs Tether
1:22:00 Central Bank Stablecoins
1:28:14 Regulatory Protectionism
1:32:25 Closing Thoughts

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RESOURCES

Jeremy Allaire
https://twitter.com/jerallaire  

USDXX - What backs a USDC?
https://www.blackrock.com/cash/en-us/products/329365/circle-reserve-fund  

Circle
https://www.circle.com/en/  

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Can we Tokenize the World? Robert Leshner, creator of Compound and one of the forefathers of DeFi, is on a mission to do so.

With his new company Superstate, new product, tokenized t-bills and new location, New York city. Robert is trying to bring $300 trillion in TradFI assets on-chain.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro
4:27 Tokenization History
9:46 RWA Problem Statement
14:04 Opening the Door
26:37 Securities Laws
31:50 Tokenizing Treasuries
39:06 Superstate
46:57 Regulatory Constraints
56:01 The Future of RWAs
1:00:36 Pitching TradFi
1:05:13 2030 Prediction
1:06:57 Closing & Disclaimers

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Robert Leshner
https://twitter.com/rleshner  

Superstate
https://superstate.co/  

Superstate - USTB Fund
https://superstate.co/ustb  

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Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets.

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✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode:
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Justin Sun, the Controversial Founder of TRON has finally entered the chat.

This episode is packed with hot takes. Expect to learn why Justin is still in Crypto, why  he should’ve copied Ethereum 100% and not just 95%, why he views Vitalik as a goldmine and much more.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro
7:17 Justin Sun Origin Story
13:01 Why Crypto?
19:51 The Next Cycle
25:32 Justin’s Role
29:00 The State of Tron
36:36 Tron Economics
47:28 Tron Plagiarism
53:22 Decentralizing Tron
57:03 Addressing Tron’s Censorship
1:03:33 Crypto Favorites
1:05:20 What’s Next
1:09:16 People to Watch
1:14:51 Closing & Disclaimers

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RESOURCES

Justin Sun
https://x.com/justinsuntron 

TRON
https://tron.network/  

TRON Stats
https://thedefireport.substack.com/p/should-we-be-taking-tron-seriously  

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Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets.

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Paolo Ardoino is the CEO of Tether, the $100 Billion stablecoin company that owns more U.S. Treasuries than most countries.

We explore why Tether is winning, how it’s helping people in emerging markets and what really backs a $USDT. We also cover the state of the stablecoin regulation and even market competitors.

Tether has been and it’s still a target of Fud in the Crypto industry. Paolo is here to refute that Fud and much more.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro
6:52 Paolo Background
11:01 The History of Tether
15:40 USDT in Emerging Markets
25:30 Why not Bitcoin?
28:25 What’s Backing Tether?
42:25 Banking Risks
54:59 Tether Reserves Breakdown
59:39 Becoming Too Big
1:06:23 The Stablecoin Wars
1:11:18 Freezing Funds
1:13:45 USDT Competitors
1:16:59 Tokenized T-Bills
1:19:55 Tether on Tron
1:24:53 Regulation
1:26:14 The Value of Tether
1:29:10 Closing & Disclaimers

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RESOURCES

Paolo Ardoino
https://twitter.com/paoloardoino 

Tether Transparency Reports
https://tether.to/en/transparency/#reports  

Circle’s Caroline Hill on Congress
https://twitter.com/Pledditor/status/1758243599446089799  

JPMorgan negative on Tether
https://www.theblock.co/post/275643/jpmorgan-tether-negative-crypto  

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Joining us today is Ryan Selkis, who is here to walk us through his crypto thesis for 2024. 

We cover big investment themes, people to watch, the future of stablecoins, policy takes and so much more in this wide ranging episode.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00:00 Intro
00:05:11 Recapping 2023
00:07:50 Are We In A Bull Market?
00:12:09 Investment Trends
00:16:48 BTC ETF Winners
00:20:03 Ether 2024 Predictions
00:26:57 BTC Security Model
00:33:06 Investment Strategy
00:36:56 VC and Private Markets
00:42:28 IPO's and M&A's
00:45:04 People To Watch
00:50:56 Why Does Elizabeth Warren Hate Crypto?
00:57:54 Grayscale
01:04:55 Products to Use in 2024
01:07:00 USDC Flips USDT?
01:11:32 Coinbase and BASE
01:15:46 Crypto Money
01:21:17 Privacy
01:27:54 How Crypto Wins In The US
01:40:07 The Political Bull Case
01:44:42 What's Most Exciting

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Ryan Selkis
https://twitter.com/twobitidiot 

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Bitcoin just hit $40,000, Coinbase is up 300 per cent this year, and French bank Société Générale is rolling out a stablecoin. All this frothy news comes after a record penalty levied on Binance by the SEC and the guilty verdict against Sam Bankman-Fried. Today on the show, Ethan Wu asks Katie Martin why, and Katie asks Ethan why. Also we go short Kwasi Kwarteng and long central bank speak. 

For a free 30-day trial to the Unhedged newsletter go to: https://www.ft.com/unhedgedoffer

Follow Ethan Wu (@ethanywu) and Katie Martin (@katie_martin_fx) on X. You can email Ethan at ethan.wu@ft.com.

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com

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Cryptodollars are the new Eurodollars. What are Eurodollars, though? Well, we get into that in today’s episode with 8-time repeat Bankless guest, Nic Carter. Nic is a partner at Castle Island Ventures, Fidelity alumni, co-founder and board member of Coin Metrics, and a prolific writer of editorials and academic articles alike, Nic is also a believer that the halvening is always priced in, he’s a stablecoin connoisseur, an onchain wizard, and an unlicensed vespa driver. 

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✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode:
https://www.bankless.com/debrief-nic-carter-stablecoins 

There’s over $10 trillion dollars worth of Cryptodollars out there and Nic believes that number could grow even bigger. Stablecoins are often called crypto’s killer app, however, Nic thinks we aint seen nothing yet!

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
8:25 Stablecoin Tribe 
10:20  The State of Stablecoins in 2023 
13:40 Stablecoin’s Product Market Fit 
17:16 Stabelcoin Haters
19:00 Growth of the Euro-Dollar Market 
21:04 Euro vs. Crypto Dollars 
24:30 Federal Reserve History 
34:45 Stablecoin Incentives 
37:00 Euro-Dollar vs. U.S.-Dollar Backing 
43:00 Circle
45:40 PYUSD
46:56 Crypto-Dollars vs. Euro-Dollars 
51:15 Why the Rise of Stablecoins? 
55:57 Democratic Inclusion of Crypto-Dollarization 
59:19 Chart
1:03:05 Tokenized Treasury 
1:07:16 Regulatory Idea Maze 
1:15:00 Big Banks 
1:19:30 Stablecoin Roadmap
1:24:57  Crypto Bullishness
1:28:52 Stablecoin Predictions 
1:32:12 Closing & Disclaimers 

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Nic Carter
https://twitter.com/nic__carter  

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The overnight fed funds rate is 5.3% but how much are you getting from that in your bank account? How much are you getting from your stablecoins? 

Today on the show Martin Carrica walks us through a world in which we can tokenize treasuries instead of just dollars.
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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
7:16 Intro To Martin
10:37 Risk Free Rate of Return
16:06 Inflation Experience in Argentina
20:41 Why Don't We have Onchain TBills?
22:44 Laws Around Treasuries
27:08 Do The Fed's Want This?
31:53 Don't we Already Have Onchain Treasuries?
37:18 The Next Evolution Of Stablecoins
40:01 How Big Could This Be?
50:12 Cutting Out Commercial Banking
52:21 Explaining The Product
55:57 Onchain Vs Traditional TBills
1:02:51 How Big Can This Get?
1:04:10 Identifying Legit Onchain TBills
1:05:49 Why Doesn't Circle Do This?
1:11:50 Dealing With US Regulation
1:15:02 Central Bank Digital Currency
1:19:02 Can This Start a Bull Market?

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RESOURCES

Martin on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/mcarrica 

Martin's article on Stablecoins:
https://mcarrica.substack.com/p/stablecoins-are-cryptos-hidden-money 

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Austin Campbell is the managing partner of Zero Knowledge Consulting, an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, and used to work at Paxos in both Portfolio Management and Chief Risk Officer. He also was Co-Head of Digital Assets in Global Rates at CitiBank at JP Morgan for a decade. 

Austin knows a thing or two about the TradWorld and we brought him on to help us navigate all of the TradNews that has surfaced in the last two weeks around the crypto space. 

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TIMESTAMPS: 

0:00 Intro
5:12 Austin Campbell
7:14 TradFi Last Two Weeks 
10:59 Political Conspiracy
15:05 Timing Analysis 
17:17  BlackRock Bitcoin ETF
20:05 Other Bitcoin ETFs Denied 
22:47 What's the SEC's Next Move?
24:00 How Bullish is This? 
26:13 BlackRock & Coinbase/Kraken Partnership 
31:15 EDX Markets 
37:22 Unbundling of Crypto Exchanges
42:22 Stablecoins Landscape 
49:55 Stablecoin McHenry Bill
56:50 International Stablecoins 
57:55 Closing & Disclosures

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RESOURCES:

Austin Campbell
https://twitter.com/CampbellJAustin 

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Can we go Bankless using PayPal? We brought on Jose Fernandez da Ponte, the Senior Vice President of Blockchain, Crypto, and Digital Currencies at PayPal and Venmo to help us answer that question. Jose is responsible for driving PayPal’s efforts to bring the utility of crypto-assets and crypto-networks to their hundreds of millions of global consumers. 

He also knows a thing or two about how the banking system works and how to fix it. And we also got the SVP of PayPal to say, “DeFi Mullet,” not once, but three times. 

*PayPal currently offers crypto services only in the U.S., U.K., and Luxembourg. Venmo is available in the US only.

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In today’s episode, we cover: 

1) What PayPal sees in crypto 
2) What PayPal’s 400M accounts can do with crypto today 
3) How we get to $1T in stablecoins
4) What’s the role of CDBCs in a world of highly successful stablecoins? Can CDBCs and crypto co-exist?
5) Jose’s contrarian view on crypto regulatory environment in the U.S. and why he sees it as a “glass half full”

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Intro
7:55 What a PayPal Dollar Is
11:21 PayPal & Venmo Crypto
16:29 The Crypto Strategy 
22:59 DeFi Mullet 
27:33 Service Providers 
31:24 Is Crypto Useless?
32:30 PayPal’s Crypto Back-End
34:40 How Hard Was PayPal’s Crypto Integration? 
36:35 Path to $1T In Stablecoins
40:31 Payments
44:36 Gaming 
46:46 Network Integration 
49:47 DeFi on PayPal’s Radar? 
56:38 What’s Broken About U.S. Banking?
1:01:51 Settlement in the U.S. 
1:06:32 Best Digital Cash Society 
1:13:10 Stablecoins in the U.S.
1:16:25 Crypto Regulation 
1:20:44 Making Crypto More Useable 
1:23:30 Closing & Disclaimers

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RESOURCES:

Jose Fernandez da Ponte
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-fernandez-da-ponte-a46ba81/ 

Payments and Evolution of Stablecoins Paper
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4425922 

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Today we're joined by Ryan Selkis, the Founder and CEO of Messari and an outspoken political advocate for the crypto industry. We explore the current state of Crypto Regulation and how Ryan plans to fight in Washington with the Digital Freedom Alliance.

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Topics Covered

0:00 Intro
9:34 Does Washington Want to Kill Crypto?
15:45 How the US Affects Global Regulation
27:54 Ryan Selkis Proposal
43:10 What we can learn from SBF
51:20 The Digital Freedom Alliance
59:08 Why we have to Play Politics
1:03:49 What’s Next
1:08:00 Closing and Disclaimers

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Resources:

Ryan Selkis
https://twitter.com/twobitidiot  

Join the Digital Freedom Alliance
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Bankless Weekly Rollup
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Topics Covered

0:00 Intro

3:30 MARKETS
7:49 ETH Staking
https://twitter.com/hildobby_/status/1663960826225491996?s=20 

10:25 CEX Balances 5 Year Low
https://decrypt.co/142507/ethereum-bitcoin-balances-exchanges-edges-5-year-lows 

12:25 State of NFTs
https://twitter.com/cyounessi1/status/1663617804812136450?s=20 

17:29 China Bullish On Crypto
https://www.theblock.co/post/232404/beijing-web3-white-paper 

23:03 Celsius Has A Deal
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/05/25/fahrenheit-wins-bid-to-acquire-assets-of-insolvent-crypto-lender-celsius/ 

28:16 Worst Crypto Winter?
https://twitter.com/icebergy_/status/1663693201620758528 
https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1663973894645075969?s=20 

36:00 SMALL NEWS

36:26 Bullish On Blend
https://dappradar.com/blog/blur-dominates-82-of-the-nft-lending-market 

37:50 Coinbase Gas Free Transfers
https://twitter.com/CoinbaseWallet/status/1663680306329821184 

39:47 MoonPay Took $150M?
https://twitter.com/web3isgreat/status/1663664708409339904?s=20 

41:21 Paradigm Enters AI
https://www.theblock.co/post/232247/crypto-vc-paradigm-ai 

44:00 Binance Layoffs
https://www.theblock.co/post/232696/binance-layoffs-cuts-jobs 

45:50 Worldcoin Raises $115M
https://blockchain.capital/worldcoin-proof-of-personhood-world-id-and-the-future-of-crypto-onboarding/ 

50:07 Magic Raises $52M
https://magic.link/ 

52:54 Questions From The Nation
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1:06:10 Takes Of The Week
https://twitter.com/VentureCoinist/status/1662514641233166337?s=20 

1:15:10 What Are You Bullish On?
https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1663680140117680129?s=20 

1:21:48 Risks & Disclaimers

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The US financial system today is pretty much taken as a given. We have the Federal Reserve, which sets interest rates and provides various liquidity backstops. We have regulated banks, which lend and create money and have access to the Fed. And we have non-bank financial activity that falls under the nebulous umbrella of "shadow banking." But how did we actually end up with this system? And why did policymakers design it the way they did? On this episode, which was recorded live at Bloomberg's New York office on Nov. 29, we speak with Josh Younger and Lev Menand. They are research partners who have delved into the big questions about the structure of modern banking, the history that has shaped it into what it is today, and what its design actually means for the economy and society.

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We brought on our first United States senator, Sen. Toomey. He's a senator from Pennsylvania, a ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs committees. He's also crypto-friendly.

Hear how Capitol Hill is digesting the FTX collapse, what America's crypto competition looks like currently, and what it might look like if we still have no regulatory clarity. And finally, what you can do to impact our government's view on crypto.

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Timestamps:

0:00 The Big Picture
3:40 America's Competitors
6:10 The FTX Collapse
8:50 Crypto Sentiment in Congress
13:00 We Want Reasonable Regulation
16:53 Lack of Clarity
22:15 Fallout from Contagion
24:25 Hope for Solutions
27:48 Preventing Sloppy Legislation
31:06 Cautious Optimism

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