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Ep. 732 Stablecoins, Tokenization & AI Payments: What Comes Next for Crypto · CRYPTO 101

• 0:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: All right, everyone.
• 0:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: We are joined here by Ryan Sachs.
• 0:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: He is the co-founder and CEO over at EcoRine.
• 0:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome, and it's good to have you.
• 0:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: Great to be on Brendan.
• 0:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's have a good conversation.
• 0:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Dude, we're gonna have a good one.
• 0:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let me tell you what.
• 0:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've got to kick us off with a little bit of a nice breaker here.
• 0:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Where did the name Eco come from and does it tie into the mission?
• 0:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so it's actually a pretty interesting story.
• 0:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll shortcut it in the interest of time.
• 0:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: But originally, we started the company under the name Beam.
• 0:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: And there's several beams.
• 0:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: We didn't have much brand protection around Beam.
• 0:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: There were a couple beams in crypto.
• 0:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: There were a couple beams not in crypto.
• 0:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so it was just a cluttered name.
• 0:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: And one of our seed investors, guy named Garrett Camp.
• 0:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: had the brand rights to eco is very valuable brand here at create a doober loves brand and brand design is sort of a portfolio brands that you need to crew to overtime and they intended to start a company or a project under the name eco and didn't end up kind of doing that.
• 1:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so it was effectively unused and so as part of our early investment deal we took over the brand.
• 1:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: And our thinking at the time was clearly to get something more distinct and more ownable than beam.
• 1:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: But we really liked the abstractness of eco related to the stablecoin and crypto mission.
• 1:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can play with it from a brand perspective in a number of different ways.
• 1:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Ecosystem, economy, et cetera, et cetera.
• 1:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Once you sort of see it, you can't really unsee it.
• 1:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: And
• 1:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's been really valuable for us to leverage and we own it, including the assets around it, and it's been an advantage from that standpoint as well.
• 1:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: So that's where it came from.
• 1:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was curious.
• 1:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: As I was going through a lot of your material before this, I was just going around.
• 1:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, man, that is probably a hard name to get.
• 2:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Anything like that, that's one word
• 2:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: I would imagine it was had to have been a hard thing to get, but that would make sense if you kind of had a little bit of an inside scoop and allowance there.
• 2:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I want to dive into what all of you have been working on in terms of the team.
• 2:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because it's been building out a lot when it comes to just, you know,
• 2:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: looking cross-chain, you know, increasing liquidity, stable coins, tokenization, real world assets, you guys just name it.
• 2:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: You kind of have your hands in a bunch of these different areas, but can you give us a high level overview of what you're working on?
• 2:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, what we're really really focused on is moving stable coins at large scale.
• 2:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: programmatically kind of across the markets that use them.
• 2:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so that's that's what we do use just word orchestration sometimes and people mean a little bit different things with how they say it, but when we say orchestration we simply mean programming those stablecoin flows across the markets where they are they're most in demand.
• 3:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so you can think of ECO as kind of like this neutral routing layer and liquidity layer for stablecoins to move.
• 3:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that means moving them across on chain markets, which means moving them across bolts and defy protocols and different chains.
• 3:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: It also means sometimes routing them across off-chain liquidity with the issuers directly or with kind of market maker liquidity protocols that hold those assets off-chain.
• 3:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we're just really, really good at price selection and price monitoring and risk control across that dynamic environment, moving stablecoins at large size.
• 3:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: So that's what we do, and what's interesting about that is it also touches on the markets that you set.
• 3:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, RWA's tokenization on chain FX, these are markets that are developing.
• 3:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: They will be huge markets.
• 3:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: The stablecoin market itself is already big and will be huge.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: But the adjacent markets that touch stablecoins and correlate with stablecoins will also be enormous.
• 4:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so if you're moving through like an on chain FX currency pair,
• 4:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: or you're trying to get in and out of a vault position, like an RWA or tokenization position, you're usually using stablecoins to do that as well.
• 4:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: So if we're really good at routing stablecoins, it's not always only just to swap between two stables.
• 4:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: It may be to also access these other on-chain markets.
• 4:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's where we sit.
• 4:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: That makes sense, right?
• 4:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of saying, hey, just because we started or we can succeed with stablecoins, maybe there is a practical use case outside of that.
• 4:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's what it's sounding like, right?
• 4:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think that a lot of times, even the bulk case for stablecoins underestimates the true bulk case, because the use case is not just sending a dollar.
• 4:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: That also sort of underpins use cases that will also be enormous on their own, accessing those ball positions, routing on chain FX, et cetera, and that's just an interesting kind of like maturity curve in the market.
• 5:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: So that's where we sit.
• 5:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's why we think of focus on stable coins is so valuable, and that's how we optimize accordingly.
• 5:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: What do you make, or maybe what have you seen in terms of stable coins over the last one to two years, right?
• 5:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: From my perspective, and I think the audience, it feels as if there's been a lot of growth.
• 5:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, not only did you have the genius act to get past, but in terms of how much stable coins are being created, and you always hear like all these big numbers about increases, and even like publicly traded companies, now, right, you know, with circle,
• 5:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: going live and being traded here in the US.
• 5:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: It seems as if there's a lot going on.
• 5:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: I guess what have you seen behind the scenes and what does that growth look like?
• 5:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's great questions.
• 5:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's pretty astounding to me.
• 6:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: I've been building in this space since 2017 and formerly we started the
• 6:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, you know, circle launched USDC in 2018-19, so it's starting to grow.
• 6:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: But at that time, I thought incorrectly that stable coins would sort of hit and kind of go mainstream within a couple of years.
• 6:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it took way longer than that for a variety of reasons.
• 6:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: But once they did, they've actually grown faster than I expected.
• 6:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, though you know it's like that rubber band stretched for a longer time than I thought and then suddenly it snapped more powerfully than even I predicted and so that kind of frames my answered here question the growth in the stablecoin market for the last two years has been astounding it was really unlocked by two things I think.
• 6:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: uh broader maturity of the underlying infrastructure.
• 7:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, blockchains had to scale, uh, they're, you know, they had to be trusted as sort of stable back into financial infrastructure, and that was just a development problem that lasted for the better part of a decade, um, and they kind of got to that point over the last couple of years.
• 7:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then, of course, regulatory clarity.
• 7:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, the technology fundamentals of stablecoins were apparent already.
• 7:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is just a better way to move money for a number of different reasons.
• 7:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, but when you get to a certain institutional scale,
• 7:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks, desks, et cetera, they're not necessarily going to dive in unless they have, you know, absolute clarity on how they interact with this technology and the genius act gave them that gave stablecoin issuance that in the United States at least, and then it's just like open the flood gates.
• 7:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: The potential energy was already there, it's activated over the last couple of years, so a few trends that are relevant to that that I think are particularly interesting you mentioned the stablecoin issuance trend we now have.
• 7:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: 100 same points, you know, issued by, I would say a short list of six to eight major issuance platforms in different corners of the market.
• 8:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: And there's a lot of dust assembled there, which of those stable coins will be retail branded and will want some notion that I'm holding this stable coins, which of them will be relegated purely to the back end as kind of a faster money movement unit of account.
• 8:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's some dust to settle there that's dependent on who's issuing them what product they're integrated with, etc.
• 8:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that'll be, I think, I think, fertile area of the market for the next couple years.
• 8:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: But clearly, there were going to be a number of kind of these digital dollars that need to interoperate across markets and across products that frames the opportunity for a product like like ours, or platform like ours.
• 8:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: And the maturity of the space is the other thing that I would call out.
• 8:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, um,
• 8:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: the space, the stablecoin space has become more institutional faster than I expected.
• 8:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: The growth rates are astounding, you know, they're doing more payment volume than the major card networks worldwide year every year, growing a 30 to 50 percent annually in that volume.
• 9:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: But what's I think going to really accelerate that even further is like the institutional adoption curve of stable coins that is on you know, I just don't need to not only do any new move stable coins for sort of a $10,000 retail transaction or a $1,000 retail transaction, but institutions asking how do I move $10 to $100 million in the time over this technology and that's going to be an area to watch over the next couple of years.
• 9:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's been fascinating because as this grows, there are so many different use cases and what stood out to me, the most was hearing how both like traditional companies right traditional equities have talked about stablecoins in a very, very positive light regardless of their stance on crypto and then also watching how the government talks about it because the government's excited that, okay, these guys can be big buyers of our debt we benefit from that we want to push this.
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: companies are looking at it and saying, hey, this makes sense in terms of functionality.
• 9:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now you also have a lot of like, agentic stuff going on and they're saying, hey, we can actually allow them to use stablecoins for this or that.
• 10:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: You mentioned tokenization.
• 10:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, stablecoins have been just the growth in relation to like token tokenization, art of your ways, and how stablecoins kind of correlate to those.
• 10:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's another just wild one that has seen a lot of attention.
• 10:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I think
• 10:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: You made a good point earlier where you said stablecoins were kind of ahead of their time where like back in the day when they really started coming to the market.
• 10:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: They were basically just used as, hey, I'm going to use this as a means of exchange or I'm going to sell out of Bitcoin or Ethereum and I'm going to hold stablecoins.
• 10:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's really all it was, DeFi came along, added a little bit more purpose, tokenization came along, added more purpose.
• 10:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: what we've seen in recent years and correct me from wrong here when we get your opinion on it.
• 10:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it feels as if as the years have gone on, the not only like have the purposes grown, right?
• 10:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: But also the different ways that it can be used have kind of also expanded.
• 11:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it feels like as the market has matured, everyone, outside of crypto started looking in and saying, hey, we could find a different way to kind of
• 11:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: absolutely and um okay so there's kind of like it's absolutely accurate uh and there there are two things to consider one is replacing the way money moves today and new use cases for how money might move tomorrow so on the former it's like you need to move a dollar digitally a stable coin probably it has something for you so that's like the conversion of the existing money movement market
• 11:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: payments, treasury flows, cross-border remittances, et cetera, to use this new financial backend.
• 11:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's just happening and it's happening rapidly and it has been like we talked about.
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then you also alluded to this, there are a number of use cases that just are new.
• 11:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is another reason why I think people underestimate the size of the stablecoin market.
• 12:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: it's not just the replacement of money movement flows that already exist.
• 12:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: It is the unlocking of money movement flows that don't yet exist.
• 12:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, the agentech payment category is probably the prime example.
• 12:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: That category has not really hit yet.
• 12:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's experimental.
• 12:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's not mature.
• 12:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: But it's coming.
• 12:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right, like there will be a chat GPT open claw moment for agentic payments over the next 18 months.
• 12:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't pretend to know what company is going to sort of hit that spike.
• 12:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: In what use case is going to really create it, but that's going to come.
• 12:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: And they're going to use stablecoins.
• 12:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: And the velocity of money is going to be astoundingly high, even if the average transaction is relatively low.
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: So that's just one example to consider in terms of if you can program money.
• 12:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: and it flows more freely as a result and composes across markets.
• 12:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Then you can just do new stuff with it, still safely.
• 12:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's going to be an interesting frontier.
• 12:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, well, I agree with you.
• 13:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that stable coins are
• 13:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: one of the hottest sectors right now right again everyone wants to talk about them.
• 13:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously here in crypto we like stable coins that you go to the traditional financial side you get out of the government side you go globally it's just one of the hottest topic talking points at the moment people can't get enough of them again regardless of people's kind of stance on crypto or whatever stable coins are just here like everyone seems to be an agreement that
• 13:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: what appears to be just a growing sector.
• 13:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's grown at a really fast rate.
• 13:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it can keep it up, excuse me.
• 13:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I think that there's a lot of good things on the horizon there.
• 13:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: The big question that people have is, if people say, hey, Bitcoin's going to be big, it's easy.
• 13:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: You invest in Bitcoin.
• 13:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: If people say, hey,
• 13:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, decentralized applications are defies going to be big.
• 13:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you can bet on like Solana or Ethereum with stable coins.
• 13:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: It is, you know, somewhat easy, right?
• 13:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: You can invest in the the chains that build these stable coins.
• 14:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I think it's a little bit harder, right?
• 14:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because there's no way of like,
• 14:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's very few ways of direct exposure and so that is one of the questions that we've gotten asked over here is how can we capitalize and how can us as retail users every day people?
• 14:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: How can we capitalize on the growth and the success of stablecoins if this is the case?
• 14:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 14:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: So exposure opportunities pretty thin today because that hasn't really
• 14:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: hasn't really sort of translated to to public markets yet.
• 14:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: The best example is probably circle.
• 14:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Though if you believe in this in circles particular about in this huge kind of stable coin issue and its opportunity, the unit economics that may come with it and circles value
• 14:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: have hit escape velocity and are going to be a systemically important thing.
• 14:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Then you can go by circle stock, but there are not very many opportunities, you know, not financial advice.
• 15:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what stocks at today.
• 15:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Go to your own research, but there's not, there's not very many opportunities that are similar to that.
• 15:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's not like there are a bunch of stablecoin companies that have gone public.
• 15:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: But there are also several proxies that are turning into kind of stablecoin platforms themselves.
• 15:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Coinbase is doing a lot.
• 15:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: They got a lot going on, but one of their clear strategic bets is to become a stablecoin platform, unifying liquidity across markets, providing stablecoin kind of developer products, etc.
• 15:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: So you can kind of correlate that way.
• 15:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then a third way which you also mentioned is there are a few blockchains that have tokens.
• 15:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: These are not
• 15:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so you have to go to a crypto exchange to buy them, but there are a few blockchains I would say three or four or five that are particularly stable coin focus and if they do a really good job of building their technology creating a developer ecosystem distribute themselves then, you know, maybe that that that crypto asset is you know is is a good position to be in.
• 16:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: but there's a lot of deaths to settle there.
• 16:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of those chains are still new or kind of like figuring out their market penetration.
• 16:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's not a great, there's not a great play.
• 16:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: Other than the couple of public stocks out there that are highly correlated, that will change over the next two years.
• 16:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Rapidly.
• 16:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you think about
• 16:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: There are a lot of market structures in Tradfie that will translate to the crypto sphere.
• 16:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, we don't need to reinvent everything.
• 16:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Tradfie is pretty efficient in a lot of
• 16:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: kind of market structure ways.
• 16:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: And crypto will probably just like need feature parity there.
• 16:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: So there are some public companies in Treadfy that play extremely important roles in primary and secondary markets for different asset classes.
• 16:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Some public companies that really have liquidity network effects and price control over bond markets, etc.
• 17:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: And those might be kind of like
• 17:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: analogies to map to the way that crypto's fear might evolve.
• 17:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: You will have more crypto companies going public over the next couple of years that have strong stablecoin offerings or might be fully focused on stablecoins.
• 17:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: And you will have some that kind of fit into market structure layers where a ton of money just goes through them.
• 17:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: They have platform pricing power and they have really good unit economics as a result and it makes sense for them to go public on the basis of the value proposition.
• 17:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so I think those opportunities will expand over the next couple of years as the
• 17:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, well, I think that's what we'll have to kind of keep an eye out on.
• 17:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that you're right, you know, there's going to be a lot of opportunities, maybe to somewhat limited today, but you know, there's still out there, but I want to get back to kind of the core of what you all are doing here as the solution to stable coins, and I guess start that off with the question because do you think that fragmented and maybe like silo liquidity across chains and issuers remains one of the primary barriers or concerns for some of these
• 18:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but they don't think of it like that.
• 18:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: They don't think of the way it translates for them.
• 18:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: So the answer is yes, but yeah, we'd reframe it a bit.
• 18:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: It remains a huge problem.
• 18:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Stablecoins are not as interoperable as they need to be.
• 18:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: The market's very disorganized.
• 18:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that always what happens in early markets, right?
• 18:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: And for that market to consolidate well, and for your dollar to be a dollar effectively,
• 18:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: The fragmentation problem translates to those kind of institutional customers as unpredictable pricing.
• 18:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Subpar risk management and it makes the stablecoin market look more like an FX market.
• 18:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Because there's always a spread.
• 18:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: If your liquidity is kind of split up, very different liquidity profiles and different chains that have different kind of finality times to confirm a transaction, there's always going to be a spread there.
• 19:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that spreads not going to wholly go away.
• 19:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: But it's certainly wider than it needs to be today.
• 19:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so a lot of institutions don't operate across chains because they don't have the kind of risk and pricing controls that they would expect in doing so.
• 19:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Also, priority act has not been finalized yet.
• 19:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: So there's some ones certainty about how they operate in in that market structure and how it will evolve.
• 19:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's really kind of how the problem statement confronts them.
• 19:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's the problem statement that we really frames what we do.
• 19:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: We believe that stable coins need a new throw, programmable layer to pass through that makes them more interoperable.
• 19:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: And if we do a really good job routing and sort of aggregate in liquidity just in time, then you can compress this spreads and really give them a lot of comfort on kind of like the risk management for operating in this market.
• 19:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: So what I'm going to summarize this, but what the main purpose here is is to increase liquidity, allow anyone to essentially operate and interact with stable coins in a cross chain manner, and I think by doing that, you kind of solve the first thing I said, which is increased liquidity, right?
• 20:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: So if anyone can transact or not even transact, but if you
• 20:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: interoperability for for stablecoins as a whole and it seems to be you know that is the goal is it targeted more towards the business side or is it retailer both?
• 20:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was talking to for us more toward the business side.
• 20:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now a lot of businesses that we work with are building retail products on the other side but they integrate our infrastructure to build a better product and experience themselves.
• 20:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so we, you know, we're primarily developing infrastructure and be to be infrastructure for how you want to move stablecoins.
• 20:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: And part of our advantage, part of the benefit to using our platform is there's tons of flexibility to how you want to move money.
• 21:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, you can go far beyond just telling eco that you want to swap a certain amount of USDC for USDT.
• 21:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can apply rules to that.
• 21:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can apply tight price controls to that.
• 21:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it gives you, I think, a good measure of confidence operating what are across, what are otherwise highly dynamic environments for using stablecoin and cross market A and market B. Yeah, and that's basically what our platform makes possible.
• 21:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: That is definitely sort of a B to B kind of platform partnership value prop.
• 21:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's the developers that are doing batched payment settlement, highly sophisticated treasury management, etc., that one kind of program how and when and why they want to move money, not just always do it right on demand in a simple swap, and that's what we make possible.
• 22:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Ryan, we appreciate your time here.
• 22:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: We love here and about not only growth, but what's happening here with stable coins.
• 22:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's an exciting space, man.
• 22:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, for people who have been around in this space for a while, watching that grow and evolve and adapt in real time is super interesting, especially as it's getting used in all these different ways.
• 22:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it helps paint the long-term picture and what that might look like.
• 22:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: And we're glad to hear that you're at the forefront building the infrastructure for those next stages.
• 22:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's always funny coming back years later and then looking back on it.
• 22:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think this is going to be one of those moments where in a couple of years from now we'll look back at this.
• 22:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: And we'll talk, like, you know, again, here we are now.
• 22:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: We're like, oh, stablecoins are being talked about.
• 22:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: You being used, you know, to buy, you know, government treasuries.
• 22:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's being used in stablecoins and real-world assets and all this stuff.
• 22:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll look back a couple of years from now and be like, oh, you know,
• 22:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, either a lot of this stuff, hopefully a lot of this stuff has become mainstream, or we'll just talk about it, be like, oh, well, it's stable coins used before it was used all this stuff.
• 23:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, what did people use it for back in the day?
• 23:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: So hopefully we have a couple of those conversations.
• 23:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Final question for you.
• 23:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: How far away do you think a lot of this is?
• 23:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know some people get nervous about the Clarity Act.
• 23:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Some people are just nervous because we've been in a bear market.
• 23:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: it pushes their their time horizons out a little bit or maybe it makes their confidence waver and in terms of adoption and getting this stuff up and running and you know really seeing the activity that we've talked about how far out do you think we could be the train's left the station.
• 23:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's happening.
• 23:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's happening.
• 23:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the train is left the station has happened so quickly that I think what people are still talking about the
• 23:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: the phrasing.
• 23:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's just like they weren't available.
• 23:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, they have been for a while.
• 23:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're not, they're just, they're just here.
• 23:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and that's just going to continue.
• 24:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're going to gradually, um, take over and replace existing back-end financial infrastructure steadily and accelerating over the next decade.
• 24:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so it's just happening.
• 24:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: Clarity, no clarity.
• 24:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's still
• 24:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: clarity might add some requirements, change some other things, but you know, it's already happening on the basis of the legislation we have.
• 24:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: We at least have that clarity in the United States of what it takes to issue and use this data coin and what collateral is allowed and that's good enough to really unlock this phase and it's just happening.
• 24:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I think everything we talked about in this conversation is not hypothetical.
• 24:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: I would expect all of the trends we've discussed
• 24:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Awesome.
• 24:52
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• 25:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll run once again.
• 25:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for joining us here today.
• 25:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: We appreciate you time Great conversations always thanks for new