It’s A Bull Market But Not The One You Wanted With Rob Hadick & Santiago Santos | Weekly Roundup
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Like, let's just get back to the core of what we wanted, the core principles of what Satoshi wrote about. And honestly, you and I cut our teeth in this industry, really in DeFi. And that was what got us really excited about how that DeFi could change the way financial markets worked. And that continues to be the best use case. And that is what I continue to be excited about alongside everything that goes in with that transfer of value.
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back, everyone, for another segment of the roundup. We are joined now exclusive with Rob, who's taking over Jano's seat. I think permanent Jano's permanently. Pretty
much. Yeah. No. I could I could never replace him. How's
it going, Rob? How are you doing?
Good. I'm excited to be here. I, am on the back of, you know, weekend with beautiful weather in Cannes. And now back in New York where it is hot but less beautiful, but excited to be here. There
you go. So, Rob, you've been on the road for, like, four weeks. It sounds like you are now the Stablecoin person. So I mean, I feel like you're going around all of these conferences, talking about Stablecoins. And it look. You and I were talking about this earlier in con where we met up. It feels like it's moving much, much faster. So why don't we start there? Like, I of course, I'm wearing the proof of attendance for ECC. I'm coming back. But tell us, like, what what is the sentiment in the room? I mean, you were at Goldman's conference, couple weeks ago. You were at ECC. What's, you know, so
Yeah. So if you're thinking about Stablecoin specifically, I will tell you, at Goldman's event. So this was last week. I think it was last Wednesday. I spoke on the first panel of the day. It's just Goldman clients primarily. And it was standing room only. And I've been to this Goldman Sachs digital assets event three years in a row. And this was by far and away the most well attended. And so you look around, there's 400 people, family offices, trading firms, big asset managers. And they really only want to talk about a few things of which number one was Circle and Stablecoins. It's very clear
guess, of, like, this is not new. You you guys have been investing in stablecoins for a number of years. Anyone that's been in crypto has used stablecoins. It's sort of like you stop using wire transfer. You fund most of your deals in stable coins. What's changed? Like, for for anyone that's just kinda waking up and, like, you know, stable coins have been around for a while. What was the inflection point? Are there one or two catalysts? What would you point that to? It
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