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Crypto and the Circle of Disintermediation
Cryptocurrency // November 01, 2022

Banks have been getting louder and louder about their opposition to central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) like the digital dollar over the course of 2022, making clear that they see CBDCs as an existential threat that could disintermediate them from their customers, and the deposits...

Citi’s Magical MetaFi Tour Predicts a $13T Metaverse Financial System, Infinite Payment Rails by 2030
Metaverse // April 04, 2022

By 2030, 5 billion people — more than half the world’s population — will be trading in daily drudgery for the metaverse’s 3D immersive virtual reality. By that standard, the resulting metaverse economy of $13 trillion predicted by Citi’s new  “Metaverse and Money: Decrypting the...

Trust The Technology: Decentralized Finance Drives Birth Of New Internet Credit Markets
Cryptocurrency // February 08, 2021

Imagine a world in which moving money is as easy as sending an email or a text message, without an institution as the intermediary or a regulator as the watchdog. As Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire told Karen Webster, it’s a world that exists today mostly...

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Trust The Technology: Decentralized Finance Drives Birth Of New Internet Credit Markets

February 08, 2021
Imagine a world in which moving money is as easy as sending an email or a text message, without an institution as the intermediary or a regulator as the watchdog. As Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire told Karen Webster, it’s a world that exists today mostly for institutional investors and savvy crypto traders who have embraced […]