BREAKDOWN: Katherine Wu on DeFi and the Inevitability of the Digital Yuan
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🗓️ 30 December 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Katherine Wu was a founding team member at Messari before moving into a VC role at Notation Capital, but is perhaps best known in crypto for her epic annotations of key regulatory enforcement actions. In this end of year interview with The Breakdown, Katherine argues that decentralized finance is the narrative of 2019, but also that when it comes to 2020, the emergence of a Chinese digital yuan is likely to have a huge impact on the crypto space.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown, an everyday analysis breaking down the most important stories in Bitcoin, crypto, and beyond, with your host, NLW. |
| 0:15.0 | The Breakdown is distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome back to the Breakdown's end of year extravaganza. And today we have a great interview with Catherine Wu. |
| 0:28.6 | Catherine Wu was a founding team member at Masari. |
| 0:31.6 | She's now a VC at Notation Capital. |
| 0:33.6 | But for crypto folks, she's probably best known for her epic annotations of SEC |
| 0:39.0 | enforcement actions that come out seemingly hours after the decision has. |
| 0:44.7 | Catherine is a really, really broad thinker, so I was really excited to get her perspective |
| 0:48.6 | on the narratives of 2019 and predictions for 2020. |
| 0:52.0 | And we touch on some of the things that you might expect, |
| 0:54.4 | defy and things like that. But I think Catherine's thoughts around Chinese Digital Yuan and |
| 0:59.1 | what it means for the year going forward are really, really important. With that, I really |
| 1:04.1 | hope you enjoy this interview. And if you do, please subscribe so you don't miss any of our |
| 1:08.8 | end of year coverage. So without further ado, let's dive in. |
| 1:13.7 | All right, we are back with Catherine Wu, formerly of Masari, now at Notation Capital. |
| 1:20.5 | Catherine, thank you so much for joining today. |
| 1:22.7 | Hi, Nathaniel. Good to. |
| 1:24.8 | I guess we're not actually seeing each other, but good to speak with you as always. |
| 1:29.7 | Yeah, absolutely. So 2019 has been a big year for you, a little bit of change and transition from |
| 1:36.1 | the Masari Entrepreneurial Life to the other side of the venture capital table, huh? |
| 1:41.0 | Yeah, I know. It's been a crazy, crazy year. Amazing. Well, it has been, like, |
| 1:48.3 | in some ways, a crazy year and in other ways, a quiet year in crypto. So I'm interested to see |
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