BREAKDOWN: Katherine Wu on What Gets Built Next in Crypto
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🗓️ 29 December 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The Coinbase Ventures investor gives her take on 2021.
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
On this episode of “The Breakdown’s” “End of Year Extravaganza,” NLW is joined by Katherine Wu. Katherine invests in early-stage crypto companies with Coinbase Ventures.
Find our guest on Twitter: @katherineykwu
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| 0:00.0 | For a lot of builders who are like really drawn to the ethos of Web3, they just kind of look at like, |
| 0:05.2 | okay, one of my building and like what layer one is best suited for one I'm building specifically. |
| 0:09.3 | Do I care more about security today or do I care more about speed of settlement today? |
| 0:15.6 | It is a little bit less of a ideological debate. |
| 0:19.2 | I feel like sometimes I'm such a crypto boomer in the space where I'm |
| 0:22.1 | like, oh, back in my day, like, we used to debate about this and that. And like, ha, ha, I wasn't |
| 0:26.3 | even called defy. And like, no one cares. You know, they're just like, okay, that doesn't have |
| 0:30.2 | anything to do with what I want to build. |
| 0:33.7 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:43.3 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:49.2 | The breakdown is sponsored by Nidig and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 1:00.4 | What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, December 29th, and today I am delighted to welcome back to the breakdown, Catherine Wu. |
| 1:06.3 | Some of you know Catherine Wu from her days at Masari. Some of you know her from her incredible crypto legal annotations, which always blow up Twitter as soon as she drops them, |
| 1:16.1 | Catherine these days is investing in early stage crypto companies as an investor with Coinbase Ventures. Given that, we have a ton of context to discuss how this year has set the foundations |
| 1:22.3 | for big changes in the crypto industry in the years to come. This is the perspective of someone |
| 1:27.2 | who spends all day, |
| 1:28.3 | every day hearing about the projects on the bleeding edge. And so I'm thrilled to have Catherine back on |
| 1:32.8 | the show. All right. We are back with Catherine. Catherine, welcome back to the breakdown. |
| 1:38.9 | Thank you. It's always so fun chatting with you. I'm super excited. You obviously are going to have a kick-ass performance |
| 1:45.6 | like you always do on this show. And I feel like this type of episode is super tailor-made for you. |
| 1:49.7 | So let's just dive right in. And let's start with what you think the most important story or |
| 1:54.7 | trend in crypto in 2021 was. So one of the trends that I've been most fascinated by, and I definitely don't think I could |
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