BREAKDOWN: The Race for Stablecoin Transparency
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Tether, Circle and Paxos all position for a new regulated stablecoin era.
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
On this week’s Weekly Recap, NLW breaks down the recent history of stablecoins and contextualizes recent news from Tether, Circle and Paxos. Could stablecoin providers be positioning themselves to be the rails of an eventual U.S. digital dollar?
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| 0:53.8 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:58.8 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 1:06.0 | The breakdown is sponsored by Nidig and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 1:12.3 | What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, August 28th, and that means it's time for the weekly |
| 1:17.6 | recap. And the weekly recap is always sort of a guessing game of what it's going to be. |
| 1:22.9 | Will it be a roundup of all the news events, or will it be a topic that I just happened to miss? |
| 1:27.7 | And this week, I actually did a couple of news roundup type episodes, and I didn't feel |
| 1:32.3 | like there was the need for that, but there was a topic that I didn't have a chance to dig |
| 1:36.5 | into, which is something that I'm calling the race for stablecoin transparency. So let's get |
| 1:41.3 | into that. So, stablecoins, stablecoins, stable coins. |
| 1:44.8 | You guys know that I have a historical, overarching pattern sort of perspective. |
| 1:50.0 | I like to look back at things and ask how a historian or an observer in the future might |
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