BREAKDOWN: Visa's CEO on Crypto – "This Is a Space We Are Leaning Into in a Very, Very Big Way"
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🗓️ 28 April 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Visa’s earnings call makes it clear just how invested the company is in the crypto space.
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Today on the Brief:
- Elon pumps Doge again
- Detailing Biden’s $1.8T American Families Plan
- Turkey, Iran, SEC
Our main discussion looks at comments this week from Visa CEO Al Kelly on the company’s relationship with crypto, analyzing the five areas of opportunity Visa has identified:
- Helping customers buy BTC and crypto
- Enabling digital cash outs to fiat
- Enabling TradFi to offer crypto to customers
- Settlement via stablecoins
- Central bank digital currencies
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening is that more or less every central bank in the world is walking down the |
| 0:04.6 | CBDC path. |
| 0:06.2 | That means a total retrofitting of the financial piping. |
| 0:09.5 | This will be for a company like Visa, the single biggest and most important transition in |
| 0:14.6 | the company's life. |
| 0:16.0 | They either win and carve out their place in the new regime, or they'll be relegated to |
| 0:20.5 | the past. |
| 0:22.6 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:26.7 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:32.9 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io and neared.org and produced and distributed by CoinDes. |
| 0:40.2 | What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, April 28th, and today we are talking about recent comments from Visa's CEO on crypto. |
| 0:49.4 | But first, let's do the brief. |
| 0:51.8 | First up on the brief today, Elon pumps Doge again. Okay, okay, Elon, we get it. You like |
| 0:58.2 | Doge. You think it would be hilarious if Doge became the reserve currency of the Intergalactic Federation |
| 1:03.3 | because nature loves irony. We understand. But you can still choose to stop. Early this morning, Elon tweeted the doge father, S&L, May 8th. |
| 1:14.0 | Now, you would think at this point the ability for something like this to pump the price |
| 1:18.1 | of this meme coin would be nil, but oh no, that is not the case. |
| 1:22.2 | The thing is, it doesn't matter that many other parts of the crypto industry now have |
| 1:26.7 | prices that go up or down |
| 1:28.2 | more or less based on things like broad trajectories, macro narratives, and market structure-based |
| 1:33.3 | reasons. Doge is pure play money on a meme. That means that the relevant game isn't what |
| 1:39.1 | should happen. It's what do you expect other people think will happen. Right now, Elon tweeting about Doge, |
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