Circle's Vision for Programmable Money with Tim Queenan
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Stablecoins to me are just that first killer app that's coming out that is going to make a programmable economy, something that my kids who are quite young right now still will be their future and what they'll expect moving forward. |
| 0:19.5 | Welcome to Gen C. Sam here. Very excited for this next conversation. You know, we have spent really a good |
| 0:27.1 | chunk of this year talking about the revolution that is stable coins, cross-border payments, remittances, |
| 0:34.9 | wallets. And I feel like this is, you know, on the one hand, |
| 0:39.3 | or like a plumbing topic, right? We're talking about how money moves around the world, |
| 0:43.0 | which is not always the sexiest. On the other hand, we are literally witnessing a transformation |
| 0:48.2 | in the financial system, the cultural exchange of value, all the things that if we were |
| 0:53.7 | looking at the internet |
| 0:54.5 | 25 years ago, we would say there's something going on, we don't know, but we want to be a part of it. |
| 0:58.7 | And I really feel that this is, is that industry. I think we're at about $400 billion of market |
| 1:06.3 | cap in the stable coin industry, not huge compared to all of the cash in the world, but growing and growing rapidly. |
| 1:14.2 | We are seeing, I think there's 500 million or so people who are transacting in these tokens. |
| 1:19.7 | So we wanted to talk to someone who's spending some time in that game. |
| 1:23.3 | And so Tim Queenin, TQ for short, was at Google, amongst other places, and now is leading |
| 1:29.7 | the marketing practice at Circle. |
| 1:32.0 | Circle is the provider that also oversees USDC, the stable coin that has about 80 billion, I think, |
| 1:38.7 | so far minted. |
| 1:39.8 | They're in the public markets also, had a really big IPO this year. |
| 1:45.7 | Their CEO, Jeremy Allaire, is really everywhere everywhere and has been talking about this stuff for longer than most have been thinking about it. |
| 1:49.9 | So we thought it would be great to have Tim on the podcast to really tell us what's going on |
| 1:55.2 | at Circle, how he envisions the future of programmable money and internet native money and |
| 2:00.7 | stable coins and |
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