Ep. 725 Why Bitcoin’s Next Chapter Is Bigger Than Just Holding with RootstockLabs
CRYPTO 101
Bryce Paul & Brendan Viehman
4.3 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this episode the Director of Institutional and Ecosystem at RootstockLabs Richard Green discusses the intersection of Bitcoin, DeFi, and institutional adoption. He explores how Rootstock is building on Bitcoin's security to enable smart contracts, DeFi applications, and capital market solutions, emphasizing Bitcoin's role as a long-term store of value and the future of Bitcoin-based finance.
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00:00 Introduction to the Crypto Landscape
03:59 Richard Green's Journey in Crypto
09:54 Rootstock Labs: Building on Bitcoin
11:52 Current Adoption and Market Position
20:14 Security and Scalability in Bitcoin Finance
28:52 Future Predictions and Institutional Adoption
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| 0:00.0 | all right everybody welcome back to another episode of the crypto 101 podcast i'm your co-host |
| 0:14.1 | bryce paul as always joined by my good buddy brendan veman from across the great great land |
| 0:20.8 | how are you doing man you know bryce i'm doing great i'm doing great crypto's getting a buddy Brendan Veman from across the great, great land. |
| 0:21.5 | How are you doing, man? You know, Bryce, I'm doing great. I'm doing great. Crypto's getting a bump here. So I'm pretty excited about that. It's hard to complain at a time like this, right? Cryptos headed back upwards. The bulls are retaking control. So good time to be here in crypto. I love it. Well, I hope everybody who's at home watching is |
| 0:40.6 | excited for today's episode. We've got Richard Green, who is incredible working at Root Stock Labs. |
| 0:46.0 | He's the managing director of institutions and all around. Really, really excited to have you |
| 0:51.8 | join us today. So, Richard, how are you doing? |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah, very well, thank you. Not too bad. As Brendan said, it's a good day to be in crypto, |
| 1:05.0 | which is always a good thing to wake up to or to go to sleep to. So I'm super happy to be here to chat about it. |
| 1:12.6 | Much better start to Q2 here than we had in definitely Q4 and Q1 was pretty brutal as well. |
| 1:17.3 | But we're going to go ahead and get into some really positive things on Root Stock Labs, |
| 1:21.4 | what you guys are building. But just first wanted to get acquainted with you, the audience. |
| 1:25.8 | Let us know who you are. I mean, you've been, you know, building in FinTech, kind of at the intersection of FinTech, Stable Coins, finance, |
| 1:29.0 | markets for well over 10 years. And so we just want to get a little sense of who you are |
| 1:33.0 | and why you decided to work with institutions at Root Stock. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for that, |
| 1:39.3 | Bryce. Like you say, I started my career in the more traditional finance data tech side of things |
| 1:45.1 | at Bloomberg and spent 10 or so years there going through everything from managing their |
| 1:50.6 | customer sport teams in Europe to selling their data and trading systems throughout banks |
| 1:56.7 | and brokers and HFT desks and things like that. |
| 1:59.9 | And then about 10 years into that journey, I realized there might be something else out there. |
| 2:07.0 | And that kind of came about a little bit predominantly through the FX side of the Blundow business and then stable coins. |
| 2:14.7 | So that's where I first saw the overlap because, you know, |
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