GEN C: How to Build a Crypto Business with Christina Smedley of Lightspark
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🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Christina Smedley of Lightspark, live from Consensus HK, to discuss how their technology enables cross-border payments without high fees and serves both developed and emerging markets.
Christina Smedley, who has previously worked at Amazon, PayPal, Facebook, and Robinhood, discusses her current role at Lightspark where she's helping to revolutionize payments through Bitcoin's Lightning Network. She explains Lightspark's Universal Money Address (UMA) solution that allows people to send money as easily as emails and talks about Spark, their open-source Layer 2 blockchain designed specifically for payments and stablecoin transactions.
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| 0:53.4 | Friends, Defy is having a moment. |
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| 1:00.0 | Swapping and bridging our simple, low cost, and lightning fast across 13 chains, including |
| 1:04.5 | base, Arbitrum and Unichain, the new Layer 2 network designed for Defi. |
| 1:09.2 | Thanks to deep liquidity on uniswap protocols, |
| 1:11.7 | you get minimal price impact on every trade, |
| 1:14.3 | now with even greater efficiency through Uniswop v4. |
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| 1:26.1 | So, Christina, I would love, just for our audience, tell us your background prior, because it's |
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