Stablecoins as a service is going to be what crypto as a service was last year.

It's going to really take off both on the banking side, the enterprise side, the payment side of things.

And then we're actually going to see a lot more experimentation with non-fiat-backed stable coins,

whether it's going to be backed by a stable of AI stocks or whether it's going to be some sort of trading mechanism.

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Hey everyone, I'm Jensen Asi and you're watching CoinDesk. Happy, Happy New Year. We are in 2026. And as we

kick off the year, we're going to get out our crystal ball with Pantera

Capitol's Paul Veratatakit to discuss his predictions for this year.

Hey, Paul.

Happy holidays and happy New Year's.

I'm excited to really just kick off the year with some fun predictions.

I love kicking off the year with fun predictions.

But let's start with a little

reflection on 2025. What do you think our biggest win was last year? What was that narrative

that we're going to carry into 2026? Yeah, I believe the biggest narrative last year was,

you know, regulations. But, you know, regulations.

But, you know, before I diving into regulations later on,

what regulations really spurred was this huge trend of crypto as a service.

I wrote about this my newsletter, but it's really seeing that institutions and

neo banks and any sort of, you know, company that already has distribution with retail and

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