THE HASH: NBA Top Shot Whale Launches NFT Lending Platform, Stripe Taps Polygon to Allow Customers to Make Payments in USDC
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🗓️ 22 April 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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"The Hash" team discusses the launch of a new NFT lending platform to the Ukrainian Central Bank's ban on crypto purchases in local currency.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the hash podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | Stay informed with the latest on Bitcoin, ETH, the Metaverse, Web3, and more with stories that matter to the crypto world. |
| 0:16.8 | All on the hash for your ears. |
| 0:19.5 | You're listening to the Coin Desk Podcast Network. |
| 0:24.3 | Hi there. Welcome to CoinDest TV. I'm Zach Seward. I'm joined today by Sandali Honda Gama. |
| 0:29.7 | We love having Sandali on the show, Will Foxley and Jensanasi. Shout out to our podcast listeners, |
| 0:35.3 | checking us out on the Coin Desk Podcast Network. |
| 0:38.8 | You know that is fun as well. |
| 0:40.9 | All right, happy Friday, folks. |
| 0:42.1 | Let's get to this thing. |
| 0:43.1 | Will, you are leading us off with the first story of the day. |
| 0:46.0 | I am. |
| 0:46.8 | Stripe is working with Polygon, which is not something I would have expected to see. |
| 0:51.8 | It's a pretty cool story, to be honest. |
| 0:55.2 | Stripe is a bellwether within the payments world. Everybody knows about Stripe. Everyone's always arguing and feuding |
| 1:00.0 | over Stripe engineers who gets to hire them. Now they're working with Polygon to bring payments |
| 1:04.9 | to Twitter. So according to the story on CoinDisc right now, we have initial payments we've brought |
| 1:09.9 | from USDC stable coins to Polygon itself, and they'll be paid out through Polygon-enabled wallets |
| 1:16.5 | on Twitter itself. This will be for like ticketed spaces and super follows and other things |
| 1:21.8 | like that. Zach, it's a pretty interesting story because you're enabling like money to flow |
| 1:26.7 | over a crypto rail that's only like |
| 1:29.7 | two or three years old and it's it's going to people like that matters a lot to see an |
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