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. - Consensus 2022, the industry’s most influential event, is happening June 9-12 in Austin, Texas. If you’re looking to immerse yourself in the fast-moving world of crypto, Web 3 and NFTs, this is the festival experience for you. Visit coindesk.com/consensus2022 to get your pass today. This episode has been edited by Michele Musso. Our Executive Producer is Jared Schwartz with additional production support from Eleanor Pahl. Our theme song is “Neon Beach.“ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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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