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THE PROTOCOL: Live from Consensus 2024 | The Financialization of Crypto and the Influence of Narratives

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4.7698 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

David Schwartz and Robert Leshner share how the convergence of traditional financial markets and on-chain systems presents a major opportunity for driving adoption over the next 20 years. Sponsored by BitGo.  Follow the show here for more. This installment of "The Protocol," comes to you LIVE from Consensus 2024 in Austin Texas. Hosts Brad Keoun, the founding editor of The Protocol Newsletter, and tech journalists Sam Kessler and Margaux Nijkerk chat with David Schwartz, CTO of Ripple, and Robert Leshner,  CEO & Co-Founder of Superstate, on the challenges and opportunities in bringing real-world assets on-chain and more. Chapters |  00:00 The Conference Experience and Developer Mix 02:12 The Convergence of Traditional Financial Markets and On-Chain Systems 04:25 Challenges and Opportunities in Bringing Real-World Assets On-Chain 05:49 The Impact of Restaking in Traditional Finance Sign Up for THE PROTOCOL NEWSLETTER  EPISODE LINKS |   BitGo  Superstate  Ripple  - The Protocol is produced by the CoinDesk team: production assistant Victor Chen, senior producer Michele Musso, executive producer Jared Schwartz, and Senior Booker, Melissa Montañez.  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

Hello and welcome back to CoinDisk live at Consensus.

0:08.6

We're coming to you from the CoinDest podcast studio presented to you by BitGo.

0:13.3

Founded in 2013 with the first institutional grade Bitcoin wallet, Bitco is the gold standard in custody, staking, and settlement.

0:20.8

Today, BitGo supports over 800 coins and processes 20% of all Bitcoin transactions by value.

0:26.7

Check them out at BitGo.com.

0:29.4

We're joined today by my incredible Protocol podcast co-hosts, Brad and Margo.

0:35.5

I'm so excited.

0:36.3

We've never gotten to do this in person. We also have an incredible guest who will introduce it in a moment. But Brad, Margo. I'm so excited. We've never gotten to do this in person. We also have an incredible

0:38.9

guest who will introduce in a moment. But Brad, Margo, how has the conference been for you guys?

0:44.9

It's been great. You know, I actually scheduled a bunch of back-to-back meetings this morning,

0:51.2

like 10 minutes each and with 15 minute blocks and rather than like

0:57.7

dismissing people i just had people join in i realized these founders can ask much better questions

1:03.6

of each other than i can think of to ask them and uh let's see peers ridyard of rat radix, who does like an L1 for Defi and Seda protocol, which is doing

1:19.2

like a permissionless Oracle project.

1:25.2

Dune Analytics came over and we were all talking about how we all use Dune all the time.

1:30.3

So I don't know, that's my experience this morning.

1:33.3

What about you, Margo?

1:34.3

Yeah, I mean, I love these conferences because, you know, even us, like we don't live in the same place and we get to, we record usually online, but now we're all together.

1:41.3

And so it's nice to catch up with people from these systems projects in person and sort

1:45.4

of, you know, build rapport.

1:47.6

So yeah.

1:48.6

Speaking of people we're catching up with, David, David, David, Fort.

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