Crypto on Every Corner: Driving Adoption With Jeremy Allaire and Meltem Demirors - Ep.153

This episode is a discussion from Stellar's Meridian conference, in which I moderated the panel, Crypto on Every Corner: Driving Adoption, featuring Jeremy Allaire, cofounder, chairman and CEO of Circle, and Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer at CoinShares. In this discussion, we cover:

what adoption means and looks like 

why cryptocurrency is at a particularly interesting inflection point

how central bank digital currencies could affect that

how blockchains will recede into the background

how existing fintech payment apps will use blockchains and/or crypto

where on the road to adoption the industry currently is 

the significance of Crypto Twitter as a marketing tool

what the crypto industry needs to do in the next year to grow the industry

why it would have been easier to start a bank than a crypto business

why the separation of money and state is one of the most interesting experiments in history 

how we'll see new corporate-like organizations without any connections to any existing legal or financial systems driven by tokens

what their favorite crypto adoption success story is

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Crypto.com: http://crypto.com

Episode links:

Jeremy Allaire: https://twitter.com/jerallaire

Circle: https://www.circle.com/en/

Meltem Demirors: https://twitter.com/Melt_Dem

Coinshares: https://coinshares.com

PayPal offering crypto: https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/12/paypal-says-all-users-in-u-s-can-now-buy-hold-and-sell-cryptocurrencies/

Revolut offering crypto: https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/15/revolut-partners-with-paxos-to-bring-cryptocurrency-trading-to-the-us/