Most stablecoin volume is not payments. By Jamal Raees's own estimate, 70 to 90% of it is settlement for trading and speculation. So how does real payments infrastructure get built on top of it, and who wins the stablecoin wars?
Our CMO
@PaulRezaAfshar asks the spicy questions the stablecoin hype skips to
@JamalRaees, GM of Payments at
@SolanaFndn , in the latest episode of the No BS Podcast.
In this episode:
- How family remittances taking 6 weeks at 7 to 15% fees pushed him into crypto payments
- Stablecoins vs tokenized deposits, explained simply
- Why banks and card networks launch their own stablecoins when USDC exists
- Where MiCA, GENIUS and CLARITY are still incomplete, and why he says "upgrade", not "disrupt"
- What a new on-ramp or off-ramp company should build first, and why compliance is the cornerstone
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