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Show Notes

(00:04:00) - (First question) - The impact of TradFi shifting towards crypto infrastructure

(00:14:00) - How crypto could drastically reduce friction in credit markets and mortgages

(00:28:29) - Building crypto rails in parallel to legacy systems to prove their power and destabilize those traditional structures

(00:37:15) - The gravity of competing with the most entrenched American industry and how Blocktower’s system addresses this

(00:45:22) - How they cooperate and compete with different TradFi and DeFi players

(00:47:38) - Considerations for privacy and reversibility with crypto-based banking

(00:55:41) - How blockchain in banking can eliminate much of the human error in the system

(00:58:57) - What he’s most excited to see built over the next six months and six years