HeyJaredalpha un# podcast
Hosted by serial entrepreneur Srikumar Misra [https://www.linkedin.com/in/srimisra/, ] the alpha un podcast is an unfiltered dialogue between two crypto leaders to not just help onramp the crypto curious, but also delve deep into DeFi for crypto natives.
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The Internet Is Becoming a Capital Market | Nikhil Chandhok (opens the original)
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The entire ad-funded internet exists because of one missing capability in 2008: no way to move a fraction of a cent. Circle's Chief Product and Technology Officer explains why stablecoin payments for AI agents remove that constraint, and why he would not build Android the same way today.Few people have watched the internet's business model form from as many seats as Nikhil Chandhok, an early Google and YouTube product lead who launched YouTube on the first iPhone, ran AR at Meta, and is now CPTO
Circle’s Bet on the Future of Money | Nikhil Chandhok (opens the original)
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The best way to keep money on your chain is to make it effortless to move off it. That contrarian bet sits at the centre of the Circle Arc blockchain, and Circle's Chief Product and Technology Officer Nikhil Chandhok explains why liquidity that cannot leave is liquidity nobody sends.Four and a half years at Circle, issuer of $73.3 billion of USDC, taught Nikhil Chandhok two things: receiver preference drives stablecoin distribution, and people leave money where they know they can pull it out. Sp
Why This Investor Is Buying Cash-Flow Businesses With Crypto | Santiago @ Inversion Capital (opens the original)
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Most of crypto builds a token and hopes users show up. This crypto private equity conversation flips that playbook, as Santiago Roel Santos of Inversion explains why he buys profitable businesses and adds blockchain rails behind the scenes.A veteran of more than 150 crypto investments and a former partner at ParaFi Capital, Santiago Roel Santos has watched most crypto startups die for one reason, a lack of users. His company Inversion runs the first crypto private equity strategy, acquiring prof
Circle, USDC, and the OUSD Challenge | Nikhil Chandhok, CPTO Circle (opens the original)
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Circle started as a Bitcoin payments app in 2013. Today it issues USDC, settles dollars across more than sixty countries, and has grown into a financial internet platform. In part one of this conversation, Nikhil Chandhok, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Circle, gets into what the company is becoming, how Circle thinks about new entrants in a market it helped build, why liquidity decides which stablecoin wins, and the road from $77 billion to $150 billion, including the opportunity in ma
Ronit Ghose (Citi) on Stablecoins, the SpaceX IPO, and the Future of Finance (opens the original)
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Wall Street is racing to move 5.5 trillion dollars of assets on-chain, yet the man who wrote Citi's forecast says most of what people want to tokenize will never work. Ronit Ghose sits down with Sri Misra to separate the asset tokenization hype from the few markets that actually belong on a blockchain.Ronit Ghose spent twenty three years as a public markets analyst before taking over Future of Finance at Citi Institute, the bank's in-house research lab, and he wrote the book Future Money. His te
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