Consumer Crypto

Ezra Klein during his latest podcast: 

"crypto is a solution endlessly looking for a problem"

He's not that wrong. Hopefully changes now that the UX is almost at parity. Seems like the entire history of crypto has just been a story of getting to that starting line.

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Stablecoins are a real product and use case, its just boring and most people don't want to see it as a use case.

Im the guy that posted all those factory memes once

i had an ai founder talk about how he's building payments for agents and trying to do it without crypto rails. i broke it down to him that every other industry is trying to carve out a middleware layer where agents can freely operate in an environment built for them. crypto is that for payments

stigma is definitely there though

Reserve is a permissionless platform to launch and govern 1:1 asset-backed currencies and — coming soon — DTFs (Decentralized Token Folios).

@reserve makes stablecoins potentially a more interesting design space

stablecoins -> branded stablecredits (akin to store gift card/Starbucks balances)