How Stablecoins Are Disrupting Payments in Emerging Markets

07/19/24 • 32 min

Zodia Markets co-founder Nick Philpott joins the show to discuss the role of emerging markets in particular, how and why emerging markets in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the MENA region are using stablecoins for cross-border payments.

A must-listen episode if you're interested in learning more about the competitive advantage that stablecoins provide to banking services and the potential of stablecoins in cross-border payments.

Show Highlights

→ How and why emerging markets in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the MENA region are using stablecoins for cross-border payments

→ The differences between Zodia Markets and Zodia Custody and the importance of segregation custody and execution

→ How providing access to banking services can be a competitive advantage for crypto firms

→ A look back at the factors that caused Meta’s stablecoin Libra project to fail

A must-listen episode if you're interested in learning more about the competitive advantage that stablecoins provide to banking services and the potential of stablecoins in cross-border payments.

Show Highlights

→ How and why emerging markets in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the MENA region are using stablecoins for cross-border payments

→ The differences between Zodia Markets and Zodia Custody and the importance of segregation custody and execution

→ How providing access to banking services can be a competitive advantage for crypto firms

→ A look back at the factors that caused Meta’s stablecoin Libra project to fail

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The Future Of Privacy In A Multi-Chain Environment

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov joined Henri live at this year’s World Blockchain summit to discuss the role of Chainlink in on-chain finance and its impact on traditional financial institutions.

He also delves into the challenges faced by financial institutions in adapting to a multi-chain environment and the future outlook of cross-chain solutions while sharing insights on privacy in a multi-chain environment.

Show Highlights

→ Overview of Chainlink's role as a data transmission and value transmission layer for all blockchains

→ The urgency of traditional financial institutions to adapt to the multi-chain environment and the challenges they face

→ The solutions provided by Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) for financial institutions in a multi-chain environment

→ The evolution of privacy in a multi-chain environment and the role of technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs and homomorphic encryption

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