“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ||
Hey everyone! Happy to report that our senior dog is doing much better and sporting a dapper red paw-band where they took blood yesterday.
*Yesterday, I went on Scott Melker’s The Wolf of All Streets show to talk about macro and crypto and the SEC and stablecoins and more. Scott is always so easy to talk to. You can *▶catch the recording here.
*And on Tuesday, I was invited onto Bloomberg’s Crypto show – a smart team, such good questions. You can *catch that here (I’m on in the last segment).
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WHAT I’M WATCHING
Stablecoins Around the World: Switzerland
For the fourth episode in this limited series on stablecoin ecosystems outside the US, I focus on Switzerland, and so of course I wanted to talk to Ian Simpson, Director of Marketing and Communication at institutional crypto trading and settlement platform RULEMATCH.
Ian is also host of the RULEMATCH Spot On podcast which is where I get a lot of my information on the evolving plumbing behind institutional crypto connections. It’s also one of the reasons I wanted to talk to Ian about stablecoins in Switzerland, because he regularly interacts with the startups and the institutions that are driving adoption. He has the inside knowledge, and his expertise in communication make him particularly well-placed to transfer some of that knowledge to us.
*(I’ll also be uploading the episode as a standalone video to Substack, and *distributing to Spotify, although I have yet to figure out YouTube and further podcast platform distribution - I’m on it!)
Notes from the episode
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