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- "Value capture is incredibly difficult, and the market is leaking its value at an unbelievable pace at all times." @eddylazzarin with a counterintuitive take: "Entrepreneurs are so obsessed with value capture... not because it's serving their greed at every turn. It's actually00:00
- "The starting point is no longer 'What are you building' but: 'What have you built, and who is using it?'"
- "I think of the market as an information-producing machine." @eddylazzarin on why the CLARITY Act is the unlock for the experimentation crypto hasn't been able to run yet: "Because we lack the CLARITY Act, we haven't really been in a position for the market to do its00:00Crypto has been walled off from the real economy for years. That's changing. @eddylazzarin joins @smc90 and @rhackett to break down why crypto is entering a completely different phase, and what gets built once the rules finally catch up to the technology. 00:00 Intro 01:25
- Stablecoins had product-market fit. What they needed was clarity. @BChillman, cofounder and CEO of @phantom: "Regulation, when it's thoughtful, is actually a feature."00:00
- Stablecoins, explained by @SamBroner00:00
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- "Find where value moves and put yourself in the middle of it." - @jasonrosenthal
- "People don’t just want to use new technologies. They want to own them."The AI ownership rush One of the more interesting side effects of the AI boom is the scramble to own pieces of it. People crave ownership. Over the last few years, investors have poured money into SPVs that promise exposure to private companies. Secondary markets for startup
- Crypto has been walled off from the real economy for years. That's changing. @eddylazzarin joins @smc90 and @rhackett to break down why crypto is entering a completely different phase, and what gets built once the rules finally catch up to the technology. 00:00 Intro 01:2500:00
