Its incredibly rewarding to see the CFTC’s recent pilot program and allowance of the use of digital assets as collateral for CFTC-registered entities. Here is why it matters: The CFTC’s recent launch of the Digital Asset Collateral Pilot Program is not merely as a regulatory “test,” but is the inevitable modernization of the global clearingContinue reading “CFTC’s Approval of Digital Assets as Collateral”
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To Make it in Crypto, Be Onchain
I saw a recent post by @intern on x.com And I was reminded of a lesson learned while I worked at Circle. After a restructuring of the Revenue Team, I had inherited a “sales team” that had been hired by two different managers. Some had been hired to sell Circle’s minting/redeeming API’s to corporates, someContinue reading “To Make it in Crypto, Be Onchain”
The $2 Trillion Addressable Market
Those I have worked with over the last few years know my obsession with using tokenized High Quality Tokenized Assets (HQLA) as margin collateral and a means of settling trades. Broadly defined, HQLA is cash held at banks, cash that has direct access to a Sovereign’s Repo Window, or short-term Sovereign debt like T-Bills. 🧠TheContinue reading “The $2 Trillion Addressable Market”