The candy in the consumer vending machine are assets. Desirable assets most people couldnโt easily buy or productively use in past - US dollars, Tesla stock, Open AI equity, digital art, Meme lottery tickets. Stablecoins is first and best example, opening up dollars to the world & enabling better ways to grow and transfer them for everyone. Tokenized stocks are likely next. Everyone will be able to buy Tesla soon. Tokenized private stocks to follow. SpaceX or OpenAI anyone? There are of course a whole range of institutional use cases for smart contracts, but thatโs a different vending machine. At root, for the regular Joe, it is about cool assets and ability to enjoy and appreciate them.
@matthuang โWeโll start with a permissioned validatorโโฆ 1 para later, โAs the world adopts crypto, we think there is a risk that they adopt permissioned systems.โ
@PeterLBrandt Seems inversely correlated but not predictive. At peaks especially, would think BTC market action leads & USDT follows. People sell BTC for USDT.
@ColinTCrypto Might be more informative to combine USDT & USDC stablecoin dominance in inverted measure, which would eliminate any possible shifts occurring across the two most dominant stables.