To understand what’s going on with stablecoins and finance right now, ponder this:
Using USDC on Base, you can send any amount of money to anyone anywhere in the world for less than a penny and in under a second.
Consider all the billion-dollar giants whose entire business model is charging you rent on what crypto makes essentially free.
What crypto is going to do to banks and legacy payment is like what AI will do for white-collar labor: a generational WTF moment that will make everyone scramble toward a new order.
If you’re 20 to 30 and your friends aren’t talking about:
clawdbot
tariffs
the collapse of white-collar work
AI doomerism
the death of altcoins
creatine
x402
You need a new friend group