Making Sense of Crypto
Making Sense of Crypto invites bright minds in the crypto and de-fi space to break down topics like pseudonymity, liquidity pools, regulation and more. Host Mark Lurie peels back the layers of major issues in the crypto universe to understand how it affects you and your portfolio.
Making Sense of Crypto
The Real Risk of Stablecoins
Today, we're talking about stablecoins with Patrick Murk. Stablecoins are one of the most popular crypto utilities in terms of use cases. Today, the two largest stablecoins account for over a hundred billion dollars of market cap.
That's a really big amount. They're both part of the top five coins and in a lot of ways, stablecoins might fulfill a lot of the promise that Bitcoin was initially proposed, which is payments.
We'll start by establishing the lay of the land and identifying the approaches for stablecoins today.