Making Sense of Crypto

The Real Risk of Stablecoins

Mark Lurie
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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.