MoonPay

It wasn't just Franklin.

Like Moonpay was a market maker.

Essentially, not exactly.

I know it's very different, but this stuff has existed for well before crypto.

I don't even think that your bank connects directly to it.

I think you'll have to have your MoonPay connected to it.

MoonPay will connect to your bank account.

Rumble Wallet is merely a vehicle for purchasing crypto.

If you put all of your money into crypto, then you have to convert it to U.S. dollars to spend it on anything else.

And we're seeing the infrastructure being set up here.

Speaking of institutions, WisdomTree and Moonpay team up

to expand U.S. access to tokenized money market fund.

So WisdomTree, one of the big ETF issuers and fund issuers, which includes crypto, of course, teaming up with Moonpay, which does a lot of crypto payments and they have the infrastructure.

In fact, I just interviewed yesterday their head engineer, and we talked about what they're building with AI agents and crypto wallets and more.

so wisdom tree and moon pay are partnering to expand u.s investor access to tokenized treasury money market fund which moon pay also plans to use as part of its stablecoin reserves according to a thursday announcement from the companies the fund issuer is using moon pace technology to develop an access point for its wisdom tree money market fund which is wtg xx that's the ticker a tokenized money market mutual fund that seeks to maintain a $1 share price.

The company said the arrangement would give WisdomTree access to Moonpay's network of more than 35 million accounts.

Moonpay, a financial technology company that provides infrastructure for moving between fiat and digital assets, plans to use the WTXX as part of its stablecoin reserve management stack.

Okay.

Fast-forward to 2021, I'm in New York meeting with Guy Oseary, and this guy from MoonPay is there-

Mm-hmm

... showing us these apes.

It's what brings people to these apps.

Um, we saw it done extremely well with Moonpay a few weeks ago for the, for the Paybox launch.

Um, yeah, and I do wanna get your opinion on that.

Do you think this is a good way to draw people to your app, or do you think that you're just giving away money and people are gonna, you know, punt $1 on a market, and then withdraw that cash, and go leave and do something else?

The strategy targets financing for small and medium-sized businesses and consumers.

now check this out tether will source usdt linked financing opportunities and provide the stablecoin infrastructure for moving funds across borders including converting between traditional currencies and digital dollars so you see how crypto technology is being blended into the traditional finance world uh you're gonna see more and more of this guys and especially as uh we have legislation and and these regulations pass across the globe so is a microcosm of what's to come and speaking of stable coins paypal expands stablecoin rails with custom token issuance platform so again all the payment providers all the credit companies they're all here right so py usd x stablecoin developer platform backed by paypal usd uh their stablecoin is called py usd is built to help m0 and moon pay I'll be interviewing someone from Moonpay very soon.

And I've actually interviewed the founder of MZero in the past.

So you're seeing these companies are starting to collaborate and form partnerships and build out a pretty vast network because you have to do that if you want to get network access.

And I remember kind of some of the early positioning for zero hash was, you know, how do you embed, you know, crypto trading into an application, you know, and I think at the time, also, there was a lot of groundwork.

growth in things like on and off ramps and Moonpay had a big round.

So sort of a bit muddy in the market overall because people didn't really know what it is that they wanted to embed.

And there's been this huge evolution in both the blockchain side and embedded finance.

According to Google, MoonPay is worth like $5 billion.

And so that's in seven years.

That's insane.

Really what got me excited to begin with was changing money.

The vision behind MoonPay is to build an operating system for global value.

It's risky if you give LM interface your private key.

You don't want your crypto wallet to be drained.

We're seeing so many trends at once.

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