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Keynote: Making Sense of Stablecoins
Duration: 00:00:00
Speaker: Liam Horne
Type: Talk
Expertise: Beginner
Event: Devcon
Date: Nov 2024
Everyone is talking about stablecoins now! In this talk I'll share what I learned about Tether on Tron in addition to stablecoins more broadly. Why are so many USDT transactions on Tron? Why did Bridge get acquired for $1.1B? What do L2s have to do with stablecoins? Are stablecoins a threat to Ethereum or an accelerant?
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