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Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulov on Institutional Adoption and Stablecoin Disruption
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Fireblocks is one of the hottest infrastructure companies in crypto, facilitating $30B in digital asset transfers to date and recently expanding its presence into Asia. In this conversation, CEO Michael Shaulov details how a $200M heist from the North Korean government led him to crypto, and ultimately founding a company whose technology secures and transfers billions for top exchanges and OTC desks. He describes the growing demand for stablecoins and the massive disruption is represents for the payments industry, while providing color on how the institutional landscape is evolving.
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