We went live from DAS London with Paul Faecks from Plasma and Guy Young from Ethena to discuss their respective stablecoin ecosystems. With Paul, we covered Plasma’s launch, USDT growth, and the upcoming Plasma One platform. With Guy, we dove into market instability, oracles, whitelabel stablecoins, and future stablecoin trends. Thanks for tuning in! As always, remember this podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely their opinions, not financial advice. -- Katana directs chain revenue back to DeFi users for consistently higher yields. It starts with VaultBridge, which turns bridged assets into yield streams that back a perpetually funded real yield, boosting rewards for DeFi users. Katana is pioneering Productive TVL, assets actually being used in DeFi and reinforces this with Chain-owned Liquidity, permanent liquidity the chain controls. Stop sleeping on your bags: https://app.katana.network/?utm_source=BW-Pod -- Allora is the new AI standard for DeFi platforms and agents to achieve sharper, faster, and more reliable financial systems than any single language model can offer. Instead of choosing and managing models, users state their goal, and the system delivers the best result. To learn more about Allora Network, visit https://www.allora.network/ and https://x.com/AlloraNetwork -- Blockworks is hiring a Research Data Analyst. If you live in SQL and love making sense of onchain chaos, apply today: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Blockworks?utm_source=EQPb2dAAxr -- Follow Paul: https://x.com/pauliepunt Follow Guy: https://x.com/gdog97_ Follow Carolina:https://x.com/GoldDefi Follow David: https://x.com/EffortCapital Follow Boccaccio: https://x.com/salveboccaccio Follow Blockworks Research: https://x.com/blockworksres Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3foDS38 Subscribe on Apple: https://apple.co/3SNhUEt Subscribe on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3NlP1hA Get top market insights and the latest in crypto news. Subscribe to Blockworks Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter/ Join the 0xResearch Telegram group: https://t.me/+UFFz4z3qyrhhMDYx -- Timestamps: (0:00) Paul Intro (0:47) Plasma's Launch (5:09) Plasma One (11:15) Katana Ad (11:44) Developing the Plasma Ecosystem (17:59) Thoughts on pBTC (19:31) Free USDT Transfers (20:28) Plasma DeFi vs Stablecoin Transfers (21:29) Hot Takes (23:35) Ads (Katana & Allora) (24:32) Guy Intro (24:45) Dealing With Market Volatility (29:24) Ethena Whitelabel Stablecoins (32:31) Hyperliquid Integrations (33:07) Onchain Yield (34:32) Looking Forward -- Check out Blockworks Research today! Research, data, governance, tokenomics, and models – now, all in one place Blockworks Research: https://www.blockworksresearch.com/ Free Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter -- Disclaimer: Nothing said on 0xResearch is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Boccaccio, Danny, and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.
