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David Hoffmann

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ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

And they have a stable coin that's regulated by the UAE central bank on top of it.

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ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

So it's all sanctioned.

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ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

And the idea is that UAE residents can use a digital currency, basically a stable coin,

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as a bank account, essentially.

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They don't even know necessarily they're using crypto.

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Of course, all of this is private.

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ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

So part of ZK Sync is it can be private as well, but then it's all connected to the L1 ecosystem.

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So if anybody or even some of these regional banks on this ADI chain want to go take out a $100 million money market loan against Aave, they can do that seamlessly without having to bridge.

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That's right.

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ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

Why isn't crypto mainstream?

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Why isn't crypto... It's really cool.

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ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

It's cool, though, right?

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ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

Basically, the story is all of these fault-proof, optimistic roll-up chains with seven-day withdrawals, they're all going to get upgraded the way Celo is upgrading Jello to ZK.

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Space is a Layer 2 chain from Coinbase, of course, and they launched a bridge to Solana.

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But was this a hidden vampire attack against Solana?

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Or was this an act of love?

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They're just trying to get more people on chain, as Jesse always says.

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ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

The Solana tokens, they live in a different world pretty much, right?

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ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

Yeah.

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ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

It's all in the Solana ecosystem.