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Jeff Walton

👤 Speaker
893 total appearances

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

They've got $5 billion of Notional outstanding and it's trading $2 million a day.

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

If you had $100 million and you wanted to scale out of that product, you're going to destroy the price.

Bankless
Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

You can't do it.

Bankless
Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

you have to hold that instrument for 20 years in order to get that return back.

Bankless
Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

So then you go look at the strategy instrument or our instrument, and you look at the liquidity profile.

Bankless
Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

I mean, our instrument's averaging $40 million of liquidity a day on $500 million.

Bankless
Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

That's significantly more liquid relative to the JP Morgan instrument.

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

And strategy's instrument is trading hundreds of millions of dollars a day relative to, I think, about $10 billion outstanding now.

Bankless
Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

That's what provides the principal protection of the instrument is the liquidity profile.

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

It's the incentive structure, right?

Bankless
Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

These instruments, because they're liquid, because they're transparent, invites computers to come and trade these and invites market makers to move in both directions, people that are buying calls, selling puts, the whole thing.

Bankless
Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

The incentive structure is bringing liquidity there.

Bankless
Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

So, okay, zooming back out, that's the credit market.

Bankless
Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

These disrupt the credit market.

Bankless
Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

These also disrupt the equity market.

Bankless
Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

Any dividend-paying equities, how much volatility do you take on for a dividend-paying equity?

Bankless
Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

Any dividend-paying equity, what's that probability umbrella look like of the value of the company over time?

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

You look back over time, in the last 20 years, there's been a 50% turnover in the S&P 500.

Bankless
Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

What if that happens again?

Bankless
Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

And it's probably going to happen faster with exponential increase in technology.