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Jeff Walton

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

Maybe Ethereum.

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

Ethereum, maybe Solana, but like lower probability.

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

And if you're talking about

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

an asset going from $1.6 trillion to $20 trillion or $30 trillion, you need to access different pools of capital, large institutional scale, like different pools of capital that are not going to buy the underlying, but they're going to buy a wrapped product.

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

With Bitcoin, you're underwriting the protocol.

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

And so Bitcoin, $1.6 trillion asset.

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

With Ethereum, you would be underwriting, what is it, a $500 billion asset.

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

So it's a significantly smaller asset.

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

It's like one third the size.

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

And you're underwriting, right, the Ethereum Foundation and their ability to change the protocol and proof of stake and the credit profile.

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

Any credit written against Ethereum would likely need to have a premium over and above the credit that's issued on Bitcoin.

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

Not to say it's not doable.

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

It's just it would have to be better.

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

It would have to be a better product than the credit written against Bitcoin.

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

Because you're saying that there is more trust required?

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

I'm saying that the company that's issuing the product has to underwrite that future.

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

Right.

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

That risk profile is different than the risk profile of Bitcoin.

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

Yeah, yeah.

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

And with credit...