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Manny

πŸ‘€ Speaker
346 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Web3 with Sam Kamani
347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie

Hey, Manny, like I tried.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie

I really love the idea that I can swap to the Singaporean dollar.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie

And I said, why?

Web3 with Sam Kamani
347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie

And he's like, depending on what local FX shop I go to, I could get charged.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie

Up to 500 basis points.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie

It's all over the place because none of these have standards.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie

With the chain, it's transparent.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie

I know I can even wait when it's comfortable for me.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie

I don't need to wait that it's like open today or closed today.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie

That's the North Star metric.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie

It's like smiles on the face for the customer.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie

We really honestly think that like this is the next cusp of DeFi.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie

Everyone is kind of a little tired about the gambling and trading apps.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie

They just kind of want a boring, safe, reliable thing so they can live their life.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie

If we can bring that kind of joy to a million users, it kind of sounds sappy, but I think then we've kind of hit our North Star.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie

I'll give it like a two-parter.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie

Part one is like,

Web3 with Sam Kamani
347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie

this is kind of an odd thing to say in crypto, but like, cause we don't really think about it, but we think about user experience and we think about like building experiences.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie

So we wanna build like web experiences that feel native to your like economy and your user base.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie

So like you nailed it when you said like,