Manny

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346 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 5 May

Manny’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Web3 with Sam Kamani · 347: How Blend.money is Building the Global Savings Layer for DeFi with guest speakers Manny and Jamie · 9 Jan 2026 podcast

Hey, Manny, like I tried.

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

And I said, why?

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

Up to 500 basis points.

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

With the chain, it's transparent.

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

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

That's the North Star metric.

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

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

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

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

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.

I'll give it like a two-parter.

Part one is like,

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.

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

So like you nailed it when you said like,

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