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Marek Olszewski

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

Yeah.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

But it turns out that the amounts that they have already are sufficient to do on-chain effects on Celo.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

We should talk about on-chain effects as well because it's...

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

It's a quadrillion annual, I think 3.2 quadrillion market annually.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

So it's like a huge market.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

FX is, of course, but I think increasingly more and more of that is coming on chain and maybe eventually everything will be on chain.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

But coming back to making everyone bankless, I think it will take a while.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

And I think it will take a while because you need effectively everyone to have a self-custodial wallet.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

And only then will it just make sense.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

From then on, you can just continue to pay the next person or the next vendor or the next employee on chain.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

And until we get there...

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

We effectively need it to be very easy.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

There should be no friction going from fiat to stablecoins and back for everyone in the world, regardless of where they live.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

And that's something that is difficult to accomplish, obviously, globally.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

But increasingly, we're seeing that this is happening.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

And so there will be this transition period.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

I think it's probably going to be a fairly long transition period.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

But who knows, right?

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

I think the thing with network effects is that things start slow and then suddenly, you know, smoke turns into fire.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

And then suddenly overnight, everyone's, you know, using a self-custodial wallet.