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Marek Olszewski

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

And increasingly, we're just seeing on Uniswap, on Velodrome, on a lot of these exchanges, it's just more and more volume, which is pretty cool to see.

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

But I think the real exciting thing that's about to happen is there's a Perp Dex that perhaps by the time that this airs will be live, up, down, that X, Y, Z. And their focus really is on just being a Perp Dex for on-chain effects.

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

Well done.

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

I love it as well.

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

Yeah, it's genius in many ways.

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

And, you know, I think the thesis there is, you know, one, if you want to hedge currency risk, you know, you need something like a perp tax.

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

And so that will enable that.

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

But also, arguably, if you're interested in just day trading or investing in crypto, I would postulate that you probably have a better sense

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

of how your local currency will perform relative to other currencies, then you might have, well, when you think about how some meme coin might perform, right?

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

Like when it comes to meme coins, it's usually kind of insiders, cabals that are deciding the direction of these things.

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

If when it comes to on-chain effects, you know, I think it's more the economic market forces driving trade between countries.

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

And you probably have a fairly good sense

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

of how that's going.

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

And so arguably, you know, especially if you add leverage, because obviously these swings are relatively small, but if you add leverage through a prep tax, suddenly this becomes interesting for perhaps the degen crowd who, you know, might have, again, a little bit more alpha than they would on some of these other kind of, especially meme coin type assets.

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

So I'm really excited for this.

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

It's going to run 24-7.

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

It's going to be accessible to everyone in the world.

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

Hopefully it will be more efficient for bespoke pairs of assets, right?

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

Like if you want to go from the Nigerian Naira to the Brazilian Real through the corresponding banking system, I think you're going to end up paying a lot of fees.

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

I think on-chain can be a lot, lot more efficient for that.