Matthew Le Merle

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Finding Peak with Ryan Hanley · The Autonomous Digital Economy Is Here · 5 Jul 2026 podcast

And the first few years of those 15 years, this was really not being thought of as being a technology that would apply to every business and every company.

So I feel we're very early.

Now, having said that,

the uh the adoption rates are ramping really fast so there's certain areas such as stable coins in the developing world um digitalized funds and treasurers used in the crypto world for various purposes and the beginnings of real world asset tokenization where we're beginning to

you know, come on board.

And I think at this point, the CEOs of every bank asset management firm payment company understands that this is superior technology and that they will be deploying it into their operations.

Now we get to the question of insurance.

And I think I have not studied insurance that closely vis-a-vis a blockchain adoption.

But I think in most industries, you have to begin with the pain points that they really care about every day.

And my bet is that the payment...

is not the biggest issue in insurance.

I think it's the decision-making.

It's the assessment of risk and return and decisions around whether or not to insure something, whether or not to close insurance contracts, et cetera, and the nuance around that.

And here, there's no question in my mind that this is now really getting upgraded fast.

We know that AI can simply do a better job of assessing potential outcomes and risks and so on in huge databases and huge data sets.

Whether they be public or proprietary, that is beginning to occur.

And I think I'd be very surprised if there's any large insurance company in the world where on issues such as that, assessing risk, assessing potential returns and making the decisions around how to price insurance products, they're not beginning to experiment with those technologies.

So I feel like in the context of

the autonomous digital economy, in an area like insurance, you're more likely to see decision-making and risk determination being powered by the types of technologies that we invest in.

And the transaction and payment portion of it is not as fundamentally important in that industry, and they can take time.

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