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

You know what I mean?

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

Like what, you know, Celo.

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

is doing, what stable coins are doing around the world to export this choice and this freedom and to hold government officials and central banks accountable by having an alternative.

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

It's the right to exit.

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

It's a beautiful thing.

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

And it's definitely why we're excited about this space and why we're in it.

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

I want to ask you a question about something that you've referred to earlier, which is it seems like crypto has really started to focus on the stable coin stack, let's call it,

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

And so we talked about Tron earlier on.

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

There's some other competitors here.

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

So there's Polygon has done something recently where they have sort of a stable coin blockchain as well at some level.

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

And now they've gone and they've acquired some on-ramp type companies.

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

And you could see they're kind of verticalizing, let's say, and like expanding up the stack.

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

And then, of course, on the other side, you get projects like Tempo from Stripe.

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

Now, Stripe already has the fiat on-ramps, of course, and the dev tools for that.

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

And what are they doing?

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

They're missing the blockchain.

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

So they're building their own blockchain.

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

They're building Tempo.

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

And that's kind of their stack.

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

And now I see Celo competing against this, which is Celo started with the blockchain and is now partnering for the on-ramp and the wallet app with Minipay.