Tom Schmidt
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296 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
Tom Schmidt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And there have been a lot of false starts throughout the years, not for any particular reason.
But, hey, just the market wasn't there.
The liquidity wasn't there.
The demand wasn't there.
And now people see, oh, if I want to live my entire financial life on-chain, I probably also want privacy.
If I'm going to be spending with a debit card out of my wallet or custodying my tokenized stocks in my wallet, I probably also want to be able to then go spend and not let everyone know what I hold.
And I think the numbers kind of speak for themselves.
Not financial-wise.
We do hold Zcash.
And I think it has kind of a special place in the industry and obviously give them a lot of credit for pioneering, I think, a lot of the ZKP research that has influenced and a lot of other downstream projects I've ended up using.
Yeah, I think, you know, in many respects, this is kind of just an extension of the shift towards off-exchange settlement for centralized exchanges that we saw post-FTX, where you saw stuff like, you know, Fireblocks and, you know, Copper Clearloop, you know, take off as a way to, again, segregate exchange from settlement.
um and i think you know i'm assuming a lot of anchorage customers um are probably asking for for hyperliquid i know i've talked to you a couple different um primes and and trading desks and they have a lot of demand for um hyperload exposure specifically people wanting to trade um perps or other instruments on hyperliquid um and so the answer is how do you go about doing that well we can plug it in like we do any other exchange and now this is a new venue that people are able to trade on and so um
I think it's the cool thing about crypto, as you've been saying, is, hey, it's transparent and programmable.
And so if you want to go and, you know, custody your assets on a single exchange and trade there, you can.
But, hey, you can also, you know, trade via a DEX and sort of see what's actually happening on chain.
It's all modular and transparent, which is kind of the ultimate crux of what a lot of the technology is about.
Yeah, I think it's kind of another flavor of this DeFi mullet idea.
I think of even, you know, Coinbase has more of an integration.
Yeah, is that the rule?
Maybe, maybe, maybe we'll, we'll debate this.
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