Tom Schmidt
speaker
296 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
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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Yeah, I think as always, it's like it takes one person to kind of break up in a category and then you have...
many fast followers i think some of them definitely have um you know a right to be there and they take an original idea and twist a little bit or serve a unique audience or um you know have some interesting distribution story um some of them i will say also as a vc uh do not and you as soon as you know um some new categories been out for a year you get like a million new copycat kind of pitches um it is interesting to see i would say like the next evolution of a lot of these um you know
pretty OG DeFi protocols that have maybe hit the ceiling of what their original market looks like.
And so if you're Jito, okay, great.
You have this great product on Solana, works super well.
You've eaten up a pretty good share of legal staking volume.
Where do you go next?
I think if I look at something like EtherFi on Ethereum, there's only so big the restaking market can be.
And we moved into building a neobank, which has been pretty successful.
It seems like Jito is kind of going the opposite route of, hey, where do we kind of go next?
What's the next big market?
And obviously, there's a lot of synergies between a product that can do
you know, really good order routing and really good block building and something like a perp text, which, you know, naturally needs, you know, a matching engine that has fairness and transparency and, you know, good execution.
So it's cool.
I'm excited to see it in the wild.
I think, at the very least, I don't think we're seeing, you know, a bunch of leverage or credit being pumped into this that is going to kind of unwind at some point.
That is true.
That is true.
Luckily, it's self-contained.
It's like a little implosion in a dome or something like that.
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