Zaheer Ebtikar

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Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing · Why Plasma Bet Everything on USDT When Nobody Believed in Stablecoin Chains | Zaheer Evtakar, Plasma · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

And I think we're seeing this in real time.

So, you know, I've had the pleasure of working with teams like Visa's crypto's team.

Very, very sharp people, you know, probably like the the the best I've seen of any kind of web two institution.

Um and that is happening simultaneously when there's so much, I think, uh dissent in crypto broadly speaking.

So um I think the the real builders are kind of coming.

They're just coming in a different way.

Um and I think a lot of it was also just I think not having the right regulation, right frameworks, right kind of ideas uh around

Token launches around teams and incentives and that sort of thing, more than it was people taking this stuff seriously.

Um at the same time, I think you know, for for DeFi, what this ends up meaning is that I think there will just have to be more safeguards that are kind of and guardrails that that that people have to institute in order to really protect user funds as much as possible.

Um we're taking that very seriously.

So we have a very kind of interesting framework where the chain itself is permissionless, anyone can interact with it.

with it, um, but the network in terms of the you know Plasma One to be able to use this fungibly with um you know the the the let's call it traditional world of finance um you need to KYC you need to go through compliance checks you need to make sure you know we need we do run an AML process that's very uh stringent so um you know trying to like marry these two worlds as much as possible.

Um it's not gonna be you know always like kind of the cypher you know cypherpunk kind of dream.

but at the same time we have to live in reality to it to some extent.

I would say the biggest one will always be lending.

I think credit markets are always going to be the largest, you know, far and away.

Um it has historically been the largest, it will continue to be the largest.

Um I really don't like the world the the the word um like tokenization or like RWA.

I feel like it's not the right.

I I just don't I don't think it I think it it tries to abstract away a very simple concept and I think big financial n you know institutions like to do this a lot.

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