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

Yeah, and it comes very much, you know, top down.

So, you know, our team has had experience like building this out in the past, and you know, they kind of just realize like, look, like we've done this before, we've incentivized a bunch of teams to build on us, we've paid millions of dollars, and they kind of just ghost us and go to the next chain that is exciting or whatnot.

Um, so there's not a lot of promise there.

And then also I think um, you know, the main apps, right, like the Aveys and the Unoswaps and that and that sort of thing, that will always be kind of the

best in the space until someone else builds a new novel you know mechanism.

But we don't need to reskin that.

We don't need to change that around.

It already works great.

It has a lot of you know lindiness around it and I think people feel you know comfortable around these kind of core primitives.

We just have to build on top of those apps.

So when we built Plasma One having a swapping function that was already pulling from Uniswap or you know the the the right dex router um when we're building you know the Earn product we already have a massive you know Avian

market that has you know hundreds of millions of dollars.

Um we don't need to reskin that part.

We can just reskin the the the the front end that people experience.

Yeah, I think, you know, when when we started this endeavor, um the Tether team was very much involved in the early days of of ideation and kinda coming to the right idea around um you know USDT expansion.

You know, for for starters we have more than just USDT on our chain right now.

Um but USDT is representative of obviously the largest blockchain uh of the largest stablecoin in the world.

Um and it doesn't have a core blockchain that's associated with it outside of Tron.

Um and I think

The problem has been that you know the Tron network is not necessarily the most friendly to consumers.

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