Zaid

So let's get into it.

Jeremy Fox Gein, welcome to The Rundown.

It's great to be here, Zaid.

I'm excited for today's conversation.

You know, I was looking through your LinkedIn, like I do with a lot of our guests, and I saw that you've been the CFO of Circle for five plus years now.

But you come from like a more of like a traditional background, right?

Like you got PwC on your resume, you got McKinsey.

So I'm kind of curious, what attracted you to the stablecoin slash crypto space, you know, five plus years ago?

Yeah, I mean, that's true.

And I mean, just looking at the adoption from Stablecoin specifically, it's been absolutely crazy.

I'm just looking at from USDC, which is Circle Stablecoin, it's up, circulation's at $75 billion, which is up 72% year over year.

So I'm kind of curious, like for Stablecoin specifically, who are your largest users and what are they using Stablecoins for right now?

That's very interesting.

You laid out a lot of interesting things.

And I think I can personally talk about two of those things, which is sending money internationally and then also like paying people internationally.

So I've hired some contractors overseas.

Sending money via USDC is just easy, fast, quick.

And I just remember I have like these memories of, you know, my parents are immigrants from Pakistan and they would send money overseas.

Like I'm talking in the 90s.

I remember having to go to the Western Union locations and having to like...