Gm! In today’s episode, we’re joined by Catherine Gu, Head of Product, Digital Assets at Solana, to discuss her transition from Visa to Solana, the institutional adoption of blockchain, tokenization, payments infrastructure, and developer platforms. We also cover privacy and compliance challenges, onchain metrics, liquidity dynamics, and Solana’s vision for internet capital markets.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:31 Catherine’s Crypto Journey
8:45 Why Solana Now
12:05 Solana Developer Platform
17:00 Privacy for Institutions
21:23 KYC and Attestations
27:50 Better Onchain Metrics
31:42 Solana’s Liquidity Pitch
35:35 Institutional Adoption Inflection
40:12 Internet Capital Markets
44:30 Memecoins, Brand, and Growth
49:25 Closing Comments
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