The Breakdown With NLW Episode

Visa's CEO on Crypto: "This Is a Space We Are Leaning Into in a Very, Very Big Way"

Visa’s earnings call makes it clear just how invested the company is in the crypto space.

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Visa’s earnings call makes it clear just how invested the company is in the crypto space.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and NEAR.org.

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Today on the Brief:

  • Elon pumps Doge again
  • Detailing Biden’s $1.8T American Families Plan
  • Turkey, Iran, SEC

Our main discussion looks at comments this week from Visa CEO Al Kelly on the company’s relationship with crypto, analyzing the five areas of opportunity Visa has identified:

  • Helping customers buy BTC and crypto
  • Enabling digital cash outs to fiat
  • Enabling TradFi to offer crypto to customers
  • Settlement via stablecoins
  • Central bank digital currencies

See also: Governments Banning Bitcoin? Not So Fast as Former Regulators Brooks and Giancarlo Join Crypto Companies

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HOST

Nathaniel Whittemore

NLW is an independent strategy and communications consultant for leading crypto companies as well as host of The Breakdown – the fastest-growing podcast in crypto. Whittemore has been a VC with Learn Capital, was on the founding team of Change.org, and founded a program design center at his alma mater Northwestern University that helped inspire the largest donation in the school’s history.

Nathaniel Whittemore