On this week’s episode of Market Talks, Cointelegraph welcomes Brent Xu, founder and CEO of Umee — a decentralized finance hub constructed on the Cosmos SDK that gives instruments for macro-level borrowing and lending functions. Earlier than founding Umee, Xu led technique at Tendermint whereas setting the strategic roadmap and partnerships for the Cosmos Ecosystem.
We begin issues off with our major subject for in the present day: Bitcoin (BTC) touched $29,000, a brand new excessive for 2023, regardless of latest United States regulatory crackdowns on crypto corporations and associated uncertainty. This might additionally recommend the crypto market doesn’t appear too bothered in regards to the Commodity Futures Buying and selling Fee’s lawsuit towards Binance and its CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao. Even the Crypto Concern & Greed Index — which goals to numerically current the present “feelings and sentiments” towards Bitcoin and different giant cryptocurrencies — has been steadily growing during the last month regardless of wobbles within the world banking sector. What does all this actually imply for the crypto house, although? Ought to buyers not be so nervous about rules?
This week Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Pakistan, Russia, India and Brazil determined to settle commerce in their very own currencies somewhat than the US greenback. Why have they determined to do that, and can it have a big affect on the U.S. and the greenback? Will there be any ramifications for the crypto house, if any?
We ask Xu what his imaginative and prescient is for the way DeFi protocols and crypto exchanges intend to construct out their very own banking providers sooner or later. Centralized crypto exchanges are underneath all types of strain from regulators in the intervening time, but we nonetheless see Constancy Investments increasing its choices, and Nasdaq is getting near launching its crypto custody platform. We additionally get Xu’s ideas on Constancy Funding’s latest enlargement.
There’s a lot occurring in the intervening time so far as rules within the crypto house are involved, largely cracking down on the crypto sector. We ask Xu what his long-term imaginative and prescient is for the way forward for the regulated crypto house in the US.
America Federal Reserve appears to be in an never-ending battle towards inflation. The rate of interest hikes don’t appear to have an finish in sight both. Is the Fed shedding its battle? At what level will we see a pause in rate of interest hikes, and the way reasonable is it for the Fed to realize its aims for this yr?
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