On this episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, host Jennifer Sanasie is joined by Ben Spiegelman, Head of Institutional at Base, to break down Coinbase's newly launched tokenized stocks. Zach Pandl, Head of Research at Grayscale, unpacks the debut of the first-ever Zcash ETF. Plus, Solstice CEO Ben Nadareski explains strcUSX, a Solana-based product that splits the economics of Strategy's STRC preferred into senior and junior tranches.
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Chapters/Timecodes:
00:00 Welcome to Public Keys
00:24 Coinbase Brings Tokenized Stocks to Base
00:44 Base's Ben Spiegelman Joins Public Keys
01:02 What Makes Coinbase's Tokenized Stocks Different
03:26 The Killer DeFi Use Case: Borrowing Against Your Stocks
04:11 The CLARITY Act and a Future US Launch
05:24 Trading, Financing, and Payments on Base
07:04 What Still Gives Institutions Pause On-Chain
09:15 ETF Flows: Bitcoin and Ether Cool After a Record August
10:04 Grayscale's Zach Pandl on a Healing Crypto Market
11:13 What Happens If the CLARITY Act Doesn't Pass
12:18 'Recktember' and the Q4 Bitcoin Outlook
13:42 The First-Ever Zcash ETF and the Privacy Thesis
15:47 Scarcity vs. Privacy: What's Driving Zcash
17:10 Institutional vs. Retail Demand for the Zcash ETF
19:04 Solstice's Ben Nadareski and Strategy's STRC on Solana
20:38 Inside strcUSX: Senior and Junior Tranches
21:40 Building on Strategy's Platform
23:19 Why Solstice Built on Solana
25:30 The Institutional DeFi Adoption Curve
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