What is the kind of end state for Abra over the next, you know, 5 or 10 years? What is the thing that you guys are driving towards? And when you guys sit down in your product meeting that kind of product pipeline, what does that look like? So I, I see Abra long term as a big global bank for crypto. Now, I'm not using the term the way the regulators agree with or whatever. I'm just saying what does it mean to be a bank? It means you can hold your stuff, you can earn interest on your stuff and you can borrow against your stuff, whether it's he lock on a house or borrowing against your Bitcoin, which I think is going to be the biggest and fastest growing. Perspective lending over the next 20 years globally, right, because if you have this asset that's just going to Vahalla and and people who didn't have access to credit can borrow against it instantly, that's going to be just a boon for lending right. So I see Abra as being on a path to becoming the premier global crypto bank via whatever regulatory means we have to do that now when you and I first met, I don't know, maybe eight years ago, you know, we were talking about money transfer and payments and I think that's all coming right now. We're getting there in a different way than what I had either predicted or maybe even wanted versus when I first had the ideas for all this free etherium. It's just Bitcoin, but we're getting there, right? And now we have stable coins. I had to invent the synthetic dollar in the early days of abuse. There was no Etherium. I was just too early. And now all this infrastructure is there, right? I can easily access Defi to process loans and due to money transfer and all the things I want to do. And so we may be working from the top down in terms of institutions, high net worth investors, you know, middle class investors, and hopefully sooner rather than later to the bottom of the pyramid. But legally it's it's, it's unfortunately, the further down the pyramid you go from an income perspective, the harder it gets. Which it should be the opposite, I honestly, but we have what we have and and so that's my vision. My vision is to be the premier global crypto bank that services every aspect of the income pyramid for, you know, the next generation, which is D5 based. And you know, we're just going to make it easily accessible to everyone starting at the top and making our way down.
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Thank you Imran Lakha for having our Head of Trading, Robert Wallden, and our Head of OTC Options Trading, Bohan Jiang, on the Deribit Crypto Options Unplugged podcast.
Key takeaways include:
• Abra's current market view
• The differences between FX and crypto markets
• How to measure realized volatility
• Expected effect of the upcoming election on crypto volatility
To hear more from Bob and Bohan, you can check out the full episode here: https://bit.ly/3z8dUut#crypto#optionstrading#podcast
The Trump trade has been one of the most-watched trades of late in crypto. Our Head of OTC Options Trading, Bohan Jiang, discussed it with Frances Yue of MarketWatch last week. Despite the synergy between bitcoin's price and Trump's odds of victory seeming at times evident, Bohan argues that such correlations are often erratic in markets, but as the election approaches, market participants will likely hone in to the narrative of Trump's policies as being positive for crypto, thus causing the likelihood of a Trump victory and bitcoin's price to be positively correlated.
See here for the full piece: https://lnkd.in/e7Wz972G#crypto#bitcoin#digitalassets#election
Thank you Brian McGleenon for speaking with Abra’s Head of OTC Options Trading, Bohan Jiang, and our Head of Trading, Robert Wallden, about the potential for increased volatility in the crypto market as the VIX hit its highest level since the COVID-19 market panic.
To learn more about the current state of the crypto market and the importance of being prepared for multiple tail-risk scenarios, you can read the full piece from The Block here: http://bit.ly/4dyb00E#crypto#volatility#options