
Max Kaplan
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Max Kaplan
@maxekaplan
CTO @solstrategies | Founded @orangefincrypto (sold to @solstrategies) | board @contact_ci | Former @krakenfx


fastest way to make ur protocol ~~✧༺ agentic ༻✧~~ is to make a cli



Our new report Stablecoins: The Next Frontier in Financial Infrastructure is live! Stablecoin supply sits at roughly $306B today. Around $100B of that was added in the last year alone while BTC sold off. For the first time stablecoin growth has completely decoupled from the broader crypto market. Sending $1,000 from the US to Turkey costs 2.5-6% on SWIFT. On stablecoin rails it costs around one basis point plus on/off-ramp fees. In corridors like Nigeria, Kenya, and Argentina over 80% of remittance costs aren't even FX risk. It's pure infrastructure overhead from maintaining correspondent banking chains that stablecoins eliminate entirely. That's where adoption is taking hold first. Stablecoin issuers are now the 19th largest holder of US treasuries. Those treasuries yield around 3.89% while a standard savings account pays 0.39% and interest checking pays 0.07%. Banks are capturing nearly the entire spread on deposits. If stablecoin issuers start passing that yield through to holders deposits migrate and banks lose the cheap funding they depend on to extend credit. Yield-bearing stablecoins are already here and more issuers are moving in that direction. Stablecoins grow whether or not crypto does now.

Solana changed my life. It changed my career trajectory, it gave me new friends, it changed the way I think about finance and the future in general. Even the bad times shaped my way of thinking, positively. Happy birthday, Solana 🥳





The future of retail trading and payments is an agent + multisig.
Giving an agent proposer privileges only on a multisig allows a human to reap the benefits of AI while still maintaining good security posture.
Fancy UIs are likely worthless in 6-24 months. UX of simply just talking beats any UI.
Degens will skip the multisig and just go straight to giving an agent a wallet. Also beats any UI, but isn’t for everyone (lol).
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