WalletConnect quietly became the pipes that make regulated stablecoins flow everywhere. Now $USDG from @global_dollar can tap into that infrastructure to reach 50 million users instantly. @dr3wrogers sat down with @jesshoulgrave, CEO of @reown_ (building @walletconnect), to understand how one protocol became the connectivity layer for programmable dollars across 70,000 applications and 700 wallets. Jess quit investment banking in 2015 when everyone thought she was crazy. She watched stablecoins evolve from a trader's tool to actual money. At checkout(.)com, she built the first merchant settlement rails in USDC. Now at WalletConnect, she's seeing something nobody expected a few years ago: their biggest growth isn't from DeFi protocols or NFT marketplaces. It's payments companies. "Web2 companies went from doing PR stunts with NFTs to moving their entire payment rails onto crypto. This is core to their business now." - Jess Houlgrave They need every wallet to work with their...
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