In this episode — recorded at Paris Blockchain Week 2023 — Vincent Gusdorf, SVP and head of DeFi and digital asset analytics at Moody's, breaks down why his company is betting on blockchain technology to transform finance, and how Moody's is thinking about the credit qualities of different stablecoins.

During this episode, Chaparro and Gusdorf also discuss:

Bringing bonds on-chain
Stablecoins vs. CBDCs
The tokenization of illiquid RWAs

This episode is brought to you by our sponsors Circle, Railgun, Flare Network

About Circle

Circle is a global financial technology company helping money move at internet speed. Our mission is to raise global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of value. Visit Circle.com/Scoop to learn more.

About Railgun

Railgun is a private DeFi solution on Ethereum, BSC, Arbitrum and Polygon. Shield any ERC-20 token and any NFT into a Private Balance and let Railgun’s zero-knowledge cryptography encrypt your address, balance and transaction history. You can also bring privacy to your project with Railgun SDK, and be sure to check out Railgun with partner project Railway Wallet, also available on iOS and Android. Visit Railgun.org to find out more.

About Flare

Flare is an EVM-based Layer 1 blockchain designed to allow developers to build applications that can use data from other blockchains and the internet. By providing decentralized access to a wide variety of high-integrity data from other blockchains and the internet, Flare enables new use cases and monetization models. Build better and connect everything at Flare.Network.

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