Coin Base and Robin Hood - Is Something Wrong?

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coin base has made a couple of announcements recently, kind of similarly to robin hood, yeso. But these first products haven't been super duper successful so far. And some of the biggest names in crypto have criticized this plan to create a separate coin. I just, i was shocked to even see this come out, because i was like, why wasn't this in their filings before? Anita: There's something new happening every single day that's seeming to almost contradict what happened yesterday.

Welcome back, this week Lucas and Anita discuss the continued fallout from the broader market crash and how life is going for crypto giants on the public markets. We chat about FTX’s 30-year-old billionaire CEO buying up a big chunk of Robinhood, which is pumping the gas on crypto even as the market cools. We also discuss trouble at Coinbase and the continued fallout from the collapse of Terra.

In their interview this week, Lucas and Anita chat with Mercedes Bent. Bent is a venture capitalist at Lightspeed Venture Partners where she places bets on consumer products in cryptoland. Before joining Lightspeed, Bent spent some time in the VR world, so we picked her brain on where crypto fits into this metaverse future everyone is clamoring about.

Helpful links:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/robinhood-lets-users-manage-their-own-crypto-wallets-in-push-to-spur-trading/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/coinbase-backtracks-hiring-plans-crypto-market-turmoil/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/encode-club-is-minting-new-web3-developers-amid-crypto-talent-war/

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