Intro

We sit down in Bermuda with Mountain Protocol founder Martin Carrica and XBTO founder Philippe Bekhazi for a talk on stablecoins and doing business on the island. In this episode: 

• Why XBTO is Bermuda-first and why Mountain set up there
• The “Bermuda triangle” for doing business on the island
• The overlap between Bermuda’s reinsurance industry and crypto
• The partnership between Mountain and XBTO
• The rise of interest-bearing stablecoins
• USD stables as extending the reach of the dollar
• The relationship between crypto and big 4 auditors
• The coming race between interest and non-interest bearing stablecoins
• Blackrock’s BUIDL product and tokenized treasurys