How Stable Is Building a Payments Network Like Venmo

Jennifer Sanasie and Eleanor Terrett sit down with Brian Mehler, CEO of Stable, at the Korea Blockchain Week in Seoul. Mehler explains why the chain made USDT its native gas token, and how its consumer app StablePay moves dollars with Venmo-like simplicity with zero peer-to-peer fees. He makes the case for a consumer-first product in a market crowded with enterprise tools, details Stable's new Mesh Alliance integration for prediction-market on-ramping, and maps the regions driving growth: Asia, Latin America and Africa. - Chapters/Timecodes: 00:00 Stable CEO Brian Mehler at Korea Blockchain Week 00:54 Why USDT Is the Chain's Native Gas Token 02:00 Inside StablePay: Dollars at the Speed of the Internet 03:02 Who Really Pays for Zero-Fee Transfers 03:55 Competing With Venmo and PayPal 05:12 Built for Consumers, Not Enterprises 05:38 The Mesh Alliance and Prediction-Market Rails 06:40 Where Stable Is Growing: Asia, LatAm, Africa - #digitalfinance #finance #bitcoin Subscribe to CoinDesk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CoinDesk?sub_confirmation=1 CoinDesk is the leading digital media, events and information services company for the crypto asset and blockchain technology community. Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/coindesk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coindesk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coindesk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CoinDesk Newsletters: https://www.coindesk.com/newsletters CoinDesk Podcast Network: https://open.spotify.com/show/2jyIhkvAQhed8AWDZiPpSP Public Keys: https://open.spotify.com/show/1rqYzRV10nfKfoTpFXZhTE Markets Daily Crypto Roundup: https://open.spotify.com/show/7sDXM8BlxsUqzL2IqmLqwE The Policy Protocol: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Fh8ffulAWcCqMu0uVuwoj