Aussi enthousiaste que je sois par le face-à-face entre @Coinbase et @stripe dans le monde de l'IA agentique et des stablecoins, je suis tout aussi déçu par @Square qui a décidé de ne pas participer après ses mésaventures avec Bitcoin.
Block a correctement compris le Web2 en développant @CashApp, mais ils manquent la prochaine étape.
2016: Built Quorum with Consensys 2020: Onyx launch for internal fintech use cases 2021: Interbank payments 2025: Public stablecoin
If you just woke up thinking the banks have come, then you missed that they have already been here
Here was the problem.
JPM wanted to own the blockchain, so they started by building out a private financial enterprise chain. This doesn't work from a cost and scalability perspective -- an expensive lesson for all involved. Quorum was sold back to Consensys to maintain. Consensys pivoted to MetaMask and public chains shortly after.
Then JPM wanted to own all the financial venues on top of the chain. So Onyx/Kinexys was born to build software on top of Quorum to own flows. That's fine, but it doesn't connect to Web3 and therefore is just the same as what JPM was doing on databases. They are already trusted internally, blockchains are best where you want no trust assumptions.
Now, they are doing a deposit token on Base. Is Base better than Ethereum? Is it better than Quorum?
No.
Just go direct. Stop flirting and either deploy and own your L2 with your own apps and clients, like Coinbase, or deploy to Ethereum and let people build on you.
Les États-Unis auraient dû laisser tous ces détaillants devenir des Sociétés de Prêt Industriel
Le commerce ne veut pas payer aux banques d'intérêts nets et d'interchange
Les stablecoins désintermédient à la fois les paiements et les dépôts en permettant aux détaillants d'utiliser des fonds monétaires tokenisés, c'est-à-dire des stables, pour le commerce