From Custody to Capital Markets Infrastructure
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Company paired hardware and cryptographic custody with a federal charter and shows how becoming a federally chartered bank lets it compound trust, capital, products, and client relationships over years; the result is tens of billions in institutional assets secured under bank rules rather than a pure protocol. The conversation argues for cryptographic records for AI models and notes zero-knowledge proofs and network-level payment work (Cloudflare) as the practical tools that could verify model behavior and payments today.
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chapters (33)
- 0:00Introduction to Diogo Mónica
- 1:12From Anchorage Founder to Investor
- 1:39Balancing Investing and Operating
- 2:17Professionalizing Angel Investing
- 2:59Business Curiosity Beyond Anchorage
- 3:15The Long Path to a Federal Charter
- 4:12Anchorage and the Trust Bank Model
- 4:29New Tailwinds for Modern Banks
- 5:07The Cost of Regulatory Resistance
- 5:45Security, Regulation, and Compounding
- 6:34Crypto Extends Traditional Finance
- 6:59Where Financial Value Accrues
- 7:43Self-Custodial Financial Products
- 8:14Faster Access to Financial Licenses
- 8:34Crypto Neobanks and Card Products
- 9:47Stablecoins Replace Whitelists
- 11:12Libra and New Currency Experiments
- 12:02Why Unlikely Experiments Are Worth Trying
- 12:18Consortium Coins for Commerce
- 13:13Distribution as Part of Product Design
- 13:48Open Areas in Financial Infrastructure
- 15:09Cryptographic Records for AI Models
- 15:53Zero-Knowledge Proofs for AI Outputs
- 16:44Economic Incentives for Intelligent Agents
- 18:07Verifying the Internet Stack
- 18:28Cloudflare and Network-Level Payments
- 19:13What Founders Ask Investors
- 20:14Security and the Basics of Building
- 20:56Advice Through Difficult Market Cycles
- 21:36Build Companies, Not Crypto Projects
- 22:36Stablecoin Neobanks and Dollar Access
- 22:54From Dollars to Tokenized Stocks
- 23:27Make Something People Want
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