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'Global, frictionless and free': How digital dollars will reshape economic activity, humanitarian aid and more

'Global, frictionless and free': How digital dollars will reshape economic activity, humanitarian aid and more

Update: 2024-09-13

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Jeremy Allaire is the co-founder and CEO of Circle, a global financial technology firm that operates one of the largest dollar digital currency payment systems in the world -- USDC. Stablecoin is already seeing billions of digital dollars in economic activity and he talks about what we can expect next, including emerging applications for humanitarian aid. He’ll talk about Circle’s special partnership with the refugee agency UNHCR, and how new approaches for social impact could be more and more important as political strife and climate change drive up the numbers of unbanked around the world. Transcript: More about this episode: Circle:

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'Global, frictionless and free': How digital dollars will reshape economic activity, humanitarian aid and more

'Global, frictionless and free': How digital dollars will reshape economic activity, humanitarian aid and more

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