1/ i am a recovering central banker who now works in crypto
i have a lot of appreciation for US policymakers worrying about risk in the financial system
crypto gets tons attention because it’s an easy target
but the real problems are so much bigger imo
Brendan Malone
1,164 posts
Joined March 2010
- pretty cool to see three central banks develop a prototype for cross-border payments using an AMM
- 1/ for many, the SVB debacle crystalized the relationship between money and credit looking toward the future, it’s important we make sure people have access to digital money that’s free of credit risk crypto has a vital role to play here👇 policy.paradigm.xyz/writing/moneyn…
- 1/ My new piece is now live on the Paradigm Policy site: Using On-Chain Data for Policy Research: Part 1 policy.paradigm.xyz/writing/using-…
- Wrapped up ~3 incredible years at @paradigm yesterday. Grateful for all the things I learned and people I met — too many to call out by name here 🙏 DM if you like weird/esoteric stuff at the edges of finance and want to change the world. Time to build something great. 🫡
- 1/ i wrote another piece on using on-chain data for policy research looking at fiat-backed stables: policy.paradigm.xyz/writing/using-…
- former Fed chairs as cyberpunk hackers brought back to the future to save the digital economy from rampant inflation Bernanke, scheming
- 1/ Busy couple of weeks for stablecoins! Excited to drop a new paper w/ the inimitable @ProfYYadav1 considering the growing interdependence between fiat-backed stablecoins and the UST market. 👇
- 1/6 I’m thrilled to share that I have joined @paradigm as a Policy Associate. @matthuang, @fehrsam, and @alanapalmedo are building an incredibly impressive team that’s not afraid of running directly at the biggest challenges in crypto.
- Spotted in London: A centralized exchange for trading illiquid coins of now defunct projects
- Anyone in NYC want to grab dinner on Tuesday night?
- Fiat-backed stablecoins have now passed Norway in US govt debt holdings according to my rough estimate, thanks to an increase in stablecoin issuance combined with a decrease in debt holdings by Norway from Jan-24 to Feb-24.
- Replying to @brendanpmalone15/ obv simplifying a lot here, but would like to see the big issues in traditional financial geopolitics tackled with similar vigor, creativity, and openness as crypto most of all: clear strategic direction, bc it feels like we’re grasping at straws /fin







