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They Have a Seat at the Table. What Will Be Left for Everyone Else?
The financial system is changing while wealth is already concentrated. I’m worried about what happens to the people who are told to wait.
I kept looking at the people standing near the president.
In August, President Trump appeared at the White House with leaders from Coinbase, Kraken, Ripple, Robinhood, Nasdaq, and other companies involved in the future of digital finance. Brian Armstrong was there. Arjun Sethi was there. Brad Garlinghouse was there.
Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov has also been part of the conversation with policymakers. He discussed tokenization at the White House and has spoken with Representative Bryan Steil about blockchain innovation and the future of American markets.
These are people with businesses to build, interests to protect, and plans for the financial system that comes next.
They have a seat at the table.
And I couldn’t stop thinking about the people who don’t.
The people who are busy working, paying bills, taking care of families, and trying to make sense of a world that seems to move faster every year. The people who hear “crypto” and think of a meme…
