Web3 spent the last few cycles optimizing speculative liquidity while completely ignoring settlement liquidity.
Meanwhile, the real world is starving for efficiency. Web2 remittance giants and fintech operators are forced to trap billions in dead "float" on their balance sheets.
We are replacing their expensive bank debt and bond capital with instant, programmable liquidity, providing:
1. Institutional two-way pricing for fintechs.
2. cross-border settlements.
Axis is solving the cross-border, cross-asset float and flow crisis from first principles.
My fireside chat with the CEO of Western Union.
> you crypto people think real time settlement is new
> we've been doing real time settlement for 20 years
> you can go to a WU and send money to your mom in guatemala and it lands in 3 seconds
> but that only happens because I have liquidity pool of $1.5B
> stablecoins are going to give me back that $1.5B
> my stock trades at $2.7B
> I'm going to take that $1.5B and use it to buy back a boat load of my stock
> oh and also, we're going to use stablecoins to give all 100m customers a US dollar debit card aka mini bank account
Stablecoins aren't going to kill Western Union...
They're going to save it.