This episode is a discussion from Stellar's Meridian conference, in which I moderated the panel, Crypto on Every Corner: Driving Adoption, featuring Jeremy Allaire, cofounder, chairman and CEO of Circle, and Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer at CoinShares. In this discussion, we cover:what adoption means and looks like why cryptocurrency is at a particularly interesting inflection pointhow central bank digital currencies could affect thathow blockchains will recede into the backgroundhow existing fintech payment apps will use blockchains and/or cryptowhere on the road to adoption the industry currently is the significance of Crypto Twitter as a marketing toolwhat the crypto industry needs to do in the next year to grow the industrywhy it would have been easier to start a bank than a crypto businesswhy the separation of money and state is one of the most interesting experiments in history how we'll see new corporate-like organizations without any connections to any existing legal or financial systems driven by tokenswhat their favorite crypto adoption success story isThank you to our sponsors!Crypto.com: http://crypto.comEpisode links:Jeremy Allaire: https://twitter.com/jerallaireCircle: https://www.circle.com/en/Meltem Demirors: https://twitter.com/Melt_DemCoinshares: https://coinshares.comPayPal offering crypto: https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/12/paypal-says-all-users-in-u-s-can-now-buy-hold-and-sell-cryptocurrencies/Revolut offering crypto: https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/15/revolut-partners-with-paxos-to-bring-cryptocurrency-trading-to-the-us/