This is turning into a binge-worthy series 🔥🍿
Well done @cryptosmiff @m_at_anvil 👏
"I didn't qualify for the lowest rate, despite saying I had the highest credit score he's ever seen. I didn't have enough debt to qualify. A system that says you're not in debt enough to get a lower rate is backwards.
Conviction ep. 5 with @m_at_anvil hosted by @cryptosmiff
00:00 Not enough debt to qualify
04:08 How Max ended up running Anvil
06:35 When "blockchain" was a marketing term
13:37 Why Anvil built on Ethereum anyway
20:31 Digital letters of credit, explained
25:45 Promises, not payments
28:03 Why your rate pays for other people's defaults
31:35 What he wants to be right about in 20 years
34:18 The 850 credit score that didn't
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Keep your position. Secure your purchase. Pay when it's time.
Anvil brings digital asset-backed guarantees directly to checkout.
Last week, Peter Thiel’s @foundersfund led a $5M token buy in @anvil_xyz.
The same week, @cryptosmiff sat down with Anvil founder @trspalding in Singapore for Conviction.
The full story on the universal collateral layer 👇
00:00 Intro, Singapore
01:03 2011: the internet never had money
09:38 Seven years at Flexa
15:23 Founders Fund's token buy
18:32 Expanding what counts as collateral
22:52 The Vegas default: who gets your Pokémon cards?
26:04 The $50K car problem
28:20 What's next for Anvil
29:39 AI won't have a credit score
Wyd? 👀 @useburner @spenders_club
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Bringing institutional finance onchain requires more than blockchain infrastructure. It needs tooling that fits into how businesses already operate.
@m_at_anvil joined @CryptoCoinShow to discuss Anvil’s latest milestones across institutional participation, real-world adoption, & the new SDK. All pushing toward a direct, more capital-efficient way to bring finance onchain.
Anvil lets you lock up the crypto you already hold as a guaranteed promise to pay, without selling it. We sat down with CEO Max Schwartz on the new @anvil_xyz SDK, the $5M ethereum:0xaeeaa594e7dc112d67b8547fe9767a02c15b5597 purchase and @Bullish bringing Anvil into its operations.
youtu.be/otB0vqvTYGk
"It's not like AI will have a credit score or software will have a credit score."
@AcronymFNDN President @trspalding makes the case for AI and software pledging collateral to get credit, as Anvil launches its SDK and Founders Fund leads a $5M purchase of ANVL tokens.
Thank you to @SPGlobalRatings for being a sponsor of the CoinDesk Media Network.
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Institutional adoption goes beyond bringing assets onchain. It requires infrastructure capable of supporting the large-scale financial activity that follows.
@ethereum has spent years building that foundation. As payments, credit, collateral, and tokenized assets converge onchain, that depth of infrastructure matters now more than ever.
1 or 2?!
Senators pick one of two choices today:
1. vote yes on the CLARITY Act to promote innovation, protect consumers, put new ethics restrictions on elected officials, and create new law enforcement tools to combat illicit finance, or
2. vote no and let other countries lead in building the future of finance
History - and the crypto voter - won’t forget.
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Senators pick one of two choices today:
1. vote yes on the CLARITY Act to promote innovation, protect consumers, put new ethics restrictions on elected officials, and create new law enforcement tools to combat illicit finance, or
2. vote no and let other countries lead in building the future of finance
History - and the crypto voter - won’t forget.
Tomorrow, the Senate will consider the CLARITY Act.
A year ago, a group of Democratic senators put out their own framework for what serious market structure legislation needed to accomplish. They identified seven pillars: closing the regulatory gap, clarifying the status of digital assets, bringing issuers and platforms into the regulatory framework, combating illicit finance, preventing corruption and abuse, and ensuring fair and effective regulation.
Every one of those seven pillars is addressed in the legislation before the Senate tomorrow.
And that’s only part of the story. The final text incorporates 126 additional substantive changes requested by Democrats. It includes a historic ethics framework, stronger enforcement — including a role for state attorneys general — new protections around conflicts and insider abuse, stronger consumer and customer-property protections, tougher illicit-finance rules, and greater accountability for the regulators charged with overseeing these markets.
None of that happened by accident. It is the product of more than a year of members raising hard questions, negotiating difficult issues and materially reshaping the legislation.
Congress rarely gets the opportunity to write the rules for an entirely new financial market from the ground up. This is one of those moments.
The bill before the Senate tomorrow is fundamentally different from where this process began. Democratic negotiators played a major role in getting it here. They should vote for it tomorrow.
Let’s pass CLARITY.
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If CLARITY fails, the status quo continues, and none of the objections that banks have raised are addressed.
It's time to pass the CLARITY Act.
Crypto companies have been offering rewards on stablecoins for years. We don’t need to speculate: If the deposit flight myth were real, it would have already occurred. Instead, data shows bank deposits are going up, not down.
Still, the compromise contained in Section 404 of the Clarity Act restricts the payment of stablecoin rewards that mimic interest on bank deposits. The latest draft now also adds a “circuit breaker” granting the Secretary of the Treasury extraordinary authority to further restrict stablecoin rewards in the event the boogeyman of deposit flight materializes.
If Clarity fails, banks get none of these protections.
Hmm 👀
Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) is on track to become a nearly $1T market by 2030.
But its rapid growth is creating a major blind spot in consumer credit:
More debt is being issued without collateral & without being fully visible to the financial system.
@m_at_anvil unpacked the risks & revealed a secure path forward ⬇️
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741 million people hold over $2.3T in digital assets, yet much of that value remains disconnected from the broader financial system.
Meanwhile, financial services are either providing outdated collateral-backed solutions or simply unsecured credit.
In an interview with @jchains from @W3BCMedia, @m_at_anvil explains why Anvil built a dedicated collateral management layer to bridge that gap, enabling a way to provide fast, secure, universal credit.
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Anvil addresses 10 of the 13 leading reasons for trade finance rejections outlined in @ADB_HQ's global report, including:
"Unacceptable country or counterparty risk profile"
"Insufficient security or collateral"
"Failure to meet profitability or relationship targets"
"Constraints related to correspondent banking"
"Cost of servicing SMEs is prohibitive"
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With financial commitments backed by verifiable digital asset collateral, transparent verification, & automated enforcement through smart contracts, everyone can participate in the global economy.





















