Anchorage Digital: Serving Institutional Crypto Needs

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[00:02:10] - [First question] - Why he got into the crypto space and the path that led him to founding Anchorage 

[00:05:23] - An overview of digital security and where people should spend their time learning about it

[00:08:46] - A future of perfect authentication and data protection being so core to this space

[00:12:59] - How custody should be considered in the modern world and with digital assets

[00:18:29] - What it means to be a great qualified institutional custodian

[00:24:47] - The business and unit economics of a custody driven company

[00:27:37] - What it was like working with their first big institutional client

[00:30:22] - Speed as a component of digital security and its implications writ large  

[00:35:21] - How they’re differentiated from their competitors by expanding beyond custody

[00:39:16] - Different challenges between securing NFTs versus currencies and tokens

[00:42:13] - New behaviors he finds most interesting about institutions due to Anchorage

[00:48:16] - Breakdown of what players and services constitute Anchorage’s clients today

[00:50:54] - The best case scenario for the future of the business

[00:53:07] - What would worry him about Anchorage’s development 

[00:55:25] - Opportunities he finds most interesting that haven’t materialized yet 

[00:57:16] - Will we need a public blockchain to create the infrastructure needed to bring the world to a more crypto-fluid place

[00:59:37] - The kindest thing anyone has ever done for him