***ONLINE ***Regulatory Arbitrage & New Markets: The excitement over Stablecoins

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‘Stablecoins' are an emerging topic in the cryptocurrency landscape.
In this session we will discuss different types of stable coins and their use.

Stablecoins have been championed as the defense against asset volatility. From providing a hedge against cryptocurrency price swings to protecting against the falling value of the Venezuelan Bolivares, stablecoins promise to bring steadiness to an increasingly global storm.

Being fiat surrogates within centralized finance (CeFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi) services, stablecoins empower new money markets free of many of the traditional financial regulations.

They eliminate some prime functions of financial institution - they are used to transfer payments and trades in between exchanges, to pay remittances as well as presenting opportunity for profitable cross-border arbitrage.
In addition, countries are increasingly interested in issuing their own stablecoins. The possibilities in this new market are limitless.

• What are the different types of stable coins and how stable are they?
• Why are most stablecoins built on Ethereum?
• How big of a market do we expect this to be?
• What are other implications?

In this session, Women in Blockchain's Thessy Mehrain will discuss with Dorothy Chang of Paxos and Ayesha Kiani of LedgerPrime the origins and benefits of stablecoins, how they are being used today vs future applications, and why there are so many brands and countries that want to issue their own.
Everyone is welcome.

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Event is generously sponsored by:

PAXOS - on a mission to modernize finance by mobilizing assets at the speed of the internet.

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Speakers:

Ayesha Kiani -VP of Business Development at LedgerPrime
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayeshakiani

Ayesha is the VP of Business Development at LedgerPrime - a quant hedge fund focusing on digital assets. She is also an Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering where she's teaching a course on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology. Previously, Ayesha was a Managing Director for Republic Crypto, where she successfully led Republic’s fundraising efforts for its Security Token presale. Before Republic, Ayesha was an early employee of Consensys, within SingularDTV. She is currently an Investor Board Member at Ventures for America and a Venture Partner at NextGen Ventures.

Dorothy Chang - VP of Marketing and Communications @Paxos https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorothyjean/

Dorothy oversees marketing, communications and brand at Paxos. Dorothy has a track record of working with startups that become category leaders. Prior to Paxos, Dorothy served as the Head of Communications at Foursquare, and has also previously represented Microsoft, IBM, WordPress, RunKeeper, charity:water. She was recognized for her expertise in Business Insider as one of the “Top 50 Public Relations Professionals in Tech.” Dorothy was a founding partner of Liberty City Ventures and holds a BA in Cognitive Science from Yale University.

Alyze Sam - co-founded & Directs, GIVE Nation
Author ‘Complete 2020 Guide to Stablecoins’ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0844YRRCL/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyzesam/

Former hospice nurse Alyze Sam co-founded GIVE Nation: a non-profit children’s financial literacy AI/blockchain project that rewards in a fiat collateralized stablecoin. Founder & Community Dir of Women in Blockchain International, Social Impact Advisor for blockchain nonprofits: Blockchance.eu & Women in Blockchain Foundation. Sam is a stakeholder /former Dir at ‘World Ethical Data Forum’. Advisory positions include: JustiFire, PAC Global, Liberland Foundation Aide,a country based on the blockchain. Alyze works with Illumnine Corp, Illumnine Society, Team McAfee concentrating on media intelligence, partnerships and tech events.