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On The Brink with Castle Island


Apr 6, 2020

Alex Treece, the president and cofounder of Zabo, joins the show. 

  • How a background in private equity equipped him to think about crypto as a asset class
  • Why Alex founded his startup, Zabo
  • Why there are so few successful examples of utility tokens
  • How tokens sit in the asset class taxonomy
  • Why token value accretion is reliant on an informal contract with the issuer
  • Distinctions between tokens that represent real world securities and natively accretive cash flow tokens which resemble securities
  • Why he’s thinks that blockbuster token sales are a thing of the past
  • Revisiting his old prediction that Bitcoin would outperform in a recession