In episode 151, we’re excited to welcome Garm Lucassen, CTO and Co-Founder of Glo Dollar, a stablecoin dedicated to unlocking $7.4B a year in funding for public goods and charity. We discuss how stablecoins can be leveraged to embed philanthropy into everyday transactions, the concept of Auto Public Goods Funding (or AutoPGF), the roadmap ahead for Glo Dollar, and much more.

--Three Key Takeaways--

Large stablecoin issuers bring in billions of dollars in profits each year by investing the fiat backing the stablecoin. Instead of these profits going to corporations and their shareholders, Glo presents an alternative that allows the profits to be sent to public goods projects and charities.
AutoPGF (Public Goods Funding) is a mechanism that uses transaction fees to fund public goods projects. It is “Automatic” because users don’t have to change their daily habits to fund public goods, it just happens automatically based on their day-to-day transactions.
$7.4B is the estimated profit made by stablecoin issuers. As the space continues to grow, and stablecoins become essential in every day life, this number is expected to increase. As Glo Dollar becomes more ubiquitous by introducing new use cases like payment rails, credit cards, and off-ramps, they can start to compete with fiat currencies such as the US Dollar, creating tremendous opportunities to bring in substantial funds for public goods.

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