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Prudent Regulation is Within Reach

Charles Cascarilla January 4, 2023

Recent events in the digital asset marketplace have impacted the industry in ways that were difficult to fathom only months ago. As more facts come into focus, it’s an opportune time to reflect on the road ahead.

How much is too much? The usual answer: “What’s it worth to you?”

Charles Cascarilla October 12, 2021

Everything is energy, including money, which is just a fungible form of energy. If energy is the ability to do work, money is the fungible ability to make like-for-like decisions about whether to consume energy today or defer consumption by investing that energy.

The Five Attributes of Money, Part II: Openness, the Attribute that Matters Most

Charles Cascarilla April 22, 2021

Of the five main attributes of money, openness is the most important one because it dictates the limit on how many participants comprise the network and therefore how much utility that network can serve. Today’s modern fiat banking system is the dominant system, yet it is still closed to billions of people around the world. Society stands to gain advantages in access, autonomy, privacy, greater innovation and lower fee structures with a more open system system.

Ensuring a Trustworthy Experience with Crypto

Charles Cascarilla February 17, 2021

Trust is fundamental to the success of both crypto and blockchain. Hear from my perspectives on what it takes to build tomorrow’s financial infrastructure.

The System for Clearing and Settling Equities Is Antiquated. This Is About to Change.

Charles Cascarilla September 21, 2020

Paxos is upgrading clearing and settlement to meet the speed and efficiency of trading. Starting in the US with Street-side US equities settlement, Paxos has built a platform designed to alleviate market participants’ core concerns with the legacy infrastructure they rely upon today. Our solution, Paxos Settlement Service, is built with the latest technology and modern thinking about how financial infrastructure should operate.

The 5 Attributes of Money, Part I: What Makes Money Money

Charles Cascarilla August 17, 2020

Ultimately, money is a very specific form of asset ledger that serves as a means of payment. The money ledger is foundational to a capitalist financial system as the unit of account that everything in the economy is denominated against and from which intertemporal decisions are made.

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Paxos + Revolut Bring Crypto to the Masses

Charles Cascarilla July 15, 2020

Lately, more and more mainstream consumer applications are adding digital assets to their offerings – from Square’s Cash app to Robinhood to Facebook’s Novi. We’re

Our Approach to Product Management

Charles Cascarilla June 10, 2020

We’re a nimble, innovative company pursuing an ambitious mission to bring technology and product innovation to the regulated financial services industry by building the bridge to an open, decentralized financial system.