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Diogo Monica

President & Co-Founder, Anchorage Digital

Search every verified Diogo Monica interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. At the KBW2025 conference, Diogo Monica discussed the intersection of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency, coining the term "generative finance" to describe the ability to turn language into financial instruments via large language models and decentralized finance. He predicted that stablecoins would be the most impactful sector in the next 12 to 18 months, followed by tokenization of real-world assets and then generative finance. Monica also expressed a contrarian view that the "Clarity Act," which would define whether a crypto asset is a security or commodityhol, would still pass in 2025. Monica highlighted the tokenization of Galaxy stock on-chain by Superstate as a milestone, calling it the first actual stock publicly listed and traded on chain with full regulatory compliance. He argued that stablecoins have created the infrastructure needed to tokenize other assets, and that on-chain IPOs could reduce operational complexity for private companies that remain private for longer periods. He also noted that rumors of Tether raising funds at a $500 billion valuation have reignited conversations in traditional finance about the scale of crypto companies.

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“Founders in crypto traditionally ask for forgiveness, not for permission. I went the regulated route. I actually was one of the few people that has been insane enough to create a federal bank in the United States. Anchorage Digital, the company that I'm the co-founder and executive chairman of, is still the only bank in the US to have a federal license like JP Morgan Chase.”

“LLMs have allowed us to very easily turn language into code. And DeFi has allowed us to very easily turn code into financial instruments. So, you link one and the other and now you have is you have the ability to turn language into financial instruments. And I think this is actually one of the intersections of AI and crypto that make the most sense. And I call it generative finance.”

“I think from the United States point of view, it's extremely hard to understand why it's hard for somebody to hold a dollar because obviously we have these things called bank accounts and ours are denominated in dollars. So, it's very hard for us to to relate and empathize. But if you go to an Argentina, you immediately see just a different fervor altogether. And in some countries, they don't even call it stablecoins”

“Stablecoins still dominates because that's where the large acquisitions are. And just today, as you saw the rumors of Tether raising a 15 to 20 billion dollars on a 500 billion dollar valuation, which is absolutely AI level type valuation, obviously reignites these conversations in the traditional finance because there's not many private companies in the world that are worth 500 billion dollars.”

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