{"id":190371,"date":"2025-11-20T07:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/190371\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T07:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:51:10","slug":"why-stablecoins-will-be-bigger-than-crypto-with-ireland-as-a-prime-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/190371\/","title":{"rendered":"Why stablecoins will be bigger than crypto, with Ireland as a prime experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFintech founder Stani Kulechov is trialling his firm\u2019s newest financial product here\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Estonian-born Finn Stani Kulechov founded Aave in 2017 and the company is now valued at $2.7bn. Photo: Bloomberg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IB Stani Kulechov.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Estonian-born Finn Stani Kulechov founded Aave in 2017 and the company is now valued at $2.7bn. Photo: Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">According to the European Central Bank, so-called \u2018stablecoins\u2019 will grow in value from \u20ac200bn in 2025 to almost \u20ac2tn by the end of 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Stani Kulechov, founder of the world\u2019s largest decentralised finance (DeFi) lending network, Aave, thinks that\u2019s just a precursor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fintech founder Stani Kulechov is trialling his firm\u2019s newest financial product here Estonian-born Finn Stani Kulechov founded Aave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[15807,79,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-190371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-adrian-weckler","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115580940111172990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}