#512: Austin Campbell, Founder of Zero Knowledge, on Stablecoins, The Incentives of Financial Systems, Tokenization, and Economic Realignment

Austin Campbell is a finance and risk management professional with two decades of experience spanning trading, portfolio management, executive leadership, and academia. He is the Managing Partner and Founder of Zero Knowledge Consulting and serves as an Acting CFO at Glueti, having recently held the role of Acting CEO at WSPN Ltd. He has taught as an adjunct professor at both NYU Stern and Columbia Business School, specializing in finance and markets. Previously, Austin was Chief Risk Officer and Head of Portfolio Management at Paxos, following senior trading and portfolio management roles at Citi, Stone Ridge, and JP Morgan Chase, where he advanced to Executive Director in Rates Trading. He began his career as a catastrophe risk analyst at Benfield and John B Collins Associates, with early research experience in mathematics at California State University Chico.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Open Frontier
- Stablecoins
- Tokenization of assets
- Traditional payment systems vs crypto
- Decoupling lending incentives from user incentives
- The importance of the Genius Act
- Economic realignment that returns power to mainstream
- The fragmentation of the financial systems
- Composability of blockchains
- “smart regulation”
- Zero Knowledge Consulting

Zero Knowledge Consulting
X: @ZKZeroKnowledge
Website: www.zero-knowledge.com
Newsletter: www.zero-in.beehiiv.com

Austin Campbell
X: @austincampbell
LinkedIn: Austin Campbell

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