411: How Ground Is Making DeFi Accessible for Banks and Institutions with Guest Speaker Reid Cuming
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Sam Kamani interviews Reid Cuming about making DeFi accessible for banks and institutions through Ground's API platform.
EPISODE DESCRIPTION I sat down with Reid, co-founder of Ground, to explore what it actually takes to bring on-chain finance to institutions. Ground is building a non-custodial API platform, think Stripe, but for DeFi, so that banks, neobanks, and financial companies can access yield, lending, liquid staking, and real-world assets without rebuilding their entire stack. Reid shares his journey from Square to Stripe to Chime to founding Superstate and ultimately Ground. We dig into why large institutions move slowly, why the "just build it with AI" objection misses the point, and what the future looks like when blockchains are quietly powering the back end of your Robin Hood or JPMorgan account. DISCLAIMER Nothing mentioned in this podcast is investment advice and please do your own research. It would mean a lot if you can leave a review of this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and share this podcast with a friend. Be a guest on the podcast or contact us - https://www.web3pod.xyz/ CONNECT Ground Website: https://www.groundtech.co/ Ground LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ground-global/ Ground Twitter/X: https://x.com/ground_onchain Reid Twitter/X…
People in this episode
Host: Sam Kamani
Guest: Reid Cuming
Topics covered
- DeFi
- on-chain finance
- financial institutions
- API platforms
- yield and lending
- blockchain technology
Keywords
- DeFi
- Ground
- financial technology
- blockchain
- yield
- lending
- API
- institutions
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Ground, Square, Stripe, Chime, Superstate, Robin Hood, JPMorgan
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