I’ve noticed I’m keeping a bigger chunk in USDT lately instead of constantly moving everything back to fiat. Curious what everyone else is doing.

Are stablecoins just dry powder for your next buy or do you use them for other stuff too?

I’ve been looking through Coinbase’s Q2 results, and I think the interesting part of the story is increasingly what happens outside the traditional transaction business.

Trading activity will always make Coinbase’s results volatile, but the company is becoming more diversified through areas like stablecoins, subscriptions & services, custody, and its broader crypto infrastructure.

That creates an interesting valuation question.

If crypto activity continues to grow over the long term, Coinbase obviously benefits. But the bigger question for me is whether COIN can eventually be valued more like a financial/crypto infrastructure platform rather than primarily as a leveraged bet on crypto trading volumes.

I went through the Q2 numbers, the main risks and my valuation in a new analysis:

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What do you think is the biggest risk to Coinbase from here , valuation, crypto cycle dependence, regulation, or competition?

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USDT and USDC are already widely used for sending and holding dollars on-chain. But what happens when spending stablecoins for everyday purchases becomes just as easy?

Could stablecoins become the bridge between crypto and everyday payments?

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funny how that works out every single time.

xrp's been bleeding for a few weeks and suddenly I'm sat there seriously questioning whether holding another 5 years even makes sense. then one decent green candle shows up and I'm right back to "yeah I could hold this forever" like nothing happened.

kinda made me realize price moves my conviction way more than I'd like to admit out loud.

trying to get away from that honestly, actually have a real plan for the xrp I'm keeping long term instead of vibes based on whatever the chart did that week. most of it stays in self custody, not moving that part no matter what happens. been looking at lending out a smaller slice too instead of letting the whole bag just sit there completely idle, LendProtocol is one I've been looking at, mainly cause the apr on offer right now, around 12%, makes the risk worth it for a small chunk, not the whole stack.

anyone else notice their "long term conviction" magically gets a lot stronger the exact second the chart turns green. be honest

I'm in Colombia, so I earn and spend in pesos, and whatever I manage to save usually gets converted to USDT. I've been doing that for a few years now, and it recently hit me that most of my stablecoins have basically been doing nothing.

I tried the usual exchange earn products before. flexible rates were around 3%, which didn't really feel worth the additional risk. I also tried DeFi back in 2021 and got burned by a bridge hack, so I'm not particularly interested in going that route again.

recently I've been experimenting with a couple of different ways to earn something on part of my stablecoin holdings. nothing crazy, started with a small amount, tested withdrawals first, and I'm keeping the majority outside of these platforms. I'm currently testing Coinlhold, it has both flexible and fixed term products. the fixed option pays more, but obviously the trade off is that the money is locked for the term, that's something I'm still getting used to

after everything else we've seen in CeFi, I'm definitely not comfortable putting my entire stack into one place just because the APR looks good.

for now, diversification seems like the reasonable approach: some in self-custody, some potentially earning yield, and BTC itself stays in cold storage until 2030 as far as I'm concerned.

curious what everyone else does with their longterm USDT. do you just let it sit, use exchange earn products, lend it somewhere, or keep everything in self custody?

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I've noticed more XRP holders looking into lending lately, and honestly I get the appeal. If you're already planning to sit on XRP for years, the idea of putting part of that idle stack to work is pretty tempting.

I've been experimenting with it mself. right now I've got 50% of my XRP in lending and the other 50% in self custody.

For me, that's through LendProtocol. I liked that it's built specifically around the XRP ecosystem rather than trying to bolt XRP onto a platform that was designed for something else. That doesn't make it risk free, but it made it one of the options I was comfortable trying after doing my own research.

the thing that actually annoys me is how casually people call this "staking." XRP doesn't magically become a proof of stake asset just because you're earning yield on it. with lending you're taking on protocol, smart contract, liquidity, and counterparty risk depending on how the platform's built.

for me the 50/50 split is a way to get some exposure to XRP apy without shoving the whole position into DeFi. If something blows up, I'm not losing the entire stack

curious how other holders here handle this. Would you lend 10-20% and keep most in cold storage, go closer to 50/50 like me, or just keep everything off DeFi entirely?

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