Mar 15, 2024

Will Peck, Head of Digital Assets at WisdomTree, answers five questions from CoinDesk, including his crypto genesis story, features of the WisdomTree Prime Visa debit card and what traditional finance is looking for in crypto.

Video transcript

How is the Wisdom Tree Prime Visa debit card different than other visa debit cards that have popped up in the space. We're authorizing based on a digital asset balance in the app. And so it's connecting your investments, your savings and your payments in a much more native way. We think. What kind of digital assets will people be able to spend? Currently? It's our dollar tokens, but in the future, Bitcoin Ether Gold, as well as a suite of digital funds that we've got in the app. What aspect of crypto or Blockchain is trad PFI most interested in? It's uh continues to be staple coins or tokenization of real world assets. I think staple coins is the first example of that. What's the first thing you're going to buy with your wisdom tree prime Visa debit card? I will buy myself a cappuccino and my toddler son. A piece of pumpkin bread. Sounds delicious. And what's your crypto genesis story? How did you get into crypto? I was open minded. We were exploring stuff in space. We launched one of the first Bitcoin ETF S in the European market back in 2019. And I put my hand up to work on it.

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