--- image: "/images/notes/crypto-adoption-two-roads.jpg" title: "Crypto Adoption Is Taking Two Roads" date: 2025-04-10 url: "https://x.com/ccatalini/status/1910344849444020725" tags: ['stablecoins-payments'] deck: "Stablecoins and Bitcoin do the boring-but-effective B2B job behind the scenes while consumer crypto takes the other road — and the two will eventually run into each other." tweetCount: 3 likes: 238 reposts: 34 --- Something fascinating about crypto and payments is that adoption is quietly taking two different roads—which, conveniently, will eventually run into each other. (h/t [@cdixon](https://x.com/cdixon) [@a16zcrypto](https://x.com/a16zcrypto)) First, you've got stablecoins and Bitcoin quietly doing their thing behind the scenes, powering real-time global payments. Think of this as crypto's boring (but effective!) B2B job—bridging otherwise incompatible domestic payment rails. [x.com](https://x.com/HadickM/status/1910314025847496795) The consumer doesn't notice anything different, except suddenly cross-border payments settle instantly and cost less. Fewer middlemen, fewer headaches—magic, sort of! 🪄 Including on the most competitive cross-border corridor: 🇺🇸 <> 🇲🇽 [x.com](https://x.com/lightspark/status/1870127990715126205)