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The Big Whale: We're seeing gold really take off at the end of 2025. How would you describe the state of the market today? Benjamin Louvet: The market is in turmoil: since January, gold has gained more than 50% and is trading at historic levels. Geopolitics is often
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The Big Whale: It's been a big week for Deblock. You announced a €30 million fundraising round on 19 November, followed by the launch of your token the next day. Let's start with the first piece of information: what are you going to do with this
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The Big Whale: Ledger has just presented a new Nano model. What does this product actually change? Charles Guillemet: The idea behind the new Nano is to continue developing our range while making our products more accessible. We've kept the concept of the e-ink touch screen, which significantly
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The Big Whale: You've just launched your stablecoin, EUROD, a project that ODDO BHF has been working on for over two years. Why this launch now? Have the announcements of other projects, in particular European consortia, prompted you to accelerate? Guy de Leusse: As you know, we'
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We've seen signs of stress around private credit and US regional banks. Is this a real issue or just a passing warning? Yes, it is a real stress signal. In recent weeks, several players have announced bankruptcies or losses (First Brands, Tricolor, Zions Bank). All this shows that
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"The crypto business already carries significant weight at Mastercard"
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"Linea wants to reconcile L2s with Ethereum"
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"Confidentiality is the missing key to mass adoption of institutional services".
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"We want to build a global network for payments and treasury".
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"All pre-IPO crypto companies are revalued upwards"
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"All the services we offer today with traditional systems will switch to blockchain"
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"We're going to have AI agents that are both autonomous and auditable".