Digital Wallet
topic on 3 shows · 10 statements across 7 episodes
the Startup Ideas Podcast 
Capital Allocators 
the a16z Podcast
10 statements about Digital Wallet, every show
Greg Isenberg: AI Agents Will Soon Have Wallets to Execute Autonomous Transactions
“Well, we're moving into a future where agents are going to have wallets. They're going to have email addresses. And assuming that's true, and I think, you know, there's a good chance that that happen is happening happens because it's already starting to happen…”
Peters: Blockchain Integration Will Put Digital Wallets on Every Phone
“This is where global financial markets get rewired onto blockchain based rails. And when that happens, it means that every single person in the world, when that's fully complete, will have a digital wallet on their phone.”
Khalaf: Payments innovation will center on digital wallets, not merchants
“So I think the innovation is not going to be on the merchant side, ah, because why? The innovation is going to be in the wallet side, because if you look at what Apple Pay has done, it is a personal, individual checkout that works in every country, in every me…”
McKeon: Digital wallets will become as ubiquitous as email addresses
“I don't know if it's five years or nine years or 13 years, but I do know that our north star at the fund is that everybody is going to have a digital wallet. They are going to be as ubiquitous as email addresses. It's gonna be the way you receive your paycheck…”
Peters: Universal Global Digital Wallet Adoption Expected Within a Decade
“In 10 years, you have a high degree of confidence that almost everyone on the planet will have digital wallet on their phone. And they'll view it as being as secure as Citibank or anything. And they'll be able to move money between currencies, both government …”
Digital wallets will eventually hold stocks, bonds, and real estate
“That really is the big innovation, is this idea that digital wallets will be able to hold all different kinds of assets. You'll be able to hold shares of stock and bonds and pieces of real estate, maybe the mortgage to your home, like all these different sorts…”
Smart contracts could grant tenured voting rights based on holding time
“So you could program that into the security, you know, relatively easily with smart contracts where you look at the length of time that a particular asset has been hold by a particular wallet and allocate voting rights in that way.”
Rampell: Payments drive digital wallet adoption due to high transaction frequency
“Because payments are, they're the most important one because they have the frequency of use. You might pay for things three times a day. Whereas, you know, how often do you pull out your frequent flyer card, or how often do you pull out your insurance card ver…”
Rampell: Digital wallets will develop dedicated app store ecosystems
“If the app store exists for the digital wallet, which I believe it will”
Rampell: Digital wallets will enable one-tap automated provider switching
“The same thing I believe will happen with the digital wallet where you download an app, maybe it's a car insurance app, and what the car insurance app says is, hey, give me access to everything in your digital wallet, and here's why I need it. I need access to…”