Polygon CPO On Why He Thinks Stablecoins Are Crypto’s Killer Use Case

The Thesis: Money Was Always the Endpoint

“The killer use case for crypto is money,” he said, framing it not as a pivot but as the natural destination the technology was building toward, the same way the internet’s killer use case turned out to be commerce rather than email. The parallel is worth sitting with, because it reframes a decade of crypto experimentation as a search that’s now resolved. “Our mission now is to move all money on chain,” Egan said, adding that money “should be productive, useful, easily accessible, global.”

It’s a clean thesis, and notably, the argument holds whether or not you accept Polygon’s particular role in it. The claim isn’t that one chain wins; it’s that sta...