Use your crypto without selling it: Anvil's Max Schwartz on the new SDK

Watch the full video interview: https://youtu.be/otB0vqvTYGk

Most credit runs on trust: banks, BNPL apps and suppliers all price in the risk that you won't pay. Anvil flips that. It lets you lock up the crypto you already hold as a guaranteed promise to pay, without selling it and without handing it over, so the other side never has to trust you.

Max Schwartz, CEO of Anvil Research Labs, joins Ashton Addison on the day Anvil announces its new SDK to explain why digital assets make better collateral than houses or cars, how anyone can become a "BNPL bank" with a near-zero default rate, what the SDK gives companies out of the box (React components, enterprise smart contracts, AI-friendly docs), the $5M institutional purchase of the ANVL governance token, and how Bullish is bringing Anvil into its own operations. Not financial advice.

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Chapters:

0:00 Intro

0:22 Introduction to Max Schwartz and Anvil

0:45 What is Anvil?

3:39 Why digital assets make better collateral

8:58 Financial promises instead of payments

12:34 Why banks don't know what to do with crypto