Glider x Surgecast by Surgence

Stablecoin Twitter has spent the last year talking about payments — cross-border transfers, dollar access, the rails underneath. It's a real story. It's just not the whole one. The quieter and far larger opportunity is what people actually do with those dollars once they're on-chain:

Most of what you see in crypto is loud. The 10,000x trades, the meme coin pumps, the screenshots of life-changing wins. What you don't see is everyone who lost money on the way there. In his recent conversation on VS1, Brian Huang explains why Glider was built

Exchange-traded funds were built for a world where direct ownership was operationally difficult. Custody was complex, settlement was fragmented, and accessing diversified exposure required infrastructure that most investors simply did not have. The ETF solved that problem by wrapping assets into a single, convenient instrument. In his recent conversation on