Caroline D. Pham

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WisdomTree and MoonPay expand U.S. access to a tokenized money market fund

Leading the WisdomTree collaboration

WisdomTree's $1.2 billion tokenized money market fund just gained a new distribution channel: the crypto payments app MoonPay. The companies announced September 17 that the fund would be offered across MoonPay's 35 million accounts, and that MoonPay plans to hold shares of the fund to back its stablecoin reserves.

Updated Sep 18

Prediction markets collide with national security

Rule Changes

Advocated for lighter prediction market regulation

Prediction markets have existed in legal limbo since 2003, when U.S. senators killed a Pentagon program that would have let people bet on terrorist attacks. An Israeli reservist and civilian face prosecution for using classified military intelligence to profit $150,000 on Polymarket, placing suspiciously accurate bets on the June 2025 Israel-Iran war — a first.

Updated May 29

Notable Quotes

If you're a retail user and you're going into your wallet app and you're looking at it... I can earn a return. Why not have them have these safe, SEC regulated products?

from WisdomTree and MoonPay expand U.S. access to a tokenized money market fund · Updated Sep 18

GFMA and BCG put together a capital markets tokenization report... it estimated about $40 billion of OpEx savings across the banking industry and the financial services industry by going on chain.

from WisdomTree and MoonPay expand U.S. access to a tokenized money market fund · Updated Sep 18

"The undue delay and anti-innovation policies of the past several years have severely restricted the CFTC's ability to pivot to common-sense regulation of prediction markets." — Caroline D. Pham

from Prediction markets collide with national security · Updated May 29