From Central Bank Halls to Web3 Frontiers — An Interview With Fastex CEO
Few crypto executives have the résumé of Vakhtang Abrahamyan: decades in central banking, now leading a global Web3 company. At Bitcoin 2025, we talked about Fastex’s expansion, RWA tokenization, exchange security, and m...
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