The Last Trade E038: Dubai Debrief with Jackson Mikalic & Brian Cubellis

Jackson Mikalic and Brian Cubellis join the full Onramp team to debrief from Bitcoin Oasis in Dubai, where Jackson attended meetings with institutional players and sovereigns from across the MENA region. Jackson recounts how he first met Brian Cubellis at a high school alumni event in 2018 when they were the only two people talking about Bitcoin, and how far the world has come since then. The Dubai trip revealed that the Middle East is approaching Bitcoin at a fundamentally different speed and seriousness than most Western institutions, with capital from across the Gulf actively seeking compliant on-ramps. The crew discusses how ETF custody models and multi-institution security standards pioneered by Onramp are becoming the global benchmark for how sovereign and institutional Bitcoin should be held.