>"The promise of providing financial services to underserved communities around the globe is a key motivation for our work, and we’ve been concerned by a counterintuitive trend that’s taken root in Western economies over the past few decades. A growing share of GDP is flowing to the finance sector, but millions remain shut out of basic financial services. Meanwhile, in much of the rest of the world, Chinese fintech has emerged as a leading contender for banking the unbanked. A growing chorus of voices ranging from Senators Cynthia Lummis and Pat Toomey on the right to Senators Elizabeth Warren and Kyrsten Sinema on the left are acknowledging that digital currency may be a powerful tool to help get “more people into the system."