Carlos argues Gnosis has real product traction—$184M cumulative card volume across 3.3M payments—but growth has plateaued since late 2025, with May 2026 card volume at $9.2M monthly, down 17% from the October 2025 peak. The core problem: current revenue from Gnosis Pay, Gnosis App, and Gnosis Chain remains far below the $30M annual DAO-funded budget, forcing GNO to trade like a discounted treasury claim rather than a growth asset despite passing GIP-151, which lets holders redeem their pro-rata share of the $108-per-token liquid treasury.

Claudia spent 500+ hours across Latin America and found that the crypto payments narrative is fundamentally wrong. Crypto cards peaked—QR-based payments like Brazil's Pix (6B+ monthly transactions) and India's UPI are the structural winners, not card networks. The real opportunity isn't single-corridor dominance but cross-border scaling; stablecoin on/off-ramp margins are collapsing from 1.5-2% in 2023 to 0.3-0.8% in 2025, so winners will compete on wallets, cards, yield, and brand layered on top, not the ramps themselves.