Wyatt sits down with Nikhil Raghuveera of Predicate to talk policy for blockchain applications. In this episode: 

• How Predicate’s “rules for blockchain transactions” are making on-chain finance more scalable and secure
• Creating more compliant stablecoin transfer systems suitable to mass financial use cases
• The future of secure money movement
• How leading software and financial firms can integrate transaction policies in their workflows

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Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: 

• Bitcoin hits a new ATH and no one is talking about it
• Grok goes haywire
• The White House posts chudjak
• Core Weave looks to buy Core Scientific
• Stablecoins are going to pay yield anyway
• Did Zelenskyy wear a suit?
• How should prediction markets be settled?
• Pump.fun ICO is coming up
• Hester Peirce issues a warning on tokenized securities
• Crypto Week in Congress is coming up
• Jonathan Gould has been confirmed as Comptroller of the Currency
• There are new public access vehicles
• Andreessen wants you to leave Delaware
• A fundamental valuation model for L1s?
• GMX is hacked for $42m 
• Tim Massad’s exchange with Bernie Moreno

Content mentioned in this episode:

• Hester Peirce, Enchanting, but Not Magical: A Statement on the Tokenization of Securities
• Fidelity, Blockchains as emerging economies
• Bridge, How Meow and Bridge Make USDC Payments as Seamless as Cash
   

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Zac Townsend, the founder and CEO of Meanwhile, joins the show. In this episode we discuss:

• Zac’s background and the path that led him to start Meanwhile.
• The mechanics of Bitcoin denominated life insurance.
• How Meanwhile generates Bitcoin yield.
• Zac’s views on the evolution of Bitcoin treasury companies.

To learn more about Meanwhile visit meanwhile.bm

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Charles Hamel, Product Director at Opera’s MiniPay, joins the show. In this episode: 

• Stablecoin habits in emerging markets
• Prospects for local stablecoins
• What’s next on the stablecoin horizon

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Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: 

• EthCC troubles 
• Robinhood has been shipping
• Figma owns BTC 
• The House GOP has declared “crypto week” in July
• Circle and Ripple are applying for bank charters 
• AI companies are buying Bitcoin miners
• Sharia finance
• The BBB passes 
• America teeters towards default
• The Sohan Parekh fiasco
• How do tokenized stocks work? 
• Another architect of OCP2.0 bites the dust
• Is AI going to usher in a socialist revolution? 
• Ric Edelman wants you to buy crypto 
• Franklin Templeton is worried about bitcoin treasury companies 
• No crypto language was included in the BBB

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Chris Maurice, founder of Yellow Card, a pan-Africa stablecoin business and exchange, rejoins the show. In this episode:

• How Chris feels about the crypto space in 2025 as compared to when he started a decade ago
• How Yellow Card evolved from being a retail BTC exchange to being an enterprise payment platform for stablecoins
• How Chris realized that stablecoins were all about b2b transfers
• How businesses in EM use stablecoins, and what the alternatives are
• Regional differences within Africa in terms of stablecoin adoption
• Shifting regulatory attitudes in Africa
• Does Chris worry about crypto-dollarization in Africa?
• Is dollarization happening on the ground right now
• Tether and TRON market share developments
• Where we are in stablecoin infra and tooling and what needs to be built
• Why we need a stablecoin clearinghouse
• The future of Yellow Card a few years ahead
• How banks will engage with stablecoins

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Wyatt sits down with Bernando Bilotta, founder of Stables.money. In this episode: 

• Stablecoin usage in APAC, for saving, spending, and beyond
• Retail adoption that bleeds into institutional adoption
• The forward-looking path for stablecoin finance

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Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: 

• Golden age of prediction markets
• NYC mayor’s election
• What’s happening with Canton?
• The FHFA says crypto can be a qualifying asset for mortages
• Our thoughts on the market structure bill
• The significance of the Fiserv stablecoin pilot
• $500m public access vehicle for BNB
• The Fed drops reputational risk in bank supervision
• EO for debanking is rumored
• Kraken HQ is moving to Wyoming
• Texas buys Bitcoin
• Will banking hours be obsolete? 

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Josh Frank, the founder and CEO of The Tie joins the show. In this episode we discuss:

• The origin story behind The Tie and how Josh approached founding the business.
• The digital asset data market.
• How sentiment data has evolved in the digital asset industry.
• The buy-side landscape for digital assets and how Josh sees that evolving in the coming years.
• The Canton Network and how The Tie is working with this new protocol.

To learn more about The Tie visit their website. 

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Ria sits down with Luca Prosperi, CEO and Co-Founder of M0, a universal stablecoin platform that enables customization while preserving interoperability across assets. In this episode, we cover:

• Lessons from MakerDAO
• Drawing inspiration from the dual banking system
• Building a base asset that is decentralized, permissionless and ossified
• Issuing opinionated assets via wrapping and extensions while maintaining interoperability

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Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: 

• The GENIUS Act passes the Senate
• Should GENIUS be stapled to market structure?
• Bessent thinks stablecoins could be $3.7T by 2030
• Stablecoin FUD
• Will stablecoins destabilize the US Treasury market
• JPM’s stablecoin FUDs
• JPMD’s deposit token will launch on Base
• The future of stablecoin yield in the US 
• Circle hits a $50b market cap
• Yellowcard partners with Visa in Africa
• Kraken will launch a token for their Ink L2
• Are Walmart and Amazon looking at their own stablecoins? 
• An Iranian crypto exchange is hacked at the coins are lost
• We review old Bitcoin FUDs on the FUD Dice

Content mention in this episode:

• Yesha Yadav and Brendan Malone, Stablecoins and the US Treasury Market

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Sean is joined by Santi Alvarado, CEO/Co-Founder of XFX, to cover their seed raise and how money moves cross border. In this episode: 

• Background of Santi and how he made his way into crypto
• How legacy FX settlement operates today
• How XFX enables more liquidity for cross border payment companies

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Wyatt is joined by Greg Genega, Digital Asset and Blockchain leader at KPMG, for a conversation on the state of crypto auditing. In this episode: 

• How KPMG works with crypto companies and protocols
• Relevant new innovations in the crypto space
• What to look out for as a new founder

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Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: 

• Stripe acquires wallet infrastructure company Privy for an undisclosed sum
• Fireblocks’ stablecoin data
• Stablecoin FUD
• Were mnemonic phrases a local maxima?
• Bullish and Gemini have filed preliminary paperwork for IPOs
• Soc Gen is launching a USD stablecoin
• We look at some infamous rogue traders
• Gamestop’s bitcoin strategy is a flop
• DTCC is looking at issuing a stablecoin

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Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: 

• Circle goes public and has an explosive first day
• The IPO window is open
• Circle’s vision for CPN
• Pump.fun is launching a token
• Will pump.fun cannibalize Solana?
• JPM will let clients use Bitcoin ETFs as collateral
• Strategy introduces new offerings
• Magic Eden’s strange Trump wallet app announcement
• Truth Social Bitcoin ETF
• A K Pop Bitcoin access vehicle
• Korea’s cultural renaissance
• Singapore’s abrupt change in posture

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Wyatt sits down with Isha Varshney from the Celo Foundation to talk stablecoins. Covered in this episode:

• Payments in Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa
• Stablecoin usage and USDT
• The future of non-stable tokens

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Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode: 

• Warning signs for the Bitcoin access vehicles?
• Has Bitcoin lost the MoE battle?
• Is OCP 2.0 over?
• The Dept of Labor rescinds their anti-crypto 401k guidance
• Cantor Fitzgerald is launching a bitcoin/gold fund
• Is it mathematically possible to give Bitcoin upside and gold downside?

Content mentioned: 

• Stablecoin.fyi 

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We sit down with Anthony Yim, Artemis cofounder, to talk about the latest report from Artemis, CIV, and Dragonfly, providing brand new estimates of stablecoin payments volume. In this episode:

• Why we decided to work on the new report
• How we obtained the estimates
• Why we decided to put together a bottom-up estimate
• Stablecoin b2b volumes compared to traditional b2b
• How do you measure stablecoin transactions?

Download the report at stablecoin.fyi

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Markus Franke and Denney Kwok from Mento Labs join the show. In this episode: 

• Non-USD stablecoins
• On-chain FX
• Microlending and financing for emerging markets

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Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: 

• Trump’s crypto dinner reviewed
• Bitcoin access vehicles
• NYT stablecoin coverage
• Sui is hacked and censors the blockchain
• Kraken is launching tokenized stocks
• Circle in acquisition talks
• The GENIUS Act passes Cloture in the Senate
• Hong Kong passes stablecoin legislation

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