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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Wyatt sits down with Andrew MacKenzie, founder of Agant, the issuer of GBPA, a pound sterling stablecoin. In this episode: 

• The potential emergence of non-USD stablecoins
• The prospect of a GBP-backed stablecoin
• The British crypto regulatory environment
• How global financial institutions are positioning around stablecoins

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

• Why is Boston such a good sports city?
• Price inflation in dinosaur skeletons
• Cryptopunks IP is sold
• Machinsky is sentenced
• Nakamoto Holdings launches
• Meta wants to add stablecoins to its platforms
• Exchanges are honeypots for KYC data
• Coinbase suffers a data breach
• The GENIUS act is going to a vote next week
• GENIUS act new provisions
• More Movement shenanigans
• Thailand is launching a $150m crypto token

Content mentioned in this episode:

• Tuongvy Le and Austin Campbell published a paper, “Crypto and The Evolution of Capital Markets“, which dissects the current market structure for securities trading and settlement and discusses how blockchain networks can improve this architecture.

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Wyatt sits down with Alex Cutler, founder of Aerodrome for another episode in our stablefi series. In this episode: 

• DEX trading advantages
• Building on-chain FX
• DeFi as a backbone

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Wyatt sits down with TN, cofounder of Pendle. Covered in this episode: 

• How Pendle works
• The evolution from alt yield to stable yield
• DeFi’s future core assets

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

• We have a new Pope
• The etymology of ampersand
• The GENIUS act collapses spectacularly
• Coinbase consummates its acquisition of Deribit
• Did World Liberty Financial’s USD1 torpedo the GENIUS act?
• Did “pro crypto” democrats snake on the industry
• Scott Bessent thinks stablecoins could reach $2T
• The OCC says banks can provide crypto custody and execution
• Stripe is launching stablecoin financial accounts
• The SEC explores a sandbox for tokenized securities
• Tariff the L2s

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Adam Healy, co-founder of Station 70 and Josh Schwartz, co-founder of Fordefi join the show. In this episode we discuss:

• The collaboration between Station 70 and Fordefi on failover MPC wallets. Announcement here.
• The state of the wallet category
• Best practices for blockchain cybersecurity
• The future of bank custody for digital assets
• Station 70’s Bunker product
• Station 70 and Fordefi are holding a joint webinar to showcase this product collaboration. You can register here.

Learn more about Station 70

Learn more about Fordefi

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Wyatt sits down with David Taylor of Etherfuse. In this episode: 

• MXN stablecoins and other currencies
• Shaping regulatory frameworks
• Who wins out: innovators vs financial incumbents

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Wyatt sits down with Justin Garland and Hannah JoJo of Asymmetry Finance. In this episode, we cover: 

• The evolution of yield in DeFi
• Primitives users want
• Crypto risk assessment

Learn more about Asymmetry

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

• Will stablecoins disrupt credit cards?
• The US Treasury Advisory Committee drops a report on stablecoins
• Mastercard and Visa launch stablecoin integrations
• Movement labs has more scandals
• Are quantum timelines accelerating?
• The real risk of quantum to Bitcoin
• Could a quantum break fix Bitcoin’s security budget?
• Are any Bitcoin purists left?
• Circle turns down Ripple’s acquisition offer
• Machinsky is facing a 20-year sentence
• Arizona passes an SBR bill 
• Cambridge releases a new report on bitcoin mining
• Bitcoiners are fighting about OP_RETURN again 
• What is Bittensor 

Content mentioned:

• US Treasury, Report on Digital Money
• Coindesk, Inside Movement’s Token-Dump Scandal: Secret Contracts, Shadow Advisers and Hidden Middlemen
• Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance, Cambridge Digital Mining Industry Report: Global Operations, Sentiment, and Energy Use
   

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