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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Wyatt sits down with Kedian Sun, the founder of Level Money. In this episode: 

• Stablecoin usage in DeFi today
• Fiat-backed stablecoins vs other “stable” assets
• Ethereum vs other blockchains for stablecoins

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

• Is Bitcoin decoupling?
• The Fed rescinds anti-crypto letters from 2022 and 2023
• Upexi raises $100m PIPE to invest in Solana
• Cantor, Tether, Softbank and Bitfinex inject $3.6b into 21 Capital, a Bitcoin acquisition vehicle
• Bitcoin ETFs versus bitcoin acquisition companies
• Trump is hosting a dinner for $TRUMP holders
• Charles Schwab wants to launch crypto trading
• Citi thinks stablecoins could reach $3.7T in supply by 2030

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

• We recap Nic’s article on why Signature collapsed
• Crypto exchange OKX announced their plans to expand to the US
• Kraken announced that US equities are now supported on the exchange
• MANTRA, a layer 1 network focused on RWAs, saw the price of its native token crash 90% in a matter of hours
• Global Payments agreed to acquire Worldpay, a payments processor, for $24 billion from FIS and private equity firm GTCR
• The US Department of Homeland Security has launched a probe into Anchorage, the digital asset custodian, related to the company’s AML polices
• Jerome Powell reiterates his support for stablecoin legislation
• Strategy (and others) buy more Bitcoin

Content mentioned in this episode:

• Galaxy Digital,  The State of Crypto Lending
• Nic Carter in Piratewires, Signature Didn’t Have to Die, Either

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Wyatt sits down with Fred Hsu and Michael Ho of D3 to talk domain markets. In this episode: 

• The existing domain name industry and legacy systems
• An interoperable marketplace for domains
• New financial promitives around domains and RWAs

More about D3

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Yuval Rooz and Eric Saraniecki, co-founders of Digital Asset join the show. In this episode we discuss:

• The origins of Digital Asset and the path to starting the firm.
• Views on privacy in the context of public blockchains.
• How enterprises and financial institutions are approaching tokenizing assets and leveraging blockchain technology.
• Examples of how on-chain privacy enables use cases in collateral management and stablecoin payments.  
• The role of the Canton Network public blockchain for enabling institutional use cases.
• How Canton Network works from a design perspective.

To learn more:

• Digital Asset Website
• Canton Network

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

• Is dedollarization happening?
• The SEC’s Division of Corporate Finance released a “Statement on Stablecoins“
• The US Justice Department has disbanded its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement team
• The SEC releases new guidance on securities offerings in crypto markets
• FDIC Chair relaxes rules on crypto activities at banks
• Paul Atkins is confirmed
• The SEC has approved options trading for spot ETH ETFs
• Tether is exploring a US stablecoin
• Janover is doing a Microstrategy for SOL strategy
• Michelle Bowman is launching a review of the Fed’s failures in 2023 around the banking crisis
• What happened to Signature? 
• Matt’s critter situation

Content mentioned:

SEC, Offerings and Registrations of Securities in the Crypto Asset Markets

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Wyatt Lonergan and Juan Lopez of Vaneck Ventures join the show to talk stablecoins and institutionalization. In this episode, we cover: 

• The landscape of stablecoin growth and activity
• A world with many stablecoins vs few stablecoins
• Winning/losing companies in the new stablecoin era
• Impact on the longer tail of altcoins

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Hoolie Tejwani, the head of Coinbase Ventures joins the show. In this episode we discuss:

• The history and rationale behind the launch of Coinbase Ventures.
• The evolution of the crypto venture category.
• Areas of focus for Coinbase Ventures.
• Stablecoins, Crypto/AI and consumer startup category.
• The regulatory landscape in the United States.
• Operation Chokepoint 2.0 and the impact on startups.
• The rise of the Coinbase Mafia.

To learn more visit coinbase.com/ventures

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

• What’s the deal with the tariffs?
• Are the tariffs 4D chess?
• STABLE Act advances from committee
• Galaxy settles with the NYAG for touting Luna
• Trump pardons the BitMEX founders
• Coinlist returns to the US
• FDUSD has a depeg amidst Justin Sun drama
• Fidelity launches a no-fee crypto IRA product
• Larry Fink is bullish bitcoin

Content mentioned:

• AI 2027, by Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland, Romeo Dean

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