On The Brink with Castle Island

Chris Maurice (Yellow Card) on Stablecoin Adoption in Africa (EP.641)


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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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