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? 

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. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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