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 

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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