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

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

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.

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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

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

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

Learn more about Asymmetry