Raagulan Pathy says KAST becomes a $100 billion company or it fails outright. There's no in-between, and he explains exactly why on this episode. The KAST founder and Frax's Sam Hamidi-Kazemian debate what's actually driving the neo bank and stablecoin boom, why regulators are starting to treat stablecoins as a national priority, and whether brand, network effects, or raw economies of scale end up being the real moat.
Raagulan Pathy is the Founder and CEO of KAST, a stablecoin-powered neo bank. Sam Hamidi-Kazemian is the Founder of Frax Finance, the protocol behind the FRAX stablecoin ecosystem.
Stable Up is Rollup's weekly stablecoin show, powered by Frax.
00:00 Intro
02:07 Stablecoins Growing Independent Of Price
04:14 Banking Is Being Unbundled Now
06:13 Stablecoins Eating Traditional Banking Share
08:18 The World Wants A US Bank Account
10:25 Genius Act Stablecoin Explosion Chart
12:27 Robinhood Chain And Tokenized Equity Access
14:38 Sam Announces New Platform Feature
16:39 Global KYC Identity Layer Explained
18:42 One Login Infinite Financial Products
20:54 Collaboration Not Competition Strategy
22:57 Genius Act Was The First Domino
25:09 Everyone Wants Access To US Capital Markets
27:11 Economies Of Scale Is The Real Moat
29:13 Neo Banks Throwing Hands Up Daily
31:21 Neo Bank Wave Now Shaking Out
33:22 Onboarding Friction Killed Most Neo Banks
34:48 Trust And Customer Service Build The Moat
Guest Socials:
Sam Kazemian X: https://x.com/samkazemian
Frax Finance X: https://x.com/FraxFinance
Frax Finance Website: https://frax.com/
Raagulan Pathy: raagulanpathy
KAST X: https://x.com/kastxyz
KAST Website: https://www.kast.xyz/
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