Podcasts about stablecoins

Crypto News: Bitcoin printed its highest weekly close in 4 months and reclaimed the 50-week MA for the first time since Nov 2025. XRP on the brink of a golden cross as focus switches to altcoins. Ava Labs president says NYSE spent a year testing Avalanche Avax technology for tokenization plans.

In this Crypto Water Cooler episode, Tony and Amanda discuss the CLARITY Act failing to advance in the Senate after all Democrats voted no, new crypto guidance from the SEC and CFTC, Coinbase increasing stablecoin rewards, and continued TradFi adoption as Deutsche Bank launches crypto custody and S&P Global acquires OpenZeppelin.⭐️ Trade crypto perps with a free $25 bonus on Kalshi. You can trade on crypto up or down with up to 6x leverage, meaning you can put down $100 and control a $600 position. It's the first CFTC-regulated perps exchange in the country, which means no VPN and no offshore nonsense to deal with. To claim your $25 bonus, all you do is make your first $50 trade through my link - https://kalshi.com/p/thinkingcrypto 

On this episode of The Real Money Show, presented by Guildhall Wealth, Jeremy Wiseman and Jerry Correia break down a week where the Fed and Japan both raised rates and gold and silver still erased their losses. Plus, crypto giant Tether is quietly becoming a bank for physical gold and silver, buying bars and leasing them out to businesses that need financing. They also unpack Samsung's silver-heavy battery heading into production. And then there's a number on the U.S. Treasury's balance sheet that hasn't been updated in decades. If it ever is, the ripple effects are hard to overstate. The Real Money Show airs Saturdays at 1 p.m. ET on Rebel News. Jeremy and Jerry share expert insights on safeguarding your savings, diversifying your portfolio, and building long-term financial security. Since 2002, Guildhall has guided investors through inflation, market volatility, and global uncertainty, helping everyday people make informed financial decisions.

Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode:  How is SBF like Dario? The EAs are at it again Do we need new regulation to Pace the Frontier? Can Anthropic be regulated like a bank?  Are baseball cards back? Clarity fails at the final hurdle Why did Clarity fail? Stablecoin yield is still in effect The SEC and CFTC are engaging in rulemaking Circle launches Arc, their new L1 Robinhood employees get caught insider trading on Hyperliquid Caroline Ellison is back and working for a former FTX portco Can AI models leak MNPI? A Polish oil company tried to buy sanctioned oil from Venezuela with USDT The DOE launches a $250m Quantum computing competition

Cody Carbone, CEO at The Digital Chamber, joined us to discuss the takeaways from the failed Clarity Act in the Senate and what happens next with the bill. Will the Democrats come back to the table after the midterm elections to get the crypto legislation Clarity Act passed?⭐️ Trade crypto perps with a free $25 bonus on Kalshi. You can trade on crypto up or down with up to 6x leverage, meaning you can put down $100 and control a $600 position. It's the first CFTC-regulated perps exchange in the country, which means no VPN and no offshore nonsense to deal with. To claim your $25 bonus, all you do is make your first $50 trade through my link - https://kalshi.com/p/thinkingcrypto 

In dieser Folge spreche ich mit Goldexperte Ronald Stöferle (Incrementum) über die aggressive Expansion von Tether in physische Vermögenswerte. Basierend auf exklusiven Recherchen und einem Interview mit Tethers Head of Special Operations, Juan Sartori, für den aktuellen „In Gold We Trust“-Report analysieren wir, warum das Unternehmen hinter dem USDT massiv physisches Gold kauft, Minenbeteiligungen erwirbt und mit Tether Gold (XAU₮) ein vertikal integriertes System aufbaut. Wir diskutieren, wie Zinserträge aus US-Staatsanleihen in Farmland, Gold und Bitcoin reinvestiert werden, ob Stablecoins die globale Dollar-Dominanz sichern und welche Dynamik entsteht, wenn Kapital aus dem 140 Billionen Dollar schweren Anleihemarkt in knappe monetäre Güter abwandert. In Gold we Trust 2026Ronnie auf XLEADING PARTNER

Crypto News: With the failed Clarity Act vote in the Senate the SEC and CFTC vow to provide crypto regulatory guidance. Deutsche Bank plans bitcoin, ether custody for institutional clients in Europe.⭐️ Trade crypto perps with a free $25 bonus on Kalshi. You can trade on crypto up or down with up to 6x leverage, meaning you can put down $100 and control a $600 position. It's the first CFTC-regulated perps exchange in the country, which means no VPN and no offshore nonsense to deal with. To claim your $25 bonus, all you do is make your first $50 trade through my link - https://kalshi.com/p/thinkingcrypto 

The digital-asset world is moving fast—and this week gave us plenty to talk about. The CLARITY Act may have stalled in Congress, but regulators aren't exactly sitting around waiting. On today's TraderMerlin, we're doing a full Digital Asset Debrief, breaking down several major developments that could reshape cryptocurrency, tokenization, stablecoins and the broader financial system. Perhaps the biggest development comes from the SEC, which just introduced an Innovation Exemption designed to allow experimentation with onchain trading of tokenized U.S. stocks. Think about that for a moment. We're not talking about some theoretical blockchain project anymore. We're talking about stocks listed on major U.S. exchanges potentially being traded onchain. Meanwhile, the SEC and CFTC are signaling that they intend to keep moving forward with digital-asset rules even though Congress failed to advance the CLARITY Act. We'll discuss: SEC Innovation Exemption – What today's announcement means for tokenized stocks and blockchain-based markets SEC & CFTC – Can regulators create meaningful crypto rules even without the CLARITY Act? The CLARITY Fallout – Where does crypto market-structure legislation go from here? Stablecoins vs. Banks – Could stablecoin yield really drain deposits from community banks and reduce small-business lending? Bitcoin Reserve – Where does the U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve stand, and what could it ultimately mean for Bitcoin? Tokenization – Are traditional financial markets moving onchain faster than most investors realize? Institutional Adoption – What happens when crypto stops being a separate asset class and starts becoming part of the infrastructure of Wall Street? The stablecoin debate is particularly fascinating. Banks argue that yield-bearing stablecoins could pull deposits out of community banks, reducing the capital available for mortgages, agricultural loans and small-business lending. Crypto advocates argue that banks are simply trying to protect their low-cost deposits from competition. So who's right? And more importantly... Should Washington protect the existing financial system—or force it to compete with the new one? That's the bigger story behind today's headlines. For years, the debate was whether cryptocurrency would survive regulation. That question increasingly feels outdated. The new question is what the financial system looks like when crypto, tokenization, stablecoins and traditional markets begin merging together. Listen now:

Vroon Modgill spent two decades in payments as an accountant, finance director and CFO before founding Sokin in 2019. The company launched as a subscription-based consumer remittance app and is now a B2B payments and treasury platform running across 170 countries and 70 currencies, growing 100% a year while staying profitable. We talk about the pivot out of consumer, where stablecoins actually earn their place, and why he thinks the moat in agentic finance sits in the regulated plumbing rather than in the agent.What We CoveredTwenty years in payments before founding SokinWatching his father fill out the same compliance forms on every remittanceWhy a consumer subscription app was the wrong business to be inThe 2021 decision to go all in on B2BSitting underneath the payments, treasury and FX providersOne integration across 170 countries and 70 currenciesEnterprise direct versus the embedded partner channelEmbedded going from zero to 40% of projected US revenue in a yearWhy most of the world is not card firstOwning the stablecoin stack instead of renting itThe MCP connector and agent-prepared, human-approved paymentsNine dollars of revenue for every dollar of net cash burnedThe Series B, the Oxford Finance debt facility and the licensing build-outWhat the Manchester United partnership actually deliversKey TakeawaysThe defensible layer in agentic finance is not the model. An agent that decides to fund payroll still needs an account, a license and a rail, which is why the licensing build-out matters more than the AI demo.Stablecoins work best treated as a rail rather than a religion. Sokin bought the engineering DNA, runs fiat and stable through the same licensed infrastructure, and lets the route decide.Consumer remittance is a price and marketing game. Being right about the problem does not make it the right business, and the enterprise version of the same friction is where the money is.Profitable growth is a capital strategy, not just discipline. It let Sokin raise equity into strength and add debt at a lower cost than dilution.About Vroon ModgillVroon Modgill is the founder and CEO of Sokin, a global business payments and treasury platform he launched in 2019. He trained as an accountant and spent roughly 20 years in payments and finance leadership roles, including finance director positions at startups and, from 2017 to 2019, North America CEO and global CFO of a crypto payments company. Sokin closed a Series B led by Prysm Capital with Morgan Stanley returning, followed by a debt facility from Oxford Finance, and is the official payments partner of Manchester United.Connect with Fintech One-on-One:Tweet me @PeterRentonConnect with me on LinkedInFind previous Fintech One-on-One episodes

Crypto News: The Senate failed to advance the Clarity Act, a landmark crypto market structure bill. The vote was 49-50, with three Republicans and all Democrats voting against. Will Bitcoin and crypto crash as a result with potential rate hikes from the Fed?

"We're now in a wartime economy."Graham Summers explains why Washington's focus on gold, stablecoins and critical minerals may signal a historic shift in America's financial and national-security strategy.

Ethena's Guy Young explains why the companybuilt a neobank that pays 6% in yield, 5% cash back, and never tells users they're holding self-custodial stablecoins instead of dollars. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Visit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 1inch.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to swap tokenized securities, crypto and more. Simple. Secure. Self-custodial. Whatever asset you're buying - swap it at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 1inch.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ======================================================== DeFi's total value locked never reclaimed its 2021 peak, even four years and a full bull market later. That data point convinced Ethena Labs founder Guy Young the onchain dream needed a backup plan. Young joins Laura Shin days after launching Ethena Pay, a neobank paying 6% on dollar deposits and 5% cashback in AVAX while hiding from users that their balance sits in a self-custodial stablecoin wallet, not a bank account. He argues yield, not brand loyalty, is what pulls the next hundred million users onto crypto rails. They cover why Young shrugs off Tether-backed Plasma as a rival, how USDe's backing shifted from a basis trade toward AAA-rated real-world-asset lending, why a Revolut-style KYC breach is a risk Ethena can't fully control, and why card spend and FX fees, not USDe's own yield, are the revenue line he is actually chasing. Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Laura Shin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Host / Unchained Guest: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Guy Young - Founder and CEO of Ethena Labs Timestamps

Crypto News: Democrats reject the Republicans new Clarity Act draft bil but are sending over a counter offer the crypto bill ahead of tomorrow's Senate vote. Banks push back on stablecoin yield circuit breaker language in the bill. Elizabeth Warren and democrats push back on ethics language. ⭐️ Trade crypto perps with a free $25 bonus on Kalshi. You can trade on crypto up or down with up to 6x leverage, meaning you can put down $100 and control a $600 position. It's the first CFTC-regulated perps exchange in the country, which means no VPN and no offshore nonsense to deal with. To claim your $25 bonus, all you do is make your first $50 trade through my link - https://kalshi.com/p/thinkingcrypto

After more than a year of negotiations, hundreds of pages of legislation and enormous pressure from the crypto industry... The CLARITY Act just hit a wall in Washington. Today, the U.S. Senate failed to advance the landmark digital-asset market structure bill, falling short of the 60 votes needed to move forward. And with Congress preparing to leave Washington ahead of the November midterm elections, the legislation could now be stalled for quite some time. On today's TraderMerlin, we're breaking down what happened—and more importantly, what it means for crypto markets going forward. The CLARITY Act was designed to answer one of the biggest questions hanging over the digital-asset industry: Who regulates what? For years, crypto companies have operated in a regulatory gray area between the SEC and CFTC. The CLARITY Act attempts to establish clearer rules for digital commodities, exchanges, brokers, decentralized finance and other parts of the rapidly growing digital-asset ecosystem. But today's vote wasn't simply about crypto. Political ethics, stablecoins, community banks, DeFi, anti-money-laundering rules and President Trump's involvement in digital assets all became major sticking points. We'll discuss: What Happened Today? – Why the CLARITY Act failed to advance in the Senate SEC vs. CFTC – How the bill would reshape digital-asset regulation Bitcoin & Crypto – Why regulatory clarity matters to institutional investors Stablecoins – The growing battle between crypto companies and traditional banks DeFi – How decentralized finance fits into the regulatory debate Institutional Adoption – Does another delay slow Wall Street's move into digital assets? The Global Race – What happens if the U.S. continues debating while other countries establish clearer rules? What's Next? – Is the CLARITY Act dead, delayed...or headed back to the negotiating table? The irony is hard to miss. It's called the CLARITY Act... And after today's vote, the future of U.S. crypto regulation is anything but clear. Markets can price risk. What they hate is uncertainty. For the crypto industry, today's vote means that uncertainty isn't going away anytime soon. Listen now:

Join Delphine Forma, Head of Policy Europe at Solidus Labs, as she sits down with Mai Kaneko, International Business Lead at DCP — the company behind the DCJPY Network, Japan's multi-bank tokenised deposit infrastructure.They explore one of the most consequential and least understood developments in digital finance — the rise of tokenised deposits as a distinct and complementary form of digital money. Drawing on Japan's position as one of the first markets where tokenised deposits are becoming a commercial reality, Mai brings a rare insider perspective on what it takes to build shared financial infrastructure across competing banks, regulators, and borders.

Ethena's Guy Young explains why the companybuilt a neobank that pays 6% in yield, 5% cash back, and never tells users they're holding self-custodial stablecoins instead of dollars. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Visit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 1inch.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to swap tokenized securities, crypto and more. Simple. Secure. Self-custodial. Whatever asset you're buying - swap it at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 1inch.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ======================================================== DeFi's total value locked never reclaimed its 2021 peak, even four years and a full bull market later. That data point convinced Ethena Labs founder Guy Young the onchain dream needed a backup plan. Young joins Laura Shin days after launching Ethena Pay, a neobank paying 6% on dollar deposits and 5% cashback in AVAX while hiding from users that their balance sits in a self-custodial stablecoin wallet, not a bank account. He argues yield, not brand loyalty, is what pulls the next hundred million users onto crypto rails. They cover why Young shrugs off Tether-backed Plasma as a rival, how USDe's backing shifted from a basis trade toward AAA-rated real-world-asset lending, why a Revolut-style KYC breach is a risk Ethena can't fully control, and why card spend and FX fees, not USDe's own yield, are the revenue line he is actually chasing. Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Laura Shin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Host / Unchained Guest: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Guy Young - Founder and CEO of Ethena Labs Timestamps

The following article of the Finance & Fintech industry is: “Stablecoins After 2025: The New Standards Shaping 2026” by Maggie Wu, CEO, VelaFi. (AA2616)

Nellie Liang is a former Treasury and Federal Reserve official and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. In Nellie's first appearance on the show, she discusses the future of stablecoins following the GENIUS Act, what stablecoins mean for private money and illicit finance, Fed master accounts, the global role of the dollar, and much more. Watch the full length video on our new YouTube Channel! Check out the transcript for this week's episode, now with links. Recorded on August 18th, 2026 Subscribe to David's Substack: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus Follow David Beckworth on X: @DavidBeckworth Follow the show on X: @Macro_Musings Check out our Macro Musings merch! Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:23 - Nellie's Career 00:05:48 - The GENIUS Act 00:11:31 - Stablecoins as Private Money 00:27:32 - Fed Master Accounts 00:29:53 - Dollar as Global Reserve Currency 00:35:42 - Stablecoins and US Debt 00:46:49 - Nellie's Policy Recommendations 00:50:11 - Outro

Crypto News: Senate Democrats to meet tonight to discuss crypto Clarity Act. President Trump met with advisers Friday to discuss the CLARITY Act ethics proposal before the September 15 Senate cloture vote.

Morgan Stanley became the first global systemically important bank to launch a spot Bitcoin ETP and it crossed $600 million within months of its April debut. Amy Oldenburg, Head of Digital Assets at Morgan Stanley, joins host Spencer Nichols to explain how that product came together, why it was priced below competing spot Bitcoin ETFs, and what still stands between clients and their first Bitcoin allocation. She also details the firm's 0–4% allocation framework across three investor risk profiles and why Morgan Stanley has no equivalent gold allocation. Plus: whether Bitcoin could land on Morgan Stanley's own balance sheet.

“They can take it away.”Catherine Austin Fitts warns that programmable money could fundamentally change financial freedom and explains why stablecoins may pose an even greater threat than CBDCs.

Crypto News: White House Crypto Director Patrick Witt is bullish on the Clarity Act passing. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the Clarity Act bill is close to the finish line. U.S. House Ways and Means Committee schedules Sept. 16 markup for crypto tax rules. Clearpool proposes migrating to the XRP Ledger and building institutional credit products using XRPL's upcoming lending standards.

Stablecoins and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are at the center of a global shift in how money moves. In this episode, professor Itay Goldstein speaks with Heath Tarbert, president of Circle and former CFTC chair, about the role of stablecoins in modern finance, how they compare to CBDCs, and the regulatory frameworks needed to support their growth.Editor's Note: This episode was recorded in early summer of 2025, shortly before the passage of the GENIUS Act, which provides a regulatory framework for stablecoins. A lot has happened in the digital asset space since this discussion was recorded. But the broader ideas, philosophies, and questions we explore remain highly relevant today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Crypto News: U.S. Bank takes next step towards launching its stablecoin for cross border payments using the Stellar Lumens blockchain. Coinbase is partnering with Moov to increase access to stablecoin for community banks and credit unions.

“The new monetary system is already here.” E.B. Tucker explains how Treasury buybacks and stablecoin demand could quietly flood the financial system with cash.

Crypto News: The US Treasury is set to do near $10 billion in bond buybacks which will make crypto and markets pump. On Sept. 15, the Senate holds its cloture vote on the CLARITY Act but republicans say the vote may fail.

Ryne Saxe, Co-Founder and CEO of Eco, joined me to discuss how the company is using stablecoins to enable programmable routing, seamless settlement, and greater connectivity across digital asset markets.Topics:- Stablecoin adoption and usage - AI Agents using Stablecoins- Stablecoins changing the FX Market - Stablecoin market outlook

Today's blockchain and crypto news Bitcoin is down slightly at $78,408 Ethereum is down slightly at $2,473 BNB is down slightly at $750 Strategy repurchases 1.8M STRC preferred shares. Visa's stablecoin settlement volume has surpassed a $20 billion ARR. Cronos said about 9 million dollars remains unrecovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For episode 769 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Michael Steuer, President & CTO of Casper Network.Casper is the Layer 1 infrastructure for regulated real-world assets and machine commerce. On Casper, institutions can bring assets onchain under enforceable rules, while autonomous systems can operate through their own accounts and participate in financial activity as economic actors.

Michael Every breaks down the reverse perestroika thesis reshaping macro and geopolitics in 2026. Marty and Michael cover the Iran war, Russia-Ukraine escalation risk, Venezuela and the Dunroe Doctrine, China's automation-driven job losses, structural inflation from the diesel and refined product shortage, the Fed's shift to short-end T-bill issuance, stablecoins replacing the petrodollar, economic statecraft, AGI implications, and why Europe has lost leverage with both the US and China. A must-listen for anyone tracking Bitcoin, monetary policy, and the shifting global order. Michael on X: https://x.com/TheMichaelEvery Find the Home Mining Playbook here: https://www.tftc.io/home-mining-energy-playbook STACK SATS hat: https://tftcmerch.io/ Our newsletter: https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-brief/ TFTC Elite (Ad-free & Discord): https://www.tftc.io/#/portal/signup/ Discord: https://discord.gg/yHGkvYxdqT Opportunity Cost Extension: https://www.opportunitycost.app/ Shoutout to our sponsors: Block: Cash App: For a limited time, new customers can get $21 added to their balance. Just use code TFTC10 when you sign up, and send at least $5 to a friend in the first two weeks. Terms apply. Bitcoin services by Block, Inc. See the Bitcoin disclosures at cash.app/legal/podcast. Square: Visit http://square.com/go/tftc for up to $200 off eligible Square hardware. Bitkey: Use code TFTC10 for 10% off the new Bitkey. Aven https://www.aven.com/bitcoin CrowdHealth https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/tftc Salt of the Earth: https://drinksote.com/tftc Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/TFTC21/videos Clips YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUQcW3jxfQfEUS8kqR5pJtQ Website https://tftc.io/ Newsletter tftc.io/bitcoin-brief/ Twitter https://twitter.com/tftc21 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tftc.io/ Nostr https://primal.net/tftc Follow Marty Bent: Twitter https://twitter.com/martybent Nostr https://primal.net/martybent Newsletter https://tftc.io/martys-bent/ Podcast https://www.tftc.io/tag/podcasts/ Disclosure: Bitcoin services are provided by Block, Inc. Bitcoin services are not licensable activity in all U.S. states and territories, and not all services are available in all states. Bitkey is not available in New York. Block, Inc. operates in New York as Block of Delaware and is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the New York State Department of Financial Services. Bitcoin is a non-deposit, non-bank product that is not FDIC insured and involves risk, including monetary loss. For additional information, see the Bitcoin disclosures: https://help.cash.app/btcdisclosures Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at http://square.com/go/tftc! #squarepartner. Offer expires December 31, 2026 at 11:59 pm PST. Offer for $40 off the cost of one Square Stand, $75 off the cost of one Square Terminal, $100 off the cost of one Square Handheld, or $200 off the cost of one Square Register, excluding applicable taxes. Limited to one discount per product type per seller account. Each code is limited to one redemption per account holder. Valid for new Square customers located in the US only. Offer not valid with guest checkout. Square reserves the right to modify, revoke or cancel the offer at any time. Offer cannot be combined with any other coupon. Void where prohibited, not redeemable for cash, and non-transferable. #squarepartner #blockpartner

Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode:  We determine the winner of the bad boys theme song competition Dwarkesh ignites controversy with his OpenAI hack recap What actually happened with OpenAI and Huggingface? Gwern's and Matt Huang's short story competition Will AI make us dumb? 200m Americans KYC data has been hacked Prediction markets lawsuit heading to SCOTUS? Robinhood Chain is taking off Strategy is buying Bitcoin again Should Members of Congress be paid more? Cronos suffers a defi hack Revolut gets a bank charter Is the stablecoin sandwich cheaper for cross border? RSA260 factored - panic? Content mentioned in the episode: GPUworld.com Wenxin Du, Three Myths About Payment Innovation  

Amar Kuchinad, CEO of Copper, joined me to discuss how the firm is building crypto and blockchain infrastructure to help institutions securely participate in digital asset markets.Topics:- TradFi's adoption of digital assets - Amar's time at the SEC and the agencies approach to crypto guidance - Can Blockchain in markets prevent another financial crisis? - Building crypto infrastructure for institutions - The future of markets 

Crypto News: SEC proposes transfer agent rule, sets event to figure out round-the-clock U.S. trading. XRP ETFs pull in $170 million over 11 days. Goldman tops institutional holders. 21 major global banks including Bank of America, Citi, GoldmanSachs, DeutscheBank, and UBS, just committed to launching a joint stablecoin company, targeting a USD-denominated stablecoin to go live in H1 2027.

What happens when decentralized blockchain technology meets artificial intelligence's reasoning capabilities? In this throwback episode from 2025, we sit down with Jonathan King, Principal Investor at Coinbase Ventures.JK breaks down the origin story of Coinbase Ventures, from its lean, ecosystem-indexing beginnings in 2018 to managing over 500+ investments and deploying capital via the Base Ecosystem Fund. He provides a deep dive into Coinbase Ventures' flagship thesis on the convergence of crypto and AI.Discover why Jonathan believes autonomous AI agents using crypto rails (like stablecoins and self-custody wallets) will become the primary drivers of economic activity. He also highlights portfolio breakouts like Vana Network and Sapien, shares how AI developers like Devin and Cursor will spark an on-chain app explosion, and reveals what he looks for when evaluating technical co-founders.Support us through our Sponsors! ☕ Want to make content like ours? Sign up with Castmagic to make your creative process easy: https://bit.ly/CastmagicReferral Work smarter, grow faster. Automate your SEO, get AI insights, and manage all your clients in one place with Helm. Start today 50% off your first month at helmseo.comDouble your team's efficiency with COCO. Hire dedicated AI employees for copywriting, research, and CRM. Use code REF-W8CBVH for an exclusive 5% off your first order: https://coco.xyz/dashboard/hire/plan?ref=REF-W8CBVH Do you want to grow a business? Go from an idea to livebusiness in minutes. Use our Referral code: edgeof to 50% off your first month at https://www.willo.ai/When you purchase through these links, we may earn a commission. ____

Podcast SummaryWall Street's largest banks are preparing their own stablecoin infrastructure while the London Stock Exchange Group and Kraken work toward tokenized UK stocks. Matt looks at whether bank-issued stablecoins can realistically challenge Tether and Circle, why stablecoin-yield rules could give traditional banks a competitive advantage, and how Robinhood's blockchain activity fits into the broader convergence between traditional finance and crypto-native markets. The infrastructure story extends into AI and security. Hut 8's massive data-center agreements show how quickly Bitcoin miners are becoming AI infrastructure companies, while Ripple prepares the XRP Ledger for future quantum threats and Zcash works to make private transactions dramatically faster. Matt also examines the emerging cybersecurity risk from increasingly capable AI systems that can discover vulnerabilities in publicly accessible software, including the smart contracts, bridges and wallets securing billions of dollars in crypto. Happy HODLing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For episode 768 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Miles Paschini, Chief Executive Officer for FV Bank.FV Bank is a regulated global digital bank and qualified digital asset custodian headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The financial infrastructure platform serves global fintechs, enterprises, and individual freelancers by vertically integrating traditional banking services with stablecoin infrastructure and secure crypto custody. Operating through API-driven programmable rails, it enables real-time, 24/7/365 cross-border payments, USD accounts, and seamless asset conversions in over 40 currencies. 

Lido joins us with September rate hike odds near 66% ahead of the FOMC decision on the 16th. We get into stablecoin yields versus ETH staking after a hike, the 21-bank stablecoin coming for that yield, and where institutional staking stands after V3.~This Episode is sponsored by Ether.Fi~Join Ether.Fi and Earn cashback on trades of tokenized stocks and more!➜ ether.fi/@paulbarronGuest: Kean Gilbert, Head of Institutional Relations at LidoLido Liquid ETH Staking ➜ https://lido.fi/Lido USD & ETH Vaults ➜ https://stake.lido.fi/earn00:00 Intro00:10 Sponsor: EtherFi01:20 USD stablecoin yields if Fed Hikes?02:10 ETH staking if Fed Hikes?03:30 ETH staking vs Stablecoin staking04:40 Banks rushing to steal your stablecoin yields?06:00 Current state of institutional staking07:50 Bitmine competing against Lido for institutional marketshare?09:10 What is Lido doing to increase its marketshare?10:10 What other ways are institutions using liquid staked tokens?11:20 Institutional Restaking coming?12:15 Will Rate Hikes exacerbate Morpho growth?12:50 Looped USD yields: Is 7% too low?14:15 Vaults: why does Lido now restrict U.S. users?15:50 DeFi exploits vs Vault adoption18:30 Automatic Native Yields: is this a good thing or a bad thing?19:50 Did SEC pave the way for a two tiered DeFi ecosystem?20:30 Solana proved its capable of voting to lower issuance. What does this signal for ETH?21:50 When $LDO fee switch?#Crypto #Ethereum #federalreserve ~Institutional ETH Staking Boosted By Rate Hikes?

Vik Sharma is best known as the CEO of Cake Wallet. But lately, he's built two new projects: a Signal fork with BTC tipping called Radar, and a perpetual trading app named Arbiter. In this episode, he explains how the AI revolution speeds up development. Time stamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:18 - Vik Sharma Returns: Two New Products in Seven Months 1:41 - Radar: A Signal Fork with Bitcoin Lightning Built In 3:18 - How Radar Works: Signal Servers, Monthly Donations & Linked Devices 5:21 - Why Signal Over Telegram 6:36 - Why Lightning Over Monero 8:19 - Stablecoins for Normies: The Venmo-ification of Bitcoin 10:33 - Spark, Breez SDK & the Stablecoin Question 11:55 - The Nvidia Spark Cluster: Going All In on Local AI 15:25 - Why Local Models Beat Cloud Subscriptions for Security Work 17:03 - Guardrails: When Claude Refuses to Audit Your Own App 18:33 - Dinner with the Trump Administration: America's AI Regulation Mistake 20:45 - Italy's ChatGPT Ban & the Fear of Falling Behind 22:44 - The $100 Cake Wallet Contest 23:15 - Does Cake Wallet Use AI for Coding? 25:16 - Arbiter: A Vibe-Coded Hyperliquid Trading App 27:44 - $5 Million Traded, TestFlight & the Mac Desktop Build 30:13 - Linux Requests & the Orange Rock Comparison 31:17 - Gasless USDC: Circle CCTP & Frictionless Onboarding 35:10 - Can This UX Work on Private Chains? Zano, Aztec, Tari & Beam 37:44 - The $10,000 Red Team Donation & Cake's Audit Results 39:34 - The Coldcard RNG Flaw & the "Someone Is Looking at the Code" Fallacy 43:14 - Passphrases: The Simplest Security Upgrade 43:58 - The Bitcoin Forks: Luke Dash Jr's Blake2 & the Ecash Hard Fork 44:51 - Open-Mindedness: The Original Bitcoiner Virtue 46:44 - Wownero, MoneroV & Why Cake Dropped It 49:22 - The Winning Number Is 27 (and Nobody Picked It) 51:04 - The Privacy Narrative: Why Monero & Zcash Are Pumping 55:07 - "Bitcoin Maximalism Is Almost Anti-Bitcoin" 57:52 - NEAR Intents, Maya & Spending Shielded Zcash 59:53 - How to Try Arbiter Today 1:01:45 - What's Next: Desktop Apps, Multisig & Back to Self-Custody Basics 1:04:26 - Still Bullish on Lightning 1:04:39 - The Gatekeeper Question: How Cake Decides Which Coins to List 1:09:07 - Dash Adopting Orchard While Zcash Moves to Ironwood 1:10:56 - The Maintenance Burden: Why Exodus Dropped Monero 1:12:25 - Zcash Voting, Sapling Addresses & Passphrase Support 1:16:03 - Seth's Role & the Foundation Devices Connection 1:17:01 - Two Million Downloads & the Privacy Tipping Point 1:19:08 - Bitcoin Amsterdam & Conference Plans 1:21:14 - Sponsors & Goodbye

Episode 633 of the A Minute to Midnite show. Jamie Walden joins Tony K for a very important discussion on the convergence of signs that point to a looming polycrisis of biblical proportions. This is a “must listen” interview!Donate to A Minute To Midnite!

Payments companies were among the first to experience the pressures that hit the fintech scene and the broader software industry over the past couple of years. Now activity is reviving, with several big deals. What's changed, and which other parts of the sector stand to thrive amid ongoing disruption? Jason Gurandiano, Head of U.S. Technology Banking and Global Head of Fintech Banking, is joined by colleagues Matt Thomas and Asif Ahsan for the second part of their analysis.Key pointsPayments companies are trading at a discount relative to cashflow and are likely to see strong M&A activity.Agentic commerce and stablecoin are potential game-changers in payments.Strategics are targeting companies with a hardware component alongside proprietary data as moats against AI.Digital assets and trading platforms are among the subverticals with strongly favorable signals.Chapter markers:Introductions [00:06]Joe Coletti introduces the second part of a discussion led by Jason Gurandiano, Head of U.S. Technology Banking and Global Head of Fintech Banking, with Matt Thomas, Managing Director in Technology Investment Banking, and Asif Ahsan, Managing Director in Technology M&A.Payments strength [00:46]Activity in the payments sector has picked up meaningfully in the past three months. The space has become more global and less fragmented, as companies seek to own whole steps of the value chain. Many payments companies are trading at a discount and this is an area of likely continuing M&A activity.Impact of agentic commerce and stablecoin [04:34]Agentic commerce is set to transform payments, and will drive transactions to ensure security against fraud. Stablecoin is becoming institutionalized and could prove disruptive to traditional banking when paired with consumers' digital wallets. Information services outlook [08:13]Information services companies' success rests on whether their data is truly proprietary or can be easily replicated. A combination of proprietary data and hardware is increasingly valued by companies looking to do M&A.Subvertical verdicts [10:17]Summing up their views, participants are broadly bullish about payments and financial software. Views on market structure, information services, and disruptive financial services are mixed, with some players facing greater risks. Signs are good for digital assets, crypto, and tokenization, with strong innovation and maturing players.

Scott Bessent knows something that we don't. Luke Gromen has spent his whole career reading the fine print of America's balance sheet, and his conclusion is stark: the quiet interventions coming out of Washington - doubled bond buybacks, a yen rescue, a sudden fondness for stablecoins - aren't policy. They're symptoms. The arithmetic of debt, entitlements, and interest has crossed a threshold from which, Gromen argues, there are only three exits, and none of them are painless. We've got a crisis hiding in plain sight - and someone is gunna end up paying for it.--Timestamps:(00:00) - Welcome and Guest Intro(00:21) - Past Episode Reflections(00:49) - Bitcoin and AI Disagreements(01:58) - Luke Returns to the Show(02:24) - Why Everything Feels Faster(03:52) - Bessent and Bond Buybacks(08:11) - True Interest Expense Alarm(15:00) - Is It a Crisis Yet(20:38) - Crisis Symptoms and Options(26:54) - Japan Treasury Selling Fears(29:06) - Allies Follow China Playbook(34:01) - Stablecoins and CLARITY Act(36:07) - No Silver Bullet(36:48) - Inflation Over Bonds(38:39) - Gold and Bitcoin Hedge(39:09) - No Currency Alternative(40:44) - China Gold Yuan System(43:33) - Gold as Neutral Reserve(48:31) - Multipolar Reserve Trap(50:32) - Zugzwang and Supply Chains(55:30) - Back to Gold Energy Link(01:01:08) - AI Boom Then Bust(01:04:00) - White Collar Disruption(01:10:37) - Closing Thoughts and Outro--Referenced in the Show:Forest For The Trees - https://fftt-llc.com/about/ --Jacob Shapiro Site: jacobshapiro.comJacob Shapiro LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jacob-l-s-a9337416Jacob Twitter: x.com/JacobShapJacob Shapiro Substack: jashap.substack.com/subscribe --The Jacob Shapiro Show is produced and edited by Audiographies LLC. More information at audiographies.com--Jacob Shapiro is a speaker, consultant, author, and researcher covering global politics and affairs, economics, markets, technology, history, and culture. He speaks to audiences of all sizes around the world, helps global multinationals make strategic decisions about political risks and opportunities, and works directly with investors to grow and protect their assets in today's volatile global environment. His insights help audiences across industries like finance, agriculture, and energy make sense of the world.--

The Digital Sovereignty Alliance (DSA) is a nonprofit social welfare organization committed to advocating for public policies that support ethical innovation in decentralized technologies, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Web3, and artificial intelligence. DSA conducts research, organizes educational events, and promotes policies that prioritize public welfare and digital sovereignty.Adrian Wall is Managing Director of the Digital Sovereignty Alliance (DSA), where he is a leading voice on blockchain policy, digital asset regulation, and financial innovation. Adrian recently joined the Bitcoin.com News Podcast to talk about the Clarity Act, the DSA's mission and much more.The conversation in this episode highlights the immense benefits that statutory regulation would bring to the American digital asset industry, emphasizing that legal clarity and consistency are vital to unlocking hesitant investment capital. Adrian explains how formal rules of the road would trigger an innovation renaissance, forcing traditional banks to improve customer service to compete with faster, more reliable digital alternative ecosystems.Furthermore, a global perspective is explored, noting that while stablecoin adoption is driven by existential hyperinflation in developing nations, a proliferation of U.S. dollar-backed stablecoins ultimately solidifies America's geopolitical position and economic power projection tools.Adrian Wall's work bridges government, academia, and industry to advance responsible frameworks that promote innovation, transparency, and financial inclusion. Adrian directs DSA's Learning Team, developing blockchain education programs for policymakers, universities, and financial institutions, and has advised on major bipartisan legislative efforts including the GENIUS Act and the Clarity Act.A frequent speaker at global policy and industry forums including the United Nations, Nacha, and the DC Blockchain Summit, his published work explores decentralized finance, stablecoins, and regulatory harmonization. Adrian holds an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College and a Public Leadership Credential from Harvard Kennedy School.To learn more visit discoverdsa.org.

Jordi Visser is a veteran macro investor with 30+ years of experience and the author of the VisserLabs Substack. In this conversation, we break down bitcoin's historic recovery and the key levels that matter, the fight between Kevin Warsh and Scott Bessent over interest rates, and why Jordi is rotating more of his money into Ethereum and Solana. We also discuss AI agents, tokenization, and just how high bitcoin could realistically go.======================Arch Public is an agentic trading platform that automates investment strategies across Stocks, Commodities, ETFs and Crypto. Whether you're rotating into AI & Gold, allocating to the S&P 500, or accumulating Bitcoin, Arch Public executes your plan 24/7 without ever taking custody of your assets or funds. Sign up today at https://www.archpublic.com, and start your FREE automated trading strategy! ======================Simple Mining makes Bitcoin mining simple and accessible for everyone. We offer a premium white glove hosting service, helping you maximize the profitability of Bitcoin mining. For more information on Simple Mining or to get started mining Bitcoin, visit https://www.simplemining.io/pomp======================0:00 - Intro1:01 - Bitcoin's historic recovery & key levels to watch4:49 - South Korea & retail's role in the bitcoin rally8:56 - Dogecoin, bitcoin & the fundamentally-driven move12:10 - Kevin Warsh, Scott Bessent & the fight over rates22:52 - An AI safety expert's surprising take on bitcoin28:05 - Nvidia's $1B a day & the AI infrastructure trade33:43 - Why Jordi left Wall Street for real-time information37:39 - Is Nvidia stock underpricing its own growth?41:20 - Scarcity, debasement & the bitcoin-gold correlation47:05 - Stablecoins, tokenization & bitcoin as store of value50:53 - How high can bitcoin go?1:01:04 - Jordi's upcoming video

Crypto News: Bitcoin and altcoins see price pullbacks. Fed chair Kevin Warsh comes out hawkish hinting at rate hikes. Investors at least $4.7 billion underwater across Trump crypto ventures, Public Citizen says.

Crypto News: Charles Schwab adds altcoins Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink to nascent crypto platform. XRP treasury firm Evernorth said its SEC Form S-4 related to its business combination with Armada is now effective, allowing progress toward a Nasdaq listing. UK to formally order Bank of England to advance stablecoin and digital money innovation.

Crypto News: SEC resurrecting U.S. crypto custody rule the previous administration failed to land. Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Santander & over a dozen major banks move forward with plans to launch a crypto stablecoin. Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin crosses $2B in market cap, with $963M issued on the XRP Ledger and $1.1B on Ethereum.

Arthur Hayes is the CEO of Flop Labs and CIO of Maelstrom. In this conversation, we break down Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's money printing playbook, the controversy around Stanley Druckenmiller's AI-written op-ed, and why bitcoin got overshadowed by the AI trade in 2025. We also discuss gold's next move, how Arthur allocates across bitcoin, gold, and public equities, and his new project tokenizing AI compute itself.====================Arch Public is an agentic trading platform that automates investment strategies across Stocks, Commodities, ETFs and Crypto. Whether you're rotating into AI & Gold, allocating to the S&P 500, or accumulating Bitcoin, Arch Public executes your plan 24/7 without ever taking custody of your assets or funds. Sign up today at https://www.archpublic.com, and start your FREE automated trading strategy! ====================Simple Mining makes Bitcoin mining simple and accessible for everyone. We offer a premium white glove hosting service, helping you maximize the profitability of Bitcoin mining. For more information on Simple Mining or to get started mining Bitcoin, visit https://www.simplemining.io/pomp====================Uphold is the easiest way to buy and sell crypto unlike any other platform allowing you to trade in just one step between any supported asset. Check them out at https://www.uphold.com/pomp/ This video includes a paid sponsorship with Uphold. I'm compensated by Uphold for promoting its products and services and may receive commissions from referrals. Terms apply. Not available in all jurisdictions. Digital assets are risky and may result in the total loss of your capital.====================0:00 - Intro1:09: - Bessent, Treasury printing & Druckenmiller's op-ed7:21 - Bitcoin & gold's reaction to money printing signals10:06 - Real estate, land & inflation hedges12:55 - Bitcoin's next 12 months & why it lagged AI17:49 - Bitcoin adoption catalysts & sovereign buyers20:49 - Gold's outlook, portfolio allocation & public equities26:14 - Stablecoins, tokenization & real world assets30:15 - ETH will have a hater rally?31:47 - Hyperliquid & Arthur's most asymmetric bet 34:33 - Flop: tokenizing AI compute46:17 - Money printing, scarcity vs abundance & closing thoughts

The Treasury just signaled it will do whatever it takes to hold the long end together, and Bitcoin ripped toward $80,000 about 45 minutes after the headline hit.