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Weekly Roundup 04/14/22 (FDIC stalls bank crypto activity, Bitcoin 2022 recap, Elon's Twitter campaign) (EP.308)

On The Brink with Castle Island

Release Date: 04/15/2022

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On The Brink with Castle Island

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 is launching a token Will 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

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Wyatt sits down with from the to talk stablecoins. Covered in this episode: Payments in Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa Stablecoin usage and USDT The future of non-stable tokens

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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: 

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We sit down with Anthony Yim, cofounder, to talk about the 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

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and from join the show. In this episode:  Non-USD stablecoins On-chain FX Microlending and financing for emerging markets

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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

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Wyatt sits down with , founder of  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

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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, "", which...

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Wyatt sits down with Alex Cutler, founder of for another episode in our stablefi series. In this episode:  DEX trading advantages Building on-chain FX DeFi as a backbone

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Wyatt sits down with TN, cofounder of . Covered in this episode:  How Pendle works The evolution from alt yield to stable yield DeFi's future core assets

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Matt and Nic return for a post-conference episode. This week we cover: 

  • The FDIC asks banks to go slow on crypto integrations
  • Blackrock is studying cryptoassets and invests in USDC
  • Blockchain.com partners with the Dallas Cowboys
  • Virginia will allow state chartered banks to custody cryptocurrency
  • Balaji’s decentralization inflation index winner is announced
  • Why this current CPI print is misleading
  • Blockstream Block and Tesla are mining Bitcoin with solar
  • Celcius shuts down their retail-facing lending product in the US
  • Is Peter Thiel wrong on Ethereum valuation?
  • Will Elon be able to buy Twitter?
  • Takeaways from Bitcoin 2022

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