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Weekly Roundup 11/04/22 (Fidelity Crypto Launches, Alameda’s balance sheet, SDNY looks at Tether) (EP.368)

Release Date: 11/04/2022

Isha Varshney (Celo) on Stablecoin Adoption Across Markets (EP.631)

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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

Weekly Roundup 05/30/25 (Bitcoin Access Vehicles, GME buys BTC, Pangea Fund) (EP.630)

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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:

Anthony Yim (Artemis) on Stablecoin Payments from the Ground Up (EP.629)

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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

Markus Franke and Denney Kwok (Mento Labs) on Stablecoins for FX (EP.628)

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

Weekly Roundup 05/23/25 (Genius Cloture, Sui hack, $Trump dinner) (EP.627)

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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

Andrew MacKenzie (Agant) on British Pound Stablecoins (EP.626)

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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

Weekly Roundup 05/16/25 (GENIUS is back, Coinbase data breach, Big Tech stables) (EP.625)

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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...

Alex Cutler (Aerodrome) on DeFi’s Next Steps (EP.624)

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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

TN (Pendle) on Stable Yield (EP.623)

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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

Weekly Roundup 05/09/25 (GENIUS stalls, Coinbase buys Deribit, Bessent on stables) (EP.622)

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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

More Episodes

Matt and Nic return for another week of deals and news. In this episode:

Bitwise is moving into active management
What’s the deal with Uber on the blockchain?
The boys review House of the Dragon
The history of land-based blockchain bets
Fidelity launches no-fee retail trading for trading BTC and ETH on their platform
Matt reminisces on Fidelity’s crypto journey
Google announces blockchain node engine
Nic’s 2-year pending transaction on Venmo
SBF continues to wrangle with CT
Sam’s debate with Erik Voorhees
Alameda’s questionable balance sheet is leaked
Can FTX buy its way into respectability despite the existence of Alameda?
What’s the deal with the MAPS token?
Is it far for FTX to start offshore and buy way into the regulated system?
Elon’s schemes for Twitter
Coinbase and the Blockchain Association are supporting Ripple in their case against the SEC
The Tether case is reopened at the SDNY
Tether rips us off with their own bootleg FUD Dice
What happens to Chinese Tether holders if Tether has to unwind
If Tether fails, do funds flow back into BTC?
The mining sector is deeply distressed
Why the mining bankruptcies may cause concentration in who controls hashrate
Circle delays their SPAC
Coin Metrics releases a taxonomy with Goldman and MSCI
Protos’ weird hatchet job on Nic’s tungsten cube infatuation
Did we manipulate the market for tungsten?

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