DeFi

OUSD flips the stablecoin script

The ultimate TradFi move is to turn stablecoins into a utility.

Jul 8 • Jame DiBiasio

Singapore on-chain for real? with Rehan Ahmed

The CEO of Marketnode makes the case for tokenization beyond payments in the Lion City.

Jul 2 • Jame DiBiasio

30:44

Banks’ back-door crypto vulnerability

Stablecoins could make crypto’s quantum problem into the banking system’s problem.

Jul 1 • Jame DiBiasio

Ethereum: still fit for finance?

Amid questions about Ethereum Foundation's new direction, Tiena Sekharan argues for Ethereum's relevance to real-world asset tokenization.

Jun 25 • Jame DiBiasio

26:48

Retail-first for stablecoins in Hong Kong

Retail uses for tokenized HKD cash are internal and closed-loop, whereas wholesale markets remain challenging on multiple levels.

Jun 24 • Jame DiBiasio

Is Western Union’s stablecoin a serious gambit?

Fintech competitors should worry if the legacy remitter passes efficiency gains to users rather than shareholders.

Jun 4 • Jame DiBiasio

Is money "quantum safe"? with Duncan Wong

Anyone in blockchain finance knows quantum computers are a security threat. But do you understand the tradeoffs that genuine quantum resistance entails?

Jun 3 • Jame DiBiasio

34:22

Circle’s vision of agentic payments

The stablecoin issuer is building rails for programmable money to be used by autonomous software.

May 29 • Jame DiBiasio

Trading the US all night long

Asian retail investors are becoming a force in US stock markets, a precursor to the US itself becoming a market that trades more like crypto.

May 15 • Jame DiBiasio

To Aave and to Aave not

DeFi faces a reckoning as a leading lending protocol gets drained.

Apr 21 • Jame DiBiasio

Tokenization: open or closed?

Canton Network and Ethereum serve different rails for RWA tokenization, but when does choice become a liquidity problem?

Apr 16 • Jame DiBiasio

Can compute become money?

The AI industry's computing demand could anchor a new idea of money, but this requires a banking system to run it – and changes to AI itself.

Mar 18 • Jame DiBiasio

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