blockchain
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Reflections on the 1st edition of Stablecoin Conference LatAm
I had the opportunity to attend Bitso’s first edition of the Stablecoin Conference LatAm in Mexico City this past week. Bitso is the largest crypto exchange in the region, and with this conference, their goal was to bring together those working on stablecoins in the Latin American market. The hype around stablecoins is at all Continue reading
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Wyoming is all in on stables
Last week Wyoming announced the launch of its own stable token “Frontier Stable Token” (FRNT). As those closely watching crypto know, Wyoming has been all in on digital assets for almost a decade now. The state has actively courted the industry with favorable regulation and is home to the popular exchange Kraken. Wyoming has passed Continue reading
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Tokenized deposits are where the real innovation lies, but will banks move fast enough?
When I started to go down the crypto rabbit hole in 2018 and 2019, what originally got me interested was the potential for interoperability and efficiency. Rather than requiring intermediaries to trade a stock or exchange deposits between a bank, a shared ledger with cryptographic proofs could allow institutions and individuals to exchange value directly. Continue reading
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Fiserv launches a stablecoin – why is FiUSD interesting?
The headlines keep coming on the theme of stablecoins converging with traditional finance. One of the more recent eye-brow raising announcements was Fiserv getting into the stablecoin game with FiUSD. If you work in the financial services space, you have likely heard of Fiserv, but if you were asked what the company does, you may Continue reading
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Scaling privacy on chain
After a long wait, stablecoins are having their moment. Traditional financial institutions and payment processors are engaging with the space and figuring out what stablecoins mean for their businesses. One issue that remains a hurdle for some large players getting into the space is privacy. While some would call the open and transparent nature of Continue reading
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The GENIUS Act: Are we headed back to the Wild West?
On Tuesday evening (June 17th, 2025), the US Senate passed the GENIUS Act. This bill sets out legislation for the issuance and management of stablecoins in the United States. As a participant in the stablecoin payments industry, I have watched as this legislation has slowly made its way to the Senate floor over the last Continue reading
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The ERC-20 Standard and the role of WETH for recurring crypto payments in Ether
You’ve likely heard of the ERC-20 token standard. The standard is essentially a set of rules that lay out how to create a fungible token on the Ethereum blockchain. These rules define the set of functions and events a that the token needs to support in order to be used on Ethereum. The purpose of Continue reading
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USDT has 400M users
For anyone in the crypto industry interested in stablecoins, this podcast from Nic Carter and the crew at Castle Island Ventures (CIV) is a must listen. Regardless of what you like or dislike about Tether, it was a really interesting conversation about the increasingly prominent place Tether is playing in global commerce. On March 26th, Continue reading
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Back from the mountains: reflections on ETHDenver 2025
My first time attending ETHDenver was March 2023. This was post Terra-Luna and a couple months after the FTX bombshell. Crypto was a sad, dark place. As a third-timer at ETHDenver, I am far from a veteran, but I at least have the hang of this conference now and can more easily pick out the Continue reading
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Reflections on MoonPay’s acquisition of Helio
Introduction As someone building in the crypto payments space, it has been exciting to see the sector heat up and more acquisitions start to happening. After a ton of VC capital was poured into this vertical in 2021 and 2022, we are starting to see consolidation as traditional fintech players add crypto payment capabilities and Continue reading
Jeff Cangialosi 