Stabledash

Stableminded, a financial podcast covering founders on the frontier. Long form, founder-focused. All about modern money. New episode drops next week. Ep. 45 - @cnaut, CTO at @raincards Ep. 46 - @louisamira, building @atxp_ai Ep. 47 - @nvs. CEO at @infinite Presented by @altitude Hosted by @dr3wrogers EP: 0045-47 SF, USA

.@raagulanpathy, CEO at @KASTxyz, on partnering with @pudgypenguins and @LucaNetz "I've probably turned down at least 100 companies wanting us to make a card for them. We don't make cards for just anyone. We make cards for the best, most trusted brands." "They're not going to be slapping the Pudgy brand onto a sub-tier product. And we could see in them that they've got a cool brand that people love that's going to be around in decades to come." "Financial services is a trust game wrapped in software." - @QEDinvestors Trust is built through aligning with great brand names.

.@CodexFX Co-Founder & CEO @haonan on why he left Optimism to build the stablecoin chain and FX engine of the future: "We had this innocuous question at Optimism: where is the real product market fit? As I analyzed that, I came to the conclusion that stablecoins are the realest product market fit." "They deliver the most real value to real people. They're clearly not just some sybil-type dynamic where people are printing metrics to farm a token."

.@zama_fhe CEO @randhindi on why FHE is the only privacy tech that actually works: "TEEs have been broken seven times in the past two years. There is not a single public protocol using TEEs that hasn't been hacked." "ZK, great technology, but it doesn't give you composability. You can send people money privately, but you cannot stake your Zcash. You cannot swap your Zcash." "FHE is the only technology that checks all those boxes. It's publicly verifiable. It's composable. And it's secure even against quantum computers."

Stripe buying Bridge. Mastercard buying BVNK. The pattern is clear. @natalyathakur, Founder & CEO at @KnovaFinance: "Any set of technology that helps accelerate that orchestration path inherently helps accelerate revenue. People forget Mastercard is an infrastructure and a rail company as well. BVNK is a play for helping them think through what infrastructure and rails they need to make this next revenue play effective."

$80M raised. But KAST is going to need more than a billion dollars. @raagulanpathy, CEO at @KASTxyz: "A lot of people just thought it was a crypto card. I don't think they understood that what we're building is the whole damn gamut. The whole opportunity is the world. This new population is remote, mobile, doesn't fit into a single country. That's going to be a billion plus people. And it's fueled by stablecoins." QED took almost a year to get there. Now VCs are turning one after the other to get a piece of the pie..

@Ember_web3 @SimkinStepan @dr3wrogers Who should we interview next?

@SimkinStepan @dr3wrogers @stabledash Ep. 45 - cnaut, CTO at raincards Ep. 46 - louisamira, building atxp_ai Ep. 47 - nvs, CEO at infinite Exciting content, visionary leaders shaping the future.

Some of the highest quality stablecoin focused content is being produced by @dr3wrogers and team today, they are on a mission and we believe that they will be category leaders in the space. Excited to partner with @stabledash for this season of Stableminded with Altitude.

Privacy ≠ anonymity.

You can just bankonsolana.com

Since recording, @DoubleZero stake weight number has grown and now sits at 47% of solana stakeweight on dz doublezero.xyz/metrics/adopti…

If crypto can't outperform the systems people already use, they'll just go back. Tom Warner left Coinbase because he realized the biggest thing holding crypto back isn't the blockchain. It's the internet itself. DoubleZero is fixing the infrastructure layer nobody's talking about. @redbeard (Head of Blockchain BD, @doublezero) breaks down why the internet is crypto's real bottleneck and what it means for stablecoins at scale. Key Moments: 4:07 - Pitched Bitcoin at Bloomberg in 2013. 7:20 - Why blockchains crush it in the lab but break when they hit the real internet 8:42 - "You don't know the internet is working until it's not, and then you're like, what's going on here?" 10:28 - The texting analogy: 50 milliseconds late on a text doesn't matter. On a financial transaction, it's a dealbreaker. 14:38 - "If you're launching a stablecoin to dethrone a credit card company, your transactions have to be consistent." 15:00 - "Every major trading firm knows exactly how long it takes to trade an Apple stock. That is not consistent in crypto." 16:51 - Over 40% of @solana stake is already connected to DoubleZero 17:12 - "If my stablecoin scales to a billion people, is the actual internet the bottleneck?" 18:49 - "Ask your validator why they're not on DoubleZero."

"I have one job and it's to take this flywheel and every day make it spin 1% faster." @KevLeht, CEO at @borderlessxyz, on @Dfnshq Payouts: "The kind of infrastructure that Borderless is building has previously been reserved for enterprise-level fintech. But now all of a sudden, anybody can have that level of infrastructure by building on top of what we've got." Every Dfns customer now has turnkey global stablecoin-to-fiat settlement across 94+ countries. Democratization at scale.

Stableminded, a financial podcast covering founders on the frontier. Long form, founder-focused. All about modern money. New episode drops next week. Ep. 45 - @cnaut, CTO at @raincards Ep. 46 - @louisamira, building @atxp_ai Ep. 47 - @nvs. CEO at @infinite Presented by @altitude Hosted by @dr3wrogers EP: 0045-47 SF, USA

.@raagulanpathy watched the @TBPN Travis Kalanick interview and went into overdrive. Now he's building @KASTxyz into a $100B company faster than anyone's ever done it before. "That thing fired up a lot of people in my company. Now I'm so pumped that all I think about is making our vision bolder and moving faster. I'm like an animal now at work." "It's a trillion dollar opportunity. We will build a hundred billion dollar fintech faster than has ever been done. Revolut's nearly there, 12 years. I think we can do this in six, seven."

Built on @CoinbaseDev @coinbase OnchainKit for wallet connect and session management Base mainnet (8453) with Base Sepolia for testing CDP facilitator for mainnet x402 payment verification First mainnet x402 payment for the Stabledash Research Engine: basescan.org/tx/0xd65921cb5…

How it works: 1. Connect your wallet (Coinbase Wallet, MetaMask, etc.) 2. Type a research question in plain English 3. The server responds with x402 Payment Required - tells your wallet how much and where 4.Your wallet signs the payment 5. The server verifies the signature, accepts payment, runs the search, returns a cited research briefing with sources

Stablecoins, tokenized assets, onchain payments - modern money is being rebuilt right now, and the people doing it are having real conversations about how it works. We've been recording those conversations for years. That's what we do. We sit down with the founders, operators, and policymakers building this stuff and get them on camera. Real people explaining what they're actually working on and why it matters. The problem is all of that lives inside individual episodes, scattered across Youtube, X and Spotify. Hundreds of hours of video, organized by publish date, not by what you're trying to learn. The deeper the archive gets, the harder it is to find the exact thing someone said about cross-border settlement or stablecoin regulation or tokenized deposits six months ago. That's why we built the Stabledash Research Engine. Ask a question in plain English. Pay per query in @USDC on @Base via x402. Get back a real answer - cited to the exact person who said it, the exact conversation it came from, and a timestamp link so you can watch them say it yourself. Not a summary of a blog post. Not a generated paragraph with no attribution. A real human, on camera, in their own words. That's why sourcing matters more, not less. Anyone can generate a paragraph about stablecoins. Nobody can fabricate a recorded conversation with the person who actually built the product. And this is only compounding. Stabledash Live has aired 11 episodes in six weeks with 45+ guests. Twice a week, every week. New primary source material flowing into the engine constantly. 100+ unique guests across all our shows and it keeps growing. The same data layer will work for AI agents - they can query and pay via x402 with no human in the loop. That's the longer term play. First mainnet USDC transaction on Base already confirmed. Demo below of our MVP. Try for yourself at research.stabledash.com

Codex FX launched today. Onchain forex powered by stablecoins. @haonan, Co-Founder & CEO at @CodexFX "Our goal here is to compress the border between fiat and stable down to zero. And we think that's actually where the bulk of the problems are today." "It seemed to me pretty clear that block space was no longer going to be a scarce commodity. The main bulk of the problems was that the border between fiat and crypto was still too thick, too painful, too hard to use."

Shoutout @SimkinStepan for building on the frontier x.com/stabledash/sta…

@klimonchain @SimkinStepan @dr3wrogers Well said.

@SimkinStepan @dr3wrogers @stabledash dr3w really cooking with this new season altitude partnership fits perfectly here