Replatforming finance on 10x better infrastructure. Founder & CEO @multiliquid_xyz. Analysis @rebankpodcast. Previously @StanChart, @AllicaBank, @Citi.
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On-Chain Equities and the Evolution of Market Infrastructure with Mike Cagney of Figure
3 min “The key benefit of putting equity on-chain is DeFi. Being able to take my stock, use it as collateral, cross-collateralize it with things like Bitcoin, and control stock loan in a transparent way — that’s a transformative play.” 0:00 /1:54 Rebank is sponsored by: Mike Cagney is the Co-Founder of Figure and a long-time fintech entrepreneur focused on rebuilding financial infrastructure on blockchain rails.
Vault Curation and On-Chain Asset Management with Steakhouse Financial
3 min “Vaults are a transformational trend for finance because they can offer stronger and stricter risk and transparency guarantees than traditional products.
Institutional Capital and the Next Phase of On-Chain Finance with Andy Kangpan of Metalayer
Andy Kangpan is a Partner at Metalayer, a crypto-native investment firm focused on backing companies building institutional-grade financial infrastructure on blockchain rails. Founded by former Two Sigma investors and operators, Metalayer plays at the intersection of venture capital, on-chain markets, and next-generation asset management.
Bringing Traditional Venture Discipline to Crypto Markets with Steven Venino of Strobe
2 min “We bring the best practices and frameworks from traditional venture into Web3. The North Star is founders—the team, the people—identifying them, backing them, and doing venture properly in this space.” 0:00 /1:48 Rebank is sponsored by: Steven Venino is a Partner at Strobe, an early-stage, crypto-native venture firm focused on backing founders building long-term, sustainable businesses on blockchain rails.
How ETFs Inform the Next Phase of Tokenized Finance with Janus Henderson
Nick Cherney is Head of Innovation at Janus Henderson Investors, a global asset manager overseeing more than $400 billion in assets. With over two decades of experience in ETFs and investment product development, Nick has been deeply involved in some of the most important structural shifts in modern asset management. Nick began his career in the early days of ETFs at iShares, where he helped build the category inside what would later become BlackRock.
Rebuilding Cross-Border Payments with Stable Sea
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Bridging Permissionless DeFi and Regulated On-Chain Finance with Predicate
Nikhil Raghuveera is the Co-Founder and CEO of Predicate, a company building on-chain policy infrastructure that enables organizations to set programmable, enforceable rules for transactions within blockchain-based financial systems. Predicate's technology underpins compliance and policy enforcement for next-generation stablecoins, privacy protocols, and real-world asset tokenization platforms.
From ETFs to Tokenized Assets: Building the Next Trillion-Dollar Market with WisdomTree
Career & Life Journeys: Hosted by Adam Posner, he interviews top experts, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders from the world of Entrepreneurship, Talent Acquisition, Personal Growth, and other world-class amazing humans to decode their success via their insights into their own career journeys and personal growth. The goal of #thePOZcast is to showcase amazing humans who share their stories to inspire you to harness your inner tenacity to drive your life and career forward. Adam Posner is the ...
$1T Per Year: Building the Leading Crypto Prime Broker with FalconX
Career & Life Journeys: Hosted by Adam Posner, he interviews top experts, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders from the world of Entrepreneurship, Talent Acquisition, Personal Growth, and other world-class amazing humans to decode their success via their insights into their own career journeys and personal growth. The goal of #thePOZcast is to showcase amazing humans who share their stories to inspire you to harness your inner tenacity to drive your life and career forward. Adam Posner is the ...
$1T Per Year: Building the Leading Crypto Prime Broker with FalconX
Regulatory clarity turned on the firehose. FalconX moved ~$1T last year with 25 back-office staff — a 10× efficiency edge born of tokenization. 0:00 /0:52 Raghu Yarlagadda is the Co-founder and CEO of FalconX, the leading institutional digital asset prime brokerage. In the last year, FalconX has done $1 trillion in trading volume across spot and derivatives. FalconX is an incredible success story, starting early and growing alongside broader institutional adoption of crypto and digital assets.
Rebank, Renewed: The Most Important Conversations in Financial Innovation
0:00 /3:10 In 2016, I was new to London, new to fintech, and, frankly, a little out of my depth starting a new bank from scratch. My background was in investments, not banking or technology. I didn’t know much about financial infrastructure, payments or lending beyond what I’d encountered as a financial analyst. I did know that finance was changing – was on the verge of being overhauled with modern technology – and I wanted to understand how.
Fintech 101: The Tokenization of Real World Financial Assets
Hi Fintech Futurists, Today, we have a special edition for you, focusing on the tokenization of real-world assets — including equities, fixed income, and other investments. As Nasdaq and LSE move towards implementing blockchain-based architectures, Stripe and Google compete on who can feed stablecoins to AI agents fastest, and SWIFT moves over to Ethereum, it’s more important than ever to understand what is going on with the underlying protocols.
A New Era for Financial Liquidity Original
Emails race across the globe in milliseconds, yet money still moves at a crawl. It can take days to make payments, especially cross-border — longer over weekends or holidays. The result? Trillions of dollars are trapped where they can’t earn yield. This inefficiency is more than an inconvenience — it is a systemic drag.
The Current and Future State of Stablecoin Payments with Conduit
Kirill Gertman is the founder and CEO of Conduit, a leading B2B cross-border payments platform powered by stablecoins. Conduit leverages stablecoins to allow businesses to move money faster, cheaper and more transparently than legacy platforms such as SWIFT. In 2024, Conduit grew transaction volumes 16x year-on-year, surpassing $10 billion in total volume. In May 2025, Conduit raised a $36 million Series A, co-led by Dragonfly and Altos.
Lessons Learned from 10 Years in Embedded Finance with Luke Voiles
In this episode, we’re joined by Luke Voiles, the CEO of Pipe — an embedded finance platform offering credit, cards, and other financial products to a range of B2B2B partners. Founded as a revenue-based financing business, Pipe pivoted into a platform business under Luke’s directly when he took the reigns in 2023. Prior to joining Pipe, Luke was the GM of Banking at Square and previously head of QuickBooks Capital, Intuit’s SMB lending offering.
Research: The 2025 Practitioner’s Guide to Stablecoins
Stablecoins have quietly become the most used product in crypto for their practical utility. They power onchain commerce, cross-border remittances, institutional settlement, and increasingly, the infrastructure layer of payments. Yet for all their relevance, the conversation around stablecoins has often lacked detail, objectivity, and real-world insight.
📢 Announcing the Stablecoin Practitioner’s Guide
Stablecoins have quietly become the most used product in crypto — not just to facilitate speculation, but for their practical utility. They power onchain commerce, cross-border remittances, institutional settlement, and increasingly, the infrastructure layer of payments. Yet for all their relevance, the conversation around stablecoins has often lacked detail, objectivity, and real-world insight. That changes today.
How the Largest Asset Managers Think About Digital Assets with Mark Garabedian
Mark Garabedian is the Director of Digital Assets and Tokenization at Wellington, a leading US-based, global asset manager with approximately $1.3 trillion in AUM. Mark has wide ranging experience in trading and financial markets and brings a highly informed perspective to the topic of financial market innovation through digital assets and blockchain.
Conceptualizing the Future of Financial Infrastructure with ZKsync
Alex Gluchowski is the co-inventor of ZKsync and co-founder and CEO of Matter Labs. ZKsync is an advanced Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain network offering privacy and scalability using ZK proofs.
Lessons Learned Building and Running a $1.9B On-Chain Credit Fund
1 min Kevin Miao is one of the most insightful practitioners at the intersection of traditional and on-chain finance. Until recently, Kevin was General Partner of BlockTower Credit, a $1.9 billion AUM private credit fund that leveraged public blockchains, stablecoins, and tokenization to maximize capital efficiency. Prior to BlockTower, Kevin managed a Structured Credit trading desk at Citigroup, focusing on consumer credit, esoterics, and distressed crisis-era securitizations.
Steven Goldfeder is the Co-Founder and CEO of Offchain Labs, the company behind Arbitrum. Arbitrum’s flagship blockchain, Arbitrum One, is a leading Ethereum L2 in terms of TVL and liquidity and supports applications across DeFi, DePIN, AI, gaming, RWAs and other verticals.
Supercharging Crypto Finance with Staking
1 min Laszlo Szabo is the CEO and Co-Founder of Kiln, a staking infrastructure provider backed by 1kx, Crypto.com, Wintermute, GSR, Kraken Ventures, Consensys and others. Diana Biggs is a partner at 1kx, a crypto VC that has led rounds in companies including Arweave, Pudgy Penguins, Rarible, Wallet Connect and many more.
Institutional Product/Market Fit for Stablecoins
1 min Luca Prosperi is the founder and CEO of M^0, a stablecoin issuance protocol reimagining how money is created. We first connected with Luca in May 2023, shortly after M^0’s seed round. Fast forward a year, and the company has now raised $60 million, launched on mainnet and facilitated the issuance of over $40 million in stablecoins with its initial network participant.
A New Approach to Stablecoins with Agora
1 min Nick van Eck is the co-founder and CEO of Agora, a US-based stablecoin issuer backed by Dragonfly, General Catalyst, Galaxy, Consensys, Wintermute, Flowdesk, Kraken Ventures and more. Agora’s strategy is to build distribution through B2B partners via a revenue sharing model, in which all parties that contribute to Agora’s stablecoins’ success share in the upside. Prior to founding Agora, Nick worked at General Catalyst, a leading venture investor.
Investing to Build the Machine Economy with Generative Ventures
1 min Lex Sokolin is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Generative Ventures, a crypto and AI focused venture firm. Lex also publishes research and analysis at Fintech Blueprint, one of the best fintech, crypto and emerging tech newsletters out there. In this conversation, Lex and Will Beeson discuss the thesis behind Generative Ventures, which invests in the financial infrastructure powering the machine economy. Lex is a deep thinker focused on the leading edges of what’s currently possible.
How Crossborder Stablecoin Payments Have Quietly Become a Multi-Billion Dollar Market
Bhanu Kohli is the co-founder and CEO of Layer2 Financial, a B2B payments company leveraging stablecoins for faster, cheaper payment processing. Mike Giampapa is General Partner of Galaxy Ventures, focusing on the intersection of crypto and financial services, security & DeFi applications, and developer tooling. In this conversation, Bhanu, Mike and Will Beeson discuss real economy applications of stablecoins, including payments.
Building the Bridge to the Onchain Economy with Zero Hash
1 min Edward Woodford is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zero Hash, a B2B technology and compliance platform that allows companies to embed crypto and stablecoins with a few lines of code and no regulatory overhead. Zero Hash has raised $170 million from investors including Bain Capital, Nyca Partners and Point72, and supports companies like Stripe, MoonPay, Interactive Brokers, Franklin Templeton and many others.
Building the Bridge to the Onchain Economy with Zero Hash
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Memecoins, Airdrops and Current Retail Crypto Dynamics with Regan Bozman
Regan Bozman is co-founder of Lattice Capital, a crypto-focused VC firm, and an expert in token launches and secondary trading dynamics. Lattice manages $80m across two funds, with a focus on early-stage crypto projects. Prior to founding Lattice, Regan and his partner Mike Zajko worked at CoinList, a leading platform for new token launches operating since 2017.
Did We Just Witness Crypto's Inflection Point in the U.S.?
The tone in Washington has changed abruptly with respect to crypto in the U.S. It is no exaggeration to say that this may be the most important moment for digital asset-related innovation in America to date.
Payments Innovation Across Fintech & Web3 with Fabric VC
Anil Hansjee is a General Partner at Fabric, a UK-based blockchain VC. Prior to joining Fabric, Anil ran Corporate Development EMEA at Google and then led PayPal Ventures in that region. He has tremendous experience investing in fintech and payments at the venture, strategic and angel levels.
Early-Stage Crypto & Web3 Investing with Reflexive Capital
crypto 1 min Sunny Parikh is co-founder and Partner at Reflexive Capital, a fundamentals-driven investment firm focused on digital assets across two core strategies: Liquid Trading and Venture Investing. Sunny was previously with Point72, and his partners at Reflexive worked at Soros Fund Management, Thiel Macro and Goldman Sachs.
Early-Stage Crypto & Web3 Investing with Reflexive
Sunny Parikh is co-founder and Partner at Reflexive Capital, a fundamentals-driven investment firm focused on digital assets across two core strategies: Liquid Trading and Venture Investing. Sunny was previously with Point72, and his partners at Reflexive worked at Soros Fund Management, Thiel Macro and Goldman Sachs.
Building Social Investing with Public
digital investments 1 min Jannick Malling is the co-founder and Co-CEO of retail investing platform Public.com. Public has raised more than $300M from investors including Accel, Greycroft, Lakestar, and Tiger Global, as well as celebrities like Will Smith, The Chainsmokers, JJ Watt and Maria Sharapova.
Building Social Investing with Public
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Building the Optimal U.S. Fintech Lender
lending 1 min Christian Faes is the founder of Faes & Co, a lending business builder, and F2 Finance, a US bridging lender writing loans since 2023. Prior to starting Faes & Co, Christian founded, ran and ultimately IPOed LendInvest, a UK mortgage lender. Founded in 2008, LendInvest is an original fintech, having lent more than GBP 6 billion to individuals and property developers to date.
A Differentiated Approach to Venture Investing with Deciens
Venture Capital 1 min Dan Kimerling is Founder and Managing Partner at Deciens, an early-stage fintech VC and investor in Chipper Cash, Treasury Prime and many others. Prior to starting Deciens, Dan co-founded Standard Treasury and served as its CEO until its acquisition by Silicon Valley Bank. Standard Treasury was one of the earliest players in what has evolved to become the Banking-as-a-Service space. The company was backed by YCombinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and Index Ventures.
Fintech Opportunties in the Current Macro Context with Amias Gerety
Amias Gerety is a partner at QED with a specific focus on infrastructure, insurtech and payments. Prior to QED, Amias served as the President’s nominee and as Acting Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In that role, he was the lead advisor to the Secretary on policies affecting financial institutions, fighting to restore order during the global financial crisis and impacting policy in the years that followed.
Innovation in the First Fintech Cycle
A recent essay by Nicolas Colin prompted us to reflect on the topic of risk in venture. The resulting framework ended up being a useful lens for evaluating what we call the First Fintech Cycle, circa 2007-2023. Theory: Risk vs. Uncertainty and the impact on returns As Colin points out, much great work has been done on risk in early-stage venture, including by economist Frank Knight and Jerry Neumann.
Fintech & Crypto Seed Investing with Jared Franklin of Costanoa
Jared Franklin is an investor at Costanoa Ventures. Costanoa is a seed-stage VC focused on fintech, data and developer infrastructure, applied AI and security, specifically B2B. The firm has $1.5b under management across seed and growth funds, including its $225m fourth seed fund.
Examining the Embedded Finance Value Chain in a Moment of Market Dislocation
banking Dec 11, 2022 24 min Today, I’m joined by fintech and web3 luminary Lex Sokolin, Head Economist at ConsenSys and author of the Fintech Blueprint, for a discussion about the embedded finance value chain. As listeners know, this is a topic of great interested to me, and I was happy to have the opportunity to dig into it with Lex in a conversation that we’re releasing through both of our platforms.
Competing to Win as an Emerging L1 Blockchain with NEAR
Recently, we wrote a deep dive analysis of NEAR Protocol, an emerging L1 blockchain, available to Premium subscribers. Today, we're releasing a conversation with Marieke Flament, CEO of the NEAR Foundation. NEAR is an emerging layer 1 blockchain specifically optimized for usability, along with speed and security. NEAR was founded in 2018 to improve on aspects of layer 1s then in existence. In its short history, NEAR has built an extremely strong institutional backing and vibrant developer community.
Raising a $20m VC Fund as a Solo GP with Rex Salisbury
Rex Salisbury is the Founder of Cambrian and GP of Cambrian Ventures. Rex is a key figure in the Fintech ecosystem, having started Cambrian as a product meetup in 2015 and ultimately growing it into a community of 15,000 newsletter subscribers, 5,000 meetup members, 1,300 founders and now an early-stage venture fund. Along the way, Rex spent two years at a16z as a partner on the Fintech team, backing companies including Deel and Tally, according to TechCrunch.
Building Decentralized Infrastructure for the Global Financial Industry
Luca Prosperi is the co-founder and CEO of M^ZERO LABS_, a team building a new backend for the banking system. Luca is a deep thinking analyst, economist and builder, with a background in institutional finance, alternative and credit investments and more recently DeFi lending and governance. Luca publishes analysis on Dirt Roads, a must read for anyone thinking about the construct and evolution of money and associated topics.
Fintech as Consumer Discretionary & Why It Matters
One framework I have for thinking about fintech involves three simple categorizations: fintechs as financial institutions, fintechs as tech companies, and fintechs as consumer discretionary. This framework is particularly useful for consumer & SMB fintech, but it can often be extended to B2B, too. Depending on the audience, market conditions and funding environment, these classifications cycle in relevance.
How to Differentiate in Early-Stage Fintech VC with Sheel Mohnot
Sheel Mohnot is Co-Founder and General Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures, an early-stage fintech VC currently investing out of its $225m second fund. Sheel is a former founder, having built a tech-first card processor way back in 2010 which was quickly acquired by Groupon. Since 2014, Sheel has been angel investing and, as of 2016, investing full-time. Sheel is an incredible Twitter follow and constant source of information, insight and entertainment.
Silicon Valley Bank and the Implications for National Currency
I, many friends, our entire industry, and perhaps you are reeling from the rapid collapse of three US banks serving the broader tech & crypto sectors: Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate and Signature. Much fantastic analysis has been done on the causes and impacts of the bank failures themselves, including some of my favorites by Luca, Lex and Ayo. Rather than replay the events or rework the analysis, after a week of reflection, I find myself thinking about what comes next.
Rebuilding Checking & Cash Management with Jiko
Stephane Lintner is Co-Founder & CEO of Jiko, a new take on the money storage and transaction layer in banking, a.k.a. checking accounts and cash management. Jiko was founded in 2016 with the mission of providing consumers and businesses with direct access to spendable T-Bills, combining all the benefits of checking accounts with the safety and, depending on the economic cycle, yield of treasuries. Jiko has raised $89m according to Crunchbase, including $40m in October.
What VCs and Founders Get Wrong About the Credit Business
Matt Harris is an entrepreneur and investor and the founder of Bloom Credit, an API platform for credit data access and analysis. Currently, Matt is focused on investing and advising, working with VC-backed founders and advising companies in the credit space. Among other things, Matt is an advisor to Commerce Ventures, writing scout checks and helping the fund make fintech investments.
Payments, Credit and Vertical SaaS with Matt Brown of Matrix Partners
Overview Matt Brown is a venture capitalist and Partner at Matrix Partners. Matt is a founder and operator turned investor, having started two software companies, both backed by Matrix, and then led product for AfterPay in the US in the lead-up to its acquisition by Square, now Block.
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