Banks Become Custodians, Crypto Firms Become Banks | Monthly Briefing
Michael Blaschke and Stefan Grasmann unpack October's institutional DLT: the SEC tokenized-stock fight, Börse Stuttgart's DLT licence, and E...
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Leverage Needs Trust: Chuck Mounts on What Changes When Finance Moves On-Chain
What keeps a financial system standing, and what changes when it moves on-chain? Stefan sits down with Chuck Mounts, who has seen finance fr...
Public Blockchains: The Roadblocks to Institutional Adoption
Public permissionless blockchains offer open, interoperable infrastructure—but create compliance and operational challenges for regulated fi...
Central Bankers Who Whisper: Nick Philpott on the Future of Stablecoins
Why do stablecoins matter most where traditional banking works least? Nick Philpott explains how stablecoins are reshaping cross-border paym...
The Stablecoin Payments Renovation is Still Under Construction
Why have stablecoins not transformed payments yet? Jai Massari explains what Libra got right, how stablecoins differ from tokenized deposits...
Pontes, Tokenized Stocks, and the Race for Digital Money Rails | Monthly Briefing
September’s digital money briefing: Pontes launches, banks build tokenized deposit networks, stablecoins expand into banking, and tokenized...
Money Is Power, and Power Is Shifting: Marieke Flament on the Great Monetary Reset
Who actually holds power in the global financial system, and how is digital money quietly rewiring it? To find out, Stefan sits down with Ma...
Agentic Payments: When Is a Payment (Un)Authorized?
Co-host Michael Blaschke’s solo stocktake after Sonja Davidovic (IMF) and Peter Grosskopf (AllUnity). Where stablecoins win, where cards kee...
Commercial Bank Money Tokens: The Missing Piece of the Tokenized Economy?
What are commercial bank money tokens, and why do corporates need them? Manfred Richels and Tim Bailey explain how CBMTs work and where they...
Tether, Revolut Stablecoin, and the Custody Wars | Monthly Briefing
Bitcoin rallied 25%, a hardware wallet flaw shook self-custody, and Citi entered crypto custody. A fast recap of August’s biggest moves in B...
Stablecoins & Agentic Payments: Peter Grosskopf of AllUnity
AllUnity’s Peter Grosskopf joins us on agentic payments. From launching a euro stablecoin (plus Swiss franc and Swedish krona) to real-world...
Agents Propose, Humans Approve: Ledger's Kasper Luyckx on Custody After Coldcard
Every crypto holder relies on one thing and rarely thinks about it until it fails: how the keys are kept safe. Just days after the Coldcard...
How Agentic AI Will Reshape Payments: An Introduction
What are agentic payments, and how will they change payments? Sonja Davidovic explains the architecture, opportunities and challenges of AI...
OpenUSD, Swift Ledger, Agorá: Who Wins Settlement? | Monthly Briefing
OUSD launches with 140 firms, Swift’s ledger pilots with 17 banks, Circle gets a US bank charter, and the Digital Euro enters trilogue. July...
Europe’s Neutral Layer Goes Live: RL1’s Inaugural Week with SWIAT CTO Ivica Aračić
RL1 goes live. SWIAT CTO Ivica Aračić on building a neutral cooperative platform where assets, services, and central bank money finally meet...
From MiCA to GENIUS: Joey Garcia on the Global Stablecoin Race & Bitcoin Banking
Joey Garcia discusses Libra's legacy, OpenUSD and why stablecoin regulation is evolving differently around the world. A global perspective s...
We Won. Now What? Fireblocks' Goldi On Stablecoins' Next Phase
Fireblock’s Ran (Goldi) Goldshtein explains why the blockchain and crypto space has "won", what comes next with the OpenUSD stablecoin conso...
Episode 400 Jubilee: Our 7-Year Journey and Live Insights from PZF 2026
BFRR hits 400 episodes. The team reflects on seven years covering institutional DLT, then shares hot takes from 15 guests at PZF 2026 on gov...
Saylor Sells and Transatlantic Money Showdown | Monthly Briefing
June was brutal for crypto, yet the real story sits underneath: Saylor selling, Vitalik's privacy pivot, Stablecoin projects continue, and a...
From Libra to AGI: Christian Catalini on the Future of Money
Libra architect Christian Catalini discusses stablecoins, AI agents, the role of Bitcoin and why the future of money may be built on open ne...