Stablecoins Episodes

Talent is Equally Distributed, Opportunity is Not | John Hill | Whop [EP. 309]
March 27, 2026

Talent is Equally Distributed, Opportunity is Not | John Hill | Whop …

Talent is equally distributed. Opportunity is not. John Hill, VP of Story at Whop, has spent his career watching founders in Cape Town, Lagos, and Medellín build something real — and then hit a wall the moment they try to get paid.

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Why Stablecoins and Banks Will Coexist | Emma Landriault | JPM Coin (EP. 306)
March 6, 2026

Why Stablecoins and Banks Will Coexist | Emma Landriault | JPM Coin (…

Money doesn’t become digital overnight.It becomes digital when the rails of finance begin to change.

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Digital Yuan: Trade, Gold, and the New Money Rails (EP. 305)
Feb. 2, 2026

Digital Yuan: Trade, Gold, and the New Money Rails (EP. 305)

Money doesn’t become geopolitical overnight. It becomes geopolitical when the rails start to change. In this episode of MoneyNeverSleeps, Pete Townsend is joined by Sean Lee for a deep, practical conversation on what China is...

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2026 Crypto Predictions: Why It All Gets Boring (EP. 302)
Jan. 5, 2026

2026 Crypto Predictions: Why It All Gets Boring (EP. 302)

Crypto doesn’t win in 2026 by being louder - it wins by becoming boring.

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Stablecoin Power Shift? Dollar Dominance, AI, and Europe’s Big Question (EP.301)
Dec. 12, 2025

Stablecoin Power Shift? Dollar Dominance, AI, and Europe’s Big Questi…

Stablecoins aren’t just a crypto story anymore — they’re a geopolitical one.

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299: Pete's Next Chapter: Norio Ventures | Scaling Solana in Ireland | Stablecoin Growth | Tokenized Securities | Alejandro Gutierrez
Sept. 16, 2025

299: Pete's Next Chapter: Norio Ventures | Scaling Solana in Ireland …

Alejandro Gutierrez joins me to talk Solana in Ireland, stablecoins, and tokenized securities - plus I share the launch of Norio Ventures Fund I and what’s ahead for Episode 300.

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297: Grit, Mud & $400K | Jesse Phillips | Trustware Co-Founder & CEO
June 20, 2025

297: Grit, Mud & $400K | Jesse Phillips | Trustware Co-Founder & CEO

This week, I caught up with Jesse Phillips, co-founder and CEO of Trustware , and one of the most quietly determined founders I’ve ever backed. I invested in Jesse and his co-founder Jonathan Frazier through the Techstars Web...

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296: The Unstoppable Founder | Allard Luchsinger from Techstars
June 13, 2025

296: The Unstoppable Founder | Allard Luchsinger from Techstars

This week, I sat down with my longtime Techstars colleague and friend Allard Luchsinger, Managing Director of the ABN AMRO + Techstars Future of Finance Accelerator in Amsterdam.

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294: Superteams, Startups and Stablecoins - Solana’s Bet on Ireland is Already Paying Off
May 23, 2025

294: Superteams, Startups and Stablecoins - Solana’s Bet on Ireland i…

This week, I’m joined once again by Alejandro Gutierrez, now officially leading Solana Superteam Ireland, a new initiative powered by the Solana Foundation to accelerate Web3 innovation across the entire island of Ireland.

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289: BlackRock BTC Flex | On-Chain Politics | Tokenized Fund Liquidity | SBF Still Scheming | Laura Walsh
April 4, 2025

289: BlackRock BTC Flex | On-Chain Politics | Tokenized Fund Liquidit…

This week, I’m joined by the ever-insightful and gloriously unfiltered Laura Walsh for a whirlwind spin through the crypto-political multiverse. From BlackRock’s Larry Fink flirting with Bitcoin as the next global reserve currency to Trump-World and Cowboy State stablecoins, this episode has more l…

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280: 2025 Predictions with Alejandro Gutierrez
Dec. 20, 2024

280: 2025 Predictions with Alejandro Gutierrez

In this special year-end episode, Pete Townsend is joined by returning guest co-host Alejandro Gutierrez for a wide-ranging conversation about what the future may hold with their 2025 predictions. Together, they explore transformative ideas, emerging trends, and groundbreaking technologies that cou…

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273: Mission Minded Founder | Niall Dennehy & AID:Tech | Fixing Humanitarian Relief and Digital Identity
Oct. 25, 2024

273: Mission Minded Founder | Niall Dennehy & AID:Tech | Fixing Human…

Niall Dennehy is an Irish entrepreneur and the co-founder and COO of AID:Tech, who are bringing traceability and transparency to the flow of funds for governments, NGOs and charities with their payments and digital identity infrastructure bridging web2 to web3.

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270: The Stablecoin Revolution with Linda Jeng | Unpacking Castle Island Ventures’ Latest Stablecoin Report
Sept. 27, 2024

270: The Stablecoin Revolution with Linda Jeng | Unpacking Castle Isl…

Linda Jeng is the Founder and CEO of Digital Self Labs, and she joins me in exploring the evolving landscape of stablecoins. Our discussion focuses on our key takeaways from Castle Island Ventures' latest stablecoin report, '...

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266: Crypto Politics: Unpacking Trump's Campaign Promises
Aug. 30, 2024

266: Crypto Politics: Unpacking Trump's Campaign Promises

Returning from our summer hiatus, Laura Walsh joins the show again this week as guest co-host as we dive into Crypto Politics by unpacking Donald Trump's campaign promises involving bitcoin and crypto.

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258: Money Talks with Gray Webb | Bitcoin as a Long-Term Holding | Stablecoins Mainstreaming
May 3, 2024

258: Money Talks with Gray Webb | Bitcoin as a Long-Term Holding | St…

Gray Webb is co-founder and CTO at Liquibit Capital, and we kick things off with a look at what’s happened with BTC since the latest bitcoin halving.  Gray and I then riff on the evolution of bitcoin into a long-term holding with huge opportunities for financial innovation.  We also look at the mai…

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253: CBDC Adoption | Who's Ahead of the Game? | Joaquim Matinero Tor
March 22, 2024

253: CBDC Adoption | Who's Ahead of the Game? | Joaquim Matinero Tor

Joaquim Matinero Tor joins the show this week as guest co-host as we look at the likely paths to CBDC adoption (Central Bank Digital Currencies) in countries around the world making progress with these digital versions of fiat currencies.

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218: Dollar and a Dream | Igor Khmel and SaveChain
May 12, 2023

218: Dollar and a Dream | Igor Khmel and SaveChain

Igor Khmel is the co-founder and CEO of SaveChain, the borderless banking app. SaveChain features a self-custody 'stablecoin-only' wallet with a banking interface for the global underbanked, with the option to open an FDIC-insured bank account for non-US residents. In short, SaveChain is Metamask m…

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204: MoneyTalks: Silvergate Buries Diem | Jack Ma Done | Bitcoin vs. Ethereum vs. YouTube | Farming Yield and CheeseFi
Jan. 13, 2023

204: MoneyTalks: Silvergate Buries Diem | Jack Ma Done | Bitcoin vs. …

This week, Eoin Fitzgerald and Pete Townsend riff on Eoin’s new role at Enterprise Ireland, the final nail in the coffin for Meta’s former crypto project Diem, the next steps for Ant Group now that Jack Ma is formally out, the back and forth on the environmental impact of crypto and bitcoin’s role,…

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174: Money Talks #48 | SoFi So Far | Circle and Stablecoins | Crypto Ads | Apple Pay and Stripe
Feb. 25, 2022

174: Money Talks #48 | SoFi So Far | Circle and Stablecoins | Crypto …

Eoin Fitzgerald and Pete Townsend riff on what started out as a student lending platform in SoFi now becoming a full-service digital finance player, Circle’s new SPAC deal in the context of stablecoins, advertising and naming rights in crypto and a long-term view on what Apple could be up to with S…

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153: Money Talks #41: Amazon-Affirm BNPL | USDC and Stablecoins | Visa, CryptoPunks and the World of NFTs
Sept. 3, 2021

153: Money Talks #41: Amazon-Affirm BNPL | USDC and Stablecoins | Vis…

Eoin Fitzgerald and Pete Townsend walk through Amazon’s new partnership with BNPL (buy-now-pay-later) player Affirm and what this means for the Amazon flywheel, and then answer the question ‘what’s a stablecoin?’ in the context of USD Coin and the Centre Consortium, before diving into the world of …

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