With 20+ years in banking, finance, and Fintech, I've done a little bit of everything. Some of the things I saw made me get a little Ranty, hence this newsletter.
Aug 11, 2026
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5 min read
Ft. Natalya Thakur (Knova) and TuongVy Le (Veda)
Aug 6, 2026
11 min read
AND BlackRock Turns a Collateral Trade Into a Permanent Product
Aug 4, 2026
Ft. Rob Hadick (Dragonfly), Stephen Sikes (Public) and Ethan Chan (Allium)
Jul 30, 2026
9 min read
Plus, Project Agorá Tests How Global Banks Could Settle Around the Clock
Jul 28, 2026
7 min read
Ft. Luke Tuttle (MoneyGram), Charles Yoo-Naut (Rain) and Darko Hajdukovic (LSEG)
Jul 23, 2026
AND CLARITY Still Lacks the Votes, as Marqeta Brings Stablecoin Cards to Its Issuing Base
Jul 21, 2026
6 min read
Ft. Noah Levine (a16z), Didier Lavallee (Tetra Digital Group) and Eric Queathem (Velocity)
Jul 16, 2026
AND Circle Wins Final OCC Approval for Its National Trust Bank
Jul 14, 2026
Ft. Paul Faecks (Plasma) and Guillermo Goncalvez (El Dorado)
Jul 9, 2026
AND Three G-SIBs Pull Stablecoins Into the Bank Relationship
Jul 7, 2026
Ft. Stephen Richardson (Fireblocks) and Ido Ben-Natan (Blockaid)
Jul 5, 2026
3 min read
Robinhood Chain goes mainnet, Earn ships 7% on USDG with Lloyd's insurance, and 27 million accounts get a door into DeFi
Jul 2, 2026
12 min read
AND Robinhood Takes Its Chain Live, Turning Stock Tokens Into Collateral
Jun 30, 2026
Ft. Noah Levine (a16z Crypto), Eric Saraniecki (Digital Asset), and Theo Golden (Baillie Gifford)
Jun 25, 2026
13 min read
AND Baillie Gifford puts corporate credit on public chains with BNY
Jun 23, 2026
Ft. Eli Cohen (Centrifuge) and Ross Basri (Uptop)
Jun 18, 2026
AND Zelle's Stablecoin Is the Banks Saying Yes
Jun 16, 2026
Ft. Noah Levine (a16z), Thierry Edde (Deel) and William Peck (WisdomTree)
Jun 11, 2026
AND how a $480B manager ended up on both sides of Ethena's stack
Jun 9, 2026
Ft. Chris Mason (CEO, Orbital)
Jun 4, 2026
16 min read
AND the SEC clears Paxos to settle US equities onchain
Jun 2, 2026
Ft. Rene Reinsberg (Co-Founder, Celo) and Charles Hamel (Head of Product, MiniPay / Opera)
May 28, 2026
AND Tether builds Georgia's national currency
May 26, 2026
Ft. Kim Hockfeld (State Street Investment Management) and Dan Romero (Tempo)
May 22, 2026
17 min read
AND The BoE softens its tokenization rulebook
