USBC CEO Greg Kidd provides his recap of the DC Blockchain Summit and shares his thoughts on the FDIC's new stance on crypto activities and Trump's tariffs | The Podcast #8 hardyaka.substack.com/p/congress-get…

How the government killed Signature Bank—a new report from Nic Carter | #329: hardyaka.substack.com/p/how-the-gove…

Blockchain's "ChatGPT moment" has arrived. Also, why crypto companies want to be banks now | #330 hardyaka.substack.com/p/its-blockcha…

In our latest podcast episode, USBC co-founder Greg Kidd tells the story of an American citizen, who was wrongly imprisoned for two years over an international payment from his family: hardyaka.substack.com/p/guilty-befor…

The business model for stablecoins? It's not the most... stable. This week, FT Alphaville's analysis of Circle's stablecoin business: buff.ly/fedAZMl

There's a really dumb tax hidden in Trump's "big, beautiful" bill—Greg Kidd explains why it's not only a bad idea, it will also be impossible to meaningfully implement. After all, what is a remittance, anyway? Episode 10 of The Podcast: buff.ly/PxQUbPg

USBC sponsored athlete and reigning U.S. champion Brennan Wertz will compete in the world's most prestigious gravel race this Saturday: buff.ly/FRR9r9F

Hardly a surprise: big banks are jumping on the stablecoin bandwagon | #333 buff.ly/jRX4dO8

The markets love digital dollars: hardyaka.substack.com/p/the-markets-…

Stablecoin transactions, like cash, aren't associated with an identity. So while, the Genius Act will expand licensed stablecoin activity, it leaves open the question of the rise of a "gray economy," where bad actors can operate without oversight. Watch our latest short talking

Bitcoin revolutionized money by showing the world that digitally native value that shared the spirit of the internet was possible. The issue? It lacks of the ease of use of traditional money. If you send your money to the wrong person, it's gone. For modern usage, things like

Legacy banking systems are outdated, slow, and expensive. Meanwhile, blockchain provides real-time payments 24/7/365. USBC provides the best of both worlds, giving users instant access to but TradFi and DeFi.

Traditionally, financial institutions (and their associated ledgers) live in siloes. They deal with bad actors by trying to keep them out, but because these siloed systems don't talk to each other, a bad actor could go and exploit them all one by one. With a unified ledger, bad

When you think about banking services, there's two types of customer relationships—formal v. informal. Formal relationships are when you have a proper checking account at the bank, which requires a higher bar for entry. Then there's informal relationships such as old school

A new era for digital dollar tokens and what it means for banks | #328: hardyaka.substack.com/p/a-new-era-of…

When we think of banking, we typically think of formal banking relationships, but getting a bank account has strict identity requirements that excludes billions of people around the world. There's also informal financial tools such as traveler's checks, money orders, and prepaid

Greg Kidd announced that he has signed an agreement to acquire a controlling stake in a publicly-traded company, which he will leverage to deploy a Bitcoin treasury strategy. Corporations are increasingly looking to digital assets for their advantages when it comes to store of

Deposit tokens can address the same use cases as stablecoins while providing FDIC-insurance, consumer protections, and interest payments. Additionally, since they are backed by banks, companies can hold them on their balance sheet as cash while stablecoins are considered risk

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The golden age for digital assets has arrived | #330 hardyaka.substack.com/p/the-golden-a…