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📖 Weekend Reading 📖 1️⃣ Abundance: this was the week of Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's new book. I have not yet read it myself, but we have some excellent interviews and reviews to comb through. As Noah Smith 🐇 recaps well, “the basic thesis of this book is that

📖 Weekend Reading 📖 1️⃣ AI: Alex Danco has a fantastic piece on AI through the lens of abundance and scarcity. This piece to me drives right at the heart of the challenge of defining “AGI”. As Danco describes it, the incumbent tech giants are mining their data and capital

I really can't reconcile the experience of sending a wire on Citibank's business banking site with the fact that Citi operates arguably the biggest global payments network

Soft power is the vehicle through which hard power is subliminally carried out.

📖 Weekend Reading 📖 1️⃣ Tariffs: Matthew C. Klein writes about the Liberation Day tariffs. Beyond the fact that they were poorly constructed and communicated, the thrust of the argument here is that tariffs need to be looked at in aggregate, not through bilateral trade balances – and

Lmaooo really didn’t hold long. Did you know your pal Chamath is loaded on CDS?

Twitter is so back

Massive. Congrats to Modern Treasury and brale

1️⃣ Tariffs: what else? molson 🧠⚙️ has a very practical take on why Trump’s tariffs are misguided. x.com/Molson_Hart/st… Steven Sinofsky relates his own experience trying to enter the Chinese market with Microsoft, focusing on the more nuanced ways China enforces its

NEW EPISODE 🎙️ Stableminded S3.5 ft Walapay 💸 "The future of stablecoins isn't just about payments — it's about collapsing layers of intermediation in cross-border flows." tomborgers.eth, CEO of Walapay 💸 joins Drew Rogers to break down: • His journey from Consensys.eth to

📖 Weekend Reading 📖 1️⃣ Stablecoins: Patrick McKenzie interviews Haseeb ＞|＜ about stablecoins. I highlighted it previously, but this is the best conversation you can listen to to get a practical understanding (Haseeb’s answers are unvarnished - very frank) of the benefits of stablecoins

This is seriously awesome - amazing work Ben Milne and brale We're now using it Walapay 💸 - we need to get some of the other rails on there!

This is a BFD. Circle has announced its Circle Payments Network (CPN), and it’s a major addition to the stablecoin payments landscape. The key points: > CPN is a coordination protocol rather than a settlement protocol. Payment instructions are passed between approved

📖 Weekend Reading 📖 1️⃣ BaaS: Jason Mikula has a retrospective of the ongoing Evolve-Synapse disaster. This is excellent reporting, with a detailed timeline of events (down to the dates!) fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com/p/the-synapse-… 2️⃣ Tariffs: Richard Samans writes about the global trade imbalance

Decided last minute to attend Token - shill me some events! Looking to meet folks building around stablecoin / cross-border payments use cases

Huge congrats to Brandon Timinsky and the ZAR team on this massive milestone! ZAR is why we do what we do. Excited to see it go live, and very happy to support via Walapay 💸 🚀

God almighty. Dying to know who’s financing this $20b

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📖 Weekend Reading 📖 1️⃣ Stablecoins: Austin Campbell pens an open letter to the Democratic Party in support of stablecoins. This is an important perspective, because one thing that both libertarians and Trump conservatives on one side, and Berniecrats on the other, can agree

I probably wouldn’t accept a 747 as a gift. An A380 on the other hand…