Episode Details

Santi Alvarado (XFX) on Improving FX for Stablecoins (EP.635)
6/19/2025
On The Brink with Castle Island β†—

Key Insights

Bullish:

  • 🟒 $STABLES - Stablecoins are seen as a revolutionary standard for cross-border payments, offering significant improvements over traditional systems, especially in terms of efficiency and real-time processing.
    • β€œThe most exciting thing for me about Stablecoins is that for the first time, we have an standard that the ecosystem can agree upon and actually build according to that standard for cross border payments.” - Santi (7:35)
    • β€œWhy does the cross border payments base still need to happen in batch? That's to a large degree the problem that Stablecoins can get to solve.” - Santi (10:50)
  • 🟒 $EM - πŸ”’
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  • 🟒 $XFX - πŸ”’
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