Episode Details
| Title | Coinbase Buys Deribit, Stripe’s Stablecoin Launch, and Ethereum’s Pectra Upgrade | Weekly Roundup |
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| Date | 5/9/2025 |
| Podcast | Empire ↗ |
Key Insights
Bullish:
- 🟢 $STABLES - Stablecoins are gaining significant traction, with major companies like Stripe adopting them for global expansion and financial infrastructure development. This trend is expected to continue, potentially impacting traditional finance and tech companies.
- “Stripe would never say it like this because it's for regulatory reasons, but Stripe just launched a stablecoin a stablecoin bank for merchants. Stripe is in 45 countries today. Because of stablecoins, they're now in a hundred and one countries.” - Jason (29:28)
- “You've got instant twenty four seven financial infrastructure being built in real time in front of our eyes. It's pretty damn cool.” - Jason (37:25)
- “If you're Zuck or any major executive, like, you're seeing these companies like Visa and Stripe and, Ramp and all of them, like, really just, adopt stable coins. Like, embedding payments in your app, if your Facebook made all the sense in the world in 2019, it was just a very different regulatory environment.” - Santi (50:08)
- “Over the next year, pay attention, control f when you see a 10 k, 10 q stablecoins.” - Santi (57:52)
- 🟢 $COIN - 🔒
- 🟢 $INFRA - 🔒
- 🟢 $META - 🔒
- 🟢 $TRADFI - 🔒