Stable Stories

Phil Fogel, CEO of Cork Protocol, joins to discuss building on-chain risk infrastructure. He explains why DeFi needs tools like fully collateralized credit default swaps to transfer risk explicitly. Institutions require risk control and transparent pricing, not just high yields. The conversation covers how Cork could have impacted stablecoin depegs like Terra and USDC by providing programmable hed...

Zain Cheng, CTO of Horizen Labs, joins Stable Stories to discuss the intersection of AI agents, privacy, and stablecoins. A former Federal Reserve engineer turned crypto builder, Zain explains how Horizen is pivoting from a privacy L1 to a modular Layer 3 on Base. We dive into the "Agentic Economy"—where AI agents hold wallets and transact without bank accounts—and how ZKVerify provides...

Gideon Greaves, Managing Partner at Lisk Ventures, joins Stable Stories to discuss why the future of Web3 adoption lies in emerging markets. Gideon shares his journey from bootstrapping a food-tech startup in South Africa to leading a $20 million Web3 fund. He explains Lisk’s pivot to an Ethereum Layer 2, the massive valuation arbitrage opportunities in African tech, and why "boring" use...

As stablecoins move from a crypto niche to real financial infrastructure, more builders are asking the same question: why issue your own stablecoin instead of relying on USDC or USDT?In this episode of Stable Stories, we sit down with Chase Merlin, Product Lead at Brale, to break down how stablecoin issuance is evolving — and why branded stablecoins are becoming a core primitive for onchain busine...

This week Lorenzo Romagnoli, Co-Founder of USDT0, joins us to explain how USDT0 makes USDT seamless across chains by turning it into a free, non-custodial interoperable asset. He shares his DeFi-native background (having a crypto wallet before a bank account) and why USDT historically struggled to spread beyond Tron/Ethereum due to friction: Tether chain swaps, liquidity bridges, or CEX routing. U...

Peanut is a self-custodial wallet connecting users and their funds directly to banks and payment networks, making spending and using stablecoins easy, cheap and global! This week, Peanut co-founder Conrad Urban explains the Peanut wallet and it's core promise: send funds to anyone without caring what rails they use, with simple link/QR transfers that can route to wallets, banks, or local merchant...

2025 marked stablecoins’ shift from a crypto primitive to real financial infrastructure. Privy’s Max Segall, Circle’s Peter Schroder and Eco's Annika Lewis break down what drove the “stablecoin year”: Bridge’s momentum, Stripe’s acquisition, Privy joining forces with Stripe, and major enterprises finally engaging seriously. They highlight regulation as the key unlock (including the U.S. Genius Act...

Coinflow enables businesses to make payments their growth engine by launching fast, settling instantly and scaling globally. In this episode, Daniel Lev, co-founder and CEO of Coinflow, explains how stablecoins can eliminate the slow settlement cycles that plague global payments—especially for marketplaces that collect funds and pay sellers across borders. Coinflow acts as a next-gen PSP, acceptin...

Axal is a high yield savings app that provides industry leading rates and protection. In this episode of Stable Stories, Dave sits down with Ash, Co-Founder of Axal, to explore why yield should be treated as a core financial primitive, simple and accessible, despite growing fragmentation across DeFi, RWAs, and fixed-rate products. He highlights the importance of non-custodial guarantees, clean UX,...

In this episode of Stable Stories, Dave sits down with Gabriele Sabbatini, co-founder and CEO of Hercle, to unpack how institutional-grade infrastructure is bridging fiat rails, digital assets, and stablecoins—and why that matters most for cross-border B2B payments in emerging markets. Eco Website: https://eco.comHercle Website: https://hercle.com/

Solstice Finance is a public, permissionless protocol unlocking secure, institutional grade yield on Solana. In this episode of Stable Stories, Ben Nadereski, CEO and Co-Founder of Solstice Labs, joins to talk about how Solstice is bringing institutional-grade transparency and yield generation to DeFi. Ben walks through his journey from Wall Street derivatives trading to DeFi innovation, explainin...

Zach from Party Action People—the team behind Stable Summit—to trace how an events startup born pre-COVID pivoted into crypto and built the leading stablecoin conference series. They dig into how the audience is shifting from pure engineers to BD and product leaders, yet the frontier remains deeply technical: privacy that institutions can live with, vaults as the new default destination for on-cha...

In this episode, Dave Clancy, Growth and Governance at the Eco Foundation, speaks with Jason Marshall, COO, and Justin Poiroux, CTO, of Yellow Card about the early challenges the team faced and how they made key decisions that led to Yellow Card working with over 30,000 businesses in Africa. Yellow Card is the largest and first licensed Stablecoin on/off ramp on the African continent, providing in...

In this episode, Annika Lewis, Executive Director of the Eco Foundation, speaks with Jelena Djuric, CEO, and John Letey, CTO, of Noble, about their past experience within the Cosmos ecosystem and how they're using those learnings to ensure Noble's success in the crypto market. Noble is a Cosmos application-specific blockchain purpose-built for native asset issuance bringing the efficiency and inte...

In this episode, Dave Clancy of the Eco Foundation sits down with Henri Stern, CEO, & Max Segall, COO, of Privy, to discuss what has contributed to Privy's success of growing to service over 50 million accounts to what they feel are the key opportunities within stablecoins. Privvy provides crypto wallet infrastructure for winning teams. Powering 50M+ accounts, securing billions in volume. Embe...

This week, Dave Clancy, Growth & Governance at the Eco Foundation, speaks with Jorge Izquierdo, Co-Founder at Tuyo, a fully non-custodial stablecoin neobank redefining what it means to control your money. Jorge shares his journey from co-founding Aragon to building Tuyo on the principles of self-custody and permissionlessness, creating a product that feels as smooth as Web2 while remaining ful...

In this episode, Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, CMO at Eco Inc., speaks with Ivan Kozlov, CEO of Resolv Labs, where he shares the early background of Resolv Labs, its key products, such as Resolv USR and RLP, and discusses the most significant successes and challenges the team has faced thus far. Resolv is a protocol maintaining USR, a stablecoin natively backed by Ether (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC) and pegged t...

In this episode, Dave Clancy, Growth and Governance at the Eco Foundation, speaks with Drew Rogers and Zach Fowler at Stable Studios. Drew and Zach share behind-the-scenes stories on why Stable Studios initially committed to the go-to-market business focused on stablecoins and what's coming up with the new season of Stable Studios. Stable Studios is a leading media and intelligence platform for th...

In this episode, Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, CMO at Eco Inc., speaks with Nick Van Eck, CEO, and Drake Evans, CTO, of Agora. Nick and Drake share what makes Agora unique compared to other stablecoins in the market, behind-the-scenes stories on how they both complement each other as co-founders, and more about how parts of Agora's go-to-market strategy have succeeded or missed the mark. Stable Stories is...

In this episode, Ryne Saxe, CEO at Eco Inc. speaks with Luca Prosperi, CEO, and Greg Di Prisco, Chief Architect of M0, to learn about why they believe stablecoins should be easily issuable and composable on one shared liquidity network. Luca and Greg both share past experiences at MakerDAO and discuss what learnings they're bringing to M0.Stable Stories is a podcast series that explores the behind...

In Stable Stories #09, Annika Lewis, Executive Director at the Eco Foundation, speaks with Dakota founders Ryan Bozarth and Gabe D'Sell. Dakota is a modern banking platform, powered by stablecoins and backed by U.S. Treasuries, to make global finance faster, seamless, and secure. Stable Stories is a podcast series that explores the behind-the-scenes stories of builders pioneering the stablecoin in...

Artemis empowers anyone to understand on-chain activity. Artemis is building the data standard for digital finance so anyone can use and access the new global financial system. Stable Stories is an X Spaces series that explores the behind-the-scenes stories of builders pioneering the stablecoin industry. Eco Website: https://eco.comArtemis Website: https://www.artemisanalytics.com/

This week, Dave Clancy, Growth & Governance at the Eco Foundation, speaks with Marcel Kasumovich, Chief Strategist at Coinbase Asset Management. Marcel shares his view of crypto through a macro lens: stablecoins as the first true “banking habit,” Bitcoin as pristine digital collateral that’s been pulled onto institutional rails, and Ethereum as the practical build layer for finance. Stable Sto...

In Stable Stories #10, Dave Clancy, Growth and Governance at the Eco Foundation, speaks with Atikh Bana and Issa Hassan, Co-Founders of Acctual, to discuss building a global invoicing and payments platform powered by stablecoins. They explore the coordination challenges of B2B payments, the need for flexibility across fiat and crypto infrastructure, and how Acctual enables seamless cross-border pa...

In this episode of Stable Stories, Onboard founder Badamosi shares his journey from medicine and venture capital to building crypto products that expand access to global finance. The conversation explores how Onboard began as an on-chain P2P protocol before evolving into a global fintech app that lets users send, spend, and convert stablecoins seamlessly. Stable Stories is an X Spaces series that...