Live Tuesday at 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT. The lineup: - @alvin_kan, COO @BitgetWallet - 12:30 PM ET - @adcv_, Co-Founder @SteakhouseFi - 1:00 PM ET Neo, presented by @Dakota_xyz - @ashlan_ahmed, CEO @getaxal - 1:30 PM ET - @rooshanaziz, CEO & Co-Founder @OverseePay - 2:00 PM ET The agenda: Bitget Wallet - the dollar account banks never built. 100 million users, $177 billion routed through their payments stack, and daily payments now outrunning trading. Steakhouse Financial - the exclusive risk curator behind Robinhood Earn, and the firm curating more than half of all stablecoin deposits on Morpho. Where the yield comes from, what a retail user should understand, and what a bank account looks like when a vault replaces it. Axal - wealth building across proven assets, not just stablecoin yield. Bitcoin and gold alongside dollars, and what it takes to reach an audience that is not already in crypto. Oversee Pay - Pakistan is the third largest remittance corridor in the world at $52B a year, and it is still slow and expensive. Rooshan is building one account that moves dollars home in seconds, pays the country's freelancers in USD, and comes with a card to spend it locally. Built out of the @alliance ALL17 cohort in New York. Drop questions below that you want answered LIVE

.@PhilippZentner told us their partnership with @RobinhoodCrypto goes back years. Robinhood started as a buyer on @lifiprotocol's cross-chain API. "Now they are also on the supply side. It is a deep partnership. They're obviously one of our biggest clients."

Live at 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT. Today's lineup: NEO, presented by @dakota_xyz - @sterwong, @cashiglobal - @apnmrev, @xplaceapp Demo Day, presented by @trycoast - @GarrettHarper_, @Altitude - @howenstine_max, @ZeroHashX - @0xMasonH, @merit_systems - Chris Sutton, @dfnsHQ

"Any blockchain is a marketplace itself. You have builders, but builders want users. And if there are no users, there are no builders." @PhilippZentner of @lifiprotocol says because of their high user count, Robinhood never had to face that problem. "Robinhood has the demand side already. And now it provides that platform to build on. I think that's a crazy opportunity. It's a slightly different user group than we are used to in crypto. I think there's room for creativity."

"We simply own anything that happens onchain." @PhilippZentner, Founder & CEO of @lifiprotocol, on combining 1,200 onchain integrations with @BanxaOfficial's 400+ partner fiat on-ramp "The two hardest steps, going in and out of crypto, combined with acting on crypto, acting onchain, this just collapses into one."

"Composer allows you to collapse complex DeFi workflows into one transaction." "You might come from @solana, you want to swap, bridge, swap into assets on @RobinhoodCrypto, or you think of Robinhood chain as your second chain to support - here, we can make sure this whole user experience feels like one and feels like totally chain abstracted." @PhilippZentner of @lifiprotocol sharing their newest product "Composer" on the show today.

"We think a lot of data flows as they sit today are illogical." Says @sjones "The data exists, but there isn't necessarily a way to push that through a system in a way that's usable." "If I wanna open a bank account, I already have the information I need to open a bank account because I know it. But I still have to go through this laborious process of going through an application where I have to put everything in." None of this works until identity is built into the infrastructure. "It's all completely controlled by the user. It's not a credential that we control. We just orchestrate it." Co-Founder & CEO of @sumvin on the show today.

"The Middle East is here. They want to do tokenization." @KAIO_xyz CCO Chirag Budhdeo told us two weeks ago the demand had moved past BlackRock money markets into PE and private credit. Now it's live on @solana

"I go for the big themes. Is the founder curious? Is the founder open so that you can have a dialogue?" @HaddockBeth of @StablecoinStnd evaluates every founder before she'll advise them on stablecoin policy and governance. "Does the founder either know that this is their blind spot and that's why they want someone with a policy background there, or is an outside constituency making them get an expert like myself? Is it their board or is it investors or is there a problem? Or is it coming from them because they're ready for the next step?" "If you can get a curious, open-minded person that's doing it because they want to grow and they want it to get a good ROI and not build stuff that's too heavy or build stuff that's too light, that to me is the trifecta."

$180 million raised to build a US national bank. @augustus_bank has received one of only 8 conditional OCC approvals since 2010. A rare feat. "For our technology team, our fintech team, it just was not possible. The interesting insight we had at Augustus, maybe one and a half years ago, was that it might be somewhat possible again. It might be hard, very expensive, and a massive pain, but maybe there's a world where we can get a US national charter, and we can actually pull it off." "You hire the bank executives, and you get the suit and the tie, and you go to DC a thousand times, and you do all of these things, and you do them with great joy. I've been a big fan of the experience." @FerdiDabitz, Co-Founder and CEO of Augustus on Stabledash live.

"My general thesis is that exchanges probably shouldn't be holding assets." @vishalkgupta has been building exchanges since 2002, from Goldman Sachs' electronic trading desk to launching USDC at Circle and running three exchanges at Coinbase. @truemarketsco is his fifth crypto exchange. True Markets is a non-custodial exchange, built to never holds customer assets. It separates execution from custody, the way brokers, custodians, and exchanges have always been separate in traditional finance. The exchange lists 150 assets, charges roughly a third of what the largest US platforms charge, and settles to any GENIUS Act-compliant stablecoin, so a bank launching its own can settle directly through True Markets. Vishal wants True Markets to become the back-end infrastructure for every fintech and bank that needs to offer trading, the way AWS became the back end for the internet. Vishal's conversation with @drewrogers 2:33 - Goldman Sachs' electronic trading desk in 2002 4:11 - Stealing Fidelity from Goldman 5:48 - 15 options exchanges and why crypto is simpler 9:36 - Circle, USDC, and the front door for DeFi 11:08 - Why exchanges should never hold customer assets 12:49 - Growing Coinbase from 20 assets to 235 16:09 - The USDC white paper at Circle 21:30 - FTX's first wedge: USDC as perp collateral 22:43 - The stablecoin superpower most CFOs miss 24:09 - Utility vs risk and what should be tokenized 27:56 - Settling to any GENIUS Act-compliant stablecoin 31:32 - Trading 150 assets at a third of the cost 37:02 - Markets and liquidity as a service 41:06 - How @naval inspired the name True Markets 45:44 - Why agents care about APIs, not apps 48:42 - 17 years with one co-founder 53:21 - What a successful True Markets looks like Episode 0055. Presented to you by @altitude

"You want to manage tens of millions of dollars via spreadsheets that people are gonna type in." "We had a call with this fund administrator. We asked how we would get our trading data to them. They said we could put it in a spreadsheet and send them the spreadsheet, and then they would have some guys type it into their management system." Says @novesben "We have a perfect immutable ledger of exactly what happened, and it's going into another computer system. So why would we insert humans in the middle of this thing?" Co-Founder & CEO of @Noves_fi on Stabledash live today

"Sometimes we don't even need all the privileges that are tied to owning a stock. Sometimes all we want is the upside in trade." $700 million flowed back into Bitcoin ETFs in five days after historic June outflows. @PhilippZentner, Founder & CEO of @lifiprotocol, says the regulated wrapper was only the beginning. "Bitcoin itself is just going away from being a speculative asset and much more like a portfolio thing, which reacts to macro." "There is just blockchain as rails. And what we see on the rails happening is tokenization, and that essentially allows to react to the very same market events independently of any trading hours. We can settle twenty four seven. We can access RWAs globally."

Six of the nine or ten MiCA-licensed companies in Spain are banks. "The same requirements apply to all. It doesn't matter if you are a crypto native entity or you are a bank. The same requirements are gonna apply to you." "That's huge to be able to offer the same kind of quality and the same kind of infrastructure to your client as if we were a bank. That's what our clients want." Miguel Zapatero, General Counsel at @crossmint on the live show yesterday

"You are working for six months and your output is you're now able to send money from Europe to Mexico in two days or in one day for a 1% fee. And that's actually an accomplishment compared to the industry standard." "On your personal side, you are sending money with stablecoins everywhere in the world instantly." "Sending money abroad could be done much better if you are doing it on top of stablecoins than if you are doing it on top of the SWIFT technology that was invented in 1970." @JoaoAlvesDotETH, Founder of @BleapApp on the show yesterday

AI agents can move money through smart contracts today. Nobody has figured out who's responsible when one of them goes wrong. "It's very uncertain who should be liable in the event that the agent screws things up. That's not clear at all. When I speak to other lawyers, clients in the space, we are not in agreement. We are never in agreement as to who should be to blame if things go south. That's probably one of the biggest pieces that I would ask MiCA 2.0 to focus on and try to address." Miguel Zapatero, General Counsel at @crossmint on the show

"Trade Republic, the deposits they have are much higher than Revolut even though they are one seventh of the customers. They have 80% fewer, and they have a higher deposit rate because they were paying 50 bps more on the deposit rates than Revolut was in euro." @JoaoAlvesDotETH spent four years building Revolut's global card product before founding @BleapApp

We asked @blend_money why it built its partner stack around @withAUSD and the @monad ecosystem. Co-Founder & CEO @mannyornothing says it's because of the founders behind the protocols. "We've all been hurt by these pseudonymous founders that want to put an NFT picture up and you don't know who they are. These people are willing to put their face out and stick a stake in the ground and say who we are." "Technology isn't really a moat anymore. It's the people and the partnerships that you work with. And if you have great partners like Agora and Monad that can help you get the core mission through, we're all in the same core mission, making crypto and stablecoins work."

"Stablecoins give businesses a store of value, lower volatility, and the ability to spend globally." -Jaun Lam, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, HopNow One of the fastest-growing use cases we're seeing right now. 🌍 #stablecoins# #crossborderpayments# #fintech# #treasurymanagement# #USDT# #USDC#