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Stablecoin cards as a major growth driver

The guest highlighted stablecoin-linked cards as an 'amazing' and rapidly growing product that allows users to spend funds without moving them off-chain.

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CONTESTED · 187 MENTIONS · 86 EPISODES · 27 SHOWS

14 JUL 2025 — 16 AUG 2026 · 2D AGO

111 SUPPORT · 9 CHALLENGE · 67 MENTIONED

14 JUL 2025 · FIRST HEARD
MACRO MUSINGS WITH DAVID BECKWORTH
- Stablecoins as a marginal treasury demand source
18 EPISODES BETWEEN · 40 MENTIONS · 26 NOT KEPT
1. 26 EPISODES NOT SHOWN
2. 9 FEB 2026
  MACRO MUSINGS WITH DAVID BECKWORTH · 6 MENTIONS
3. 19 FEB 2026
  FINTECH INSIDER PODCAST BY 11:FS
  - Stablecoins as a cross-border payments solution
4. 19 FEB 2026
  MACROVOICES · 2 MENTIONS
  - Potential fragmentation into competing currency blocks
  - Stablecoins threatening bank business models · CHALLENGES
5. 25 FEB 2026
  FORWARD GUIDANCE
  - Institutional crypto adoption bullish despite price
6. 27 FEB 2026
  THE COMPOUND AND FRIENDS
  - Stablecoins better than Bitcoin, bullish Circle
7. 1 MAR 2026
  ON THE MARGIN · 6 MENTIONS
8. 5 MAR 2026
  FORWARD GUIDANCE · 2 MENTIONS
  - Structured finance ripe for blockchain disruption
  - Blockchains as the ultimate displacer of financial middlemen
9. 10 MAR 2026
  THE POMP PODCAST
  - Stablecoins' value is payments, not yield
10. 12 MAR 2026
  CAPITAL ALLOCATORS · 2 MENTIONS
  - US poised to lead in blockchain finance applications
  - Tokenization to democratize access to new company upside
11. 16 MAR 2026
  MACRO MUSINGS WITH DAVID BECKWORTH · 3 MENTIONS
12. 18 MAR 2026
  WHAT BITCOIN DID · 3 MENTIONS
13. 20 MAR 2026
  BANKLESS
  - Tempo as Stripe's payments-first L1
14. 21 MAR 2026
  SMARTERMARKETS · 2 MENTIONS
  - Tokenization's institutional adoption accelerates
  - Traditional market infrastructure solid for DeFi integration
15. 23 MAR 2026
  ANIMAL SPIRITS · 5 MENTIONS
16. 24 MAR 2026
  THE POMP PODCAST
  - Stablecoins as critical infrastructure for 24/7 settlements
17. 25 MAR 2026
  THE POMP PODCAST
  - Blockchain rails as a response to debanking, censorship
18. 30 MAR 2026
  BANKLESS
  - Crypto beyond Bitcoin for value creation
19. 30 MAR 2026
  MACRO MUSINGS WITH DAVID BECKWORTH
  - Dollar stablecoins threaten eurozone monetary sovereignty
31 MAR 2026
ON THE MARGIN · 5 MENTIONS
- Open Money Stack: one API for global payments
- Stablecoins solve global payroll for EORs
- Blockchain's three core value propositions
- AI agents will transact in crypto
- Stablecoin cards as a major growth driver · THIS IDEA
34 EPISODES BETWEEN · 68 MENTIONS
1. 1 APR 2026
  FORWARD GUIDANCE · 3 MENTIONS
  - Skinny master accounts as a step for fintech innovation
  - Stablecoin inflows could lower the neutral rate
  - Tokenized deposits as a bank service evolution
2. 1 APR 2026
  THE JULIA LA ROCHE SHOW · 2 MENTIONS
  - Stablecoins and CBDCs reduce Fed's power
  - Stablecoins as a US geopolitical dollar-entrenching tool
3. 1 APR 2026
  THE POMP PODCAST
  - Corporate chains as a major 2024 theme
4. 6 APR 2026
  MACRO MUSINGS WITH DAVID BECKWORTH
  - Dollar stablecoins: pernicious and no additionality
5. 7 APR 2026
  ON THE MARGIN
  - Demo as the stablecoin onboarding ramp
6. 7 APR 2026
  BANKLESS · 5 MENTIONS
  - Tokenized securities as future broker-dealer offering
  - Tokenization as inevitable migration for equity markets
  - Tokenization unlocks massive equity market inefficiencies
  - Tokenization unlocks new issuer-investor utilities
  - Tokenized treasury market as a leading growth catalyst
7. 9 APR 2026
  ON THE MARGIN
  - Bridgeport as crypto's Plaid for institutions
8. 9 APR 2026 · CHALLENGES
  THE POMP PODCAST · 3 MENTIONS
  - Bitcoin's value is retail-driven, not institutional
  - Stablecoin yield faces political bank opposition
  - TradFi perps will fail due to broken clearing
9. 10 APR 2026
  REAL VISION DAILY BRIEFING
  - Financial system migrating to blockchain rails
10. 15 APR 2026
  WHAT BITCOIN DID · 2 MENTIONS
  - Bitcoin as the deglobalization settlement money
  - Bitcoin's long-term adoption via currency backing
11. 20 APR 2026
  ON THE MARGIN · 3 MENTIONS
  - Stablecoins as the new financial rail
  - Stablecoins' first wave: cross-border efficiency
  - Wallets as the critical crypto bottleneck
12. 23 APR 2026
  ON THE MARGIN · 2 MENTIONS
  - UR as blockchain-native account infrastructure
  - Blockchain rebuilds finance to reduce cost, unlock programmability
13. 22 JUL 2026 · 4W AGO
  REAL VISION DAILY BRIEFING
  - Clarity Act passage as short-term sell-the-news
14. 23 JUL 2026 · 4W AGO
  THE OPTIONS INSIDER RADIO NETWORK
  - Centralized swap clearing vs DeFi model
15. 23 JUL 2026 · 4W AGO
  UNCHAINED · 3 MENTIONS
  - DTCC canonical tokens threaten third-party equity wrappers
  - Japan legal reforms unlock institutional crypto growth
  - Japan leads pragmatic approach to asset tokenization
16. 23 JUL 2026 · 4W AGO
  BANKLESS · 4 MENTIONS
  - The bottleneck in real-world assets: demand
  - Compliant tokenization outcompetes synthetic equity derivatives
  - Tokenized funds lead equity in institutional adoption
  - Compliance simplifies for tokenized stock trading
17. 23 JUL 2026 · 4W AGO
  BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
  - Tokenized market infrastructure for settlement efficiency
18. 25 JUL 2026 · 3W AGO · CHALLENGES
  THE JULIA LA ROCHE SHOW
  - Clarity Act passage unlikely, forcing stablecoins offshore
19. 25 JUL 2026 · 3W AGO
  THE POMP PODCAST
  - Global adoption of stablecoins and tokenization accelerating
20. 27 JUL 2026 · 3W AGO
  ANIMAL SPIRITS
  - Stablecoins drive institutional efficiency across banking rails
21. 27 JUL 2026 · 3W AGO
  BANKLESS
  - Institutional TradFi adoption via marginal crypto primitives
22. 29 JUL 2026 · 3W AGO
  BANKLESS
  - Stablecoin supply projected to reach $2T by 2030
23. 29 JUL 2026 · 3W AGO
  UNCHAINED
  - Crypto infrastructure shifts from consumer to institutional adoption
24. 31 JUL 2026 · 3W AGO
  UNCHAINED · 3 MENTIONS
  - Superstate's tokenized equity as a crypto experiment
  - Permission pools enable compliant tokenized assets
  - Regulatory clarity as a platform for token innovation
25. 1 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  A16Z PODCAST
  - Blockchains enable a peer-to-peer Finance 2.0 upgrade
26. 3 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  MACRO MUSINGS WITH DAVID BECKWORTH · 3 MENTIONS
  - Stablecoins as a new, risky dollar class
  - Stablecoins undermine dollar's sanctions advantage · CHALLENGES
  - CBDCs and tokenized deposits over stablecoins
27. 3 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  BANKLESS · 7 MENTIONS
  - Buy-and-burn model as a necessary signal
  - Infrastructure build-out enabling tokenization
  - Crypto's shift from FAT protocol to FAT app
  - On-chain capital efficiency for tokenized assets
  - Token as the financial shipping container
  - Cypherpunk dream alive but not loud
  - Stablecoins heading to trillions by 2030
28. 3 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  THE POMP PODCAST · 3 MENTIONS
  - Crypto's convergence with traditional finance
  - Killer use cases: putting assets to work
  - Blockchain as the future financial infrastructure
29. 4 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  UNCHAINED
  - DTCC's tokenized entitlement is a different, limited model
30. 5 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  BANKLESS · 2 MENTIONS
  - Higher-quality on-chain assets to smooth cycles
  - Crypto's right product: better financial infrastructure
31. 5 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  WHAT BITCOIN DID · 2 MENTIONS
  - Crypto regulatory clarity's upside case
  - Bitcoin regulatory clarity's institutional impact
32. 5 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  THE POMP PODCAST
  - Cold Card hack pushes Bitcoin custody to institutions
33. 6 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  UNCHAINED
  - Litigation as path to crypto accountability
34. 9 AUG 2026 · 1W AGO
  ON THE MARGIN · 3 MENTIONS
  - Sovereign digital infrastructure as a B2G crypto pivot
  - Stablecoins as future global P2P payment rail
  - National stablecoins for domestic financial digitization
10 AUG 2026 · 1W AGO
MACRO MUSINGS WITH DAVID BECKWORTH · 2 MENTIONS
- Stablecoins redistribute, don't create, safe assets
- Stablecoin demand could compress T-bill yields
10 AUG 2026 · 1W AGO
WHAT BITCOIN DID · 2 MENTIONS
- Bitcoin loan securitization unlocks institutional capital
- Tether Gold as a digital rails catalyst
11 AUG 2026 · 1W AGO
UNCHAINED
- Spark as infrastructure for new stablecoin issuance
11 AUG 2026 · 1W AGO
THE POMP PODCAST
- Bitcoin as a bet on the internet
14 AUG 2026 · 4D AGO
BANKLESS · 3 MENTIONS
16 AUG 2026 · 2D AGO
MONETARY MATTERS WITH JACK FARLEY
- Compute as a future tradable asset class

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