How Stablecoins Break Financial Barriers and Rewrite the Future of Money

Stablecoins are reshaping money in emerging markets, from how people save, to how capital moves across borders, to how financial products are built.

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0:00 Intro

1:57 Chuck’s Background: IB, PE, Harvard & Paxos

4:48 What Paxos Actually Does (Settlement, Tokenization, Payments)

9:02 Will Stablecoins Change Investment Banking & Private Equity?

17:26 How Stablecoins Are Used in Emerging Markets

19:19 Why People Outside the US Need Dollar Access

23:20 Exchanges, Remittances & Cross-Border Payments

27:02 Digital Dollars vs Stablecoins (Bitso, Felix Pago)

31:20 The Next Phase: Programmable Money & Onchain Finance

40:32 Fintech 2.0 vs Fintech 3.0

44:48 Why Many Fintech Teams Don’t Understand Stablecoins

52:05 Outro