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The Future of Money Is Stable

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4.7698 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Chris Maurice, CEO and Co-Founder of Yellow Card, reveals how stablecoins are shaking up global payments. From discovering Bitcoin at college parties to a chance encounter at a Wells Fargo, Maurice shows how stablecoins tackle real problems by making cross-border transfers faster, cheaper, and easier. With rapid expansion into new markets and game-changing partnerships, Yellow Card is driving the mainstream adoption of stablecoins and reshaping the future of digital payments.  Links mentioned from the podcast:  Chris's Twitter Yellow Card Website Follow us on Twitter:  Sam Ewen, CoinDesk  From our sponsor: Midnight is introducing a novel approach to token distribution. The Midnight Glacier Drop is a multi-phase distribution of the NIGHT token, aimed at empowering a broad, diverse community to build the future of the Midnight network. Holders of ADA, BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, BNB, AVAX and BAT are eligible to participate in the first phase. Help usher in the next generation of blockchain with rational privacy and cooperative tokenomics on the Midnight network. To learn more, visit https://www.midnight.gd/ and prepare for the Midnight Glacier Drop. - "Gen C" features host Sam Ewen. Executive produced by Uyen Truong.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The issue is all of these emerging markets around the world where you no longer have an interstate

0:05.2

system connecting them to this global highway, right? You have dirt road on and off ramps, littered

0:11.6

with pop holes, going through the Grand Canyon and your car only has three tires. And stable coins

0:17.1

are the first technology that come in and actually build a bridge over that just bad underlying infrastructure.

0:24.6

They're the first technology that come in and build actual on ramps over that underlying infrastructure and make it possible for these countries to be able to interact on the same global financial system.

0:49.6

All right. You are not thinking enough about stable coins. I'm going to repeat that. You,

0:54.3

our listener, are not thinking enough about stable coins.

0:55.9

Why do I say that?

1:08.7

Because I don't think we understand the technological and financial revolution that is happening at this moment in finance, which is not just finance like tech bro finance.

1:11.2

We're talking about the ability to move money across borders and seconds we are talking about the livelihoods of billions of people and how that can be

1:16.3

reimagined we are talking about the opportunity to not have currencies be devalued and

1:23.2

deflationary because someone in political power decides they want more control over a population. We just are not thinking enough about the revolution that is stable coins. I've been obsessed with this for a long time. Even our parents company, bullish, who went public last week when we're recording this, took over a billion dollars of the proceeds of that sale in stable coins because they know the

1:46.0

power of this technology. So for this week's episode, we wanted to talk more about the payments

1:51.8

and stable coin ecosystem. We've been featuring a number of people this season on this topic.

1:58.2

And for today, Chris Maurice, CEO of Yellow Card. Yellow Card is one of the larger players

2:04.0

in the infrastructure side of payments specifically on stable coins. I think 99% of their business

2:09.7

is about enabling some of the largest businesses in the world, as well as localized applications

2:16.1

in all different jurisdictions to figure out how to send money

2:20.2

around the world at speed and at scale and be able to off ramp it and on ramp it as needed.

2:25.3

So after the break, we'll be back with Chris Maurice from Yellowcard.

2:28.6

And I repeat one more time, we need to think more about stable coins.

2:34.0

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