Rebank: Fintech Analysis

Tanner Taddeo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Stable Sea, a company building the infrastructure layer for stablecoin-powered cross-border payments. Stable Sea connects U.S. and emerging market businesses through stablecoin rails, enabling faster, cheaper, and more transparent international transactions.

Before founding Stable Sea, Tanner led product and strategy initiatives at Plaid and Block, where he helped build core financial inf...

Nikhil Raghuveera is the Co-Founder and CEO of Predicate, a company building on-chain policy infrastructure that enables organizations to set programmable, enforceable rules for transactions within blockchain-based financial systems. Predicate's technology underpins compliance and policy enforcement for next-generation stablecoins, privacy protocols, and real-world asset tokenization platforms.

Before foun...

Matt Homer is the Founder and General Partner of The Venture Dept., a venture capital firm investing at the intersection of fintech, digital assets, and regulation, with a particular focus on stablecoins and stablecoin infrastructure.

Before founding The Venture Dept., Matt was a regulator at the FDIC and then the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), where he helped design and oversee some of the earliest digital ass...

Will Peck is the Head of Digital Assets at WisdomTree, a $130 billion asset manager and ETF sponsor and a pioneer in tokenized assets. Over his 11-year tenure at WisdomTree, Will has helped the firm navigate the evolution from ETFs to tokenized assets, stablecoins, and on-chain investment infrastructure.

WisdomTree is at the forefront of innovation, applying lessons from ETFs—transparency, liquidity, tax efficiency, and standardiza...

Raghu Yarlagadda is the Co-founder and CEO of FalconX, the leading institutional digital asset prime brokerage.

In the last year, FalconX has done $1 trillion in trading volume across spot and derivatives.

FalconX is an incredible success story, starting early and growing alongside broader institutional adoption of crypto and digital assets. With current regu...

Today we're joined by Bhaji Illuminati and Jürgen Blumberg.

Bhaji is CEO of Centrifuge, one of the original players in the RWA space. Jürgen is a former Goldman ETF exec and, as of recently, COO of Centrifuge and CIO of Anemoy, it's asset management arm.

In this conversation, Bhaji, Jürgen and Will Beeson dive into the evolution of investment management toward an on-chain markets future. We di...

Chris Yin is the co-founder and CEO of Plume, a crypto-native RWA blockchain.

Real-world assets, RWAs for short, are financial assets implemented in token form. Alongside stablecoins, these assets are at the heart of the transition of financial markets onto upgraded settlement rails in the form of blockchains.

Chris brings an interesting perspective to the RWA conversation. Whereas some firms, including BlackRock and Franklin Templ...

Sandy Kaul is the Executive Vice President and Head of Innovation at Franklin Templeton, the OG global asset manager when it comes to tokenization and digital assets.

In this conversation, we dive into the newly passed GENIUS Act and what it means for stablecoins, banks, and the future of cash.

We explore Franklin Templeton's journey launching BENJI, their tokenized money market fund, way back in 2019, lo...

Kirill Gertman is the founder and CEO of Conduit, a leading B2B cross-border payments platform powered by stablecoins. Conduit leverages stablecoins to allow businesses to move money faster, cheaper and more transparently than legacy platforms such as SWIFT.

In 2024, Conduit grew transaction volumes 16x year-on-year, surpassing $10 billion in total volume.

In May 2025, Conduit raised a $36 million Series A, co-led by Dragonfly and ...

In this episode, we're joined by Luke Voiles, the CEO of Pipe — an embedded finance platform offering credit, cards, and other financial products to a range of B2B2B partners.

Founded as a revenue-based financing business, Pipe pivoted into a platform business under Luke's directly when he took the reigns in 2023.

Prior to joining Pipe, Luke was the GM of Banking at Square and previously head of QuickBooks Capital, Intuit's SMB len...

Mark Garabedian is the Director of Digital Assets and Tokenization at Wellington, a leading US-based, global asset manager with approximately $1.3 trillion in AUM.

Mark has wide ranging experience in trading and financial markets and brings a highly informed perspective to the topic of financial market innovation through digital assets and blockchain. I find Mark's views to be particularly valuable, because they skew heavily toward...

Alex Gluchowski is the co-inventor of ZKsync and co-founder and CEO of Matter Labs. ZKsync is an advanced Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain network offering privacy and scalability using zk proofs.

In this conversation, Alex and Will Beeson discuss the benefits of zk technology for financial use cases, architectural considerations in building blockchain networks for complex industries like finance, optimal infrastructure for tokenized fi...

Kevin Miao is one of the most insightful practitioners at the intersection of traditional and on-chain finance.

Until recently, Kevin was General Partner of BlockTower Credit, a $1.9 billion AUM private credit fund that leveraged public blockchains, stablecoins, and tokenization to maximize capital efficiency.

Prior to BlockTower, Kevin managed a Structured Credit trading desk at Citigroup, focusing on consumer credit, esoterics, a...

Steven Goldfeder is the Co-Founder and CEO of Offchain Labs, the company behind Arbitrum, one of the leading blockchains. 

Arbitrum's flagship blockchain, Arbitrum One, is a leading Ethereum L2 in terms of TVL and liquidity and supports applications across DeFi, DePIN, AI, gaming, RWAs and other verticals. 

In this conversation, Steven and I discuss Arbitrum's origins, the use cases that have driven its success so far, and expectat...

Laszlo Szabo is the CEO and Co-Founder of Kiln, a staking infrastructure provider backed by 1kx, Crypto.com, Wintermute, GSR, Kraken Ventures, Consensys and others. Diana Biggs is a partner at 1kx, a crypto VC that has led rounds in companies including Arweave, Pudgy Penguins, Rarible, Wallet Connect and many more.

In this conversation, Laszlo, Diana and Will Beeson break down the staking opportunity and Kiln's view of the space a...

Luca Prosperi is the founder and CEO of M^0, a stablecoin issuance protocol reimagining how money is created.

We first connected with Luca in May 2023, shortly after M^0's seed round. Fast forward a year, and the company has now raised $60 million, launched on mainnet and facilitated the issuance of over $40 million in stablecoins with its initial network participant.

In this conversation, Luca and Will Beeson discuss his vision fo...

Nick van Eck is the co-founder and CEO of Agora, a US-based stablecoin issuer backed by Dragonfly, General Catalyst, Galaxy, Consensys, Wintermute, Flowdesk, Kraken Ventures and more.

Agora's strategy is to build distribution through B2B partners via a revenue sharing model, in which all parties that contribute to Agora's stablecoins' success share in the upside. 

Prior to founding Agora, Nick worked at General Catalyst, a leading ...

Lex Sokolin is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Generative Ventures, a crypto and AI focused venture firm. 

Lex also publishes research and analysis at Fintech Blueprint, one of the best fintech, crypto and emerging tech newsletters out there. 

In this conversation, Lex and I discuss his thesis at Generative Ventures, which invests in the financial infrastructure powering the machine economy. 

Lex is a deep thinker focused on...

Bhanu Kohli is the co-founder and CEO of Layer2 Financial, a B2B payments company leveraging stablecoins for faster, cheaper payment processing.

Mike Giampapa is General Partner of Galaxy Ventures, focusing on the intersection of crypto and financial services, security & DeFi applications, and developer tooling. 

In this conversation, Bhanu, Mike and Will Beeson discuss real economy applications of stablecoins, including payments. ...