Stablecoin Evolution: Reeve Collins on Yield Bearing Stablecoins & His Journey as Tether’s Co-Founder

In this episode, Rachel speaks with Reeve Collins, co-founder and chairman of Stbl.com and WeFi. Reeve co-founded Tether –- the stablecoin platform behind USDT – in 2014, and has since gone on to work on a solution to enable yield bearing stablecoins, along with the world’s first “deobank.”

In this episode Reeve goes in-depth on the stablecoin evolution, sharing his journey as the creator of the first stablecoin in 2014. Reeve also discusses the promise of Web3 and how this enables giving back to the community. He ends the discussion by explaining the importance of artificial intelligence (AI) for crypto payments. 

This is a great episode for both beginners and advanced listeners.

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Reeve Collins is a leader in Web3 with multiple ventures including Smartmedia Technologies, which is a trusted enterprise Web3 platform. Reeve is a long-standing pioneer in both digital marketing and within the Bitcoin and Blockchain space. 

At his first blockchain venture, he invented the stablecoin as the Co-Founder and CEO of Tether, the most used cryptocurrency in the world with a 2022 trading volume of $19.3 trillion, ranking it as one of the top 10 most traded assets in the world.  

Prior to this Reeve Co-Founded BlockV, raising $22 Million in an ICO to deliver the first ever platform for the creation of the NFTs.  Before entering the blockchain sector, Collins founded several successful ventures, with a series of firsts in the online advertising space including being one of the initial employees at Avenue A which went public at the peak of the Internet bubble for $6.6 Billion. 

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This episode was filmed at Proof of Talk 2025, an annual Web3 event that takes place at The Louvre in Paris.

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