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In this episode of Money Code, hosts Chuk Okpalugo and Raj Parekh sit down with Manuel Godoy, co-founder and CEO of Felix, the WhatsApp-native remittance company that has processed north of $6B across Latin America.

They unpack how Felix turned an existing WhatsApp receipt-sharing habit into a remittance product, why stablecoins gave a small startup "economies of scale," and what it takes to build a broader financial companion for Latino immigrants in the US.

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Chapters

00:00 Felix starts with trust, not rails

02:49 Why remittance still starts in cash stores

05:08 WhatsApp was already in the flow

06:17 The first Felix product ideas failed

09:03 Why senders trust recipients with the money

11:28 Leticia: from hesitant user to ambassador

13:21 Scaling trust beyond founder selling

17:40 The ugly TikTok video that unlocked growth

20:48 Felix passes $6B across Latin America

23:16 Why Felix is becoming more than remittances

31:44 Stablecoins as small-startup scale

38:18 What breaks in weak-liquidity corridors

41:42 WhatsApp as the product platform

45:58 The financial companion opportunity

Connect with the Hosts & Guest

Chuk Okpalugo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuk-okpalugo/ | https://x.com/chuk_xyz/ | https://stablecoinblueprint.com

Raj Parekh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajparekh7/ | https://x.com/rajparekh | http://monad.xyz

Manuel Godoy: https://x.com/manueljgodoym

Felix: https://felixpago.com | https://x.com/Felixpago

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About BVNK

BVNK is the leading provider of stablecoin payments infrastructure, helping businesses move money faster, settle globally, and even launch their own stablecoin products. Head to https://bvnk.com/ to learn more.

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In this episode of Money Code, hosts Chuk Okpalugo and Raj Parekh sit down with Pritpal Shokar, Head of Product for Digital Assets at Thunes, to trace how a global payment network moves money across 140 countries, 90 currencies, and 220 payment methods.

They unpack how stablecoins can reduce prefunding from days to hours, why local demand determines which corridors can adopt them, and why Pritpal says a capital-light network makes Thunes' core business stronger.

Chapters

00:00 Defining Thunes and the last-mile problem

03:22 Building a payment network one market at a time

05:31 Mobile wallets are the account

07:14 Why instant payouts still require prefunding

10:36 Stablecoins move funding from days to hours

13:49 Local demand determines viable stablecoin corridors

17:11 Thunes tested stablecoins in its own treasury

21:35 Tokenized deposits keep money inside banking

27:02 Supporting new forms of money without picking winners

30:29 Programmable settlement, DeFi, and on-chain yield

35:40 Capital was never the product

39:10 Preparing for agentic payments before demand arrives

42:55 Start with one corridor problem

Timestamps may change after final editing.

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Connect with the Hosts & Guest

Chuk Okpalugo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuk-okpalugo/ | https://x.com/chuk_xyz/ | https://stablecoinblueprint.com

Raj Parekh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajparekh7/ | https://x.com/rajparekh | http://monad.xyz

Pritpal Shokar: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/pritpal-shokar | https://www.thunes.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/thunespayments

About Stablecon

Stablecon (https://stablecon.com/) is the premier gathering for those at the intersection of DeFi, economic policy, financial infrastructure, and institutional integration, and those reinventing global commerce. By convening the brightest minds in fintech and crypto, Stablecon provides attendees with world class thought leadership and fosters unparalleled networking and strategic collaboration across the digital payments industry. Whether you're building, advising, or navigating this new frontier, this is the room where it happens.

About BVNK

BVNK is the leading provider of stablecoin payments infrastructure, helping businesses move money faster, settle globally, and even launch their own stablecoin products. Head to https://bvnk.com/ to learn more.

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In this episode of Money Code, hosts Chuk Okpalugo and Raj Parekh sit down with Benji Fernandes, founder and CEO of NALA, a remittance business for diaspora customers, and Rafiki, its B2B infrastructure arm for emerging-market payouts, collections, and stablecoin settlement.

They unpack how consumer remittance volume pushed NALA to own more of the rails, why 96 out of 100 stablecoin trades in its markets are USDT, and why licenses, liquidity, and local payout infrastructure decide what stablecoins can actually do.

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Chapters

00:00 What NALA does: remittance, Rafiki, and emerging-market rails

01:56 Why Benji entered a "saturated" remittance market

04:56 The failed first version of NALA

06:35 Africa's fragmentation problem: 54 countries, 40 currencies

08:20 The FX loss that pulled NALA into infrastructure

12:48 The NALA stack: ledger, treasury, distribution

18:47 Where stablecoins actually help

20:43 Three stablecoin patterns Benji is watching

26:13 Local wallets: four customer problems inside one product

31:09 The liquidity problem behind stablecoin on/off ramps

35:29 "Solve my problem fastest": what users care about

36:10 The stablecoin hype Benji pushes back on

40:44 TAM has to follow customer behavior

44:39 Payments for the next billion

47:40 Why Rafiki scaled after everyone called it a distraction

49:56 Where to find Benji and NALA

Connect with the Hosts & Guest

Chuk Okpalugo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuk-okpalugo/ | https://x.com/chukxyz/ | https://stablecoinblueprint.com

Raj Parekh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajparekh7/ | https://x.com/rajparekh | http://monad.xyz

Benji Fernandes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminf7/ | https://x.com/BenjiFernandes | https://www.nala.com | https://www.rafiki.com

About Stablecon

Stablecon (https://stablecon.com/) is the premier gathering for those at the intersection of DeFi, economic policy, financial infrastructure, and institutional integration, and those reinventing global commerce. By convening the brightest minds in fintech and crypto, Stablecon provides attendees with world class thought leadership and fosters unparalleled networking and strategic collaboration across the digital payments industry. Whether you're building, advising, or navigating this new frontier, this is the room where it happens.

About BVNK

BVNK is the leading provider of stablecoin payments infrastructure, helping businesses move money faster, settle globally, and even launch their own stablecoin products. Head to https://bvnk.com/ to learn more.