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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

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 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.

In this special crossover episode from Stable Pulse, host Nik Milanović sits down with Chairman French Hill to discuss the GENIUS Act, the CLARITY Act, and the future of stablecoin regulation in the United States. They explore how stablecoins are reshaping payments, what clear regulation means for banks and non-bank issuers, and why the distinction between stablecoins and tokenized deposits matters. Chairman Hill also shares his perspective on reserve standards, compliance, and how policymakers are balancing innovation with consumer protection. The conversation concludes with a look at the future of asset tokenization, blockchain-based financial markets, and what it will take for the U.S. to remain a global leader in digital finance.

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In this episode of Money Code, hosts Chuk Okpalugo and Raj Parekh sit down with Jack Chong, co-founder and CEO of Checker, a stablecoin liquidity network for regulated financial institutions that processed more than $3B over the last 12 months.

They unpack why "USD is not the same in different countries," how stablecoins are creating a correspondent banking 2.0 layer, and why stablecoin payments still depend on local liquidity, settlement timing, and the bottlenecks around them.

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Chapters

00:00 Checker’s stablecoin network for financial institutions

01:48 Convert and trade vs send and receive

04:30 Why one API is not enough

09:33 Demand side, supply side, and who actually provides liquidity

13:26 "USD is not the same in different countries"

17:15 Correspondent banking 2.0 for emerging-market fintechs

20:27 How Checker expands beyond convert and trade

23:11 Float, settlement financing, and money at rest

28:09 Why USDT and USDC are not always one-to-one

35:09 What makes a stablecoin liquid

38:54 Start with the customer’s P&L, not the token

46:02 Showing up: what Jack learned in Lagos and Brazil

50:47 Where to find Jack and Checker

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

Jack Chong / Checker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-chong/ | https://www.checker.finance

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 Mark Frey, Group President of Corpay Cross-Border Solutions, which moves money to almost 200 countries in 145 currencies, and Keith Vander Leest, US General Manager at BVNK, fresh off the two companies launching embedded stablecoin wallets for Corpay's corporate clients.

They unpack why cost "is not really a big driver" for stablecoin adoption when in-country payments already cost pennies, why the real prize is moving trapped liquidity 24/7 after wire cutoffs, and why "no one's really asking for stablecoins" even as providers route more volume onto them.

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Chapters

00:00 What Corpay manages across 145 currencies and 200 countries

03:08 The launch: embedded stablecoin wallets for corporate clients

05:38 Blockchains as the fourth generation of payment rails

08:38 "Cost is not really a big driver": the 24/7 unlock

10:15 "Swift is sleeping": instant rails that don't interoperate

14:36 "No one's really asking for stablecoins"

21:24 Blockchain will disintermediate SWIFT

26:55 Why stablecoins need more than dollars

31:17 "We wanted to get on offense": how an incumbent ramps up

34:56 The 80/20 problem: stablecoin volume is still mostly crypto trading

38:14 Public stablecoins and private bank chains, hand in glove

43:06 "Why are we talking about yield on balances?"

46:48 Where to find Mark, Keith, Corpay, and BVNK

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

Mark Frey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-frey-cross-border-payments/ | https://www.corpay.com

Keith Vander Leest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keithvanderleest/ | https://bvnk.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.

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In this episode of Money Code, hosts Chuk Okpalugo and Raj Parekh sit down with Alfonso Gómez-Jordana and Rodrigo Fernández Touza, co-founders of Crossmint, a financial infrastructure company building wallets, stablecoin orchestration, and agentic commerce tools.

They unpack why launching fintech globally can move from country-by-country banking integrations to a single API, how compliance shifts to infrastructure providers with economies of scale, and why the loudest agentic-payment narratives still have little volume compared with B2B procurement and payment collection.

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Chapters

00:00 Crossmint's evolution from NFT checkout to financial infrastructure

02:12 No API for economic activity

04:14 The monastery origin story behind Crossmint

07:51 Why NFT checkout became stablecoin infrastructure

10:02 Embedded finance: turning remittance receivers into wallet customers

13:23 Stablecoins as the universal API for global fintech

16:12 The regulatory-arbitrage objection

21:10 Four compliance surfaces in stablecoin programs

23:55 MoneyGram: reducing costs and turning receivers into customers

25:59 Marshall Islands: replacing cash-by-boat with stablecoin wallets

30:44 Agentic finance: real usage versus narrative heat

37:10 Why agents need multi-rail infrastructure

43:27 How Crossmint decides what to build next

48:39 Building enterprise trust in a frontier market

53:14 Where to find Alfonso, Rodri, and Crossmint

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

Alfonso Gómez-Jordana: https://x.com/alfongj

Rodrigo Fernández Touza: https://x.com/rodrifernandezt

Crossmint: https://www.crossmint.com | https://x.com/crossmint | https://www.linkedin.com/company/crossmint-io

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 Thierry Edde, Head of Crypto at Deel, to unpack what five years building global payroll infrastructure taught him about where stablecoins add value.

They break down why workers want dollar balances inside payroll apps, why compliant stablecoin salaries still run through local fiat rails, and how Deel is using Akai agents to clean up the payment failures deterministic code misses.

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Chapters

00:00 Deel's payments surface: 40,000 businesses, 150 countries

02:19 Why a late salary becomes an escalation

04:14 RFIs, SWIFT, and the missing status problem

06:44 Argentina showed every withdrawal path was in play

10:21 "Just people getting paid": hiding the chain

11:56 The wallet works because the off-ramps already exist

17:13 Businesses fund in stables, employees get paid compliantly

20:18 Reversing the stablecoin sandwich

23:29 DLUSD, card demand, and rewards behavior

28:36 Fiat payment scars matter for stablecoin scale

33:05 Akai agents and the last 1% of payout automation

36:37 Building Deel as an AI-native payment stack

40:31 Wallet expansion and where Deel goes next

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

Thierry Edde: https://x.com/thierryEdde44 | https://www.deel.com/ | https://x.com/deel

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.