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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

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