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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

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