Stable.Report: Recent Episodes
Stable Report
Stable.Report is a bi-weekly series of interviews with stable cryptocurrency projects from around the world. Stable.Report is your go-to source to make sense of the current market enthusiasm around stablecoins. Our goal is to curate high-quality content and to increase awareness of developments in the space.
Whether you are a day trader, a hustler in the developing world, a tech-savvy merchant, or even a global techno-nomad, stablecoins are your holy grail. They are the stepping stone to mainstream crypto-adoption.
Stablecoin interview with Ranjeet Sodhi, Co-Founder and CEO of Vault, a USD-pegged stablecoin backed by and redeemable for LBMA gold and USD.
For this week's podcast, we have the pleasure of interviewing the Founder and CEO of Globcoin, Hélie d'Hautefort, and CFO Linda S. Leaney. Globcoin, based in the crypto-valley of Zug, issues a centralized ERC-20 Stablecoin backed by the top 15 global currencies plus gold, the GLX.
For this week's podcast, we have the pleasure of interviewing Tory Reiss, Co-Founder and VP of Corporate Development at TrustToken. TrustToken is an asset-tokenization platform which recently raised $20 million in a strategic token sale with the support of major VCs, such as Andreessen Horowitz and BlockTower capital. Their first product is a stable coin, TrueUSD, which already is among the top 100 coins by market cap.
For this week’s podcast, we have the pleasure of interviewing Ryan Kim, Co-Founder and CEO of Xank, a decentralized, meritocratically governed, self-funding, free-floating cryptocurrency with Stable Pay functionality in a single coin architecture. The Xank Treasury will go beyond funding protocol maintenance to fund projects that are urgent, impactful and meaningful to our lives.
For this week’s podcast we had the gusto of interviewing Nevin Freeman, Founder of Reserve Protocol, a stablecoin project that closed their first round of 5 million dollars from investors like Coinbase and Peter Thiel. Reserve has a team of 20 people, including Google and OpenAI veterans, and an advisory relationship with Patomak Global Advisors, led by former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins. But it’s a pretty stealthy startup, so we are excited to learn more about it today.
For this podcast, we are delighted to interview Gregory Klumov, CEO & Founder of STASIS, a fiat-backed stablecoin based in Malta. This June, they introduced a euro-pegged stable coin, EURS, and outlined their aim of bridging the gap between decentralized finance and off chain markets. The Maltese Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat, was at the launch event and spoke about how Malta was taking the lead in establishing itself as the 'blockchain island' with the passing of new legislation on cryptocurrencies and blockchain.
For this week’s podcast, we have the honour of interviewing Preston Byrne. Preston is a banking and securities lawyer in London, specialising in securitisation and derivatives. He advises the Adam Smith Institute on legal aspects of its policy proposals and writes on a range of subjects including housing and planning law, the security state, freedom of expression and, of course, cryptocurrency. He is also a founder and former COO of Monax, makers of the first open-source permissioned blockchain client way back in 2014, which is now known as the Hyperledger Burrow. Preston has written critically about stablecoin projects, and is an outspoken and often-quoted critic of the current state in cryptocurrency , which we really need. Also: he loves marmots. Actually, thats how we got in touch, through a marmot meme, but that’s another story.
For the Stable.Report's fifth interview, we had the pleasure of conversing with the fantastic Rune Christensen, Founder of MakerDAO - makers of the stablecoin DAI - if you listen to this podcast, you probably are familiar with it. At the moment, MakerDAO allows anyone with Ether to deposit it as collateral and receive DAI, a crypto-collateralized stablecoin, in exchange. But many things are happening at Maker, including the collateral they accept, so we were really excited to learn more about the organization's developments. I have to say, DAI was probably the first stablecoin I heard of, the work being done by the community at educating people and introducing them to stablecoins is worth learning from.
An interview with Elizabeth White, founder & CEO of the White Company, and co-founder Edgar Radjabli. The White Company was founded in 2017 to provide the opportunity for clients holding cryptocurrency to purchase luxury goods without giving up their desire for privacy. As the business grew, it became evident to The White Company that there was a tremendous need for asset management and payment facilitation in cryptocurrency. Last year, they announced the development of the White Standard, a fee-less, centralized stablecoin backed by fiat, as well as a payment solution in partnership with hedge fund Apis Capital.
SweetBridge is an organisation with an over-arching vision and framework to power individuals, businesses and governments to transform global commerce and supply chains using their Blockchain based protocol stack, and their stablecoin, BridgeCoin.
An interview with Kain Warwick, Founder of Havven, a fee-based crypto-collateralised stablecoin built on Ethereum that recently completed their ICO hard cap of $30 million in less than 90 minutes, making it the largest Australian cryptocurrency project.
An interview with Kory Hoang, Co-Founder and CEO of Stably Blockchain Labs, a company based in Vancouver which issues StableUSD, a fiat-backed stablecoin designed to work across multiple blockchain protocols