With Jonathan Wood of BVNK on Why Stablecoins Are Becoming the Backbone of Global Payments
About this episode
Jonathan Wood discusses the rise of stablecoins as a crucial element in global financial systems and their impact on payments and commerce.
Stablecoins are rapidly moving from a crypto niche to global financial infrastructure. In this conversation, Jonathan Wood explains why stablecoins are increasingly used by payment companies, global businesses, and international workforces, and how regulation is accelerating adoption across regions. We discuss how stablecoins are transforming cross-border payments, payroll, treasury management, and global commerce. - Why stablecoin adoption is accelerating with new regulation in Europe, the UAE, and the US - The industries already using stablecoins including payments, trading platforms, and e-commerce - Why stablecoins solve major problems in regions with unstable or depreciating currencies - How global workers are increasingly getting paid in stablecoins - Why cross-border payments are the strongest early use case - How companies are building wallets, cards, and spending layers on top of stablecoins - Why Visa and major payment networks are integrating stablecoin settlement - Why most crypto transaction volume today is actually stablecoins - How stablecoins could eventually become a global spending currency Stablecoins are increasingly becoming the blockchain version of the…
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