We sit down in Bermuda with Mountain Protocol founder Martin Carrica and XBTO founder Philippe Bekhazi for a talk on stablecoins and doing business on the island. In this episode:

• Why XBTO is Bermuda-first and why Mountain set up there
• The “Bermuda triangle” for doing business on the island
• The overlap between Bermuda’s reinsurance industry and crypto
• The partnership between Mountain and XBTO
• The rise of interest-bearing stablecoins
• USD stables as extending the reach of the dollar
• The relationship between crypto and big 4 auditors
• The coming race between interest and non-interest bearing stablecoins
• Blackrock’s BUIDL product and tokenized treasurys

Wyatt sits down with Julian Duran, product lead of Marathon Digital’s Anduro project. Discussion included:

• Why miners are strategically expanding and exploring new initiatives
• New innovation in Bitcoin broadly
• How Bitcoin today differs from Bitcoin 2+ years ago
• Where Bitcoin L2’s and sidechains are headed

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Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:

• We recap the Coin Center annual dinner
• Will Biden follow through on his SAB121 veto threat?
• The Biden admin is reportedly reaching out to key industry figures
• Ethereum ETF prospects
• Recap of the fight that didn’t happen
• Prediction market issues
• Gemini Earn recovery

Sponsor notes

• Exploring the Impacts of ETH ETF Approvals
• In Coin Metrics' State of the Network issue 261, we explore the market reaction and network implications of ETH ETF approvals