Wall Street's largest banks are preparing their own stablecoin infrastructure while the London Stock Exchange Group and Kraken work toward tokenized UK stocks. Matt looks at whether bank-issued stablecoins can realistically challenge Tether and Circle, why stablecoin-yield rules could give traditional banks a competitive advantage, and how Robinhood's blockchain activity fits into the broader convergence between traditional finance and crypto-native markets.
The infrastructure story extends into AI and security. Hut 8's massive data-center agreements show how quickly Bitcoin miners are becoming AI infrastructure companies, while Ripple prepares the XRP Ledger for future quantum threats and Zcash works to make private transactions dramatically faster. Matt also examines the emerging cybersecurity risk from increasingly capable AI systems that can discover vulnerabilities in publicly accessible software, including the smart contracts, bridges and wallets securing billions of dollars in crypto.
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