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The Brake Nobody Built

How a stablecoin crisis simulation showed a room of practitioners that the danger in these systems sits in the settlement layer...
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💸 The Velocity Dividend
Everyone is pricing the transfer, but are the buyers pricing the wait?
 • Stuart Cook
You Can Pool a Cost, But Can Pool a Business?
BankChain's release describes a settlement utility and a stablecoin issuer in one sentence...
 • Stuart Cook
🕰️ The Last Shared Clock
We’re about to dissolve the business day...
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Money at Rest, Money in Motion
Everyone is still arguing about stablecoins versus banks. Meanwhile the rules look like handing yield to capital markets.
 • Stuart Cook
The Neutrality Trade
Stablecoin issuers are abandoning the public chains that made them possible. Payment network history suggests they're right to, and also that this may…
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When the deposit beta goes agentic
Deposit franchises are priced on a depositor who has to notice and money that takes a day to move. Software is coming for both.
 • Stuart Cook
The Netflix Question
Banks are evaluating tokenized money as a project decision. The evidence says it's may be more like a business model decision.
 • Stuart Cook
🏦 Friction as the franchise
No customer is going to ask for tokenized deposits, but the demand is arriving anyway, through a door most banks aren't watching.
 • Stuart Cook
The Train and the Tracks
After spending the last century regulating the train. The risk is now moving to the tracks.
 • Stuart Cook
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