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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...
Sep 13
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Stuart Cook
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💸 The Velocity Dividend
Everyone is pricing the transfer, but are the buyers pricing the wait?
Sep 6
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Stuart Cook
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August 2026
You Can Pool a Cost, But Can Pool a Business?
BankChain's release describes a settlement utility and a stablecoin issuer in one sentence...
Aug 30
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Stuart Cook
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🕰️ The Last Shared Clock
We’re about to dissolve the business day...
Aug 23
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Stuart Cook
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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.
Aug 16
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Stuart Cook
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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…
Aug 9
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Stuart Cook
3
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.
Aug 2
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Stuart Cook
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July 2026
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.
Jul 26
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Stuart Cook
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🏦 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.
Jul 19
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Stuart Cook
4
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The Train and the Tracks
After spending the last century regulating the train. The risk is now moving to the tracks.
Jul 12
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Stuart Cook
2
The Operating Account Was Never Free
Open USD looks like an attack on Circle, but could it actually be a serious bid to buy back the float that has funded banking for fifty years?
Jul 5
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Stuart Cook
5
June 2026
The Tokenization Bifurcation
A Texas community bank shipped a dollar that can be a bank deposit and a stablecoin. Why it has to be both tells you a lot about what the rules are…
Jun 28
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Stuart Cook
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