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  Money Is Power, and Power Is Shifting: Marieke Flament on the Great Monetary Reset 20.09.2026 56dk

  Who actually holds power in the global financial system, and how is digital money quietly rewiring it? To find out, Stefan sits down with Marieke Flament, an independent board director, strategic advisor and co-author of Currency of Power, who has had a front-row seat to almost every chapter of money's transformation. She was Managing Director for Europe at Circle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, ran the digital bank Mettle and led the NEAR Foundation, and today serves as an independent board director, including on the euro-stablecoin venture Qivalis. With her co-author Nicolas Colin she writes Currency of Power, some of the sharpest analysis anywhere on the geopolitics of money. The through-line is her thesis that money is power, and that power is shifting. Marieke explains what she means by a great monetary reset: how the dollar became the world's reserve currency and why that role is now being questioned, from the 2008 break in trust and the 2014 turn to sanctions to the birth of Bitcoin. She shows why the US is leaning into dollar stablecoins as a way to create fresh, retail-driven demand for its Treasuries, and why that is a different instrument from a tokenized bank deposit: stablecoin issuers behave like narrow banks that hold one dollar of safe assets for every token, while banks run fractional reserves. Along the way she makes plain why long-term US yields at a nineteen-year high, and Japan and Norway rattling the sabre over selling Treasuries, actually matter. From there the conversation opens out to the other great powers and to Europe. Marieke unpacks China's full-stack strategy and its gold-backed rails, why de-dollarization is far less simple than it sounds when the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the greenback, and why Europe is caught in between. She argues that a well-designed euro stablecoin is a must-have rather than a nice-to-have, driven by agentic AI commerce and the tokenization of financial markets, and explains what the 37-bank Qivalis consortium is really for: cross-border flows, corporate treasuries and the network effects Europe cannot afford to cede. The episode closes on how wholesale central-bank money, tokenized deposits and stablecoins might stack like layers of a cake, and on Marieke's hope that the shift now underway stays a peaceful one. A big-picture, plain-language conversation about money as power. Enjoy the episode.
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  Agentic Payments: When Is a Payment (Un)Authorized? 13.09.2026 42dk

  Co-host Michael Blaschke’s solo stocktake after Sonja Davidovic (IMF) and Peter Grosskopf (AllUnity). Where stablecoins win, where cards keep chargebacks, and why PSD2 can’t tell you if your agent’s payment was authorized.
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  Commercial Bank Money Tokens: The Missing Piece of the Tokenized Economy? 06.09.2026 59dk

  What are commercial bank money tokens, and why do corporates need them? Manfred Richels and Tim Bailey explain how CBMTs work and where they fit alongside stablecoins and CBDCs.
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  Tether, Revolut Stablecoin, and the Custody Wars | Monthly Briefing 30.08.2026 51dk

  Bitcoin rallied 25%, a hardware wallet flaw shook self-custody, and Citi entered crypto custody. A fast recap of August’s biggest moves in Bitcoin, stablecoins, and digital money.
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  Stablecoins & Agentic Payments: Peter Grosskopf of AllUnity 23.08.2026 1sa 4dk

  AllUnity’s Peter Grosskopf joins us on agentic payments. From launching a euro stablecoin (plus Swiss franc and Swedish krona) to real-world use cases, hear where machine-driven payments are heading.
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  Agents Propose, Humans Approve: Ledger's Kasper Luyckx on Custody After Coldcard 16.08.2026 47dk

  Every crypto holder relies on one thing and rarely thinks about it until it fails: how the keys are kept safe. Just days after the Coldcard hack drained over $100 million from users who appeared to do everything right, Ledger's Head of EMEA Kasper Luyckx joins Stefan to explain what really keeps digital assets safe, from hardware signers to bank-grade HSMs. Kasper, who has seen custody from both sides after years at UBS and Crypto Finance, walks through what actually went wrong at Coldcard (a seed generated in software instead of the secure chip, with far too little randomness), why it was an isolated firmware failure rather than an indictment of self-custody, and how Ledger's in-house attack lab, the Donjon, works. From there the conversation opens up: the real gap between retail and institutional custody, where multisig, MPC and HSMs fit, and the big shift from simply storing crypto to on-chain payments and tokenized securities. They also dig into AI on both sides of security, including Ledger's new Agent Stack, where AI agents can propose transactions but a human still approves each one on the device. The throughline: as AI makes vulnerabilities cheaper to find, keeping a human in the loop matters more than ever, and most people will end up holding value in a hybrid of self-custody and trusted custodians. Enjoy the episode.
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  How Agentic AI Will Reshape Payments: An Introduction 09.08.2026 58dk

  What are agentic payments, and how will they change payments? Sonja Davidovic explains the architecture, opportunities and challenges of AI agents initiating payments on our behalf.
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  OpenUSD, Swift Ledger, Agorá: Who Wins Settlement? | Monthly Briefing 02.08.2026 1sa 8dk

  OUSD launches with 140 firms, Swift’s ledger pilots with 17 banks, Circle gets a US bank charter, and the Digital Euro enters trilogue. July 2026 in full.
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  Europe’s Neutral Layer Goes Live: RL1’s Inaugural Week with SWIAT CTO Ivica Aračić 26.07.2026 59dk

  RL1 goes live. SWIAT CTO Ivica Aračić on building a neutral cooperative platform where assets, services, and central bank money finally meet—and why Canton is the real rival.
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  From MiCA to GENIUS: Joey Garcia on the Global Stablecoin Race & Bitcoin Banking 19.07.2026 43dk

  Joey Garcia discusses Libra's legacy, OpenUSD and why stablecoin regulation is evolving differently around the world. A global perspective spanning MiCA, the GENIUS Act and beyond.
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  We Won. Now What? Fireblocks' Goldi On Stablecoins' Next Phase 12.07.2026 45dk

  Fireblock’s Ran (Goldi) Goldshtein explains why the blockchain and crypto space has "won", what comes next with the OpenUSD stablecoin consortium, and how AI agents could reshape the future of payments and financial infrastructure
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  Episode 400 Jubilee: Our 7-Year Journey and Live Insights from PZF 2026 05.07.2026 1sa 20dk

  BFRR hits 400 episodes. The team reflects on seven years covering institutional DLT, then shares hot takes from 15 guests at PZF 2026 on governance, stablecoins, and monetary sovereignty.
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  Saylor Sells and Transatlantic Money Showdown | Monthly Briefing 28.06.2026 1sa 8dk

  June was brutal for crypto, yet the real story sits underneath: Saylor selling, Vitalik's privacy pivot, Stablecoin projects continue, and a sharpening transatlantic split over who anchors tokenized money.
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  From Libra to AGI: Christian Catalini on the Future of Money 21.06.2026 46dk

  Libra architect Christian Catalini discusses stablecoins, AI agents, the role of Bitcoin and why the future of money may be built on open networks, leveraging programmability and open standards.
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  Building the Bridge: How Public-Private Dialogue Shapes Financial Architecture 14.06.2026 1sa

  GFTN’s Pat Patel on building Point Zero Forum, the future of stablecoins and agentic AI, and why coexistence beats winner-takes-all in the next wave of digital money.
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  From PayPal to Stellar: The Journey of Jose Fernandez da Ponte 07.06.2026 45dk

  Why would PayPal's former Head of Crypto join Stellar? José Fernández da Ponte explains why stablecoins, tokenization and open blockchain infrastructure are reaching a tipping point.
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  Stablecoins in Europe: Consortia Bulls vs. Central Bank Bears | Monthly Briefing 31.05.2026 1sa 1dk

  Stablecoins took over May. We unpack Kivalis’ 25-bank expansion, AllUnity’s agentic payments, Lagarde’s bearish take, the MiCA review, and the Clarity Act’s path through the Senate.
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  The Convergence of Capital Markets and Blockchain 24.05.2026 59dk

  Clearstream’s Thilo Derenbach explains how Deutsche Börse is building hybrid market infrastructure for tokenised securities, digital assets and collateral mobility.
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  From Libra to Legitimacy: Circle's Stablecoin R(e)volution 17.05.2026 50dk

  Circle’s Dante Disparte on regulatory wins, its own Arc blockchain, agentic payments and tokenized money's place in the global financial system.
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  How Europe Is Rewriting Financial Rules for DLT: MISP overview 10.05.2026 39dk

  Anika Patz, Partner at lawfirm YPOG, provides an overview of Europe’s Market Integration and Supervision Package (MISP) that will significantly change European financial market regulation and embed DLT.