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About this episode
We've known co-founder Sébastien Dérivaux to be a veritable wellspring of crypto and banking — and "crypto banking" — knowledge since before we started working with Steakhouse Financial: pioneers of transparent, efficient, and accessible blockchain markets. In addition to collaborating with Coinshift on vault curation, Seb's become a go-to guru for both the big picture and hyper-detailed conversations about where financial infrastructure is going — and how to stay ahead of the game.
When our editors interviewed Seb and fellow co-founder ADVC for a feature in The Value Add magazine last year, they were easily the biggest stablecoin specialists in the web3 space. They've remained the clear leaders as the market has begun to explode.
So, it felt only natural to kick off 2025 with a new conversation, given the energy around stablecoins at the start of the new year. If you have been watching this space, you will be happy to find that Seb's predictions — which per our mantra are not advice — track with our own: this is the year of the stablecoin.
But it won't be the only one. As stablecoins grow more yield and facilitate greater adoption, they're set not to pad our wallets, but to define an entire era of financial infrastructure.
Don't take our word for it. Listen to Seb explain.
Timestamps
00:00 - Kicking off 2025
00:24 - What is Steakhouse doubling down on in 2025?
02:18 - What is crypto banking?
05:58 - The essentials of crypto banking
07:41 - Lending protocols are today’s stablecoin issuers
12:19 - What makes a good reserve for stablecoins?
19:03 - How did the stablecoin market grow from $50M to $3B?
25:57 - You have $100,000 onchain. What do you do?
29:39 - Stablecoin wars: which one comes out on top?
30:38 - Final thoughts
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