How Crypto Onboarding Finally Gets Easier - Aditi Sriram | ATC #618

ATC - Seni Thomas, Founder and CEO of EDGE Markets

Join our host, Stephen Sargeant [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-brent-sargeant-cams/], as he welcomes Seni Thomas [https://www.linkedin.com/in/senithomas/], CEO and founder of EDGE Markets [https://edgemarkets.io/], to discuss prediction markets and EDGE’s role in compliant, high-velocity fund movement across regulated venues. Thomas covers EDGE’s $29.2M Series A led by CoinFund, the partnership with Kalshi, and why fragmentation into multiple liquidity pools could drive far higher volumes than current projections. He explains EDGE’s origins in gaming money movement, the pivot from leverage to solving banking constraints, and the launch of a limited-use checking account with a $1M debit limit that blocks non-allowlisted transactions to reduce AML risk. The episode also explores EDGE Boost, EDGE Connect, and EDGE Pro, real-time payments via RTP/FedNow, crypto-to-fiat rails via Zero Hash, plans for an FCM license to reduce dead capital, views on evolving state/federal regulation, and responsible gaming tools like universal limits, Copilot social accountability, and a planned disposable-income-based limit feature.   We are also available via: * Around The Coin — Official Website [https://www.aroundthecoin.com/] * Buzzsprout [https://aroundthecoin.buzzsprout.com/] * Apple Podcast [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/around-the-coin/id805021615] * Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/45k32XWYX3sR4zBVXxvDhf] * Player FM [https://player.fm/series/around-the-coin] * Quora [https://aroundthecoin.quora.com/] * Medium [https://medium.com/around-the-coin] * X [https://twitter.com/aroundthecoin]  * Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/aroundthecoin/] * LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/around-the-coin/] * Tiktok [https://www.tiktok.com/@aroundthecoinpodcast] * Soundcloud [https://soundcloud.com/aroundthecoin]

How Crypto Onboarding Finally Gets Easier - Aditi Sriram | ATC #618

On Around The Coin, host Stephen Sargeant [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-brent-sargeant-cams/] welcomes Aditi Shriram [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditi-sriram22/], COO of Para [https://www.getpara.com/], to discuss her path into crypto from seeing Vitalik speak and starting at ConsenSys, plus her experience as a venture scout for Bain Capital Crypto. Aditi explains Para’s focus on wallet infrastructure for companies building on-chain financial products, highlighting stablecoin-driven use cases like remittances, embedded finance, payouts, treasury, and early agentic commerce. She details Para’s differentiation through a security-first distributed MPC model, stack neutrality, and modular integrations, and shares Para 3.0 updates driven by global customer needs. The conversation covers reusable KYC and permissioned identity sharing, the challenges of autonomous transaction authorization, views on super wallets, X402’s strengths and gaps, and what it’s like operating launches and roadmap priorities as a product-minded COO.   We are also available via: * Around The Coin — Official Website [https://www.aroundthecoin.com/] * Buzzsprout [https://aroundthecoin.buzzsprout.com/] * Apple Podcast [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/around-the-coin/id805021615] * Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/45k32XWYX3sR4zBVXxvDhf] * Player FM [https://player.fm/series/around-the-coin] * Quora [https://aroundthecoin.quora.com/] * Medium [https://medium.com/around-the-coin] * X [https://twitter.com/aroundthecoin]  * Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/aroundthecoin/] * LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/around-the-coin/] * Tiktok [https://www.tiktok.com/@aroundthecoinpodcast] * Soundcloud [https://soundcloud.com/aroundthecoin]

How AI Agents Use Stablecoins - Xen Baynham-Herd | ATC #617

Join our host Stephen Sargeant [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-brent-sargeant-cams/] with Xen Baynham-Herd [https://www.linkedin.com/in/xen-baynham-herd-01685775/], Head of Growth and Marketing at Base [https://www.base.org/], on the Around The Coin podcast to discuss Base’s newest launches. Base Ledgers for enterprise-grade private transactions (shielded from the public but visible to regulators/auditors) and Base MCP, which connects chat interfaces like ChatGPT/Claude to a wallet and Base apps so agents can execute DeFi actions with user approval. Xen shares his path from TradFi and five years at Blockchain.com to working with Balaji Srinivasan on The Network State, and explains how Base is growing across trading, lending, payments (including major USDC transfer volume and local-currency stablecoins), and agents. They cover institutional adoption, X402 as an internet payments protocol enabling agentic commerce, Agentic market, and Xen’s approach to global expansion and building founder-driven communities. We are also available via: * Around The Coin — Official Website [https://www.aroundthecoin.com/] * Buzzsprout [https://aroundthecoin.buzzsprout.com/] * Apple Podcast [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/around-the-coin/id805021615] * Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/45k32XWYX3sR4zBVXxvDhf] * Player FM [https://player.fm/series/around-the-coin] * Quora [https://aroundthecoin.quora.com/] * Medium [https://medium.com/around-the-coin] * X [https://twitter.com/aroundthecoin]  * Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/aroundthecoin/] * LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/around-the-coin/] * Tiktok [https://www.tiktok.com/@aroundthecoinpodcast] * Soundcloud [https://soundcloud.com/aroundthecoin]

ATC - Itai Turbahn, Co-Founder & CEO of Dynamic and Tal Zackon, Co-Founder & CEO of TRES Finance

Join our host Stephen Sargeant [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-brent-sargeant-cams/] with Itai Turbahn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/turbahn/https:/www.linkedin.com/in/turbahn/] from Dynamic [https://www.dynamic.xyz/] and Tal Zackon [https://www.linkedin.com/in/talzackon/https:/www.linkedin.com/in/talzackon/] from TRES Finance [https://tres.finance/], both now under Fireblocks [https://www.fireblocks.com/], for a deep dive into agentic AI and what it means for payments, compliance, cybersecurity, and stablecoins. They explain why today’s human-in-the-loop rails like cards and ACH don’t scale for agent-to-agent microtransactions, and why crypto rails and stablecoins can enable instant, low-cost, high-volume programmable payments that should remain invisible to end users. Tal shares how TRES is using AI tools like Vara and MCP to automate repetitive back-office reconciliation and help compliance teams operate with an “army of agents” while maintaining audit trails. They also discuss agent identity, emerging standards like x402 and MPP, fraud and chargebacks, enterprise treasury efficiencies with stablecoins, and how to stay relevant by learning and building hands-on.    We are also available via: * Around The Coin — Official Website [https://www.aroundthecoin.com/] * Buzzsprout [https://aroundthecoin.buzzsprout.com/] * Apple Podcast [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/around-the-coin/id805021615] * Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/45k32XWYX3sR4zBVXxvDhf] * Player FM [https://player.fm/series/around-the-coin] * Quora [https://aroundthecoin.quora.com/] * Medium [https://medium.com/around-the-coin] * X [https://twitter.com/aroundthecoin]  * Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/aroundthecoin/] * LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/around-the-coin/] * Tiktok [https://www.tiktok.com/@aroundthecoinpodcast] * Soundcloud [https://soundcloud.com/aroundthecoin]

How Stablecoins Fix Cross-Border Payments - Chris Mason | ATC #615

Host Stephen Sargeant [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-brent-sargeant-cams/] interviews Chris Mason [https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-mason-24957614/], founder and CEO of Orbital [https://www.getorbital.com/], about building stablecoin infrastructure and how it can improve cross-border payments compared with traditional correspondent banking and SWIFT. Mason explains Orbital’s background processing stablecoins for seven years, its focus on corporate clients, and why transaction controls, authorizations, segregation of client funds, and compliance (including travel rule and blockchain analytics tools) matter as much as speed. They discuss common use cases like pay-ins, payouts, auto-conversions for firms that want stablecoin speed without holding stablecoins on balance sheet, and growing demand for emerging-market on/off-ramps. The conversation covers licensing burdens, regulatory arbitrage, crypto’s potential for better financial crime detection due to on-chain visibility, stablecoins in crisis or sanctioned-region trade for non-sanctioned goods, and how industry M&A and AI may shape Orbital’s next phase. We are also available via: * Around The Coin — Official Website [https://www.aroundthecoin.com/] * Buzzsprout [https://aroundthecoin.buzzsprout.com/] * Apple Podcast [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/around-the-coin/id805021615] * Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/45k32XWYX3sR4zBVXxvDhf] * Player FM [https://player.fm/series/around-the-coin] * Quora [https://aroundthecoin.quora.com/] * Medium [https://medium.com/around-the-coin] * X [https://twitter.com/aroundthecoin]  * Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/aroundthecoin/] * LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/around-the-coin/] * Tiktok [https://www.tiktok.com/@aroundthecoinpodcast] * Soundcloud [https://soundcloud.com/aroundthecoin]