Ethereum's New Stablecoin Chain with Haonan Li
The Rollup5 Dec 2025

Ethereum's New Stablecoin Chain with Haonan Li

Ethereum's neutral infrastructure for all stablecoins is here.

In this episode of Stabled Up, Hoanan Li, co-founder and CEO of Codex, shares how they're building Ethereum's dedicated infrastructure for stablecoins and why they chose to build on Ethereum rather than launch their own L1.

From attacking the $7.5 trillion FX market to enabling regional stablecoins without USD intermediaries, Hoanan explains why the "research fetish" problem is holding crypto back and what institutional banking actually needs.


We discuss:

- Why Codex Chose Ethereum Over Building an L1

- The "Research Fetish" Problem in Crypto

- How Codex FX Attacks the $7.5T FX Market

- Regional Stablecoins Without USD Intermediaries

- Banking Licenses & Institutional BD Nobody Wants to Do


Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:48 Frax Ad

01:25 Hoanan's Origin Story

02:43 Why Build For All Stablecoins?

04:04 Ethereum's Stablecoin Spec Ops

05:06 Hibachi Ad, Trezor Ad, Yeet Ad

05:39 Avoiding Research Fetish

08:10 The Real Bottleneck: Fiat ↔ Crypto

09:25 Institutional Banking Approach

10:40 Codex FX Product Deep Dive

12:01 Challenging the FX Status Quo

13:08 Reshaping Global Commerce

15:43 Incremental FX Unbundling

16:42 Kalshi Ad, Halliday Ad, InfiniFi Ad

17:15 Q4/Q1 Roadmap & TNF Product


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