Why Stablecoins Cards will eat Amex’s Busness with Will Nuelle of Galaxy Ventures
The Rollup29 Jan

Why Stablecoins Cards will eat Amex’s Busness with Will Nuelle of Galaxy Ventures

Will Nuelle from Galaxy Ventures reveals how stablecoin cards in emerging markets generated fatter margins than cross-border payments, catching everyone off guard.

We cover Rain's series C, why people in Thailand and Vietnam are replacing bank deposits with internet dollars, and Galaxy's December investment in on-chain loan servicing.


We cover:

- WalletConnect x Ingenico: 40M Terminals Now Accept Crypto

- Why B2B Stablecoin Payments Will Explode

- Keeping Transactions On-Chain vs. Crypto Cards

- 2% Cashback Rewards & Merchant Incentives

- The Path to $2 Quadrillion Onchain Payments

- Agent-to-Agent Payment Infrastructure


Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:27 Galaxy's 2025 Surprise Winner

03:32 Stablecoin Cards vs Cross-Border Payments

05:53 Rain & RedHotPay's Fat Margins

08:49 Dollar Access in Emerging Markets

09:38 YEET, Trezor, Halliday Ads

10:38 Lending Markets Meet Stablecoins

16:14 TenBin's Tokenized CME Positions

17:18 infiniFi, Hibachi, Kalshi Ad

18:24 Superstate's Equity Tokenization

22:39 The Two Buckets of Neo Finance

27:18 Quality Assets Still Missing On-Chain

30:45 Galaxy's Unannounced December Investment

33:21 Why Shared Ledgers Beat Fragmented Finance


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