Stablecoins Are Payroll's Dollar Account Layer w/ Thierry Edde (Deel)

<p>Presented by Stablecon; Powered by BVNK.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of Money Code, hosts Chuk Okpalugo and Raj Parekh sit down with Thierry Edde, Head of Crypto at Deel, to unpack what five years building global payroll infrastructure taught him about where stablecoins add value.</p><p>They break down why workers want dollar balances inside payroll apps, why compliant stablecoin salaries still run through local fiat rails, and how Deel is using Akai agents to clean up the payment failures deterministic code misses.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Subscribe and listen to the Money Code podcast here:</strong></p><p>https://lnk.to/MoneyCodeSN</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Chapters</strong></p><p>00:00 Deel&#39;s payments surface: 40,000 businesses, 150 countries</p><p>02:19 Why a late salary becomes an escalation</p><p>04:14 RFIs, SWIFT, and the missing status problem</p><p>06:44 Argentina showed every withdrawal path was in play</p><p>10:21 &quot;Just people getting paid&quot;: hiding the chain</p><p>11:56 The wallet works because the off-ramps already exist</p><p>17:13 Businesses fund in stables, employees get paid compliantly</p><p>20:18 Reversing the stablecoin sandwich</p><p>23:29 DLUSD, card demand, and rewards behavior</p><p>28:36 Fiat payment scars matter for stablecoin scale</p><p>33:05 Akai agents and the last 1% of payout automation</p><p>36:37 Building Deel as an AI-native payment stack</p><p>40:31 Wallet expansion and where Deel goes next</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Connect with the Hosts &amp; Guest</strong></p><p>Chuk Okpalugo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuk-okpalugo/ | https://x.com/chuk_xyz/ | https://stablecoinblueprint.com</p><p>Raj Parekh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajparekh7/ | https://x.com/rajparekh | http://monad.xyz</p><p>Thierry Edde: https://x.com/thierryEdde44 | https://www.deel.com/ | https://x.com/deel</p><p><br></p><p><strong>About Stablecon</strong></p><p>Stablecon (https://stablecon.com/) is the premier gathering for those at the intersection of DeFi, economic policy, financial infrastructure, and institutional integration, and those reinventing global commerce. By convening the brightest minds in fintech and crypto, Stablecon provides attendees with world class thought leadership and fosters unparalleled networking and strategic collaboration across the digital payments industry. Whether you&#39;re building, advising, or navigating this new frontier, this is the room where it happens.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>About BVNK</strong></p><p>BVNK is the leading provider of stablecoin payments infrastructure, helping businesses move money faster, settle globally, and even launch their own stablecoin products. Head to https://bvnk.com/ to learn more.</p>