Stablecoins Collapse Global Expansion for Fintechs w/ Alfonso + Rodri (Crossmint)

<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 Alfonso Gómez-Jordana and Rodrigo Fernández Touza, co-founders of Crossmint, a financial infrastructure company building wallets, stablecoin orchestration, and agentic commerce tools.</p><p>They unpack why launching fintech globally can move from country-by-country banking integrations to a single API, how compliance shifts to infrastructure providers with economies of scale, and why the loudest agentic-payment narratives still have little volume compared with B2B procurement and payment collection.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Subscribe and listen to the Money Code podcast here:</strong></p><p>https://lnk.to/MoneyCodeSN</p><p><strong>Chapters</strong></p><p>00:00 Crossmint&#39;s evolution from NFT checkout to financial infrastructure</p><p>02:12 No API for economic activity</p><p>04:14 The monastery origin story behind Crossmint</p><p>07:51 Why NFT checkout became stablecoin infrastructure</p><p>10:02 Embedded finance: turning remittance receivers into wallet customers</p><p>13:23 Stablecoins as the universal API for global fintech</p><p>16:12 The regulatory-arbitrage objection</p><p>21:10 Four compliance surfaces in stablecoin programs</p><p>23:55 MoneyGram: reducing costs and turning receivers into customers</p><p>25:59 Marshall Islands: replacing cash-by-boat with stablecoin wallets</p><p>30:44 Agentic finance: real usage versus narrative heat</p><p>37:10 Why agents need multi-rail infrastructure</p><p>43:27 How Crossmint decides what to build next</p><p>48:39 Building enterprise trust in a frontier market</p><p>53:14 Where to find Alfonso, Rodri, and Crossmint</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>Alfonso Gómez-Jordana: https://x.com/alfongj</p><p>Rodrigo Fernández Touza: https://x.com/rodrifernandezt</p><p>Crossmint: https://www.crossmint.com | https://x.com/crossmint | https://www.linkedin.com/company/crossmint-io</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 reinven