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 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>