Archive - 51 Insights

How the U.S. Weaponized the Dollar (And Stablecoins), with Eddie Fishman, New York Times Bestseller

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14 hrs ago • Marc Baumann and Sangam Bharti

44:22

wall street is tokenizing itself

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Apr 21 • Marc Baumann and Sangam Bharti

174: Goldman's first Bitcoin ETF

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Apr 17 • Marc Baumann and Sangam Bharti

8:52

European banks are building their stablecoin stack

On April 8, UBS, PostFinance, Sygnum, Raiffeisen, Zürcher Kantonalbank, and BCV launched a joint CHF stablecoin sandbox with Swiss Stablecoin AG. On…

Apr 16 • Marc Baumann and Sangam Bharti

Deutsche Börse bought its way into US crypto stack

On April 14, the operator of Frankfurt exchange, Deutsche Börse AG, dropped $200M for a 1.5% stake in Kraken, exactly six weeks after Kraken quietly…

Apr 16 • Marc Baumann and Sangam Bharti

Wall Street's trust bank sprint

On March 25, 2026, EDX Markets Holding Company filed with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to charter EDX Trust, National Association, as a…

Apr 13 • Marc Baumann and Sangam Bharti

173: iran chose bitcoin

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Apr 10 • Marc Baumann and Sangam Bharti

9:06

the scalability trade-off is dead, with Bryan Pellegrino, CEO of LayerZero

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Apr 8 • Marc Baumann and Sangam Bharti

57:41

SoFi is now a stablecoin bank

SoFi Bank, N.A. launched SoFi Big Business Banking, a regulated enterprise platform that unifies fiat currency, stablecoins, and select cryptocurrencies…

Apr 6 • Marc Baumann and Sangam Bharti

172: four rules, five days

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Apr 3 • Marc Baumann and Chandan

10:09

the first on-chain M&A

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Apr 3 • Marc Baumann and Sangam Bharti

Arizona is lending its Bitcoin

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Apr 1 • Marc Baumann and Sangam Bharti

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