April 22, 2026
This week:
Yesterday on Stabledash Live - Unpacking Drift and Kelp DAO with Project 0 and Station 70, plus Stripe's 12-month pivot with VanEck Ventures and the enterprise conversation shift with ht.digital
Coming up tomorrow - M0 x Predicate joint segment, USDM1, Euroclear
What moved this week - Kelp DAO exploit drains $292M, class action filed against Circle over Drift, Infinite launches Infinite Accounts, DoorDash goes live on Tempo, OCBC tokenizes $526M of physical gold, Dfns embeds Yield.xyz across 80+ chains and more
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This Week on Stabledash Live
Drift, then Kelp DAO. Two major exploits in as many weeks dominated the industry conversation this past week, and Tuesday's show spent most of the day unpacking both - the events themselves, the response, and what it means for how operators and security professionals think about crypto going forward.
Both MacBrennan Peet (Project 0) and Adam Healy (Station 70) weighed in extensively across the show.
Tuesday, April 22:
MacBrennan Peet, Founder of Project 0 - on the Arbitrum Security Council's $70.9M freeze and why "permissionless purism" doesn't survive contact with sanctioned funds. adoption cycle, not a hype cycle.
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Adam Healy, Founder & CEO of Station 70 - ex-BlockFi and Bakkt CSO, on the Drift exploit as a nation-state-level intelligence operation and what that reframe means for every crypto security program going forward.
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Wyatt Lonergan, General Partner at VanEck Ventures - on what Stripe's 12-month crypto pivot signals about the center of gravity in onchain payments.
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Kevin Fitzgerald, Partner at ht.digital - ex-EY and ex-PwC, on how fast the enterprise conversation has moved from "do we allocate?" to "do we issue or integrate?"
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Tomorrow, Thursday 4/23 - Live at 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT:
M0 x Predicate - Joao Reginatto (Chief Strategy Officer, M0) and Nikhil Raghuveera (Predicate) in a joint segment on programmable stablecoin infrastructure and the compliance layer underneath it.
USDM1 (Mark Lurie, Co-Founder & CEO)
Euroclear (Jorgen Ouaknine, Global Head of Innovation & Digital Assets)
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Wrap Up
You can dive deeper into all of these stories and more on Stabledash, your single place to navigate the stablecoin industry online.
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Until next time,
Stay stable
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