March 6, 2026
This week:
Stableminded S7.6 (Season Finale): "Making Stablecoins Work at Internet Scale" featuring Robert Bench, CEO of Radius - mainnet launched at AVSC
Stableminded S7.5: "The Blockchain Institutions Will Actually Use" featuring Eric Saraniecki, Co-Founder of Digital Asset / Canton Network
Stabledash Live from A Very Stable Conference: Live from San Francisco with Lightspeed, Refract VC, Radius, and Eco
Interviews to Come: Western Union, Alpaca, Lead Bank, Visa Ventures and more from AVSC
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What to Watch
Radius
Robert Bench helped design USDC at Circle, spent four years at the Federal Reserve building Project Hamilton, and launched Radius mainnet on March 5th at A Very Stable Conference. We timed the season finale to the launch.
The core insight: Visa wins human payments. The frontier is machine payments. Radius is a smart contract execution database with stablecoin transfers at $0.0001. Robert breaks down why Visa's 84% operating margin is vulnerable to stablecoin compression and what happens when infrastructure gets fast enough and cheap enough to monetize the internet itself.
Canton Network
Eric Saraniecki co-founded Digital Asset and spent 11 years building the Canton Network into the blockchain behind Goldman Sachs, DTCC, and HSBC. We dropped this episode the same week Canton was featured at A Very Stable Conferenceand institutional adoption front and center.
Eric covers why privacy is a threshold issue for institutional blockchain adoption, three use cases driving momentum on Canton (digital demand deposits, US treasuries onchain, neo-banking through Brale), and why most L1 tokenomics models are deeply extractive.
A Very Stable Conference
We went live from Terra Gallery in San Francisco on March 5th for A Very Stable Conference Season 2.
Aaron Frank (Lightspeed) + Ayo Omojola (Refract VC) - the architects of AVSC. Aaron runs Money 3.0 at Lightspeed and led Brale's $30M round. Ayo keynoted the conference and co-founded Refract around the thesis that stablecoins have the strongest product-market fit in crypto. They walked through what changed from Season 1 to Season 2 and where the capital is flowing.
Robert Bench (Radius) - launched mainnet live at the conference. From USDC design at Circle to Project Hamilton at the Fed to shipping a new payments chain in front of the room that helped frame the stablecoin movement.
Ryne Saxe (Eco) - Stableminded alumni. Eco Routes has grown to nine-figure monthly volume across 10+ chains and 20+ stablecoins. Ryne talked through the new Circle Gateway integration, a 10x increase in order size limits, and what's still missing in stablecoin liquidity infrastructure.
Coming Soon from AVSC
We spent the full day at A Very Stable Conference recording conversations with builders, operators, and investors across the stablecoin economy. Interviews with Western Union, Alpaca, Lead Bank, Visa Ventures, Dfns, and Gauntlet are in the pipeline.
Stay tuned.
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Wrap Up
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Until next time,
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