April 15, 2026
This week:
Stableminded 0047 is out today - Nikhil Srinivasan, Co-Founder & CEO of Infinite, on compliance as the real moat in global stablecoin payments
Yesterday on Stabledash Live - Keyrails, Avalanche, and Star.fun
Coming up on tomorrow - tomorrow's show with Cesto, The Better Money Co and Paxos Labs
Plus: Deutsche Börse buys into Kraken, Stripe/Visa/Standard Chartered run Tempo validators, YC's first all-USDC round, Amex opens to AI agents, and more
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Stableminded 0047: The Frontier
Nikhil Srinivasan, Infinite
Most founders in stablecoins treat compliance as a cost. Nikhil treats it as the product.
Nikhil sold his first company, Distributed Systems, to Coinbase in 2018. He went on to lead compliance at Sardine, where he and his co-founder shipped one of the first virtual account programs in stablecoins. In January 2025 he left to start Infinite and quickly raised a round led by Y Combinator and Coinbase.
His thesis: compliance will decide who wins the next decade of global stablecoin payments.
In this episode, Drew and Nikhil covered:
Why every fintech now needs a stablecoin strategy, and what that actually means
The visibility gap on the international leg of cross-border payments, and how Infinite closes it
First-party vs third-party nesting, the FBO model, and the compliance risk most fintechs underprice
Agentic commerce and whether the foundation model companies end up becoming payment companies
Watch the full episode below, presented by Altitude, banking for companies on the frontier.
This Week on Stabledash Live
Here are the best moments from yesterday's show - click to jump straight to the timestamp on YouTube.
Tuesday, April 14:
Three guests on yesterday's show. Click the timestamps to jump straight to each segment on YouTube.
Keyrails (Berhan Kongel, Co-Founder & CEO) - SWIFT-connected stablecoin rails - on collapsing global trade underwriting from three months to three minutes, the $140B annual unmet financing demand in Sub-Saharan Africa, and why one stablecoin layer beats siloed payment, yield, and lending stacks.
Watch the segment
Avalanche (Olivia Vande Woude, Head of Tokenization at Ava Labs) - on what embedded finance actually looks like when it's live in production. Olivia walked through how OpenTrade has collapsed 18 months of bilateral institutional plumbing into a single integration, giving any fintech access to institutional-grade tokenized yield through one API. The fastest close went from first call to first deposit in two weeks. The financial mechanism was never broken - the access layer was.
Watch the segment
Star.fun (Adam Bergeman, Co-Founder) - onchain capital formation on Solana, raising $500K in 24 hours via livestream after six days of pulling $10K and the origin of "the shot" (their livestream Shark Tank) thats raised $1.1M across five episodes.
Watch the segment
Tomorrow, Thursday 4/2: Live at 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT with Cesto, the Better Money Company and Paxos Labs.
News of the Week
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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.
We'll be here every step of the way to help you understand the shifts, the risks, and the opportunities ahead.
Until next time,
Stay stable
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