▶EP 01 · Daily series
In 1968, Wall Street was drowning in paper share certificates, and today it's starting to move shares as tokens.
Sources
- 1968 Wednesday closures and the paperwork crisis: SEC Historical Society
- 1973, DTC created to hold certificates in a vault and record ownership changes in its books: DTCC
- 11 Dec 2025, SEC staff no-action letter to DTC: SEC
- July 2026, first limited live trades: DTCC
- Music: "Dreamer" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0
Not financial advice.
EP 02 · Daily series
Central bank money, bank deposits and stablecoins, and why a dollar has to stay a dollar in all three.
Sources
Not financial advice.
EP 03 · Daily series
The asset stays put while its token moves in minutes.
Sources
- RLUSD custody and the planned collateral link with LMAX: Standard Chartered press release, 12 Oct 2026
- $8.2T trading volume in 2025: LMAX Group FY2025 results
- Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod, CC BY 4.0
Not financial advice.
EP 04 · Daily series
A stablecoin goes in and a regular bank payment comes out the other side.
Sources
- $35T moved and about 1% spent on real payments: McKinsey and Artemis, "Stablecoins in payments", 2026
- 1871 money by telegraph: Western Union history
- Swift founded 1973, network live from 1977: Swift, "Our story"
- RLUSD bank transfers, 190+ countries, Metodieva quote: TrustLinq press release, 13 Oct 2026
- Music: "Easy Lemon" by Kevin MacLeod, CC BY 4.0
Not financial advice.
EP 05 · Daily series
BNY says it's the first tokenised Treasury repo on a major triparty platform.
Sources
- About $3.0T overnight Treasury repo, and the September 2019 SOFR spike: NY Fed SOFR data
- Tokenised Treasury trade, tri-party repo, Doherty quote: BNY press release, 13 Oct 2026
- Music: "Digital Lemonade" by Kevin MacLeod, CC BY 4.0
Not financial advice.
EP 06 · Daily series
From a 1966 bank network to a platform for both regular money and stablecoins.
Sources
- 1966, 1969, 1979: Mastercard corporate history
- Global Money Platform, 17B+ endpoints, 130+ countries, 2027 targets: Mastercard and BVNK press release, 15 Oct 2026
- BVNK deal, $1.5B plus up to $300M, closed Aug 2026: Mastercard Q1 2026 10-Q and Mastercard release, 3 Aug 2026
- USDC prefunding for Visa Direct: Visa newsroom, 15 Oct 2026
- Music: "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod, CC BY 4.0
Not financial advice.
EP 07 · Daily series
From one shared bank network in 1973 to one yen stablecoin tested by three megabanks. A proof of concept, not live.
Sources
- 1943 central settlement, 1973 Zengin launch with 88 banks and about 7,400 branches: Zengin-Net
- About 6.5M transfers a day, over ¥12T: Zengin-Net
- Joint stablecoin proof of concept, 17–23 July 2026, live transactions planned in FY2026: SMBC release, 16 Oct 2026
- Music: "Wallpaper" by Kevin MacLeod, CC BY 4.0
Not financial advice.
EP 08 · Daily series
From gold by stagecoach in 1852 to what three big US banks said about tokenisation this week. Live at Wells Fargo, but still small.
Sources
Not financial advice.
EP 09 · Daily series
In 1917–18, twenty million Americans bought Liberty Bonds. Today US debt is being tokenised, and most of the value Chainalysis can locate sits outside America, and the US comes fourth.
Sources
Not financial advice.
EP 10 · Daily series
In 1907, Pierpont Morgan locked bankers in his library to save the system. Today JPMorgan's dollar deposit token is live on Ethereum, the biggest public blockchain, for institutional clients.
Sources
Not financial advice.
EP 11 · Daily series
In 1990 Malaysia took its bond market off paper. On 20 October 2026, Bank Negara Malaysia launched SSDS+, a platform for tokenised bonds and sukuk, with payment settled in central bank money around the clock. No tokenised bond has been issued on it yet.
Why it matters today
Bonds could soon settle the way your banking app does, any hour of the day, in central bank money.
Sources
Not financial advice.
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