Archive - The JDB Report

New international corridors in fintech, with Max Plank, Tenity

How one VC is connecting Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, and Hong Kong across the new infrastructure of digital assets.

Apr 17 • Jame DiBiasio

31:35

Tokenization: open or closed?

Canton Network and Ethereum serve different rails for RWA tokenization, but when does choice become a liquidity problem?

Apr 16 • Jame DiBiasio

Payments when the lights go out

Joachim Samuelsson of CrunchFish discusses different ideas to support digital cash, offline.

Apr 10 • Jame DiBiasio

34:02

Mythos reveals banks are vaulting...bugs

The new frontier of AI is about to unzip everyone’s software vulnerabilities. How should banks, fintechs, and protocols prepare?

Apr 9 • Jame DiBiasio

De-dollarization debate: Eichengreen's "Money Beyond Borders" reviewed

Barry Eichengreen provides a definitive account of international currency regimes, from ancient Athens to today's budding competition between Beijing…

Apr 7 • Jame DiBiasio

The Dojima Rice Exchange

The surprising story of the world's first futures exchange.

Apr 7 • Jame DiBiasio

9:52

What is the agent payments stack?

402. Calling 402! The new global contest for agentic payments, explained.

Apr 1 • Jame DiBiasio

March 2026

Fragmenting digital finance

Island hopping: innovation is splintering money, so who can put the pieces back together?

Mar 26 • Jame DiBiasio

Can compute become money?

The AI industry's computing demand could anchor a new idea of money, but this requires a banking system to run it – and changes to AI itself.

Mar 18 • Jame DiBiasio

What is "AI-first" venture? with Dušan Stojanoviċ

The general partner at VC firm True Global Ventures says the next opportunity is with founders of AI-native blockchain firms.

Mar 17 • Jame DiBiasio

32:26

Repo markets can break a stablecoin

The plumbing matters more than the peg: Part 3

Mar 12 • Jame DiBiasio

Can ZKPs save finance? with Alex Scheer

Alex Scheer of startup zkMe argues for using zero-knowledge proofs – a tech out of the crypto world – for enabling agentic AI commerce.

Mar 10 • Jame DiBiasio

32:51

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