Archive - The JDB Report

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

The legal limbo of stablecoins

The plumbing matters more than the peg: Part 2

Mar 5 • Jame DiBiasio

A fintech trifecta for VC, with Evan Thorpe

With AI overturning many assumptions, Six Thirty Ventures is on the hunt for fintechs that fit between health, wealth, and privacy.

Mar 3 • Jame DiBiasio

30:15

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