Evolving Money explores how and why some of the world's biggest traditional finance firms are adding crypto to their operations. Hosted by Angie Lau, it is produced by Coinbase and Bloomberg Media Studios.
Stablecoins are crypto currencies designed to maintain a stable value because they’re pegged to a fiat currency, such as the U.S. dollar. The result is a highly liquid currency with a fixed value. Stablecoins are transacted on crypto rails as opposed to legacy banking systems, meaning there is less friction, delay, and cost. Last year, they were used in more than $30 trillion worth of transactions.
Checkout.com is putting stablecoins into practice. They are adopting their services so that customers can pay with, and merchants can receive payments in, stablecoins. Meanwhile, Coinbase is working with multiple levels of government to make sure that both legislation and regulations are in place to allow companies to invest in upgrading their systems with confidence.
23 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
Diversifying with Digital Assets
If you want to build a diversified portfolio, you need to assemble assets that respond to different return drivers. Digital assets can play a central role. For starters, cryptocurrencies like bitcoin behave differently than traditional equities or commodities, giving portfolios exposure to unique sources of risk and return. And within the crypto universe, you can find coins, protocols, and equities that all behave differently under different market conditions. By investing in a wide range of digital assets you can potentially both mitigate risk and improve returns.
11 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT
Blue Chip Meets Blockchain
Crypto has become increasingly integrated into the financial system, from the use of stablecoins for payments, to the trading of tokenized equities on blockchains, to the adoption of crypto holdings by corporate treasuries. We explore how PNC Bank, one of the first movers in this space, has been expanding access to crypto and the challenges it has had to overcome.
5 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Tokenization Tipping Point
In less than three years, the amount of tokenized real-world assets has grown eightfold, to more than $30 billion across equities, fixed income, private assets, real estate and more. And that’s just the start of the tokenization revolution, experts predict, because of four main drivers: Increased liquidity for illiquid assets, broader investor access, operational efficiency, and global distribution and interoperability.
18 Feb 2025
The Regulation Revolution
Just as it took the British government a century to catch up to Jonathan Swift’s innovative person-to-person loan program, the U.S. government has been slow to react to crypto, creating bureaucratic and legal hurdles to growth in the industry. But with a new administration and a new Congress, the industry now feels there’s reason to be optimistic that regulatory clarity, and a new chapter in the story of crypto in America, is beginning.
23 Jan 2025
Building Bridges with Bitcoin
Just as mobile banking revolutionized our relationship with our money and led to a plethora of new tools for management and investing, the proliferation of crypto and blockchain technologies have opened up all manner of new investment opportunities that go far beyond what early Bitcoin adopters could’ve imagined.
9 Jan 2025
A Faster, Cheaper Way to Pay
In the 1950s, a businessman, looking for a new way to settle his lunch tab, sparked a payments revolution and paved the way for today’s cashless economy. Now, the growing use of stablecoins like USDC is leading businesses and consumers to an era of digital payments that’s even faster and cheaper than a credit card.
17 Dec 2024
Rebuilding the Creator Economy
Industry experts explore how the 'go onchain' movement empowers content creators to reclaim financial power from closed-off social media platforms, achieving long-sought freedom.
18 Jun 2024
Money Without Borders
Throughout history, financial markets have struggled with the issue of borders. Borders create friction, add cost and cause headaches for anyone who wants to spend money across them. On top of that, various national currencies can be wildly unstable.
Could a borderless, global currency ease friction and enhance financial inclusion and stability around the world? Cryptocurrencies offer an intriguing possible solution to money’s border problem. And a particular kind of cryptocurrency, called stablecoins, could become a powerful medium of exchange for international payments - and offer people around the world increased economic freedom.
6 Jun 2024
The Blockchain Revolution
The costs of the paper check system – both in time and money – have been with us for centuries. But there’s a new technology called blockchain that looks as though it could provide a solution, with an online ledger that’s universally accessible and completely transparent. Blockchain also can't be hacked or altered and costs next to nothing. That may sound too good to be true, but a look back at how the paper check system was improved by the rise of digital money demonstrates that what sounds like a revolution today is often commonplace tomorrow. And blockchain may be the key to unlocking the future of money.
30 May 2024
Birth of a New Asset Class
Why did Bitcoin move from a currency to an investable asset in just 15 years of existence? It was because of mainstream adoption by retail investors who believed there was money to be made. But behind that mania for all things crypto was a much more serious undertaking – the birth of a new asset class. Investors came to understand that there was a market for crypto, and that it behaved differently from other assets in their portfolios. It’s not the first time the monetary system has absorbed a new asset class. In fact, the rise of crypto has striking parallels to the creation of stocks in the 1600s.
23 May 2024
In Money We Trust
The history of money is riddled with crises, followed by innovation that transforms the monetary system. In 17th century England, a coinage crisis triggered a loss in trust in the money’s value. To restore that trust, Goldsmiths stepped in as intermediaries—and became England’s unlikely first bankers. Today, transferring money requires a plethora of intermediaries to verify transactions in a system that’s full of friction. Enter the next innovation: Bitcoin. Can it remove friction from the system and build trust?
6 May 2024
Introducing: Evolving Money
Is cryptocurrency the next logical evolution of the monetary system? In Evolving Money, to explore whether we’re at an inflection point, we’ll look back at moments in the history of money when how we paid for things and stored value long-term changed for the better.
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Stablecoins in Practice and Policy
Published 8 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Moran says they see this as a market with substantial growth potential around the world, especially in developing economies. If you're living in an economy that has a very high inflation rate and a very unstable currency, getting exposed to an equivalent of a US dollar is something that is good for you. When you want to buy cross -border and obviously not pay cross -border fees and FX fees and so on and so forth, then there is another benefit for you. And frankly, like in many countries, access to debit and credit card is not ubiquitous. And this is an alternative form of payment and has potentially a lower barrier of entry in multiple geographies. […]
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