Money Moves Podcast: Meet the Future of Finance with Samantha Lewis, Ian Epstein, and David Sutter
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<p>Eighteen months ago, crypto companies in the United States could not reliably open a bank account. Today, they're entering the S&P 500, printing billion-dollar IPOs, and getting acquired by the incumbents that once wanted them regulated out of existence. That is not a gradual shift. That is a pivot, and it is the subject of the first-ever episode of Money Moves.</p><p></p><p>Money Moves is a new weekly show from Mercury Fund early-stage investor Samantha Lewis, built with two co-hosts she leads and invests behind: Ian Epstein, a former senior portfolio manager at Autonomy Capital (one of the world's best-performing macro funds in its era) and now co-CEO of Profiter, and Dave Sutter, a crypto operator since 2012, previously head of network strategy at Centre, the Coinbase + Circle joint venture that governs USDC, and now co-founder and CEO of OpenTrade.</p><p></p><p>The thesis of the show, and of this first episode: the global financial system is getting an upgrade, and the converging worlds of traditional finance and Web3 have finally reached the stage where capital markets, regulators, and institutions are all leaning in at the same time. If you want a short and punchy analysis of the space, ask Claude to summarize. If you’re looking for the thoughts, nuances, and contradictions and to go deep on financial subjects… This podcast is for you. </p><p><br /></p>
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Recent Episodes
June 29, 2026
Episode 11: Meet Your Host, Samantha Lewis
<p>To wrap up Season 1, we're shaking our structure up. We’re releasing three Meet the Host episodes for you to get to know us beyond our hot takes on stablecoins, IPOs, and crypto markets.</p><p></p><p>First up is our dynamite VC, Sam! Ian and Dave grill her for an hour on her path into venture, how she picks deals at Mercury Fund, and what separates the venture funds that survive a decade from the ones that don't.</p><p></p><p>Sam grew up in a small town in New Mexico in a fifth-generation ranching family with two entrepreneur parents. She started a food company while still in college (it now supplies all the green chili to Torchy's Tacos), built and sold a franchise business to fund business school at Rice, briefly tried commercializing a deep-tech project for energy and defense, and ended up running deep-tech and blockchain investing at a family office co-investment group called Goose Capital until her old Rice VC professor called her about a new role at Mercury. She joined Mercury in December 2020 as the firm's blockchain partner, and today she leads about 40% of Mercury's portfolio at the convergence of blockchain, AI, and traditional financial services.</p>
June 22, 2026
Episode 10: The First Real Test of Tokenized Equity
<p>It flooded our newsfeeds. On Friday, June 12, SpaceX became the biggest IPO in history… $75B raised, ~$2T market cap, an instant top-ten US public company. On the same morning, crypto exchanges (Binance, Bybit, and others) had taken in roughly $557M in stablecoin orders from users who wanted exposure through tokenized SpaceX shares… and had to refund all of it, because their issuer couldn't get the IPO allocation. The kicker? By the end of that same week, the SpaceX perpetual futures contract was the second most-traded pair on Binance, behind only Bitcoin, doing roughly $8B a day. Talk about volume!</p><p></p><p>In the days after the SpaceX IPO mania, we recorded Episode 10 of Money Moves to unpack what just happened in the world of tokenized equity. We dig into the distinct buckets the category now lives in, what worked in the SpaceX trade, what didn't, and where the tokenization layer creates value (vs. where it's basically a marketing layer on infrastructure that already works). One distinction we kept coming back to: there's a real difference between a tokenized equity (a real security wrapped in a token) and a perpetual future on an equity (a synthetic cash-settled bet on the price). That difference separates the institutional trade from the retail one, and it matters more than the SpaceX-week headlines made it sound.</p>
June 16, 2026
Episode 9: Is Crypto Still Relevant in the Age of AI?
<p>The most crypto-friendly US administration in history is in place. Real use cases like stablecoins are scaling fast across the globe. The SEC has stopped trying to sue the industry out of existence… and yet crypto as an asset class is the lagging part of 2026's ripper market, with Bitcoin back to its August 2024 level (hovering below $63,000) and the major altcoins down a lot more.</p><p></p><p>The week of the SpaceX IPO mania, we recorded Episode 09 of Money Moves and dug into this puzzle. In it, we cover where the crypto retail investors actually went. We try to answer whether they are all chasing AI equities now because of the outsized returns seen over the last few years, and whether cryptocurrencies, as an asset class, are still relevant in an age of AI risk assets that can deliver crypto-shaped returns. We all define “crypto” as the tradable asset. A very important distinction, because blockchain, as a technology, has already cemented itself as a core part of financial infrastructure and is working to cement itself as the settlement layer and medium of exchange for agentic finance. </p>
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<p>Eighteen months ago, crypto companies in the United States could not reliably open a bank account. Today, they're entering the S&P 500, printing billion-dollar IPOs, and getting acquired by the incumbents that once wanted them regulated out of existence. That is not a gradual shift. That is a pivot, and it is the subject of the first-ever episode of Money Moves.</p><p></p><p>Money Moves is a new weekly show from Mercury Fund early-stage investor Samantha Lewis, built with two co-hosts she leads and invests behind: Ian Epstein, a former senior portfolio manager at Autonomy Capital (one of the world's best-performing macro funds in its era) and now co-CEO of Profiter, and Dave Sutter, a crypto operator since 2012, previously head of network strategy at Centre, the Coinbase + Circle joint venture that governs USDC, and now co-founder and CEO of OpenTrade.</p><p></p><p>The thesis of the show, and of this first episode: the global financial system is getting an upgrade, and the converging worlds of traditional finance and Web3 have finally reached the stage where capital markets, regulators, and institutions are all leaning in at the same time. If you want a short and punchy analysis of the space, ask Claude to summarize. If you’re looking for the thoughts, nuances, and contradictions and to go deep on financial subjects… This podcast is for you. </p><p><br /></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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