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Stablecoins and the Machine Economy | Nik Milanović, This Week in Fintech / Plaid
What is being built at the intersection of programmable money and the agentic economy?
Nik Milanović — founder of This Week in Fintech (now part of Plaid), GP at The Fintech Fund, and founder of Stablecon — joined me to discuss Stablecoins and AI agents as the new emerging economic participants
We cover:
🔺 What Nik saw and heard at Stablecon EMEA in Amsterdam - the tensions between Europe and the US
🔺 Why stablecoins and cards are not competitors - and where the card network actually breaks
🔺 AI agents as autonomous financial actors: x402, Stripe's Machine Payments Protocol, Visa's Trusted…
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