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#18: Luca Prosperi, M^0 | Reimagining Money & the Future of Stablecoins
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#18: Luca Prosperi, M^0 | Reimagining Money & the Future of Stablecoins

How are stablecoins reshaping the financial stack?

Ryan chats with Luca Prosperi about reimagining the financial stack from first principles, why separation between money creation and distribution matters, and how M^0's enables both DeFi protocols and fintech apps to build better products.

Follow our guests: 

  • https://x.com/LucaProsperi

  • https://x.com/m0foundation

And try out Wallfacer’s latest release: https://app.vaults.fyi

Follow our host: 

  • https://twitter.com/RyanRodenbaugh

  • https://warpcast.com/ryanrodenbaugh.eth


Timestamps

  • 00:00 - Luca's crypto red pill

  • 03:03 - The philosophy of money

  • 07:21 - Understanding modern banking

  • 12:14 - Reflections on working with MakerDAO

  • 17:24 - The current state of RWAs

  • 21:52 - The belief behind M^0

  • 30:28 - $M's role as wholesale money

  • 38:04 - How M^0 manages collateral

  • 41:40 - Composability and $M

  • 44:47 - M^0's pitch for GTM success

  • 47:37 - The economics of stablecoin issuers

  • 53:58 - M^0's two token governance model

  • 58:32 - The economics of M^0

  • 1:00:52 - Levelling up crypto monetary infrastructure

  • 1:04:27 - Closing predictions on DeFi

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