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Newsletter · By Lex Sokolin · English · Paid tier available · Official site

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  1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    Podcast: How Stripe's Tempo is Rebuilding On-Chain Cash Settlement, with Head of Market Development Simon Taylor (opens the original)

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    Hi Fintech Architects,In this episode, Lex chats with Simon Taylor, who heads up market development at Tempo, the payments-native blockchain built by Stripe as a high-performance settlement layer for stablecoins and tokenized money. Simon is also the founder of Fintech Brain Food, one of the sector's most widely read newsletters. They discuss why there is no Fedwire for the internet, and why the next wave of on-chain volume is coming from enterprise money movers like Deel rather than crypto-nati

  2. Issue · Sep 28, 2026

    Podcast: How Stripe's Tempo is Rebuilding On-Chain Cash Settlement, with Head of Market Development Simon Taylor (opens the original)

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    Hi Fintech Architects,In this episode, Lex chats with Simon Taylor, who heads up market development at Tempo, the payments-native blockchain built by Stripe as a high-performance settlement layer for stablecoins and tokenized money. Simon is also the founder of Fintech Brain Food, one of the sector's most widely read newsletters. They discuss why there … Read more

  3. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    Analysis: AI Agents Are Having Their Metaverse Moment (opens the original)

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    Gm Fintech Architects —Today we are diving into the following topics:Summary: We argue the Machine Economy is approaching peak consensus as BlackRock publishes the thesis and Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent with commerce and payments built in from day one. Unlike the Metaverse, today’s agents already connect to Stripe, Shopify, PayPal, Mastercard, and real merchant networks, suggesting the hype may fade while the financial rails remain. Our analysis of a decade of coverage and Generative

  4. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    FINTECH: Circle’s $400MM for Distribution, Chime’s $590MM for a Bank Charter (opens the original)

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    GM Fintech Futurists,Today, we highlight the below items:DIGITAL ASSETS: Circle Bought Reach, Chime Bought a CharterANALYSIS: Fintech evolved into Hyperbanks and NeobranchesCURATED UPDATES: Financial Institutions and Adoption; DeFi and Digital Assets; Prediction Markets; Blockchain Protocols; NFTs, DAOs and the MetaverseTo support this writing and access our full archive of newsletters, analyses, and guides to building in Fintech & DeFi, subscribe below (if you haven’t yet).<p cl

  5. Issue · Sep 18, 2026

    Analysis: Fintech evolved into Hyperbanks and Neobranches (opens the original)

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    Gm Fintech Architects —Today we are diving into the following topics. This is a Premium issue we have kept open for the entire readership as it is a powerful concept I hope you will share!Summary: We revisit a 2018 framework for how banks, fintechs, and big tech would converge, and argue that the emerging winner is a new model we call the Hyperbank: a technology company that owns the financial stack down to the regulatory or sovereign root. Column illustrates the model with just $1.77B in assets

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