And that’s a wrap on Stablecon 2026! Quick thoughts.
Interestingly not a big presence from the actual stablecoin issuers - don’t recall folks from Circle, Paxos, Tether etc. having booths or many people on the ground…
Conference was actually the perfect size. Not many VCs but a lot of Series A-D startups.
Still most stablecoin volume is from trading rather than payments.
The recurring Coinflow question from VCs and founders was “wait you have actual volume (we power tens of $ Billions in annualized payment volume on stablecoin rails - real commerce volume) how did you do that?” The answer is we met users where they are and not force them onboard onto crypto rails. The thesis was to bridge traditional financial rails that ppl already utilize, but leverage stables on the backend. For the vast majority of our users we obfuscate the stablecoin side. So they come with their traditional payment methods and bank accounts, but benefit from Stablecoin tech with instant settlement and programmability etc.
The biggest topic at Stablecon was compliance and regulatory. We were in DC. Big presence from
@SocureID,
@withpersona,
@sumsub etc. Portable identity was one of the hottest topics. Incredible in theory but practically still very early.
Lastly, the TLDR on my panel: What connecting to traditional rails means for
@CoinflowLabs is that we are compliance-first and adhere to the regulatory frameworks of the card networks and banks. We partner with teams like
@withpersona to help us with portable identity, so that KYC and KYB can be as close to as interoperable, global and instant as stablecoins. Lots of good progress on that front. Finally thank you to my fellow
@thestablecon panelists
@bettermoney_co @withpersona - had a blast!