by Alicja Teagle | Jul 21, 2026 | Writing
KYA Now Identity is the basic building block for agentic commerce Sean Neville, co-founder of Circle and architect of USDC, was one of the global experts quoted in Andressen-Horowitz’s “17 things we’re excited about for crypto in 2026”. He said that the bottleneck in...
by Alicja Teagle | Aug 8, 2025 | Events, Commentary, Writing
Tokens in 2050 Where do we go next with the new digital tokens of the post-industrial revolution? Noted Fintech investor Matt Harris, a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, predicted that fintech would mean the end of money as we know it. He wrote that in the future...
by Alicja Teagle | Jul 23, 2025 | Events, Commentary, Writing
The History and Future of Stablecoins Stablecoins Unblocked Conference 2025 There’s nothing inherently dodgy about stablecoins. But there is something inherently dodgy about banking, which is why countries build elaborate regulatory regimes to protect deposits —...
by Alicja Teagle | Mar 6, 2025 | Writing
A strategic reserve is a stock of a systemically important input, which can be managed to mitigate economic disruption. The key example that we all think about is the US strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) which was created in response to the Arab oil embargo half a...
by Alicja Teagle | Dec 19, 2024 | Writing
Witchcraft Or Mathematics, Apple’s New Encryption Tool Is Important Apple, boldly proclaiming that it believes privacy is a fundamental human right, has announced the use of “homomorphic encryption” in its products. This means that a client device (e.g., an iPhone)...
by Alicja Teagle | Apr 25, 2024 | Events, Writing
Money in the Metaverse book launch Wow! What a week at Money 20/20 Asia in Bangkok where co-author, Victoria Richardson, and I launched our new book: Money in the Metaverse – Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real...
