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Episode #185: Unlocking Stablecoin Liquidity with Checker CEO Jack Chong
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- Brazil Crypto Report
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- Jun 10, 2026
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Summary
Hey everyone! Jack Chong is co-founder and CEO of Checker, a stablecoin liquidity network connecting FX banks, payments companies, and neobanks across emerging markets. He joins the show to discuss why the global financial system still runs on duct tape and stitched together solutions , and how Checker is building the connective tissue to fix it. Chong grew up in Hong Kong, studied at Oxford, learned Arabic in Jordan while pursuing a career in diplomacy, and eventually landed in New York building stablecoin infrastructure. His path is unusual, and it shapes how Checker operates: local relationships, local capital, local market structure, with a global product underneath. This is a super interesting project, and, in my view, is one of the missing pieces of infrastructure needed to fulfill the promise of stablecoins as the new medium for global money movement . 🙌 You can listen to Bits and Borders on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join our English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Key Takeaways * The stablecoin fragmentation problem is more serious than it looks . USDT and USDC promise universality, but every market trades, converts, and accounts for them differently. Checker sits in the middle and makes that complexity invisible for the financial institutions that need to move money across borders. * Checker runs a two-sided network. FX banks, B2B payments companies, and neobanks sit on the demand side. OTC desks and FX brokers handling local fiat conversions sit on the supply side. Over time, customers become providers in other regions, turning the network into a flywheel. * Twelve months after launching in mid-2025, Checker has processed over $3 billion in payment volume and now accounts for roughly 1% of global…