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#130 Untangling: The Future of Finance w/ Pierre Person
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- Untangling Web3
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- May 13, 2026
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Summary
Business finance is undergoing a major shift. For years, companies have relied on fragmented tools, manual processes, slow settlement, unpredictable costs, and financial infrastructure that still feels disconnected from the speed of modern tech. As blockchain, stablecoins, tokenization, and AI continue to evolve, finance is moving toward a more automated, transparent, and programmable market structure. In this episode of Untangling Web3, Pierre Person, CEO and Co-Founder of Usual Labs and Fira Money, explores the future of finance through the lens of regulation, DeFi, stablecoins, tokenized markets, and on-chain financial infrastructure. Drawing on his experience as a former French MP involved in crypto policy and now as a founder building financial products, Pierre explains why traditional finance and decentralized finance are starting to converge — and why the next generation of financial markets will likely be built on blockchain rails. Key Points Discussed: Stablecoins as the Foundation of Future Finance: Stablecoins are becoming core infrastructure for global finance, not just crypto trading tools. Pierre explains why stablecoin issuers need to move beyond the traditional model of privatizing collateral yield, and how Usual is building a more transparent system where users can access ownership, governance, and value generated by real-world assets such as T-bills and money market funds. Tokenization, DeFi, and the Convergence of Markets: On-chain finance is not about reinventing every financial product — it is about rebuilding market infrastructure with automation, liquidity, transparency, and lower costs. Fixed-rate lending, tokenized assets, on-chain settlement, and institutional capital moving into blockchain markets point toward a future where traditional finan…