Archive - Fintech Blueprint 🤖🏦🧭

Analysis: Learning from 2025 to win big in the 2026 machine economy

The machine economy year in review

Dec 23

Analysis: Coinbase's Super App to swallow Crypto, like Google ate the Internet

Free finance, infinite choice, and the rise of closed-loop financial fortresses.

Dec 19 • Lex Sokolin

DeFi: Coinbase Bets on Equity Tokens & Prediction Markets to fight Robinhood

From Trading Crypto to Trading Everything

Dec 16 • Laurence Smith

Analysis: Stripe's Tempo is building the Apple of payment blockchains

Tempo bets on vertically integrated control for fintech adoption

Dec 11 • Lex Sokolin

Fintech: Will KlarnaUSD save the BNPL lender's falling share price post IPO?

A bumpy shift away from interest free loans

Dec 9 • Michiel Milanovic

Analysis: The Rise of Robot Money 🤖💰

Whoever owns the robots, rules the world

Dec 4 • Lex Sokolin

Podcast: From $12.5M ICO to $100B+ in On-Chain Infrastructure, with Gnosis Co-Founder Friederike Ernst

Gnosis turned a $12.5M ICO into a $450M treasury fueling Web3 infrastructure.

Dec 1 • Matt Low

42:54

November 2025

Analysis: Schwab buys private shares broker Forge for $660MM, down from $2B SPAC price

SPVs Multiply as Pre-IPO Valuations Race Beyond $100B

Nov 27 • Lex Sokolin

AI: Oracle's Credit Default Swaps and the AI Hedge

Oracle’s exploding CDS price shows traders are using Oracle as a safe haven against AI.

Nov 25 • Luke Spill

Robotics 101: Understanding the Robotics economy and its financial applications

How Web3 could power autonomous labor

Nov 21 • 0xjacobzhao and Lex Sokolin

DeFi: JP Morgan and Block/Cash App roll out stablecoins on Base & Solana

Focus on traction

Nov 18 • Laurence Smith

Podcast: Building the $500MM+ Binance-based Digital Asset Treasury, with BNB Network CEO David Namdar

Hi Fintech Architects,

Nov 12 • Matt Low

45:23

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