Chris Maurice (Yellow Card) on Stablecoin Adoption in Africa
Episode 641
Chris Maurice, founder of Yellow Card, a pan-Africa stablecoin business and exchange, rejoins the show. In this episode:
- How Chris feels about the crypto space in 2025 as compared to when he started a decade ago
- How Yellow Card evolved from being a retail BTC exchange to being an enterprise payment platform for stablecoins
- How Chris realized that stablecoins were all about b2b transfers
- How businesses in EM use stablecoins, and what the alternatives are
- Regional differences within Africa in terms of stablecoin adoption
- Shifting regulatory attitudes in Africa
- Does Chris worry about crypto-dollarization in Africa?
- Is dollarization happening on the ground right now
- Tether and TRON market share developments
- Where we are in stablecoin infra and tooling and what needs to be built
- Why we need a stablecoin clearinghouse
- The future of Yellow Card a few years ahead
- How banks will engage with stablecoins
Published on 6 months ago