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Regulation & Compliance


How Kast Uses Stablecoins To Make A Global Bank Possible, And Why This Hasn’t Worked Before
In this episode of When Shift Happens , I sit down with Raagulan Pathy, founder of KAST and the “stablecoin guy”, to discuss what happens when a $100M company goes to zero, what eight years of debt repayment does to a founder’s mindset, and why he now believes stablecoins can power a global bank serving 150+ countries, and possibly a billion people. Raags is direct about the scale of what he’s trying to build. He says, on record, that KAST is a “trillion dollar plus” outcome

Kevin Follonier
Jan 144 min read


Inside the 90 Seconds That Shook Crypto: Paul Faecks on Plasma, Stablecoins, and the Future of Money
In this episode of When Shift Happens , I sit down with Paul Faecks, the founder and CEO of Plasma, to discuss the trillion-dollar...

Kevin Follonier
Sep 24, 20254 min read


Playing the Long Game: Chris Larsen on Ripple’s Approach to Growth
In this episode of When Shift Happens , I sit down with Chris Larsen, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Ripple, to unpack how he and...

Kevin Follonier
Jul 4, 20254 min read


“Crypto Has Lost Its Way”: Gavin Wood speaks on Governance, Greed, and Rebuilding the Blockchain Ethos
Gavin Wood, the co-founder of Ethereum and founder of Polkadot, sat down with me on the 124th episode of When Shift Happens to unpack...

Kevin Follonier
Jun 15, 20254 min read
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