12 June 2025 Chris Harmse of BVNK on stablecoins, cross border payments, and skydiving
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Off the Rails from the U.S. Faster Payments Council - FPC
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Off the rails from the US Foster Payment Council.
I'm Reid Lutanen, Executive Director of the U.S. Faster Payments Council, and this is Off the Rails from the U.S. Faster Payments Council. Today's episode is with Chris Harms of BVNK. Chris and I talk about how stablecoins are applicable across a broad assortment of use cases, and cross-border in particular, as well as Chris's love of extreme sports. But first, the headlines. It's officially summertime, and that means a short break from the conference travel season, but it doesn't mean the work is slowing down here at the FPC. I recently published a new blog post at FasterPaymentsCouncil.org highlighting the amazing things that we have going on here. Check that out. Looking forward to the fall, FPC will be exhibiting and speaking at events all over the country.
We'll be at Payments First Solutions Payments Conference in August. the Merchant Advisory Group's Payments Conference, and the WestPay Payments Symposium, and UMACH as navigating payments in September. Then in October, it's EPCOR, the Chicago Payments Symposium, and the AFP Annual Conference. And of course, we're thrilled to be hosting our members at the FPC Annual Member Meeting in Portland, Maine, September 3rd and 4th at the Westin Harborview. The call for session proposals is live at FasterPaymentsCouncil.org, and the link to book hotel rooms and register for the conference is also live on the website. It's going to be a great event, as always, a ton of opportunities to network, great evening event, local flair throughout, and the estimable Kevin Miyamoto from Identify as our emcee once again.
So don't miss out, FasterPaymentsCouncil.org to register, book your hotel room, and submit a session proposal. All right. I think that's everything we needed to cover on the headlines. Let's get to that conversation with Chris Harms from BVNK.
All right. I'm joined by Chris Harms from BVNK. Chris, thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me, Reid.
Super excited to chat with you today.
All right. I'm excited to have you on the show, too, because I think, you know, stablecoins, it feels like something that's really having a moment right now. Like, there's a lot of talk about stablecoins. A lot of our members are thinking about it. Obviously, a lot in the news about crypto in general, but stablecoins specifically. And I'd say that wasn't really the case, you know, even a year ago, right? I think it's really been in the last year or so that it's really, obviously this technology has been around for quite a long time, but I think in terms of mindshare, it's really, really had a moment. So with that perspective from me out of the way, I thought it would make sense for you to kind of give listeners some background.
You know, I think what are stable coins? How are they similar to, and more importantly, probably how are they different from other cryptocurrencies that people maybe are familiar with? And I think that's kind of where we want to start. Sure.
And you're 100% correct. Stablecoins are having their day in the sun. For us, it feels like after building this business for the last five years, it feels good that the markets finally recognize this improvement in payments technology. But at its core, stablecoins were really designed to bring stability and predictability to crypto, addressing this kind of high volatility issue. that you see with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but they are quite different to Bitcoin and Ethereum. They're generally designed to maintain stable value, typically pegged to a fiat currency like the US dollar. And you obviously see, you know, mostly 99% of stablecoins in circulation are US dollars, but you do find the Euro stablecoin issued by Circle, etc.
And to that, they allow Or the better way to think about it is they bring the efficiency of a block of blockchain technology to traditional currency.
What are the episode headlines and upcoming FPC events?
So hence me talking about stable coins is almost and stable coins running on blockchains is this infrastructure upgrade to payments. There's generally three types of stable coins.
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