The Year Money Moved to Code
Exactly a year ago we launched "Currency of Power"
In twelve months, we’ve published 40+ deep-dives, built a readership of 1,000+ subscribers with a 60% open rate — three times the industry average — and reached millions across LinkedIn, Substack, X and major media outlets.
Our work has been quoted in outlets such as Bloomberg, The Observer, Hidden Forces, Manager Magazin, L’ADN, Coindesk, Cointelegraph and The Big Whale. We’ve been invited to speak on global stages from SIBOS, Money2020, Paris Blockchain Week, Abu Dhabi Fintech Week, and the CV Summit. Major banks, fintechs, hedge funds, private equity firms and venture capital firms have made us trusted advisors.
Currency of Power launched with a provocation: the world’s financial order is being rewritten — not in treaty rooms, but in code. And almost nobody is paying attention to what that really means.
The ideas are spreading. The game is accelerating. So are we. One year in, we’re offering a 20% off a yearly subscription for seven days. You get every deep-dive and the full podcast, including the second half of each episode that only subscribers hear
Over 40 deep-dives and podcast interviews, we’ve built out a coherent thesis about where global money is heading. Here’s the core of it.
The dollar is being digitized. Stablecoins are the mechanism that locks in US dollar dominance for another generation. What once ran on oil barrels now runs on bytes. The petrodollar got an upgrade, and the US currency is more dominant than ever.
China is building something new. Beijing is constructing an Electrostate: it exports digital and electric infrastructure rather than currency, holds gold, and builds intricate financial plumbing the world has yet to notice. While the US bets on software, China bets on infrastructure. While the US open-sources its currency, China open-sources its AI. These are mirror strategies, and both are deliberate.
As always, Europe is caught in the middle. Forced to choose between the petrodollar and the electroyuan, it has no significant stablecoin yet, no clear digital currency strategy, and a regulatory framework, MiCA, that is generating more controversy than confidence. Building a comprehensive tokenized money stack, with a wholesale CBDC, tokenized deposits and stablecoins, may be its best remaining shot.
A new monetary architecture is emerging. Wholesale CBDCs, tokenized deposits and stablecoins are layering into a new money stack. We are living through an unspoken Bretton Woods moment, one coded by engineers rather than signed by finance ministers. This architecture will underpin tokenised finance and an AI agentic workforce.
Our most read and shared articles reflect our thesis:
