Frank Chaparro

Frank Chaparro

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crypto podcast host, game show host, aspiring cooking competition host

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Wall Street before: "We don't trust blockchain." Once they realized you don't have to, scale happened quick. What institutions were missing was a purpose-built infrastructure layer to interact onchain. → instant, atomic settlement → native blockchain registry → data protection models → predictable costs → designed for regulated assets So we built it on Provenance. The end-to-end stack to connect TradFi to DeFi.

Wall Street is building faster in blockchain right now than the crypto native firms. "When they find out they can make money they lean in hard" The chessboard is completely shifting. Mike Cagney broke it down on @GSR_io’s The Crypto Tape:

BlackRock’s IBIT is now trading $16–18B daily, nearly matching Binance spot volumes and more than 2x Coinbase ($6–8B).

This is Wall Street's $10 trillion onchain foray. @Figure's chairman and co-founder @mcagney explained to our own @fintechfrank his journey of showing Wall Street how to reduce collateral risk, eliminate double-pledging, and blaze a trail for institutional DeFi participation.

Polymarket volumes have increased materially year-over-year. Mar 2026: $10.57B Apr 2025: $1.31B ~8x growth over the period, reflecting sustained expansion beyond the election cycle and broader category participation. Via @GSR_io

Franklin Templeton isn’t just acquiring a CoinFund spinoff, it’s launching Franklin Crypto: • Building an end-to-end crypto asset management platform across VC, liquid strategies, and global distribution • Scaling active management • Using BENJI tokens for deal consideration, an early step toward on-chain M&A “This positions us among a small group of global asset managers with a dedicated, institutional-grade crypto investment management team.” — CEO Jenny Johnson The intersection of crypto and asset management is red hot anon twitter.com/fintechfrank/statu...

Monthly count of new markets on Polymarket: May 2025 → 6,500 March 2026 → 222,000 Insane.

If you’re a fintech or bank not paying attention to stablecoins, you’re toast. The signals are everywhere: • Supply > $300B (from <$30B in 2020) • Regulatory clarity (GENIUS Act) unlocking institutional adoption • SoFi, JPM, Visa, Mastercard, Fiserv are all moving in And usage is exploding: • $226B in B2B payments (+733% YoY) • $4.5B in card spend (+673% YoY)

This 90-second clip of Goldman’s David Solomon explaining the future of stablecoins is the best thing you'll watch all week.

Stablecoin supply just crossed $300B (from ~$205B at the start of 2025 and <$30B in 2020) But Agora’s @Nick_van_Eck isn’t convinced the product makes sense for banks. We get into it on @GSR_io's podcast, The Crypto Tape

Behind the scenes last week in studio for GSR’s podcast @TheCryptoTape with @azeemk at @0xMiden A masterclass on privacy, building through a bear market as a token founder, and how institutions are reshaping the industry’s chessboard

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