MetaMarkets - The European lens on crypto, macro-finance, and regulation.
MetaMarkets offers a European perspective on macro-finance and digital assets, covering capital markets, crypto regulation, and geopolitical implications of financial policy. Hosted by Jan Fritsche and Jón Egilsson, the show combines insights from central banking, economic research, crypto entrepreneurship, and Web3 cybersecurity. The podcast maps out the forces shaping today's economic landscape.
Episodes
Maple Finance Co-Founder Sid Powell | The Future of Tokenization and Lending
MetaMarkets hosted by
Jan Philipp Fritsche, co-founder of Bermuda, a compliant privacy solution. Strategic Director at Oak Security, a Web3 cybersecurity firm pioneering research on economic and systemic risks in decentralized systems. https://www.linkedin.com/in/janf/
The Guest
Sid Powell — Co-founder and CEO of Maple Finance, one of the largest on-chain asset managers, with around $4.5B in AUM a
Kyle Jenke | Optimism brings Enterprises on Chain | SLAs, RWA and Tokenized Chicken
Jan Philipp Fritsche, co-founder of Bermuda, a compliant privacy solution. Strategic Director at Oak Security, a Web3 cybersecurity firm pioneering research on economic and systemic risks in decentralized systems. https://www.linkedin.com/in/janf/
The Guest
Kyle Jenke — Newly appointed COO, and former Chief Business Officer at Optimism, where he leads the enterprise business behind the OP Stack, t
Interoperability, Gnosis and the Ethereum Economic Zone
The Host
Jan Philipp Fritsche — Strategic Director at Oak Security, a Web3 cybersecurity firm pioneering research on economic and systemic risks in decentralized systems. Co-Founder of Bermuda. https://www.linkedin.com/in/janf/
The Guest
Friederike Ernst — Co-founder of Gnosis, one of Ethereum's oldest companies, and an advocate of the Ethereum Economic Zone. Gnosis has built Safe, CowSwap, and Gn
Justin Gainsley | Coinbase - How AI and Blockchain are going to revolutionize payments.
The Host
Jan Philipp Fritsche — Strategic Director at Oak Security, a Web3 cybersecurity firm pioneering research on economic and systemic risks in decentralized systems. Co-Founder of Bermuda.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/janf/
The Guest
Justin Gainsley — Lead of stablecoin payment products at Coinbase, where he has spent four years building the company's payments suite for consumers, SMBs, ent
Why the CLARITY Act Is a Breakthrough - Jacob Robinson | Law of Code: Decentralization vs. Permissionlessness
This Episodes Host:
Jan Philipp Fritsche — Strategic Director at Oak Security, a Web3 cybersecurity firm pioneering research on economic and systemic risks in decentralized systems. Co-Founder of Bermuda. https://www.linkedin.com/in/janf/
The guest:
Jacob Robinson is a lawyer, writer, and host of the Law of Code podcast, where he explores the legal and regulatory questions shaping crypto, blockc
European Ethereum Institute’s Marina Markezic on MiCA 2, DeFi, and Europe’s Crypto Future
European Ethereum Institute’s Marina Markezic on MiCA 2, DeFi, and Europe’s Crypto Future
The Hosts
Jan Philipp Fritsche — Strategic Director at Oak Security, a Web3 cybersecurity firm pioneering research on economic and systemic risks in decentralized systems. Co-Founder of Bermuda. https://www.linkedin.com/in/janf/
Jón Egilsson — Former Chair of the Central Bank of Iceland; Co-founder of Moneriu
Stablecoin Intelligence, Liquidity, and Regulation
Jan Philipp Fritsche — Strategic Director at Oak Security, a Web3 cybersecurity firm pioneering research on economic and systemic risks in decentralized systems. Co-Founder of Bermuda. https://www.linkedin.com/in/janf/
Jón Egilsson — Former Chair of the Central Bank of Iceland; Co-founder of Monerium, the first company to issue fiat currency on-chain. https://www.linkedin.com/in/egilsson/
The Gue
Aave Hack and Economics: Can Aave Compete with Traditional Banks?
Aave has long been one of DeFi’s flagship success stories: transparent, permissionless, and highly automated. But after a major exploit involving the KelpDAO bridge created bad debt and triggered emergency interventions, a deeper question has returned to the forefront:
Can DeFi lending protocols like Aave truly compete with traditional banks — or do they simply recreate the same risks in new forms
Institutions, Privacy and Quantum Risk are the Driving Forces in 2026
The Hosts
Jón Egilsson — Former Chair of the Central Bank of Iceland; Co-founder of Monerium, the first company to issue fiat currency on-chain.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/egilsson/
Jan Philipp Fritsche — Managing Director at Oak Security, a Web3 cybersecurity firm pioneering research on economic and systemic risks in decentralized systems.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/janf/
The next phase of cr
Bitcoin vs Ethereum
Hosts
Jan Philipp Fritsche — Managing Director at Oak Security
https://www.linkedin.com/in/janf/
Jón Egilsson — Former Chair of the Central Bank of Iceland; Co-founder of Monerium
https://www.linkedin.com/in/egilsson
Related article
Bitcoin Vs. Ethereum And The Flippening Lubin Predicts
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonegilsson/2025/12/02/bitcoin-vs-ethereum-and-the-flippening-lubin-predicts/
Show
Systemic Stablecoins | Bank of England consultation paper
In this MetaMarkets episode, hosts Jan Philipp Fritsche and Jón Egilsson unpack the Bank of England’s consultation on the regulation of sterling-denominated systemic stablecoins.
They focus on the proposed reserve structure: systemic issuers would be fully backed 1:1, with around 40% of backing assets held in unremunerated Bank of England accounts (for instant liquidity/redemptions) and the rem
ECB's Central Bank Digital Currency | Ulrich Bindseil
Central banks are racing to modernize public money — but can CBDCs compete with stablecoins, and what does monetary sovereignty really mean in a digital, multipolar world?
In this episode, Jan and Jón are joined by Prof. Ulrich Bindseil, former Director General for Market Infrastructure & Payments at the European Central Bank and now Professor at TU Berlin, to explore the future of the digita
Stablecoin Emergencies | Rhys Bidder
Stablecoins are redefining how money moves across borders — but will regulation keep up?
In this episode, Jan and Jón are joined by Rhys Bidder, Senior Lecturer at King’s Business School, King’s College London, and advisor to Chainlink Labs, to discuss how MiCAR, the GENIUS Act, and the UK’s evolving stablecoin framework will shape the future of digital money.
Rhys has written widely on stablecoin
The Future of Money - Adios a los Bancos with Miguel Fernandez Ordóñez
📰 Episode Summary
In this episode of MetaMarkets, hosts Jan Fritsche and Jón Egilsson sit down with Miguel Fernández Ordóñez, former Governor of the Bank of Spain and author of Adiós a los Bancos (“Farewell to the Banks”).
Ordóñez argues that it’s time to end the banking monopoly on digital money — and to give every citizen direct access to public, risk-free money issued by the central bank.
He ex
Fixing Crypto in Europe – with Marina Markezic (EUCI)
Traditional finance is moving on-chain. Can Europe keep pace? We sit down with Marina Markezic, co-founder and Executive Director of the European Crypto Initiative (EUCI), to unpack how regulation is shaping the future of blockchain and finance in Europe.
We cover breaking news from Stripe and Circle launching their own layer-ones, ESMA’s push to expand the DLT Pilot Regime, and even the European
Will MICAR break the Euro?
Europe wants to lead in digital money—but is its own regulation setting it up to fail?
In this episode of MetaMarkets, Jan Fritsche and Jón Egilsson are joined by Hana to unpack why Europe’s stablecoin rules could backfire.
We discuss how MiCAR—the EU’s flagship crypto law—might actually increase risk, tilt the playing field in favor of big banks, and unintentionally help the U.S. dollar win the d
Trump's Stablecoin Plan—Is Europe Ready?
This is the first episode of MetaMarkets, in which we dive deep into the economic, regulatory, and technological shifts shaping the future of money. Hosts Jón Helgi Egilsson (Executive Director, Monerium) and Jan Philipp Fritsche (Managing Director, Oak Security) explore the intersection of monetary policy, stablecoins, and the emerging geopolitical battle for currency influence.
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