The Two Layers of Digital Money: Why Economies Need Both

Two layers of digital money: one spreads opportunity, one extends support. Economies need both.

Oct 9, 2025 • Valla Vakili

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September 2025

Redesigning Money: Stablecoins and the Everyday Economy

Designing money as a digital product for how people actually earn today

Sep 11, 2025 • Valla Vakili

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July 2025

Finance’s Format Moment: What Stablecoins Make Possible

What the rise of Netflix and Spotify can teach us about where stablecoins are headed.

Jul 22, 2025 • Valla Vakili

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June 2025

Are We There Yet? Crypto, AI, and the Search for a Way Out

Technologies used to promise better tools, but crypto and AI promise something bigger: escape from the world we're stuck in. What happens when belief…

Jun 5, 2025 • Valla Vakili

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AI Agents and Human Constraints

We're building AI agents that can move freely across digital platforms while keeping humans locked within them. We marvel at machines exercising…

Jun 5, 2025 • Valla Vakili

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The AI Mirror

AI is a mirror for uncomfortable truths about how we work and what we value. What it reflects back might surprise you.

Jun 5, 2025 • Valla Vakili

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When Business Escapes the Firm

The biggest changes reshaping business today don't start inside companies. When business escapes the firm, leaders have to meet it on new ground.

Jun 5, 2025 • Valla Vakili

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The Age of Shock

The 21st century has been shaped more by shocks than by the planned progress we once imagined.

Jun 3, 2025 • Valla Vakili

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