Mined with CoinFund

There’s so much noise across the echo chamber of crypto culture. What’s something people aren’t talking enough about?

Mined with CoinFund is a weekly show that explores the unearthed narratives within the crypto space. As a team of early stage investors and operators, our business is built on idea-spotting: catching a glimmer of one intriguing idea that could become a market-shaping opportunity.

Mining is a cryptographic process, but in the physical world, it is digging through boulders to find gems. We aim to uncover unpopular truths and unspoken perspectives that deserve to be debated.

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The Hidden Risk Behind the Biggest Stablecoins

June 18, 2025 • CoinFund • Season 1 • Episode 33

Circle’s IPO and the GENIUS Act are paving the way for these next few months to go down as Stablecoin Summer.

But there’s a darker reality that concerns Rho Labs Founder Alex Ryvkin -- what happens if the infrastructure behind some of the most popular dollar-denominated assets collapses?

Alex joins Mined with CoinFund hosts Jake Brukhman and Christopher Perkins to chat about the risks associated with stablecoins, building an onchain rates exchange, and the convergence of DeFi and TradFi. They cover:

The biggest risks behind stablecoins (2:03)
Rho’s crypto rates market (7:08)
Closing the gap between TradFi and DeFi (20:35)

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