Eighteen months ago, crypto companies in the United States could not reliably open a bank account. Today, they're entering the S&P 500, printing billion-dollar IPOs, and getting acquired by the incumbents that once wanted them regulated out of existence. That is not a gradual shift. That is a pivot, and it is the subject of the first-ever episode of Money Moves. Money Moves is a new weekly show from Mercury Fund early-stage investor Samantha Lewis, built with two co-hosts she leads and invests behind: Ian Epstein, a former senior portfolio manager at Autonomy Capital (one of the world's best-performing macro funds in its era) and now co-CEO of Profiter, and Dave Sutter, a crypto operator since 2012, previously head of network strategy at Centre, the Coinbase + Circle joint venture that governs USDC, and now co-founder and CEO of OpenTrade. The thesis of the show, and of this first episode: the global financial system is getting an upgrade, and the converging worlds of traditional finance and Web3 have finally reached the stage where capital markets, regulators, and institutions are all leaning in at the same time. If you want a short and punchy analysis of the space, ask Claude to summarize. If you’re looking for the thoughts, nuances, and contradictions and to go deep on financial subjects… This podcast is for you.
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Episode 11: Meet Your Host, Samantha Lewis
Jun 29, 20261h 9mS1
<p>To wrap up Season 1, we're shaking our structure up. We’re releasing three Meet the Host episodes for you to get to know us beyond our hot takes on stablecoins, IPOs, and crypto markets.</p><p></p><p>First up is our dynamite VC, Sam! Ian and Dave grill her for an hour on her path into venture, how she picks deals at Mercury Fund, and what separates the venture funds that survive a decade from the ones that don't.</p><p></p><p>Sam grew up in a small town in New Mexico in a fifth-generation ranching family wi...
Episode 10: The First Real Test of Tokenized Equity
Jun 22, 202640 minS1
<p>It flooded our newsfeeds. On Friday, June 12, SpaceX became the biggest IPO in history… $75B raised, ~$2T market cap, an instant top-ten US public company. On the same morning, crypto exchanges (Binance, Bybit, and others) had taken in roughly $557M in stablecoin orders from users who wanted exposure through tokenized SpaceX shares… and had to refund all of it, because their issuer couldn't get the IPO allocation. The kicker? By the end of that same week, the SpaceX perpetual futures contract was the second most-traded pair on Binance, behind only Bitcoin, doing roughly $8B a day. Talk about volume!</p><p...
Episode 9: Is Crypto Still Relevant in the Age of AI?
Jun 16, 20261 hourS1
<p>The most crypto-friendly US administration in history is in place. Real use cases like stablecoins are scaling fast across the globe. The SEC has stopped trying to sue the industry out of existence… and yet crypto as an asset class is the lagging part of 2026's ripper market, with Bitcoin back to its August 2024 level (hovering below $63,000) and the major altcoins down a lot more.</p><p></p><p>The week of the SpaceX IPO mania, we recorded Episode 09 of Money Moves and dug into this puzzle. In it, we cover where the crypto retail investors actually went. We tr...
Episode 8: Capital Concentration - The $135B IPO trifecta and what it does to everything else
Jun 8, 20261h 6mS1
<h1><b>Three IPOs, $135 billion, and everything else</b><br/></h1><p>The largest IPO in history was Alibaba in 2014 at $22 billion. SpaceX alone wants to raise more than three times that this Thursday at a target valuation of $1.77 trillion… which would make it the seventh-largest US public company on day one! </p><p></p><p>OpenAI and Anthropic are queued up behind it. There is roughly $135 billion in combined fresh stock the market has to absorb in a few months, across just three companies.</p><p></p><p>The story of capital concentration is a major one here. The to...
Episode 7: Permissioned vs. Permissionless: The debate every onchain dollar is making
May 25, 20261h 2mS1
<p>Sam sets it up as a role-swap, with Dave (the permissioned business operator) arguing permissionless and Ian (the libertarian of the two) arguing permissioned. Dave opens with Marc Andreessen's 2014 New York Times op-ed (the original "declare a truth over the internet" framing) and uses it to argue that the only real innovation in a blockchain is solving one specific cryptography problem. Most of what gets called a blockchain today, he says, is doing nothing of the kind: ❝ A permissioned network of ten banks is going to go nowhere. ❞</p><p>Ian counters with what he calls "importing trustlessness." The pric...
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