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Fintech Recap: Kontig-uh-oh. Are Stablecoins Speed Running BaaS?

Crypto app collapse reveals infrastructure vulnerabilities in stablecoin ecosystem and BaaS model risks

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Fintech Recap: Kontig-uh-oh. Are Stablecoins Speed Running BaaS?

Why This Matters

Why this matters: Finance leaders need to understand third-party infrastructure risks and regulatory failures that can cascade through fintech partnerships, similar to traditional banking-as-a-service vulnerabilities.

Fintech Recap: Kontig-uh-oh. Are Stablecoins Speed Running BaaS?

A podcast episode examines the collapse of Y Combinator and Coinbase-backed crypto app Kontigo, exploring the risks and infrastructure vulnerabilities in the stablecoin ecosystem. The discussion covers the regulatory, operational, and third-party risk management failures that enabled the incident, drawing parallels to banking-as-a-service (BaaS) model risks and the responsibilities of infrastructure providers like Stripe and JPMorgan Chase.

Key Takeaways
A podcast episode examines the collapse of Y Combinator and Coinbase-backed crypto app Kontigo, exploring the risks and infrastructure vulnerabilities in the stablecoin ecosystem.
The discussion covers the regulatory, operational, and third-party risk management failures that enabled the incident.
Drawing parallels to banking-as-a-service (BaaS) model risks and the responsibilities of infrastructure providers like Stripe and JPMorgan Chase.
CompaniesKontigoY CombinatorCoinbase(COIN)StripeJPMorgan Chase(JPM)
Affected Workflows
Vendor ManagementTreasuryAudit
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Sam Adler

Finance and technology correspondent covering the intersection of AI and corporate finance.

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