Can we have financial privacy AND stop financial crime? Stanford's Darrell Duffie thinks there's a third path and it might be the most important work happening in finance right now.

In this special UBRI Leadership Session, Ripple SVP Eric van Miltenburg sits down with Professor Darrell Duffie of Stanford's Graduate School of Business, U.S. Senate witness, and architect of the course The Future of Money and Payments for a conversation that moves from the theoretical to the genuinely urgent.

Duffie's "compliance by design" framework poses a radical question: what if privacy weren't a switch that governments could flip, but a cryptographic guarantee baked into the payment system itself? It's a question that cuts to the heart of every CBDC debate, every stablecoin regulation, and every fintech pitch deck claiming to serve the unbanked.

In this episode:

• Why the U.S. CBDC is dead and why that might be shortsighted
• How tokenized U.S. Treasuries went from zero to $10B and what clearing banks do next
• Why China's eCNY flopped even with government muscle behind it
• The surprising reason Europe may actually pull off a digital euro
• What Afghanistan's Hesab Pay reveals about stablecoins and financial inclusion
• Why agentic payments; AI making purchases on your behalf may be the real disruption no one's talking about
• And yes: why in 100 years, no one will carry "grubby bits of paper" in their pockets

Whether you're a regulator, a builder, a banker, or just someone who tapped your phone to buy coffee this morning this conversation will change how you think about who controls your money and why it matters.

One documentary. A 4.9-star rating. A kidney community of millions waiting to see it. And nine major studios; Amazon, Apple, HBO Max, Hulu, Disney, Paramount+, Peacock, Showtime, and Stars that all said no.

So Donald stopped asking for permission.

In this episode, Lauren Weymouth sits down with filmmaker Donald Griswold to unpack how he's using Stuff.io, a blockchain platform backed by Mark Cuban and Snoop Dogg, to distribute Abundant directly to the kidney community, bypass the $50M Hollywood P&A machine, and prove that true digital ownership changes everything for independent artists. One in nine Americans is affected by kidney disease. This film could reach every one of them and no traditional streamer could make that happen. Because on a streaming platform, you have a license. On blockchain, you own it. And as Donald says "you can't give it, if you don't own it."

If you're a filmmaker, a creator, or a founder who's been told your project is too niche, this episode is your proof of concept. This isn't just a film launch. It's a manifesto.

In this season opener we dive into the world of Crypto Insurance and the safety net required to bring institutional capital off the sidelines. Host Lauren Weymouth sits down with Sree Sanakkayala, founder of Mintara Labs, to discuss how they are "quantifying the unknown" to bridge the multi-billion dollar protective gap in digital assets.

From a technical residency in Paris to a high-intensity accelerator at Berkeley, Sree’s journey reveals a critical shift in the industry: moving away from complex, crypto-native smart contracts toward regulated insurance products that everyday fintechs and institutions can actually trust.

In this conversation, you will learn:

• The Difficulty with Crypto Audits: Why $2.5 billion was lost in 2025 despite 92% of protocols being audited, and how "copy-paste" coding and human error contribute to massive losses.
• AI-Driven Risk Quantification: How Mintara Labs uses a proprietary AI pricing engine to translate on-chain data into real-world insurance premiums.
• The Future of Stablecoin Safety: Why new US and EU regulations are turning stablecoin reserves into a "built-in" insurance policy, allowing innovators to focus on pure crypto risks.
• Building on XRP Ledger: Discover why the XRPL EVM sidechain was the ideal testing ground for "tradable risk" and high-liquidity financial infrastructure.
• The "Hard Truth" of Startups: Sree shares the pivotal moment of shifting from a "passion project" to a revenue-generating business that serves real customer needs.

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