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#162 Signature Bank Had $34B in Liquidity. They Shut It Down Anyway | Scott Shay, N3XT

Alt Funds Network · Sep 23, 2026 · 49:16

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

01:00 Scott Shay's journey into banking

03:00 Building Signature Bank

05:00 The origins of Signet and crypto banking

07:00 How Signet enabled 24/7 payments

09:00 The rise of stablecoins

13:00 The banking industry's reaction to crypto

14:00 What happened to Signature Bank

18:00 The fundamental problem with traditional banking

21:00 Moving dollars like Bitcoin

23:00 Why Scott decided to build N3XT

26:00 Building a full-reserve U.S. bank

29:00 Tokenized dollars outside the bank

32:00 Full-reserve vs. fractional-reserve banking

34:00 How N3XT makes money

36:00 Crypto regulation and the future

38:00 The N3XT digital dollar

43:00 How traditional banks view crypto

45:00 The future of banking

47:00 What fund managers should know

 

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