From #16 Der digitale Euro – Europas größter Hebel? (Teil 1 mit Alexander Höptner) · · 21 Oaks Capital
“Tether is not our competitor — our competitor is the roughly 600–700 billion daily inflows into and out of the European Union across central bank money, commercial bank money and e-money that are being tokenized.”
On , Alexander Höptner, CEO at BitMEX, spoke about cross-border payments during #16 Der digitale Euro – Europas größter Hebel? (Teil 1 mit Alexander Höptner) on 21 Oaks Capital.
In a March 2026 episode of the podcast *Joint Custody – The Digital Asset Dialogues*, Alexander Höptner, CEO of AllUnity, discussed the company's launch of a MiCAR-compliant EUR stablecoin. Höptner described the stablecoin as "the tokenized version of e‑money" under MiCA regulation, distinguishing it from cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. He stated that AllUnity's primary focus is using stablecoins for cross-border payments rather than as a settlement instrument for crypto trading. Höptner argued that for true cross-border payments, stablecoins must be available in local currencies, with foreign exchange services provided between them)Skip. He noted that stablecoins will become one component of a broader global payment system, alongside instant payment systems and central bank digital currencies, and predicted they will be "heavily used" in the future. AllUnity is backed by DWS, Flow Traders, and Galaxy.