Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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🎙️ NEXT.io Spotlight | Swapin's Evald Hannes Kree on Stablecoins, iGaming Payments & the Prediction Markets Opportunity

Recorded at NEXT Summit Valletta, Evald Hannes Kree, CEO of Swapin, joins us to cut through the noise around crypto — and explain why stablecoins, not Bitcoin, are the payment story the iGaming industry should be paying attention to.

From VIP deposits blocked by banks to the infrastructure behind prediction markets, Evald makes a clear-eyed case for why the working model has finally arrived — and why the timing couldn't be better.

⏰ Timestamps:
00:14 - Introduction: Evald Hannes Kree & Swapin
00:41 - What Swapin does & how it started
01:24 - The evolution of crypto: from Bitcoin to stablecoins
02:30 - Why operators should consider crypto as a payment method
04:00 - Why NEXT.io chose Swapin as its official crypto partner
04:42 - What people get wrong about crypto
06:00 - Evald's background & how he got into crypto
09:44 - What makes something "too innovative" — and the stablecoin working model
10:02 - Prediction markets & why crypto is the natural payment rail
11:18 - Is Swapin exploring the prediction markets space?
11:40 - The future of stablecoins & why traditional finance is paying attention

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