Blockchain Goes Where Banks Cannot | Matt Keller Algorand

What if blockchain’s most important use case isn’t trading but helping humanitarian aid reach people traditional banking systems cannot?

In this episode of the AllInCrypto Podcast, Rupert Pickering sits down with Matt Keller, Lead: Impact at the Algorand Foundation, to explore how blockchain, stablecoins and digital wallets are transforming humanitarian payments.

Matt explains how Algorand and HesabPay are helping organizations deliver financial support in Afghanistan and Syria, where access to traditional banking infrastructure remains limited.

The conversation explores how direct digital payments can give recipients greater control, make the movement of aid easier to trace and provide institutions with greater confidence that resources reached their intended destination.

We also discuss how developing economies could leapfrog traditional banking infrastructure—just as many previously skipped landlines and moved directly to mobile technology. Matt shares insights into stablecoin payments for agricultural workers in northeast Syria, the future of digital financial services, privacy for vulnerable recipients and the growing Humanitarian Payments Council bringing together organizations including Visa, Mastercard, Circle and United Nations agencies.

This is crypto being used not for speculation, but to solve real human problems.