---
title: "Funny Money: Stablecoins, CBDCs and the Tokenization of the Global Economy"
authors:
  - Jonny Fry
  - James Tylee
publisher: TeamBlockchain Ltd
isbn: "9781066612024"
release_date: 2026-05-05
formats:
  - eBook
  - paperback
  - hardcover
canonical: https://www.teamblockchain.net/books/funny-money
ebook_url: https://amzn.to/49aMmUf
paperback_url: https://amzn.to/4urBJ89
hardcover_url: https://amzn.to/4wIP4dM
asin: B0GX2VNS7F
topics:
  - stablecoins
  - CBDCs
  - tokenization
  - tokenized deposits
  - cross-border payments
  - digital assets
  - financial infrastructure
---

# Funny Money: Stablecoins, CBDCs and the Tokenization of the Global Economy

**Funny Money** is the first Digital Bytes book volume by **Jonny Fry** and **James Tylee**. It explains how stablecoins,
central bank digital currencies, tokenized deposits, and tokenized assets are reshaping settlement, collateral,
cross-border payments, sanctions, compliance, and financial sovereignty.

## Short Description

The book draws on more than three years of continuous Digital Bytes analysis and companion podcast conversations. It is
written for finance leaders, technologists, regulators, investors, treasury professionals, enterprise operators, and
readers who need a clear map of digital money without a sales pitch for any one token, chain, or institution.

## Why Readers Buy It

- It explains why stablecoins became a real financial infrastructure story rather than only a crypto-market tool.
- It compares stablecoins, CBDCs, and tokenized bank deposits as competing settlement models.
- It connects payment-rail friction, cross-border settlement, regulation, tokenization, and geopolitics in one volume.
- It gives board-level readers a practical way to understand programmable money and the next era of financial rails.

## Main Themes

- why money is being reinvented
- the rise of stablecoins
- the Terra/Luna collapse and algorithmic fragility
- central bank digital currencies
- the digital currency race
- payments transformed
- stablecoins versus CBDCs
- regulatory divergence
- tokenized bank deposits
- cross-border payments
- sanctions and geopolitics
- zero-knowledge proofs
- the future of money

## Retail Links

- Amazon eBook: https://amzn.to/49aMmUf
- Amazon paperback: https://amzn.to/4urBJ89
- Amazon hardcover: https://amzn.to/4wIP4dM

More bookstore links can be added as they become available.