The Stablecoin Saga, a comic
A comic I wrote at Aryze in spring 2025 to explain stablecoins, digital money tied to a normal currency such as the dollar. I made the panels in ChatGPT and put the pages together in Figma.
- 3episodes out in May 2025
- 12versions of episode 3's panels made in one afternoon
- My role
- Wrote the comic, generated the panels in ChatGPT, built the pages and put the episodes out
- When
- April to May 2025
- Result
- Episode 1 went out by email on 2 May. Episodes 2 and 3 were on Aryze's LinkedIn page the day they were made.
In spring 2025 we ran a campaign at Aryze that tried to wake the child in the decision maker. We wanted a different way to explain stablecoins, so it wouldn't always be the same boring material people see. It became a comic, the Aryze Stablecoin Saga.
The written briefs had a bird as the hero. In the panels I generated in ChatGPT the same day, he was already a Viking, swinging a sword at a kraken tentacle labelled "T+2 delays", the two-day wait before a payment settles. The first villains were snakes named "SWIFT", "correspondent" and "FX spread", three costs of a payment sent abroad.
I built every page panel by panel, corrected the words in the panels and added a real QR code.
A Viking hero explains stablecoins, from the hidden costs of payments abroad to currency exchange. The finished pages of episodes 1 and 3, and art made for the series.
I sent episode 1 by email on Friday 2 May. The email promised a different finance challenge every week.
The series banner with the Viking hero, from our May 2025 newsletter.
The Saga Viking hero in full figure with his hammer, the large illustration made for the comic's cover.
Episodes 2 and 3 came out on Aryze's LinkedIn page on the next two Tuesdays, each made and posted the same day. For episode 3 on 13 May I made 12 versions of the panels in one afternoon, and the page went up that evening.