Tokenized
This show is for the builders, who see stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets as the next step in the finance industry. The tokenization of all assets. This show will come to your feed every week featuring the latest news, with views from the operators, to the builders, and the people in markets and in Crypto who see tokenization as the credible future of finance. Join Simon Taylor and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto at Visa for weekly nerd outs on all things stablecoins and the tokenization of real world assets.
From Shopify to Sapiom: Building the OS for Agentic Commerce
On Ep. 11 of Agentic Commerce, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, and Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh are joined by Ilan Zerbib, Founder & CEO @ Sapiom to discuss Sapiom’s vision for agent infrastructure, agent identity, delegated authority, Sapiom’s agent studio and more!
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The Era of 24/7 Money
On Ep. 95 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Natalya Thakur, Founder & CEO @ Knova and TuongVy Le, General Counsel @ Veda to discuss Western Union and Rain launching Stablecard, stablecoins as opportunity not threat for banks, BlackRock tokenized money market funds for stablecoin reserves and more!
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00:00 Introduction 2:04 Western Union and Rain launch stablecard in 37 markets 3:46 Idle stablecoin balances and yield earning potential 5:44 Self custodial model attractiveness for internationalization 6:23 Western Union business model shift with wallet plus card 10:00 Stablecoins as opportunity not threat for banks 15:06...Why Every Bank Needs 24/7 Cash Settlement Now
On Ep. 9 of Stablecoin Stories, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Ran Goldi, SVP Payments, Fireblocks are joined by Ryan Rugg, Global Head of Digital Assets @ Citi Token Services to discuss Citi Token Services liquidity management as first use case, programmable smart contracts, the need for multi bank interoperability and more!
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00:00 Introduction 5:26 Lessons on client pain points from IBM blockchain practice 8:25 Citi Token Services liquidity management as first use case 14:33 Programmable smart contracts for shipping canal payments 18:39 Need for multi bank interoperability and industry owned networks 26:02 Tokenized deposits projected to exceed stablecoin transaction...Why Robinhood Are Going All in on Tokenized Stocks and Prediction Markets
On Ep. 94 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo is joined by Rob Hadick, GP @ Dragonfly, Stephen Sikes, COO @ Public and Ethan Chan, Co-Founder & CEO @ Allium to discuss Tokenized stocks as a global expansion strategy for US fintechs, prediction markets surging and more!
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00:00 Introduction 0:30 Embedded wallet acquisitions and consolidation trends in crypto infrastructure 2:16 Monetization challenges and value accrual for standalone infrastructure providers 5:48 Comparing embedded wallets to Plaid's integration moat and maintainability 9:49 Limited DeFi integrations needed versus traditional fintech like Plaid 12:26 Stablecoin adoption challenges for US brokerage on-ramps and payments 14:52 Tokenized stocks' small scale...Why Stablecoins Won’t Kill Cards Ft. a16z Partner Noah Levine
On Ep. 10 of Agentic Commerce, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, and Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh are joined by Noah Levine, Partner @ a16z Crypto to discuss a new class of merchants and buyers emerging, stablecoins won't kill cards but fill gaps, Jevons paradox and more!
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Stablecoin Linked Cards Are in Hyper Growth Mode
On Ep. 93 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Luke Tuttle, CPTO @ MoneyGram, Charles Yoo-Naut, Co-Founder & CTO @ Rain and Darko Hajdukovic, Head of Digital Markets Infrastructure @ London Stock Exchange Group to discuss LSE nighttime trading venue launching 2027, Tokenized UK government debt instrument DIGIT and more!
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00:00 Introduction 3:50 London Stock Exchange nighttime trading venue launching 2027 5:09 Tokenized UK government debt instrument called DIGIT explained 8:09 Regulatory recognition of digital assets versus physical assets 13:29 Marqeta partners with zerohash for stablecoin card programs 16:52 Rain full stack issuer versus Marqeta...Why Ramp Is All in on Stablecoins
On Ep. 8 of Stablecoin Stories, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Ran Goldi, SVP Payments, Fireblocks are joined by Alex Bazhenov, Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Ramp and Andrew Chapello, Product Lead @ Ramp to discuss customer demand for faster, cheaper global business payments driving stablecoin adoption strategy, integrating blockchain payments with legacy fiat ledger infrastructure and more!
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00:00 Introduction 5:00 Customer demand for faster, cheaper global business payments drives stablecoin adoption strategy 10:09 How Ramp’s spend management, bill pay, banking, and stablecoin products connect 15:10 Customer adoption, product feedback, and making stablecoin accounts invisible to users 17:36 Engineering ch...Onchain FX Is the Missing Piece for Stablecoins
On Ep. 92 of Tokenized, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa is joined by Noah Levine, Partner @ a16z Crypto, Didier Lavallee, Founder & CEO @ Tetra Digital Group and Eric Queathem, Founder & CEO @ Velocity to discuss velocity raising $30 million Series A for stablecoin payments, Canadian dollar stablecoin use cases and more!
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00:00 Introduction 1:41 Velocity raises $30 million Series A for stablecoin payments 4:02 Velocity as regulated payment institution not just orchestration 5:11 Stablecoin use cases for corporate treasury internal movements 8:18 Canadian dollar stablecoin use cases for cross border trade 11:29 Visa stablecoin platform and OUSD settlement for acquirers 14:37 Acquirer stablecoin settlement evolution...Why 70% of PSPs Still Won’t Touch Crypto
On Ep. 7 of Stablecoin Stories, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Ran Goldi, SVP Payments, Fireblocks are joined by John Egan, Chief Product Officer @ Polygon to discuss the utility theory that blockchain should be used for money, only 30% of PSPs own stablecoin infrastructure and more!
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00:00 Introduction 5:51 Institutional users demand data proof of value 7:58 Utility theory that blockchain should be used for money 11:33 MiCA license sparked stablecoin adoption in payments 16:30 Only 30% of PSPs own stablecoin infrastructure 22:33 Open Money Stack integrates multiple stablecoin vendors into API 27:35 Polygon is the leading chain for stablecoin payments 35:15 Stablecoins...Stablecoin Cards Hitting $1 Billion a Month
On Ep. 91 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Paul Faecks, CEO & Founder @ Plasma and Guillermo Goncalvez, CEO @ El Dorado to discuss Visa onchain analytics dashboard, growth of stablecoin enabled card spend nearing $1 billion, and more!
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00:00 Introduction 2:05 Visa onchain analytics dashboard and adjusted volume methodology 3:56 Growth of stablecoin enabled card spend nearing $1 billion 5:04 Rise of stablecoin orchestrators bridging to traditional payment networks 9:35 Import/export use case for stablecoins in Latin America 16:04 Bankruptcy protection and custodial risks for stablecoin neobanks 27:17 Brick and mortar banking...From Building USDC to Agentic Commerce: Sean Neville on Programmable Finance
On Ep. 9 of Agentic Commerce, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, and Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh are joined by Sean Neville, CEO & Co-Founder @ Catena to discuss the early vision for stablecoins and USDC creation, founding Catena, AI focus and more!
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OpenUSD - Bringing the Rest of Fiat Onchain
On Ep. 90 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo is joined by Stephen Richardson, Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Banking @ Fireblocks and Ido Ben-Natan, CEO & Co-Founder @ Blockaid to discuss Fireblocks role in OpenUSD launch, BIS view on DeFi lending, Robinhood Earn product and more!
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00:00 Introduction 2:46 Fireblocks role in OpenUSD launch 4:29 OpenUSD economic model and revenue distribution 7:45 Jeremy Allaire critique of OpenUSD consortium 10:07 Stablecoin liquidity challenges and global adoption 14:11 Tokenized treasuries and settlement speed impact 21:52 Banks integrating stablecoins with tokenized deposits 26:17 BIS report on stablecoins falling short as money 29:37 BIS view on DeFi lending...Interview: Robinhood's 7% Earn Product w/ Johann Kerbrat
In this bonus episode of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo is joined by Johann Kerbrat, SVP & GM of Crypto & International @ Robinhood to discuss Robinhood Chain public mainnet launch going live globally, Robinhood Earn offers 7% yield with Lloyds insurance coverage and more!
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00:00 Introduction 1:02 Robinhood Chain public mainnet launch goes live globally 1:55 Robinhood Chain partners with Arcus and Lighter for trading 3:17 Robinhood customers can earn yields and use Robinhood Wallet 4:28 Robinhood perps launch with simplified UI for advanced traders 5:52 Stock tokens on Robinhood Chain for 120 plus countries 7:14 Use tokenized stocks as collateral in DeFi...Western Union’s $100BN Bet
On Ep. 6 of Stablecoin Stories, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Ran Goldi, SVP Payments, Fireblocks are joined by Malcolm Clarke, VP of Digital Assets @ Western Union to discuss USDPT, choosing Solana for fast settlement and developer innovation and more!
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00:00 Introduction 4:07 Building digital identity networks with Hyperledger and blockchain 7:00 Solving consumer and internal use cases with stablecoins 10:48 Balancing Western Union’s legacy brand with crypto innovation 14:33 Integrating digital assets into treasury and compliance teams 18:47 Regulatory frameworks and the catalyst for stablecoin adoption 21:49 Naming and designing the USDPT payment token strategy 28:47 Choosing Solana for fa...Capital Markets Are Going Onchain
On Ep. 89 of Tokenized, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa is joined by Noah Levine, Partner @ a16z Crypto, Eric Saraniecki, Co-Founder & Head of Network Strategy @ Digital Asset and Theo Golden, Head of Digital Assets @ Baillie Gifford to discuss the growth of tokenized stocks through crypto exchange models, Baillie Gifford launching UK native tokenized fund and more!
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00:00 Introduction 4:26 Growth of tokenized stocks through crypto exchange models 5:33 Onshore versus offshore tokenized asset market bifurcation 7:25 Increased utility of equities via securities lending 12:35 Democratizing prime brokerage services for retail users 16:07 Separating ownership from control in robo-advisory 19:37 Baillie Gifford...Real Agentic Commerce Volume Is $30K a Month
On Ep. 8 of Agentic Commerce, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo, and Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh are joined by Sam Ragsdale, Founder & CEO @ Merit Systems to discuss blockchain enabling massive scale for agentic transactions, Merit focusing on open agent commerce with USDC on Base and Solana and more!
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SpaceX IPO Broke Tokenized Stocks
On Ep. 88 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Eli Cohen, Chief Legal Officer @ Centrifuge and Ross Basri, Co-Founder @ Uptop (acq by Rain) to discuss Zelle launching ZelleUSD, banks using stablecoins for cross border payments and more!
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00:00 Introduction 2:26 Zelle launching ZelleUSD stablecoin and India expansion 3:48 Banks using stablecoins for cross border payments 5:45 Zelle competing with Revolut and Wise internationally 8:59 Banks embedding FX services into stablecoin products 11:28 Rain launches native loyalty for stablecoin card programs 17:54 Using yield from stablecoins to fund card rewards 24:50 Rain...Kraken Co-CEO Giving Everyone Billionaire Like Access to Finance
In this bonus episode of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo is joined by Arjun Sethi, Co-CEO @ Kraken & Payward to discuss Payward as a parent company with Kraken & NinjaTrader, consumer products Kraken Earn and MoneyGram cashout partnership and more!
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00:00 Introduction 2:45 Payward as parent company with Kraken & NinjaTrader 3:44 xStocks one to one tokenized equities interoperable across chains 5:00 Binomial acquisition for US crypto perpetuals and commodities 9:29 Payward offering modular financial rails for fintech partners 14:25 Consumer products Kraken Earn and MoneyGram cashout partnership 20:18 Earn vaults offering yield strategies from treasury to high risk 23:10 Global regulation evolution...Banks Won’t Stop Deposits Leaving for Stablecoins
On Ep. 87 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo is joined by Noah Levine, Partner @ a16z Crypto, Thierry Edde, Head of Crypto @ Deel and William Peck, Head of Digital Assets @ WisdomTree to discuss stablecoins becoming global checking accounts in emerging markets, tokenized deposits versus stablecoins use cases and more!
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00:00 Introduction 4:21 Stablecoins becoming global checking accounts in emerging markets 6:55 Embedded finance wallets integrated into payroll platforms 9:55 Tokenized real world assets enabling embedded financial services 14:20 Difference between tokenized deposits and stablecoins 18:44 Comparison of tokenized deposits versus stablecoins use cases 27:54 Morpho raises $175M for on...KAST: 1M Users on a Stablecoin Neobank
On Ep. 5 of Stablecoin Stories, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Ran Goldi, SVP Payments, Fireblocks are joined by Raagulan Pathy, Founder & CEO @ KAST to discuss the thesis of building fintech on top of stablecoin rails, building USDK for onchain transparency, trust and more!
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00:00 Introduction 7:35 Thesis of building fintech on top of stablecoin rails 9:53 Challenges of scrappy startup fundraising and low salaries 11:39 Early traction through Solana card partnership and trust 13:09 Building USDK for onchain transparency and trust 18:43 Plans for licenses acquisitions and raising more capital 22:47 Growth strategy using referrals cashback and better design 27:14...Why Every Payment Network Should Settle Onchain
On Ep. 86 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Chris Mason, CEO @ Orbital to discuss why settlement matters for stablecoin adoption, MoneyGram launch MGUSD and more!
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00:00 Introduction 2:42 Why settlement matters for stablecoin adoption 3:18 Mastercard and Visa expand stablecoin settlement networks 6:32 Merchants benefit from faster settlement and transparency 7:50 Privacy challenges for public blockchain payments 11:52 Multilateral netting and streaming money explained 16:30 MoneyGram launches MGUSD stablecoin with self-custodial wallet 23:03 Deel launches yield-bearing USD stablecoin on Tempo 27:23 Revolut offers zero spread stablecoin swaps in US 37:14 CME and...The First Bank Issued Stablecoin
On Ep. 85 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa are joined by Rene Reinsberg, Co-Founder @ Celo and Charles Hamel, Head of Product, MiniPay @ Opera to discuss Visa CLI onboarding merchants, Cash App supports fee free USDC stablecoin transactions and more!
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00:00 Introduction 2:48 Visa CLI onboarding merchants and US rollout 6:25 Cash App supports fee free USDC stablecoin transactions 8:33 Cash App stablecoin safety risks and blockchain addresses 9:32 SoFi launches first bank issued stablecoin on platform 13:39 SoFi stablecoin and tokenized deposit dual strategy 22:33 Mastercard gets BitLicense and Aave secures FCA...99% of Stablecoins Are Dollars
On Ep. 84 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo is joined by Kim Hochfeld, Global Head of Digital and Cash @ State Street Investment Management and Dan Romero, GTM @ Tempo to discuss banks moving on chain, the GENIUS Act impact, stablecoin settlement for remittances and more!
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00:00 Introduction 2:00 State Street Investment Management's first on chain liquidity fund launch 3:25 Banks moving on chain and the GENIUS Act impact 5:22 Lessons from launching on chain products at State Street Investment Management 8:18 Tempo’s validator role and MoneyGram partnership 10:15 Stablecoin settlement for remittances and physical cash access 14:00 Speed of bl...The Headless Merchant Economy
On Ep. 83 of Tokenized, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, is joined by Noah Levine, Partner @ a16z Crypto, Gmoney and Michael Blau, CTO @ Royal to discuss AWS, Google, Coinbase enabling AI agent payments, headless merchants and more!
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00:00 Introduction 2:13 AWS, Google, Coinbase enabling AI agent payments 3:51 Headless Merchants 5:59 Pay per token model replacing subscriptions for content 10:04 Traders and investors as early agentic payment users 13:42 Card on front, stablecoin settlement in hybrid model 15:50 Using AI agents to make money trading 21:27 AI agents trading stocks with self fulfilling predictions 35:12 Circle’s Arc blockchain for institutional stablecoin use 41:19 Lo...Kraken's $600M Bet on Stablecoin Cards
On Ep. 82 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo is joined by Wyatt Lonergan, GP @ VanEck Ventures and Mark Greenberg, VP of B2B @ Kraken to discuss Kraken adding bank withdrawals across 100 countries, Kraken and MoneyGram partnership and more!
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00:00 Introduction 1:33 Kraken and MoneyGram global crypto to cash partnership 3:21 Kraken adding bank withdrawals across 100 countries 6:18 Informal local cash networks and stablecoin formalization 8:15 KYC and AML risks in crypto cash withdrawals 10:37 Kraken acquires Reap for stablecoin backed corporate cards 12:55 Verticalization of crypto payment stacks and card economics 25:58 Stablecoins as settlement rail for corporate treasuries 31:25 Bullish...Ex Libra Boss David Marcus on Meta Stablecoin Payouts and Global Dollar Accounts
On Ep. 81 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by David Marcus, CEO & Co-Founder @ Lightspark to discuss Lightspark’s evolution from Bitcoin Lightning Network to stablecoins, delegating money movement to AI agents and more!
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00:00 Introduction 4:37 Lightspark’s evolution from Bitcoin Lightning Network to stablecoins 9:18 How Grid Global Accounts enable platforms to create branded accounts 13:25 Delegating money movement to AI agents 16:27 Meta launches stablecoin creator payouts in select markets 21:44 The opportunity to build creator neobanks with stablecoins 26:06 Using alternative data for global credit underwriting onchain 35:23 West...PayPal’s Plan to Win the Agent Economy
On Ep. 7 of Agentic Commerce, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo, and Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh are joined by Kausik Rajgopal, EVP, Strategy, Corporate Development & Partnerships @ PayPal to discuss trust and fraud management in agentic commerce, PayPal integrations with Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity and more!
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Every Fintech is Launching a Stablecoin Product
On Ep. 80 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Nick Philpott, Co-Founder and Head of Partnerships @ Zodia Markets and Paul Frambot, Co-Founder & CEO @ Morpho to discuss why non USD stablecoins are slow to launch, USDT adoption by US fintechs and more!
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00:00 Introduction 1:40 Regional currency stablecoins vs G10 focus 4:27 Why non USD stablecoins are slow to launch 7:44 Ramp adds USDT and stablecoin accounts for fintechs 9:50 USDT adoption by US fintechs and regulatory risk 14:57 USDT vs USDC usage differences in DeFi 19:02 Gig economy stablecoin payouts...Why Your AI Agent Needs a Card and a Stablecoin Wallet
On Ep. 6 of Agentic Commerce, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, and Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh are joined by Nikhil Chandhok, Chief Product Officer & CTO @ Circle to discuss agentic commerce impact on everyday consumers, vibe coding, agent owned wallets and more!
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Should Banks Fear Stablecoin Yield?
On Ep. 79 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo is joined by Alex Johnson, Author @ Fintech Takes and Nikil Viswanathan, CEO & Co-Founder @ Alchemy to discuss token economics and efficiency in AI systems, the consolidation of protocols in agentic commerce and more!
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00:00 Introduction 5:03 Payments foundation models using transformer architecture 10:44 Open source models for financial services adoption 17:53 Cost and latency tradeoffs for AI inference 20:24 Token economics and efficiency in AI systems 23:21 Agentic workflows as intellectual property in commerce 25:45 Consolidation of protocols in agentic commerce 30:17 Open source runtime OpenSHIELD for agent security 33:33 Stablecoin advantages for agent...How Payments Foundations Models are Fuelling Agentic Commerce Ft. Nvidia
On Ep. 5 of Agentic Commerce, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo, and Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh are joined by Pahal Patangia, Head of Global Industry Business Development and Payments @ NVIDIA to discuss open source models for financial services adoption, agentic workflows as intellectual property in commerce and more!
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Blockchain's Threat to Banking
On Ep. 78 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Prabhakar Reddy, CEO & Founder @ OpenFX and Thomas Cowan, Head of Tokenization @ Galaxy to discuss inspiration for Open FX, the three distinct eras of stablecoin FX liquidity evolution and more!
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00:00 Introduction 1:48 Inspiration for Open FX from Western Union remittance queues 4:45 The three distinct eras of stablecoin FX liquidity evolution 6:45 Banks are designed to hold deposits not move money 10:47 FX settlement speed bottlenecks in developed G10 currencies 18:35 Jamie Dimon's annual letter acknowledges blockchain and stablecoin threats 24:32...How AI Bots Buy Internet Services
On Ep. 10 of Stablecoin Stats, Andrew Van Aken, Data Scientist @ Artemis is joined by Lucas Shin, Data & Research @ Artemis to discuss defining agentic payments and web resource transactions, x402 vs Machine Payments Protocol and more!
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00:00 Introduction 1:46 Defining agentic payments and web resource transactions 4:35 Artemis agentic payments dashboard and transaction trends 5:40 Meme coin influence on agentic payment activity 8:41 Filtering wash trading in agentic payment data 12:05 Real use cases: lead enrichment and CLI tools 14:47 Differences between x402 and Machine Payments Protocol 16:43 Session-based payments and batching low-value transactions 18:57 Supply side growth and discovery for agentic commerce 20:50 Tracking qualified...Amy Oldenburg, Head of Digital Asset Strategy @ Morgan Stanley
In this bonus episode of Tokenized, Rob Hadick, General Partner @ Dragonfly is joined by Amy Oldenburg, Head of Digital Asset Strategy @ Morgan Stanley to discuss Morgan Stanley's digital asset strategy, ETF trading and wealth management integration, OCC charter for digital asset custody and more!
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00:00 Introduction 1:06 Morgan Stanley digital asset strategy defined 2:54 Emerging markets analogy for crypto adoption 5:26 Breaking front office vs back office bias 7:46 ETF trading and wealth management integration 13:24 Price pullbacks help product development 16:52 OCC charter for digital asset custody 19:51 Tokenized equities and dark pool plans 23:22 Prediction markets and institutional interest 25:42 Build vs partner...Stablecoins Will Stop Retail From Subsidizing Wall St Ft. BitGo CEO Mike Belshe
On Ep. 77 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Sam Broner, Founder @ The Better Money Company and Mike Belshe, CEO @ BitGo to discuss frictions in stablecoin payments for retail, the interest and yield debate on stablecoins, quantum computing threat to blockchain cryptography and more!
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00:00 Introduction 1:54 Stablecoin clearing house problem explained 3:10 Frictions in stablecoin payments for retail 6:55 Diversity of stablecoins and enterprise issuance 8:19 Clearing house solving many to many problem 10:04 Interest and yield debate on stablecoins 16:25 OpenFX raises $94 million for FX 21:01 Stablecoin cross border...Bank of England: Stablecoins, Settlement and the Digital Pound Lab
In this bonus episode of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo is joined by Danny Russell, Head of Payments Innovation Technology @ Bank of England to discuss stablecoins, settlement, the Digital Pound Lab and more!
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00:00 Introduction 1:44 Four major Bank of England payments innovation programs 2:22 Digital Security Sandbox for live digital securities issuance 2:56 Synchronization Lab enabling atomic settlement across ledgers 3:55 DLT Innovation Challenge testing wholesale central bank money on external ledgers 5:28 Digital Pound Lab as platform for industry co-creation 8:27 Digital check use case using verifiable credentials 14:18 Settlement finality approaches in DLT innovation challenge 19:10 Systemic stablecoin...How Do Tokenized Equities Work? Ft. BlackRock’s Head of Digital Assets
On Ep. 76 of Tokenized, Pet Berisha, Co-Creator @ Tokenized is joined by Rob Hadick, GP @ Dragonfly, Robert Mitchnick, Head of Digital Assets @ BlackRock and Noah Levine, Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz to discuss stablecoins evolving into new financial infrastructure, US regional banks building a tokenized deposit network and more!
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00:00 Introduction 02:17 Tokenization as an access story for investors 05:51 Three categories of tokenized equity structures 08:41 Transferability limits of whitelisted tokenized assets 11:21 NYSE and Securitize partner for 24/7 trading 15:00 Stablecoins evolving into new financial infrastructure 18:58 US regional banks build tokenized deposit network 24:21 Stablecoins vs tokenized deposits serve different users 25:42 Privacy demand grows...3X Bank Founder Building the Bank for Tokenized Finance
On Ep. 4 of Stablecoin Stories, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Ran Goldi, SVP Payments, Fireblocks are joined by Scott Shay, Founder @ N3XT to discuss the creation and impact of Signature Bank’s Signet, the role in the stablecoin ecosystem as a bank and more!
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00:00 Introduction 05:46 The creation and impact of Signature Bank’s Signet 09:41 Lessons learned from the March 2023 bank closures 12:30 Design choices behind the first US narrow bank 16:37 Role in the stablecoin ecosystem as a bank 20:01 Solving interoperability between multiple proprietary stablecoins 25:32 The difference between instant debit and instant settlement 34:51 N3XT...Tempo Head of Product: From First Line of Code to Mainnet in 7 Months
On Ep. 75 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Raj Parekh, Head of Stablecoins and Payments @ Monad and Liam Horne, Product @ Tempo to discuss the Machine Payments Protocol MPP, Tempo mainnet launch, Mastercard acquiring BVNK for $1.8 billion and more!
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00:00 Introduction 2:36 Machine Payments Protocol MPP overview and purpose 4:31 Visa partnership on MPP and command line commerce 9:25 MPP enabling frictionless agentic workflows 14:52 Sessions enable micro payments per token 19:31 Tempo mainnet launch and key features 22:41 Evolution of third generation layer one blockchains 31:16 Creative agentic applications being...AI Transformer Model Author Illia Polosukhin: Building the Intention Economy
On Ep. 4 of Agentic Commerce, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo, and Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh are joined by Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder @ NEAR Protocol to discuss NEAR Protocol, solving AI coordination, payment challenges and more!
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