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.
Episodes
Why Thunes Chose Stablecoins for Cross Border
On Ep. 10 of Stablecoin Stories, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Ran Goldi, SVP Payments, Fireblocks are joined by Pritpal Shokar, Head of Product, Digital Assets @ Thunes to discuss Thunes stablecoin pre-funding and global payout capabilities, rising stablecoin demand across emerging markets and more!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
3:34 Real-time settlement versus traditio
Deel Goes Live With Stablecoin Wallet in 80 Markets
On Ep. 96 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Luca Prosperi, Co-Founder & CEO @ M0 and Ryan Bozarth, Co-founder & CEO @ Dakota to discuss Rain acquiring Ansa to put branded wallets on stablecoin rails, stablecoin linked cards, onchain credit and more!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
1:10 Rain acquires Ansa to put
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
4:12 Sapiom’s vision for agent infrastructure
6:43 Agent identity, delegated authority,
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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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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
5:26 Lessons on
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
0:30 Embedded wallet acquisitions and consolidation trends in crypto
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
2:20 Agentic commerce is still very early in development
4:14 New class of merchants
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 mo
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 infra
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
1:41 Velocity raises $30 million Serie
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
5:51 Institutional users demand data proof of value
7:58 U
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
2:05 Visa onchain analytics dashboard and adj
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
2:48 Early vision for stablecoins and USDC creation
5:37 Founding story of Catena and AI focus
8:33 Agentic
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
2:46 Fireblocks role in OpenUSD launch
4:29 OpenUSD e
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
1:02 Robinhood Chain public mainnet launch goes live globally
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
4:07 Building digital identity networks with Hyperledger and blockchain
7:00 Solving con
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introd
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
6:43 Blockchain enables massive scale for ag
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
2:26 Zelle launching ZelleUSD stablecoin and In
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
2:45 Payward as parent company with Kraken & NinjaTrader
3:44 xStocks one to one tokeniz
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
4:21 Stablecoins b
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
7:35 Thesis of building fintech on top of stablecoin rails
9:53 Cha
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
2:42 Why settlement matters for stablecoin adoption
3:18 Mastercard and Visa expand stablecoin settlement networks
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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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
2:48 Visa CLI onboarding merchants and US ro
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
2:00 State Street Investment Management's first on chain liquidi
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
2:13 AWS, Google, Coinbase enabling AI agent payments
3:51 Headless Merchants
5:59 Pay per token model replacing subscriptions
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
1:33 Kraken and MoneyGram global crypto to cash partnership
3:21 Kraken adding bank withdrawals
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
4:37 Lightspark’s evolution from Bitcoin Lightning Network to s
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:45 Trust and fraud managemen
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
1:40 Regional currency stablecoi
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
4:08 Pre channels era of agentic commerce development
6:51 Agentic commerce impact on everyd
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
5:03 Payments foundation models using transformer architecture
10:44 Open
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
5:03 Payments foundation
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
1:48 Inspiration for Open FX from Western
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
1:46 Defining agentic payments and web resource transactions
4:35 Artemis agentic payments dashboard and transaction trends
5:40
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
1:06 Morgan Stanley digital asset strategy defined
2:54 Emerging m
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introductio
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
1:44 Four major Bank of England payments innovation programs
2:22 Digital Security Sandbox for live digital securities issuance
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
02:17 Tokenization as an access s
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
05:46 The creation and impact of Signature Bank’s Signet
09:41 Lessons learned from
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
2:36 Machine Payments Protocol
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!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
7:05 NEAR Protocol & solving AI coordination and payment challenges
15:37 Redefining commerce as an intent-bas
KAST Raise $80M for Stablecoin Neobank
On Ep. 74 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Raagulan Pathy, CEO & Co-Founder @ KAST and Homam Maalouf, Co-Founder & Chief Products Officer @ Lead Bank to discuss KAST raise $80m for stablecoin neobank, Lead Bank's role in enabling stablecoin card programs and more!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
1:39 KAST's $80M raise and vision for
Banks Need Stablecoin Accounts - 77% of Users Say
On Ep. 9 of Stablecoin Stats, Anthony Yim, Co-Founder @ Artemis and Andrew Van Aken, Data Scientist @ Artemis are joined by Chris Harmse, Co-Founder @ BVNK to discuss the state of the stablecoin market from RFPs to implementation, how to pitch stablecoin adoption within an enterprise and more!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
4:26 The state of the stablecoin market from RFPs to implementation
7:
Will AI Agents Use Stablecoins or Virtual Cards?
On Ep. 73 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Tanner Taddeo, CEO & Co-Founder @ Stable Sea and Alfonso Gómez-Jordana, Founder @ Crossmint to discuss stablecoin-linked cards, AI agent exclusive virtual cards, Morgan Stanley applying for national trust charter and more!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
3:11 Stablecoin-linked cards as a bus
Meta Is Coming for Stablecoins
On Ep. 72 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo is joined by Nicole Sandler, Chief Ecosystem Officer @ Ubyx and Fredrik Haga, Co-Founder @ Dune to discuss onchain data showing stablecoin supply and exchange holding trends, Blueprint raising $4.25M and more!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
2:31 Onchain data shows stablecoin supply and exchange holdings trends
4:32 Stablecoin utility decouples
Serial Founder Eric Barbier - Why Stablecoins Are the Best Cross Border Rail
On Ep. 3 of Stablecoin Stories, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo and Ran Goldi, VP Payments, Fireblocks are joined by Eric Barbier, CEO @ Triple-A to discuss the inefficiencies in traditional remittance that inspired Triple-A, using stablecoins for cross border B2B and more!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
2:21 The inefficiencies in traditional remittance that inspired Triple-A
7:44 How stablecoins re
Command Line Commerce & Payoneer Launches Stablecoin Payments
On Ep. 71 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Davis Hart, Founder & CEO @ Omnia and Robert Morgan, Head of Stablecoins @ Payoneer to discuss Payoneer's partnership with Bridge, why stablecoin companies are pursuing federal trust charters and more!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
2:10 Payoneer's partnership with Bridge for stablecoin pay
Erebor: Palmer Luckey’s Bank for Stablecoins
On Ep. 70 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Diogo Mónica, GP @ Haun Ventures and Chris Maurice, CEO @ Yellow Card to discuss BlackRock offering DeFi trading with Uniswap tokens, Erebor Bank receiving its full OCC charter and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction2:17 BlackRock offering DeFi trading with Uniswap tokens8:39 BUIDL fund's poten
Why Everyone's Wrong About Stablecoin Adoption
On Ep. 8 of Stablecoin Stats, Anthony Yim, Co-Founder @ Artemis and Andrew Van Aken, Data Scientist @ Artemis are joined by Matt Higginson, Partner & Global Head of Digital Assets @ McKinsey & Company to discuss how traditional finance institutions view the term 'TradFi', the 2025 inflection point for stablecoin adoption and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction4:44 How traditional finance institutio
DeFi Yield Explained
On Ep. 69 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Sunand Raghupathi, CEO & Co-Founder @ Veda to discuss Kraken and Coinbase DeFi earn products, the role of curators in DeFi vaults and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction05:07 Comparison of Kraken and Coinbase DeFi earn products and risks07:31 Consumer redemption risk and vault liquidity managem
Every Bank Will Launch a Stablecoin
On Ep. 68 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo is joined by Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh, Kirill Gertman, CEO @ Conduit and Dogan Alpaslan, Researcher @ cyber•Fund to discuss Mesh raising $75M at $1B valuation, Fidelity launching its own stablecoin (FIDD) and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction1:53 Mesh raises $75M at $1B valuation for tokenized asset network4:24 Differentiating between infra
NYSE to Tokenize Stocks for 24/7 Trading
On Ep. 67 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Jess Houlgrave, CEO @ WalletConnect to discuss institutional adoption of crypto infrastructure by traditional capital markets, differences in approaches to tokenized securities and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction2:45 Institutional adoption of crypto infrastructure by traditional capital mar
Visa's $1.7 Trillion Network Adds Stablecoin Infrastructure
On Ep. 66 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Michael Tannenbaum, CEO @ Figure to discuss Visa Direct partnership with BVNK, Figure's on-chain public equity network (OPEN) for blockchain-registered equity and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction00:50 Visa Direct partnership with BVNK for stablecoin payment endpoints04:10 How BVNK provides f
Banks Are Waking Up to the Stablecoin Threat
On Ep. 65 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Sandy Kaul, EVP and Head of Innovation, Franklin Templeton to discuss OnePay's integration of crypto, Franklin Templeton's early tokenization platform and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction02:43 OnePay's integration of crypto04:28 The rise of financial super apps and wallet-based ecosystems06:
2026 Predictions: Stablecoins, Tokenization and RWAs
On Ep. 64 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Rob Hadick, General Partner @ Dragonfly and Tyler Moebius, CEO and Co-Founder @ SmartMedia Technologies to discuss their predictions for 2026.Timestamps:00:00 Introduction06:12 Grading previous year's predictions on stablecoin and AI narratives07:18 Skepticism on the near-term viability of AI
2025 Review: Stablecoins, Onchain Cards and B2B Payments
On Ep. 63 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Anthony Yim, Co-Founder @ Artemis and Andrew Van Aken, Data Scientist @ Artemis to discuss stablecoins, onchain cards and B2B payments in their 2025 review.Timestamps:00:00 Introduction04:44 Surge in number of stablecoins above $10 million supply in 202507:30 What qualifies as a stablecoin? Do
DTCC Readies $100T of Stocks to Go Onchain
On Ep. 62 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo is joined by Marieke Flament, 2x CEO, Angel Investor, Advisor, Co-Author of Euro Stable Watch, Chuk Okpalugo, Founder @ Stablecoin Blueprint and Nadine Chakar, Global Head of DTCC Digital Assets to discuss DTCC being authorized to tokenize top 1000 US stocks, the importance of tokenizing real legal rights vs. synthetic wrappe
The Road to $30 Trillion Stablecoin Supply
On Ep. 7 of Stablecoin Stats, Anthony Yim, Co-Founder @ Artemis and Andrew Van Aken, Data Scientist @ Artemis are joined by Alana Levin, Investment Partner @ Variant to discuss Variant's focus on crypto investments, takeaways from Fintech NerdCon and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction01:45 Variant's focus on crypto investments02:51 Takeaways from Fintech NerdCon04:55 The need for fraud model retra
Tempo Tesnet, EVM, and the Race to Onchain Payments
On Ep. 61 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Joey Isaacson, CEO @ Nook and Alex Gluchowski, Co-Founder & CEO Matter Labs to discuss Tempo Testnet launch, EVM, the race to onchain payments and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction02:37 Tempo Testnet launch with dedicated payment lanes and stablecoin-native gas05:37 Discussion on consumer app
Agentic Commerce: x402 — the Protocol
On Ep. 3 of Agentic Commerce, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo, and Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh are joined by Erik Reppel, Author of x402 and Head of Eng @ Coinbase Developer Platform to discuss the history and original purpose of HTTP 402 status code, the convergence of blockchain, AI, native internet payments and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction01:12 History and original pu
Stablecoins vs. Tokenized Deposits — What Do Banks Want?
On Ep. 60 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Rachel Mayer, VP of Product @ Circle and Nick van Eck, CEO and Co-Founder @ Agora to discuss killer features of tokenization, the growth of stablecoins versus other tokenized real-world assets and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction02:40 Larry Fink's op-ed on tokenization
Interview: Zach Abrams, CEO & Co-founder of Bridge
In this bonus episode, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo is joined live from Stripe Stablecoin Day in London, by Zach Abrams, CEO & Co-Founder @ Bridge to discuss the shift from small developers to large banks and fintechs adopting stablecoins, the critical role of last-mile providers in stablecoin adoption and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction04:20 Shift from small developers to l
Why Klarna’s Stablecoin Is More Than PR
On Ep. 59 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo is joined by Nilan Peiris, Chief Product Officer @ Wise and Luca Cosentino, Head of Crypto @ Cross River to discuss KlarnaUSD launch, corporate treasury use cases for stablecoins and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction02:38 KlarnaUSD launch for internal treasury operations and yield generation05:53 Corporate treasury use cases for stablecoins07:06 I
Reinventing MoneyGram With Stablecoins
On Ep. 2 of Stablecoin Stories, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo and Ran Goldi, VP Payments, Fireblocks are joined by Anthony Soohoo, Chairman and CEO of MoneyGram to discuss the transformation of MoneyGram's mission, MoneyGram Ramps and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction04:48 The refounding and transformation of MoneyGram's mission09:42 Identifying real customer problems before applying stablecoins13:13
Banks Are All in on Tokenized Deposits
On Ep. 58 of Tokenized, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, is joined by Sam McIngvale, Head of Product @ OP Labs and Lesley Chavkin, Ribbit Capital to discuss agentic commerce, traditional AI vs agentic AI and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction01:35 Defining agentic commerce and its impact on shopping04:50 How agentic AI enables personalization at scale06:44 Differences between traditional AI a
Agentic Commerce: How Will It Work? Ft. Louis Amira
On Ep. 2 of Agentic Commerce, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, and Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh are joined by Louis Amira, Co-Founder & CEO @ Circuit & Chisel to discuss the evolution of agentic commerce protocols, explosive growth of the x402 protocol and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction06:16 Evolution of agentic commerce protocols11:57 Fragmentation in crypto and agentic payments17:14
Onchain Lending in 2025 Ft. Paul Frambot
In this bonus episode of Tokenized recorded at Money20/20, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa is joined by Paul Frambot, Co-Founder & CEO @ Morpho to discuss on-chain lending in 2025 and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction02:09 Stablecoins as checking accounts02:58 The evolution of DeFi and smart contract lending03:59 Transition from crypto collateral to real-world assets07:24 Building trust for
Cash App Launches Stablecoins & JP Morgan Goes Onchain
On Ep. 57 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo is joined by Joao Reginatto, Chief Strategy Officer @ M0, Mark Greenberg, Global Head of Consumer @ Kraken and Kevin Lehtiniitty, CEO @ Borderless to discuss M0 and MoonPay partnership for stable coin issuance, benefits of companies creating their own stablecoins and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction01:38 M0 and MoonPay partnership for stablecoin
B2B Stablecoin Payments are Hot Right Now Ft. Rob Hadick
On Ep. 6 of Stablecoin Stats, Anthony Yim, Co-Founder @ Artemis and Andrew Van Aken, Data Scientist @ Artemis are joined by Rob Hadick, General Partner @ Dragonfly to discuss explosive growth in B2B stablecoin payment volumes, the impact of stablecoins on traditional banking and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction06:09 Explosive growth in B2B stablecoin payment volumes10:20 Limited P2P stablecoin g
Jamie Dimon Loves Crypto Now Ft. Haonan Li & Stone Atwine
On Ep. 56 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Haonan Li, CEO & Co-Founder @ Codex and Stone Atwine, CEO @ Co-Founder @ Eversend to discuss Jamie Dimon on stablecoins, financial institutions shifting from strategy to execution on stablecoins and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction03:10 Ripple's acquisition strategy and expansion into custo
Agentic Commerce: The ACP Protocol With Stripe Ft. Jeff Weinstein & Steve Kaliski
On Ep. 1 of Agentic Commerce, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo, and Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh are joined by Jeff Weinstein, Product Lead @ Stripe and Steve Kaliski, Principal Software Engineer @ Stripe to discuss the role of AI agents in the future economy and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction02:32 The role of AI agents in the future economy05:00 Moving from search-based discovery to AI-assisted e
Everyone Needs a Stablecoin Acquisition Strategy Ft. Dan Mottice, Itai Turbahn, Matt Marcus & Michael Shaulov
On Ep. 55 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo is joined by Dan Mottice, CEO & Co-Founder @ Beam, Itai Turbahn, Co-founder & CEO @ Dynamic, Matt Marcus, CEO & Co-Founder @ Modern Treasury and Michael Shaulov, Co-Founder & CEO @ Fireblocks to discuss Modern Treasury's acquisition of Beam for payment infrastructure, Fireblocks acquires Dynamic for embedded wallet infrastructure and more!Timestamp
With Onchain Lending - Who Needs Banks? Ft. Diogo Monica & Michelle O'Connor
On Ep. 54 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Diogo Monica, GP @ Haun Ventures and Michelle O'Connor, Founder @ The Digital Future to discuss Tempo's $500M funding round, the rise of vertically integrated payment blockchains and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction03:02 Tempo's $500M funding round and strategic acquisitions05:23 The rise o
How Circle Became a Public Stablecoin Success Ft. Kash Razzaghi
On Ep. 1 of Stablecoin Stories, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa and Ran Goldi, VP Payments, Fireblocks are joined by Kash Razzaghi, Chief Commercial Officer @ Circle to discuss Circle's multi-chain approach and the Arc blockchain, the difference between using and issuing stablecoins and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction02:34 Kash's journey from tech to Circle and USDC09:02 Early USDC growth
The $300 Trillion Dollar Whoopsie Ft. Morgan Krupetsky & Raagulan Pathy
On Ep. 53 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo is joined by Morgan Krupetsky, VP of Business Development for Onchain Finance @ Ava Labs and Raagulan Pathy, Founder & CEO @ KAST to discuss the flash crash, market liquidations, $300 trillion PYUSD accidentally minted and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction02:23 The flash crash and market liquidations07:41 Market structure and synthetic stablecoin
PayPal's PYUSD Stablecoin Adds $1.3bn in Supply Ft. David Weber
On Ep. 5 of Stablecoin Stats, Anthony Yim, Co-Founder @ Artemis and Andrew Van Aken, Data Scientist @ Artemis are joined by David Weber, Head of PYUSD Ecosystem @ PayPal to discuss PayPal's strategy for PYUSD and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction01:35 PayPal's strategy for PYUSD and global expansion04:53 Stablecoin supply growth crossing $300 billion milestone09:24 PYUSD's rapid growth and incent
Fintech at the Front, Onchain at the Back Ft. Eric Queathem & Marieke Flament
On Ep. 52 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Eric Queathem, Co-Founder @ Velocity and Marieke Flament, 2x CEO, Angel Investor, Advisor, Co-Author of Euro Stable Watch to discuss challenges of Euro stablecoin adoption, banks' concerns with on-chain yield products and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction03:14 ECB digital euro project and ve
Banks Do DeFi Now Ft. Nassim Eddequiouaq
On Ep. 51 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Nassim Eddequiouaq, CEO @ Bastion to discuss Visa Direct for stablecoin cross-border payments, Stripe Open Issuance for custom stablecoin creation and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction00:30 Visa Direct pilot for stablecoin cross-border payments01:19 Stripe Open Issuance for custom stablecoin
zerohash Raise $104 Million Ft. Edward Woodford & Keith Grose
On Ep. 50 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Edward Woodford, CEO & Founder @ zerohash and Keith Grose, Senior Country Director of the UK @ Coinbase to discuss zerohash raising $104 million and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction00:29 zerohash raises $104 million from Morgan Stanley and others02:49 Morgan Stanley to launch crypto product
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