Tokenized

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 trea...

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 econo...

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 1:55...

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 consume...

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 Introduc...

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 agent...

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 India...

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 tokenized e...

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 beco...

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 Challen...

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 6:32 M...

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 rollo...

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 liquidity...

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 for...

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 acro...

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 stab...

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 management i...

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 stablecoins...

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 everyday c...

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 sour...

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 mod...

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 Uni...

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 Meme...

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 marke...

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 Introduction...