Tokenized

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 Introduction 04:20 Shift from small developers t...

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 Introduction 02:38 KlarnaUSD launch for internal treasury operations and yield generation 05:53 Corporate treasury use cases for stablecoins 07...

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 Introduction 04:48 The refounding and transformation of MoneyGram's mission 09:42 Identifying real customer problems before applying stablecoins...

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 Introduction 01:35 Defining agentic commerce and its impact on shopping 04:50 How agentic AI enables personalization at scale 06:44 Differences between traditional...

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 Introduction 06:16 Evolution of agentic commerce protocols 11:57 Fragmentation in crypto and agentic payments 1...

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 Introduction 02:09 Stablecoins as checking accounts 02:58 The evolution of DeFi and smart contract lending 03:59 Transition from crypto collateral to real-world assets 07:24 Building trus...

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 Introduction 01:38 M0 and MoonPay partnership for stableco...

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 Introduction 06:09 Explosive growth in B2B stablecoin payment volumes 10:20 Limited P2P stableco...

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 Introduction 03:10 Ripple's acquisition strategy and expansion into cu...

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 Introduction 02:32 The role of AI agents in the future economy 05:00 Moving from search-based discovery to AI-assist...

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! Timestam...

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 Introduction 03:02 Tempo's $500M funding round and strategic acquisitions 05:23 The ri...

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 Introduction 02:34 Kash's journey from tech to Circle and USDC 09:02 Early USDC gro...

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 Introduction 02:23 The flash crash and market liquidations 07:41 Market structure and synthetic stablec...

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 Introduction 01:35 PayPal's strategy for PYUSD and global expansion 04:53 Stablecoin supply growth crossing $300 billion milestone 09:24 PYUSD's rapid growth and i...

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 Introduction 03:14 ECB digital euro project and...

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 Introduction 00:30 Visa Direct pilot for stablecoin cross-border payments 01:19 Stripe Open Issuance for custom stable...

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 Introduction 00:29 zerohash raises $104 million from Morgan Stanley and others 02:49 Morgan Stanley to launch crypto pro...

On Ep. 49 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Stani Kulechov, Founder & CEO @ Aave Labs to discuss BlackRock's intention to tokenize all of its ETFs over time, and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 02:19 Bank of England plan to limit stablecoin holdings in the UK 06:04 Implications of not having GBP stablecoins for the UK economy 11:0...

In this episode taken from Tokenized Live in London, Rob Hadick, General Partner @ Dragonfly, Stani Kulechov, Founder & CEO @ Aave Labs and Guy Young, Founder @ Ethena Labs to discuss how DeFi goes mainstream and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:10 Aave protocol overview and tokenized assets on Horizon 02:18 Ethena's synthetic dollar and yield-generating stablecoins 05:18 Institutional adop...

On Ep. 48 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine, is joined by Garrett Harper, Head of Partnerships & Comms, Squads, Ran Goldi, VP Payments, Fireblocks and Basak Toprak, EMEA Head, Kinexys Digital Payments, Kinexys by J.P. Morgan to discuss how stablecoins and deposit tokens will coexist and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 03:28 Hyperliquid decentralized derivatives...

On Ep. 4 of Stablecoin Stats, Anthony Yim, Co-Founder @ Artemis and Andrew Van Aken, Data Scientist @ Artemis discuss Ethereum's $15bn stablecoin supply growth and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 02:15 Tether and PIX payment adoption in Brazil 03:32 Ethereum's $15bn stablecoin supply growth 06:31 Binance as a major stablecoin holder and distributor 08:22 PYUSD usage for small-value payments a...

On Ep. 47 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo is joined by Chris Harmse, Co-Founder @ BVNK and Eric Piscini, CEO @ Hashgraph to discuss payments blockchain Tempo, Hedera's launch of Frontier stable token, tokenizing US stocks and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 05:37 Why payments need their own dedicated blockchain 08:38 Success of crypto projects without native tokens 10:00 Tension betwe...

On Ep. 46 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Andrew Huang, Founder @ Conduit and Bhaji Illuminati, CEO @ Centrifuge to discuss tokenized deposits vs stablecoins in banking, regulatory considerations for tokenized deposits and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:38 Centrifuge's role in tokenizing real world a...

On Ep. 45 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Sam Broner, Partner @ a16z crypto to discuss Fintech companies building their own blockchains for stablecoins, decentralization in corporate blockchain strategies and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 03:02 A New Playbook for TradFi: Multi-chain vs own chain 09:43...