E79 - 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 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...