Tokenized

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 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...

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 in agentic commerce 05:51 AI-driven purchase journeys during Black Friday 08:17 Merchants needing AI channel product discoverability 11:28 Payment options for AI agents including stablecoins 13:29 Consumer versus agent payment optimization differences 15:19 PayPal integrations with Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity 20:54 Travel and hospitality as key agentic commerce...

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 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...

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 consumers 10:44 Vibe coding and cost of building software 14:12 Emergence of new one person merchant endpoints 21:04 Nano payments enabling small value transactions 27:40 Multiple agentic commerce protocols and interoperability 32:11 On chain consumer payments versus traditional cards 36:29 Local currency stablecoins and on...

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...

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 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...

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 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...

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 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...

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 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...

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 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...

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 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...

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 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...

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 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...

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 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...

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-based flow beyond payments 22:41 The landscape of agentic commerce protocols and aggregation 25:01 Security challenges with AI agents and the creation of IronClaw 30:13 The evolution toward secure operating systems for AI 31:25 Balancing crypto integration with the open source community 34:04 Future vision for IronClaw and Near...

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 a global stablecoin neobank 2:21 KAST's global growth metrics and stablecoin adoption beyond trading 5:48 Lead Bank's role in enabling stablecoin card programs 7:05 Building lasting compliance infrastructure for stablecoin platforms 19:18 NASDAQ partners with Kraken to launch tokenized stocks globally 29:29 Using...

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 7:23 How to pitch stablecoin adoption within an enterprise 9:47 Overview of the BVNK stablecoin utility report 11:43 Stablecoins have velocity and are used for spending not just saving 16:31 Building user trust and keeping capital on payment platforms 19:54 The current state and...

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 business model for neobanks and remittance companies 6:15 Launching AI agent exclusive virtual cards powered by Visa intelligent commerce 10:52 Enterprise treasury management using stablecoins with AI agents 13:02 Comparing credit cards versus stablecoins for AI agent payments 24:35 Morgan Stanley applying for national trust charter t...

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 from crypto speculation for enterprises 7:36 PayPal's stablecoin PYUSD grows 750% despite parent company struggles 13:21 Meta's stablecoin pivot from Libra to regulated Genius Act compliance 28:45 RedotPay eyes $1B IPO signaling US regulatory clarity for stablecoins 33:30 Tether invests in creator economy platform Whop for stablecoin payouts 36:32 Kraken...

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 reduce working capital needs in payments 10:55 Real world example of using stablecoins for cross border B2B 13:06 Why Fortune 500 companies avoid holding stablecoins on their balance sheet 18:33 Stablecoins as a lifeline for consumers in emerging markets with dollar restrictions 24:24 Adoption of stablecoins in...