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 and transfers 11:36 USDe growth driven by DeFi lending strategies 14:08 USDG adoption by institutions...
Sep 11, 2025•24 min
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 between distribution and neutrality in stablecoins 22:43 Social media discourse on Tempo's L1 vs L2 decis...
Sep 08, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 47
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 assets since 2017 04:43 Debate on tokenized deposits vs stablecoins in banking 09:41 Privacy and ...
Sep 01, 2025•52 min•Ep. 46
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 Merchant role in payments ecosystem and fee pressures 14:53 Metamask MUSD as a store of value pr...
Aug 25, 2025•50 min•Ep. 45
On Ep. 44 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Sergey Nazarov, CEO @ Chainlink to discuss Chainlink's role as an Oracle platform for smart contracts, Circle launching their own L1 blockchain and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:37 Chainlink's role as an Oracle platform for smart contracts 03:45 Programmable money and the advantages of smart contracts 08:25 Fraud reduction and automation in financial s...
Aug 18, 2025•45 min•Ep. 44
Simon Taylor & Cuy Sheffield have the honour of being joined by Commissioner Peirce to discuss SEC Project Crypto and making America crypto-friendly, self-custody as a fundamental American value and more! Timestamps: 01:11 SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce's views on crypto regulation 05:15 Financial privacy and disintermediating technologies 06:00 Crypto asset categorization and tokenized securities 09:56 Self-custody as a fundamental American value 16:18 Stablecoins and digital privacy challe...
Aug 14, 2025•44 min
On Ep. 43 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Kevin Chan, Co-Founder @ Grove Labs to discuss the Grove Labs and Avalanche partnership for on-chain credit, impact of regulatory clarity on financial institutions and more! Timestamps: 01:40 Grove Labs and Avalanche partnership for on-chain credit 06:40 SEC Project Crypto and regulatory clarity for tokens 10:11 Impact of regulatory clarity on financial institut...
Aug 11, 2025•48 min•Ep. 43
On Ep. 3 of Stablecoin Stats, Anthony Yim, Co-Founder @ Artemis and Andrew Van Aken, Data Scientist @ Artemis discuss the impact of the Genius Bill on stablecoin regulation, surge in yield-bearing stablecoins and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:01 Impact of the Genius Bill on stablecoin regulation 03:17 Surge in yield-bearing stablecoins post-Genius Bill 05:56 How synthetic stablecoins work and their yield mechanisms 10:11 Role of community banks in stablecoin adoption 13:54 Growth of cr...
Aug 07, 2025•30 min
On Ep. 42 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Tony McLaughlin, Founder @ Ubyx and Andrew MacKenzie, Founder & CEO @ Agant to discuss the role of banks in stablecoin off-ramping, stablecoins as digital cash for corporate treasuries and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:40 Visa's expansion into multi-stablecoin and multi-chain support 02:08 FIS partnering with Circle to offer USDC to banks 05:34 The...
Aug 04, 2025•48 min•Ep. 42
Tokenized Podcast LIVE in London 💂 Get your FREE ticket here: https://lu.ma/6ryjfi41 On Ep. 41 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Kean Gilbert, Head of Institutional Relations @ Lido and Atikh Bana, Co-Founder & CEO @ Acctual to discuss regulatory clarity, its impact on stablecoin innovation and more! Timestamps: 03:37 Regulatory clarity and its impact on stablecoin innovation 05:18 Use of stablecoins...
Jul 28, 2025•44 min•Ep. 41
On Ep. 40 of Tokenized, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, is joined by Ethan Chan, Co-Founder and CEO @ Allium and Noah Levine, Data and Strategy @ Visa to discuss Visa's approach to on-chain data and analytics, the future of crypto applications built on self-custodial wallets and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:12 Visa's approach to on-chain data and analytics 04:53 Retail payment analysis using stablecoins under $250 09:21 Differences between USDT and USDC usage in retail payments ...
Jul 21, 2025•35 min•Ep. 40
Stripe broke the internet when they spent $1.1bn for Bridge. But this was a small part of a bigger master plan. In this Exclusive Tokenized Interview, President of Stripe Will Gaybrick takes us behind the scenes... 🧵 Timestamps: 02:28 Problems with traditional fiat payment systems and inefficiencies 04:36 Stablecoins as programmable dollars in an open ecosystem 07:24 Stripe's acquisition of Bridge 09:39 Stablecoin financial accounts expanding to over 100 countries 11:15 Visa cards for spending ...
Jul 17, 2025•35 min
On Ep. 39 of Tokenized, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, is joined by Oli Harris, Founder & CEO @ Arda Global, Haonan Li, Co-Founder & CEO @ Codex and Raj Parekh, Head of Stablecoins/Payments @ Monad Foundation & Co-Founder @ Portal to discuss Monad Foundation acquiring Portal for stablecoin payments, BBVA launching Bitcoin and Ether trading for retail and more! Timestamps: 02:12 Monad Foundation acquires Portal for stablecoin payments 04:25 Competition among blockchains in stab...
Jul 14, 2025•47 min•Ep. 39
On Ep. 2 of Stablecoin Stats, Anthony Yim, Co-Founder @ Artemis and Andrew Van Aken, Data Scientist @ Artemis discuss OTC desk experience with Tether on Tron in Hong Kong, regional differences in stablecoin usage and more! Timestamps: 02:09 Circle's IPO and its rapid trading price surge 06:16 USDC supply growth and its all-time high record 07:53 Binance partnership driving USDC adoption 10:34 Centralized exchanges dominate USDC holdings over DeFi 14:13 Tether's dominance in payments vs USDC in D...
Jul 10, 2025•29 min
On Ep. 38 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Itai Turbahn, CEO & Co-Founder @ Dynamic and Joao Reginatto, CSO @ M0 to discuss Robinhood launching stocks tokens in the EU, their layer 2 blockchain based on Arbitrum, and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:38 Robinhood launching stocks tokens in the EU 03:15 Robinhood's layer two blockchain based on Arbitrum 08:23 Superstate tokenizing stock certific...
Jul 07, 2025•53 min•Ep. 38
On Ep. 37 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Alonso de Gortari, Director of Product & Chief Economist @ Mysten Labs and Eric Saraniecki, Co-Founder & Head of Network Strategy @ Digital Asset to discuss Digital Asset raising $135M for Canton, Fiserv announcing a stablecoin and more! Timestamps: 3:43 Digital Asset raises $135M for privacy-focused blockchain Canton 5:19 Institutional demand for privac...
Jun 30, 2025•54 min•Ep. 37
On this bonus episode of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine, is joined by Chris Harmse, Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder @ BVNK and John O'Brien, Chief Revenue Officer @ dLocal, to discuss the BVNK and dLocal partnership for global payouts, real-world stablecoin use cases and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:01 BVNK and dLocal partnership for global payouts 03:09 Scaling stablecoin payouts use cases 04:34 Economics of stablecoin sandwich vs traditional ...
Jun 25, 2025•10 min
On Ep. 36 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine is joined by Chris Harmse, Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder @ BVNK and John O'Brien, Chief Revenue Officer @ dLocal to discuss Shopify enabling stablecoin payments via Coinbase and Stripe, Walmart and Amazon exploring issuing their own stablecoins and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 02:58 Shopify enables stablecoin payments via Coinbase and Stripe 05:08 Stablecoin demand in global south e-commerce markets 09...
Jun 23, 2025•40 min•Ep. 36
In this episode, Simon Taylor, Co-host of Tokenized, is joined by an array of guests from the 2025 Avalanche Summit, to discuss various topics such as Stablecoins, RWAs and Tokenized Equities. Timestamps: 01:26 Haseeb Qureshi, GP @ Dragonfly 14:46 David Sutter, Co-Founder @ OpenTrade 23:43 Anna Wroblewska, CBO @ Dinari 31:10 Wyatt Lonergan, General Partner @ VanEck Ventures 40:19 Farooq Malik, Co-Founder @ Rain 54:09 Jerald David, CEO @ Lynq Network 1:00:52 Nikhil Sharma, Executive Director, Hea...
Jun 19, 2025•1 hr 35 min
On Ep. 35 of Tokenized, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, is joined by Davis Hart, General Manager @ Solana Labs and Daniel Mottice, Founder @ Beam to discuss Stripe's acquisition of Privy, the future of embedded and self-custodial wallets and more! Timestamps: 04:08 Stripe's acquisition of crypto wallet provider Privy 06:32 Differences between Stripe's Bridge and Privy acquisitions 08:10 The future of embedded and self-custodial wallets 21:22 Circle's IPO and its impact on stablecoin adopti...
Jun 16, 2025•48 min•Ep. 35
On Ep. 1 of Stablecoin Stats, Anthony Yim, Co-Founder @ Artemis and Andrew Van Aken, Data Scientist @ Artemis discuss the onchain data behind Circle’s giga IPO, tron’s stablecoin impact and more! Timestamps: 02:09 Circle's IPO and its rapid trading price surge 06:16 USDC supply growth and its all-time high record 07:53 Binance partnership driving USDC adoption 10:34 Centralized exchanges dominate USDC holdings over DeFi 14:13 Tether's dominance in payments vs USDC in DeFi 19:16 Tron and Ethereum...
Jun 12, 2025•32 min
On Ep. 34 of Tokenized, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa is joined by Farooq Malik, Co-Founder @ Rain, Gwera Kiwana, Global Expansion @ Sling Money and Kirill Gertman, CEO @ Conduit to discuss Conduit raising $36 million in Series A funding, banks partnering with stablecoin platforms for payments and more! Timestamps: 02:26 Conduit raises $36 million in Series A funding 04:01 Businesses using stablecoins for cross-border transactions 06:06 Stablecoins replacing SWIFT for global payments 08:4...
Jun 09, 2025•38 min•Ep. 34
On Ep. 33 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined live by Anthony Yim, Co-Founder @ Artemis to discuss the Artemis report: Stablecoin Payments from the Ground Up, agentic payments in programmable finance and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 02:29 Artemis report: Stablecoin Payments from the Ground Up 07:03 B2B payments growth and $70B annualized volume 14:05 USDT dominance in both developed and emerging market...
Jun 02, 2025•43 min•Ep. 33
On this bonus episode of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine, is joined by Chris Harmse, Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder @ BVNK and Nabil Manji, SVP, Head of Fintech Growth and Financial Partnerships @ Worldpay to discuss Worldpay partnering with BVNK to enable stablecoin payouts for merchants, the technical breakdown and more! Timestamps: 01:45 Worldpay partners with BVNK to enable stablecoin payouts for merchants 03:12 The benefits of stablecoins for merchan...
May 28, 2025•11 min
On Ep. 32 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine is joined by Elise Soucie Watts, Executive Director @ Global Digital Finance and Stepan Simkin, CEO @ Squads to discuss Squads unveiling a stablecoin account for businesses, AI agents and compliance in financial services and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 02:46 Squads unveiling a stablecoin account for businesses 05:08 Grid as the open API layer for stablecoin Fintech 06:22 Regulatory framework and compliance fo...
May 26, 2025•48 min•Ep. 32
On Ep. 31 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Brandon Arvanaghi, CEO @ Meow and Anurag Arjun, Founder @ Avail to discuss Robinhood's global expansion in Fintech and crypto, Meow's integration of USDC for business payments and why Meta wants a stablecoin. Timestamps: 00:00 Robinhood's global expansion in Fintech and crypto 01:16 Meow's integration of USDC for business payments 02:29 Blockchain scalability an...
May 19, 2025•45 min•Ep. 31
On Ep. 30 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Santiago Santos, CEO @ Inversion Capital to discuss Stablecoins transforming traditional businesses, Inversion Capital's private equity approach and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Stablecoins transforming traditional businesses 00:42 Institutional adoption of real world assets 02:02 Inversion Capital's private equity approach 09:25 Telco companies becoming Fintech bank...
May 12, 2025•41 min•Ep. 30
On Ep. 29 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Henri Stern, CEO @ Privy and Jelena Djuric, CEO @ Noble to discuss Visa's stablecoin linked cards announcement and a new era of Fintech innovation with stablecoins. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 02:20 Visa's stablecoin linked cards announcement 05:00 Global expansion of stablecoin payment infrastructure 10:00 New era of FinTech innovation with stablecoins 15:00...
May 05, 2025•51 min•Ep. 29
On Ep. 28 of Tokenized, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa is joined by Elise Soucie Watts, Executive Director @ Global Digital Finance and Rob Hadick, General Partner @ Dragonfly to discuss Circle Payments Network launch, regulatory challenges and yield-bearing stablecoins vs. payment stablecoins. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 03:19 Circle Payments Network (CPN) launch and its ambitious goals 05:24 Regulatory challenges for hybrid financial institutions like Circle 07:40 CPN’s focus on reinv...
Apr 28, 2025•47 min•Ep. 28
On Ep. 27 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Ran Goldi, SVP of Payments and Network @ Fireblocks to discuss Fed Chair Jerome Powell on crypto mainstream adoption, the impact of US legislation on stablecoin growth and Standard Chartered predicting $2T stablecoin market. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:33 Fed Chair Jerome Powell on crypto mainstream adoption 05:00 Impact of US legislation on stablecoin gro...
Apr 21, 2025•54 min•Ep. 27
