On Ep. 66 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Michael Tannenbaum, CEO @ Figure to discuss Visa Direct partnership with BVNK, Figure's on-chain public equity network (OPEN) for blockchain-registered equity and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:50 Visa Direct partnership with BVNK for stablecoin payment endpoints 04:10 How BVNK provides full-stack stablecoin infrastructure for Visa 08:18 Targeting multi-billion dollar transaction vo...
Jan 19, 2026•49 min•Ep. 66
On Ep. 65 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Sandy Kaul, EVP and Head of Innovation, Franklin Templeton to discuss OnePay's integration of crypto, Franklin Templeton's early tokenization platform and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 02:43 OnePay's integration of crypto 04:28 The rise of financial super apps and wallet-based ecosystems 06:33 Franklin Templeton's early tokenization platform and wallet infrastructure 10:19 Tokenizatio...
Jan 12, 2026•52 min•Ep. 65
On Ep. 64 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Rob Hadick, General Partner @ Dragonfly and Tyler Moebius, CEO and Co-Founder @ SmartMedia Technologies to discuss their predictions for 2026. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 06:12 Grading previous year's predictions on stablecoin and AI narratives 07:18 Skepticism on the near-term viability of AI and blockchain crossover 10:16 Visa stablecoin settlement to exceed $100 billion annualized by 2...
Jan 05, 2026•58 min•Ep. 64
On Ep. 63 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Anthony Yim, Co-Founder @ Artemis and Andrew Van Aken, Data Scientist @ Artemis to discuss stablecoins, onchain cards and B2B payments in their 2025 review. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 04:44 Surge in number of stablecoins above $10 million supply in 2025 07:30 What qualifies as a stablecoin? Do we need new definitions? 15:11 Tether and Circle's massive supply growth and PayPal stablecoin ...
Dec 29, 2025•48 min•Ep. 63
On Ep. 62 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo is joined by Marieke Flament, 2x CEO, Angel Investor, Advisor, Co-Author of Euro Stable Watch, Chuk Okpalugo, Founder @ Stablecoin Blueprint and Nadine Chakar, Global Head of DTCC Digital Assets to discuss DTCC being authorized to tokenize top 1000 US stocks, the importance of tokenizing real legal rights vs. synthetic wrappers and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 03:49 DTCC authorized to tokenize top 1000 US stocks 08:...
Dec 22, 2025•52 min•Ep. 62
On Ep. 7 of Stablecoin Stats, Anthony Yim, Co-Founder @ Artemis and Andrew Van Aken, Data Scientist @ Artemis are joined by Alana Levin, Investment Partner @ Variant to discuss Variant's focus on crypto investments, takeaways from Fintech NerdCon and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:45 Variant's focus on crypto investments 02:51 Takeaways from Fintech NerdCon 04:55 The need for fraud model retraining with agentic payments and stablecoins 06:05 Growth drivers for stablecoins and the role o...
Dec 18, 2025•38 min
On Ep. 61 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Joey Isaacson, CEO @ Nook and Alex Gluchowski, Co-Founder & CEO Matter Labs to discuss Tempo Testnet launch, EVM, the race to onchain payments and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 02:37 Tempo Testnet launch with dedicated payment lanes and stablecoin-native gas 05:37 Discussion on consumer app challenges and the importance of payment rails 07:34 The role of testnets in development an...
Dec 15, 2025•47 min•Ep. 61
On Ep. 3 of Agentic Commerce, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo, and Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh are joined by Erik Reppel, Author of x402 and Head of Eng @ Coinbase Developer Platform to discuss the history and original purpose of HTTP 402 status code, the convergence of blockchain, AI, native internet payments and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:12 History and original purpose of HTTP 402 status code 04:24 The convergence of blockchain, AI, and native internet pa...
Dec 11, 2025•39 min
On Ep. 60 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Rachel Mayer, VP of Product @ Circle and Nick van Eck, CEO and Co-Founder @ Agora to discuss killer features of tokenization, the growth of stablecoins versus other tokenized real-world assets and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 02:40 Larry Fink's op-ed on tokenization compared to the early internet 04:26 The killer features of tokenization: instant finality and s...
Dec 08, 2025•48 min•Ep. 60
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 to large banks and fintechs adopting stablecoins 06:02 Cross-border payments as a primary stablec...
Dec 04, 2025•23 min
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 07:06 Instant merchant payouts and settlement using stablecoins as an abstraction layer 11:03 Cross-bo...
Dec 01, 2025•45 min•Ep. 59
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 13:13 How stablecoins save customers time, effort, and money 16:00 The B2B benefits of stablecoins f...
Nov 28, 2025•39 min
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 AI and agentic AI 09:24 The shift from reactive to proactive banking 13:46 Current adoption curve f...
Nov 24, 2025•48 min•Ep. 58
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 17:14 Different protocols for different use cases 22:07 Building agents to bootstrap prot...
Nov 20, 2025•49 min
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 trust for uncollateralized on-chain lending 09:13 Morpho's shift from application to infrastructure ...
Nov 18, 2025•20 min
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 stablecoin issuance 05:16 Benefits of companies creating their own stablecoins 06:03 Consumer confusion with...
Nov 17, 2025•51 min•Ep. 57
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 stablecoin growth and market dynamics 14:42 Distribution of stablecoin usage in payments and lending 18:27 S...
Nov 13, 2025•39 min
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 custody services 06:26 Evolution of custody services and embedded wallet solutions 11:27 Ripple's ...
Nov 10, 2025•47 min•Ep. 56
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-assisted execution 10:00 Stablecoins as a global, borderless payment method for agents 15:00 Managing ...
Nov 06, 2025•49 min
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! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:10 Modern Treasury's acquisition of Beam for payment infra...
Nov 03, 2025•47 min•Ep. 55
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 rise of vertically integrated payment blockchains 07:33 Evolution of stable coins and multi-chain comp...
Oct 27, 2025•54 min•Ep. 54
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 growth and DeFi partnership strategy 13:35 The SVB banking crisis and USDC depeg event 18:06 Problem-so...
Oct 23, 2025•39 min
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 stablecoin risks 13:14 Institutional perspective on crypto market maturity 18:19 Coinbase and Mastercar...
Oct 20, 2025•45 min•Ep. 53
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 incentive strategies 13:57 Stablecoin adoption in emerging markets like Latin America 16:22 Venmo int...
Oct 16, 2025•32 min
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 vendor selection for 2029 05:10 Challenges and market response to Euro stablecoin adoption 11:51 Al...
Oct 12, 2025•53 min•Ep. 52
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 stablecoin creation 04:44 Business demand and rationale for proprietary stablecoins 07:44 Stablecoin marke...
Oct 06, 2025•48 min•Ep. 51
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 product in Q1 next year 04:08 Stablecoins blurring lines between investments and payments 10:27 Ban...
Sep 29, 2025•49 min•Ep. 50
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 11:00 The Genius Act providing new regulatory clarity for stablecoins 18:17 BlackRock's intention to...
Sep 22, 2025•48 min•Ep. 49
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 adoption and role of stablecoins in DeFi 08:14 Challenges and opportunities in DeFi for traditional ...
Sep 18, 2025•36 min
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 market and stable coin bidding war 09:18 Public blockchain adoption as a payment rail beyond...
Sep 15, 2025•51 min•Ep. 48
