Tokenized
This show is for the builders, who see stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets as the next step in the finance industry. The tokenization of all assets. This show will come to your feed every week featuring the latest news, with views from the operators, to the builders, and the people in markets and in Crypto who see tokenization as the credible future of finance. Join Simon Taylor and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto at Visa for weekly nerd outs on all things stablecoins and the tokenization of real world assets.
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Should Banks Fear Stablecoin Yield?
<p>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!</p> <p>Timestamps:</p> 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...
How Payments Foundations Models are Fuelling Agentic Commerce Ft. Nvidia
<p>On Ep. 5 of Agentic Commerce, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo, and Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh are joined 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!</p> <p><br>Timestamps:</p> 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 OpenShell...
Blockchain's Threat to Banking
<p>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!</p> <p>Timestamps:</p> 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...
How AI Bots Buy Internet Services
<p>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!</p> <p>Timestamps:</p> 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...
Amy Oldenburg, Head of Digital Asset Strategy @ Morgan Stanley
<p>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!</p> <p>Timestamps:</p> 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...
Stablecoins Will Stop Retail From Subsidizing Wall St Ft. BitGo CEO Mike Belshe
<p>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!</p> <p>Timestamps:</p> 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...
Bank of England: Stablecoins, Settlement and the Digital Pound Lab
<p>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!</p> <p>Timestamps:</p> 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...
How Do Tokenized Equities Work? Ft. BlackRock’s Head of Digital Assets
<p>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!</p> <p>Timestamps:</p> 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...
3X Bank Founder Building the Bank for Tokenized Finance
<p>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!</p> <p>Timestamps:</p> 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...
Tempo Head of Product: From First Line of Code to Mainnet in 7 Months
<p>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!</p> <p>Timestamps:</p> 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...
