Loading...

PODCAST

Tokenized

Fintech Brainfood & Dux Media

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

technology investing

All Episodes

00:48:52

From Building USDC to Agentic Commerce: Sean Neville...

Tokenized ·

2026/07/09

On Ep. 9 of Agentic Commerce, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, and Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh are joined by Sean Neville, CEO & Co-Founder @ Catena to discuss the early vision for stablecoins and USDC creation, founding Catena, AI focus and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 2:48 Early vision for stablecoins and USDC creation 5:37 Founding story of Catena and AI focus 8:33 Agentic treasury vs agentic commerce use cases 12:49 Role of identity and trust in agentic commerce 18:38

en

00:51:53

OpenUSD - Bringing the Rest of Fiat Onchain

Tokenized ·

2026/07/06

On Ep. 90 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo is joined by Stephen Richardson, Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Banking @ Fireblocks and Ido Ben-Natan, CEO & Co-Founder @ Blockaid to discuss Fireblocks role in OpenUSD launch, BIS view on DeFi lending, Robinhood Earn product and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 2:46 Fireblocks role in OpenUSD launch 4:29 OpenUSD economic model and revenue distribution 7:45 Jeremy Allaire critique of OpenUSD consortium 10:07

en

00:30:15

Interview: Robinhood's 7% Earn Product w/ Johann Kerbrat

Tokenized ·

2026/07/03

In this bonus episode of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo is joined by Johann Kerbrat, SVP & GM of Crypto & International @ Robinhood to discuss Robinhood Chain public mainnet launch going live globally, Robinhood Earn offers 7% yield with Lloyds insurance coverage and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 1:02 Robinhood Chain public mainnet launch goes live globally 1:55 Robinhood Chain partners with Arcus and Lighter for trading 3:17 Robinhood customers can earn

en

00:42:21

Western Union’s $100BN Bet

Tokenized ·

2026/07/02

On Ep. 6 of Stablecoin Stories, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Ran Goldi, SVP Payments, Fireblocks are joined by Malcolm Clarke, VP of Digital Assets @ Western Union to discuss USDPT, choosing Solana for fast settlement and developer innovation and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 4:07 Building digital identity networks with Hyperledger and blockchain 7:00 Solving consumer and internal use cases with stablecoins 10:48 Balancing Western Union’s legacy brand with crypto

en

00:52:25

Capital Markets Are Going Onchain

Tokenized ·

2026/06/29

On Ep. 89 of Tokenized, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa is joined by Noah Levine, Partner @ a16z Crypto, Eric Saraniecki, Co-Founder & Head of Network Strategy @ Digital Asset and Theo Golden, Head of Digital Assets @ Baillie Gifford to discuss the growth of tokenized stocks through crypto exchange models, Baillie Gifford launching UK native tokenized fund and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 4:26 Growth of tokenized stocks through crypto exchange models 5:33 Onshore versus offshore

en

00:44:56

Real Agentic Commerce Volume Is $30K a Month

Tokenized ·

2026/06/25

On Ep. 8 of Agentic Commerce, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo, and Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh are joined by Sam Ragsdale, Founder & CEO @ Merit Systems to discuss blockchain enabling massive scale for agentic transactions, Merit focusing on open agent commerce with USDC on Base and Solana and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 6:43 Blockchain enables massive scale for agentic transactions 9:32 Cognitive friction was the real barrier to microtransactions 10:30 Vibe coders

en

00:47:24

SpaceX IPO Broke Tokenized Stocks

Tokenized ·

2026/06/22

On Ep. 88 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Eli Cohen, Chief Legal Officer @ Centrifuge and Ross Basri, Co-Founder @ Uptop (acq by Rain) to discuss Zelle launching ZelleUSD, banks using stablecoins for cross border payments and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 2:26 Zelle launching ZelleUSD stablecoin and India expansion 3:48 Banks using stablecoins for cross border payments 5:45 Zelle competing with Revolut

en

00:34:08

Kraken Co-CEO Giving Everyone Billionaire Like Access...

Tokenized ·

2026/06/18

In this bonus episode of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo is joined by Arjun Sethi, Co-CEO @ Kraken & Payward to discuss Payward as a parent company with Kraken & NinjaTrader, consumer products Kraken Earn and MoneyGram cashout partnership and more!Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 2:45 Payward as parent company with Kraken & NinjaTrader 3:44 xStocks one to one tokenized equities interoperable across chains 5:00 Binomial acquisition for US crypto perpetuals and

en

00:47:52

Banks Won’t Stop Deposits Leaving for Stablecoins

Tokenized ·

2026/06/15

On Ep. 87 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo is joined by Noah Levine, Partner @ a16z Crypto, Thierry Edde, Head of Crypto @ Deel and William Peck, Head of Digital Assets @ WisdomTree to discuss stablecoins becoming global checking accounts in emerging markets, tokenized deposits versus stablecoins use cases and more!Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 4:21 Stablecoins becoming global checking accounts in emerging markets 6:55 Embedded finance wallets integrated into

en

00:30:36

KAST: 1M Users on a Stablecoin Neobank

Tokenized ·

2026/06/11

On Ep. 5 of Stablecoin Stories, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Ran Goldi, SVP Payments, Fireblocks are joined by Raagulan Pathy, Founder & CEO @ KAST to discuss the thesis of building fintech on top of stablecoin rails, building USDK for onchain transparency, trust and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 7:35 Thesis of building fintech on top of stablecoin rails 9:53 Challenges of scrappy startup fundraising and low salaries 11:39 Early traction through Solana card

en

00:46:20

Why Every Payment Network Should Settle Onchain

Tokenized ·

2026/06/08

On Ep. 86 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Chris Mason, CEO @ Orbital to discuss why settlement matters for stablecoin adoption, MoneyGram launch MGUSD and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 2:42 Why settlement matters for stablecoin adoption 3:18 Mastercard and Visa expand stablecoin settlement networks 6:32 Merchants benefit from faster settlement and transparency 7:50 Privacy challenges for public

en

00:46:44

The First Bank Issued Stablecoin

Tokenized ·

2026/06/01

On Ep. 85 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa are joined by Rene Reinsberg, Co-Founder @ Celo and Charles Hamel, Head of Product, MiniPay @ Opera to discuss Visa CLI onboarding merchants, Cash App supports fee free USDC stablecoin transactions and more!Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 2:48 Visa CLI onboarding merchants and US rollout 6:25 Cash App supports fee free USDC stablecoin transactions 8:33 Cash App stablecoin safety

en

00:42:26

99% of Stablecoins Are Dollars

Tokenized ·

2026/05/25

On Ep. 84 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo is joined by Kim Hochfeld, Global Head of Digital and Cash @ State Street Investment Management and Dan Romero, GTM @ Tempo to discuss banks moving on chain, the GENIUS Act impact, stablecoin settlement for remittances and more!Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 2:00 State Street Investment Management's first on chain liquidity fund launch 3:25 Banks moving on chain and the GENIUS Act impact 5:22 Lessons from launching on

en

00:46:09

The Headless Merchant Economy

Tokenized ·

2026/05/18

On Ep. 83 of Tokenized, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, is joined by Noah Levine, Partner @ a16z Crypto, Gmoney and Michael Blau, CTO @ Royal to discuss AWS, Google, Coinbase enabling AI agent payments, headless merchants and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 2:13 AWS, Google, Coinbase enabling AI agent payments 3:51 Headless Merchants 5:59 Pay per token model replacing subscriptions for content 10:04 Traders and investors as early agentic payment users 13:42 Card on front,

en

00:46:22

Kraken's $600M Bet on Stablecoin Cards

Tokenized ·

2026/05/11

On Ep. 82 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo is joined by Wyatt Lonergan, GP @ VanEck Ventures and Mark Greenberg, VP of B2B @ Kraken to discuss Kraken adding bank withdrawals across 100 countries, Kraken and MoneyGram partnership and more!Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 1:33 Kraken and MoneyGram global crypto to cash partnership 3:21 Kraken adding bank withdrawals across 100 countries 6:18 Informal local cash networks and stablecoin formalization 8:15 KYC and AML

en

00:51:17

Ex Libra Boss David Marcus on Meta Stablecoin Payouts...

Tokenized ·

2026/05/04

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

en

00:39:35

PayPal’s Plan to Win the Agent Economy

Tokenized ·

2026/04/30

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

en

00:48:11

Every Fintech is Launching a Stablecoin Product

Tokenized ·

2026/04/27

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

en

00:47:45

Why Your AI Agent Needs a Card and a Stablecoin Wallet

Tokenized ·

2026/04/23

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

en

00:49:57

Should Banks Fear Stablecoin Yield?

Tokenized ·

2026/04/20

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

en

150 results

Similar Podcasts

Lead With AI

Tamara Nall

Elon Musk Podcast

Stage Zero

Modem Futura

Sean Leahy, Andrew Maynard

Cisco Podcast Network

Cisco

MSP Business School

MSP Business School