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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

00:46:37

Banks Are Going Onchain on Weekends

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2026/10/05

On Ep. 103 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Christian Catalini, Founder @ MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab to discuss OpenUSD launch, weekend onchain settlement, how banks should respond to AI agents and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction0:51 OpenUSD launches across Tempo, Ethereum, Solana and Base14:55 Lloyds pilots USDC settlement with Visa over seven days16:36 Weekend onchain settlement helps major banks gain blockchain

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00:52:44

OCC Bank Charters Will Usher Stablecoin Adoption Wave

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2026/09/28

On Ep. 102 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Nick van Eck, Co-Founder & CEO @ Agora and Shivani Siroya, Founder & CEO @ Tala to discuss Agora's OCC charter, Tala seeing credit access as missing stablecoin adoption layer, Blockchain.com and NYSE explore 24/7 tokenized stocks and ETFs and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction03:15 Agora OCC charter enables U.S. stablecoin banking one stop shop07:57 Tala sees

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00:52:32

SEC Unlocked Tokenized Stocks

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2026/09/21

On Ep. 101 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Nikhil Chandhok, Chief Product & Technology Officer @ Circle and Simone Maini, Chief Executive Officer @ Elliptic to discuss SEC five-year exemption for tokenized US stock trading, AMMs and their role in traditional capital markets, Circle launching Arc mainnet and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction2:19 SEC five-year exemption for tokenized US stock trading9:32 AMMs

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00:58:46

Visa Stablecoin Settlement Hits $20BN - Up 15X

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2026/09/14

On Ep. 100 of Tokenized, Pet Berisha, MD & Co-Creator @ Tokenized is joined by Elise Soucie Watts, Former Regulator, Policy & Regulatory Specialist, Cyril Mathew, Co-Founder & CEO @ Latitude and Matt Marcus, Co-Founder & CEO @ Modern Treasury to discuss Modern Treasury launching noncustodial stablecoin wallets, Latitude raises $35 million, prediction markets, global regulation and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction03:00 Modern Treasury launches noncustodial stablecoin wallets with

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00:50:05

Big Bank Stablecoin - Can It Compete?

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2026/09/07

On Ep. 99 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Darko Hajdukovic, Head of Securities Digitization @ London Stock Exchange Group and Ada Vaughan, Head of DeFi @ Stellar Development Foundation to discuss LSEG and Kraken partnership, ICE invests in tZERO, major financial institutions forming a joint bank stablecoin consortium and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction1:21 LSEG and Kraken partnership brings tokenized stocks to

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00:51:08

Revolut Launched a Stablecoin. Are Big Banks Next?

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2026/08/31

On Ep. 98 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Thomas Cowan, Head of Tokenization @ Bullish and Hannah Arnold, COO @ TurnKey to discuss Revolut launching Euro R stablecoin, Standard Chartered brings regulated Hong Kong dollar stablecoin to institutions, Fasset reaches billion dollar valuation using stablecoins for global settlement and more!Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 0:56 Revolut launches Euro R stablecoin

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00:44:49

Will Stablecoins Own Machine-To-Machine Payments? Ft....

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2026/08/27

On Ep. 12 of Agentic Commerce, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, and Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh are joined by Christian Catalini, Founder @ MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab to discuss machine-to-machine payments, why micropayments struggle, AI commoditization and more!Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 03:29 Why agentic commerce became the intersection of AI and crypto 06:53 Incumbents vs crypto rails in agentic commerce 09:48 Machine-to-machine payments, information markets, and agent

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00:47:49

Every Correspondent Bank Will Support Stablecoins

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2026/08/24

On Ep. 97 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Ferdinand Dabitz, Co-Founder & CEO @ Augustus and Anna Wroblewska, Chief Business Officer @ Dinari to discuss Stripe’s OpenRouter acquisition, modernizing correspondent banking with stablecoin liquidity, 24/7 tokenized securities and more!Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 03:23 Stripe’s OpenRouter acquisition and model orchestration strategy 08:54 Stablecoin payments for

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00:35:47

Why Thunes Chose Stablecoins for Cross Border

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2026/08/20

On Ep. 10 of Stablecoin Stories, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Ran Goldi, SVP Payments, Fireblocks are joined by Pritpal Shokar, Head of Product, Digital Assets @ Thunes to discuss Thunes stablecoin pre-funding and global payout capabilities, rising stablecoin demand across emerging markets and more!Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 3:34 Real-time settlement versus traditional financial messaging infrastructure 5:22 Stablecoins shifting from speculation toward real-world

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00:56:12

Deel Goes Live With Stablecoin Wallet in 80 Markets

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2026/08/17

On Ep. 96 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Luca Prosperi, Co-Founder & CEO @ M0 and Ryan Bozarth, Co-founder & CEO @ Dakota to discuss Rain acquiring Ansa to put branded wallets on stablecoin rails, stablecoin linked cards, onchain credit and more!Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 1:10 Rain acquires Ansa to put branded wallets on stablecoin rails 2:44 Tokenized loyalty points become liquid, interoperable and

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00:39:32

From Shopify to Sapiom: Building the OS for Agentic...

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2026/08/13

On Ep. 11 of Agentic Commerce, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, and Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh are joined by Ilan Zerbib, Founder & CEO @ Sapiom to discuss Sapiom’s vision for agent infrastructure, agent identity, delegated authority, Sapiom’s agent studio and more!Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 4:12 Sapiom’s vision for agent infrastructure 6:43 Agent identity, delegated authority, reputation and agent credit scores 8:59 Why stablecoins could power the machine-to-machine economy

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00:54:17

The Era of 24/7 Money

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2026/08/10

On Ep. 95 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Natalya Thakur, Founder & CEO @ Knova and TuongVy Le, General Counsel @ Veda to discuss Western Union and Rain launching Stablecard, stablecoins as opportunity not threat for banks, BlackRock tokenized money market funds for stablecoin reserves and more!Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 2:04 Western Union and Rain launch stablecard in 37 markets 3:46 Idle stablecoin

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00:35:24

Why Every Bank Needs 24/7 Cash Settlement Now

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2026/08/06

On Ep. 9 of Stablecoin Stories, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Ran Goldi, SVP Payments, Fireblocks are joined by Ryan Rugg, Global Head of Digital Assets @ Citi Token Services to discuss Citi Token Services liquidity management as first use case, programmable smart contracts, the need for multi bank interoperability and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 5:26 Lessons on client pain points from IBM blockchain practice 8:25 Citi Token Services liquidity management as first

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00:55:54

Why Robinhood Are Going All in on Tokenized Stocks...

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2026/08/03

On Ep. 94 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo is joined by Rob Hadick, GP @ Dragonfly, Stephen Sikes, COO @ Public and Ethan Chan, Co-Founder & CEO @ Allium to discuss Tokenized stocks as a global expansion strategy for US fintechs, prediction markets surging and more!Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 0:30 Embedded wallet acquisitions and consolidation trends in crypto infrastructure 2:16 Monetization challenges and value accrual for standalone infrastructure providers

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00:45:09

Why Stablecoins Won’t Kill Cards Ft. a16z Partner...

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2026/07/30

On Ep. 10 of Agentic Commerce, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, and Bam Azizi, CEO & Founder @ Mesh are joined by Noah Levine, Partner @ a16z Crypto to discuss a new class of merchants and buyers emerging, stablecoins won't kill cards but fill gaps, Jevons paradox and more!Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 2:20 Agentic commerce is still very early in development 4:14 New class of merchants and buyers emerging 6:17 Stablecoin and blockchain for AI payment needs 7:37 Stablecoins won't kill

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00:48:59

Stablecoin Linked Cards Are in Hyper Growth Mode

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2026/07/27

On Ep. 93 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Luke Tuttle, CPTO @ MoneyGram, Charles Yoo-Naut, Co-Founder & CTO @ Rain and Darko Hajdukovic, Head of Digital Markets Infrastructure @ London Stock Exchange Group to discuss LSE nighttime trading venue launching 2027, Tokenized UK government debt instrument DIGIT and more!Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 3:50 London Stock Exchange nighttime trading venue launching 2027

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00:48:46

Why Ramp Is All in on Stablecoins

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2026/07/23

On Ep. 8 of Stablecoin Stories, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Ran Goldi, SVP Payments, Fireblocks are joined by Alex Bazhenov, Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Ramp and Andrew Chapello, Product Lead @ Ramp to discuss customer demand for faster, cheaper global business payments driving stablecoin adoption strategy, integrating blockchain payments with legacy fiat ledger infrastructure and more!Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 5:00 Customer demand for faster, cheaper global

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00:53:09

Onchain FX Is the Missing Piece for Stablecoins

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2026/07/20

On Ep. 92 of Tokenized, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa is joined by Noah Levine, Partner @ a16z Crypto, Didier Lavallee, Founder & CEO @ Tetra Digital Group and Eric Queathem, Founder & CEO @ Velocity to discuss velocity raising $30 million Series A for stablecoin payments, Canadian dollar stablecoin use cases and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 1:41 Velocity raises $30 million Series A for stablecoin payments 4:02 Velocity as regulated payment institution not just orchestration 5:11

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00:47:34

Why 70% of PSPs Still Won’t Touch Crypto

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2026/07/16

On Ep. 7 of Stablecoin Stories, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Ran Goldi, SVP Payments, Fireblocks are joined by John Egan, Chief Product Officer @ Polygon to discuss the utility theory that blockchain should be used for money, only 30% of PSPs own stablecoin infrastructure and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 5:51 Institutional users demand data proof of value 7:58 Utility theory that blockchain should be used for money 11:33 MiCA license sparked stablecoin adoption

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00:50:08

Stablecoin Cards Hitting $1 Billion a Month

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2026/07/13

On Ep. 91 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Paul Faecks, CEO & Founder @ Plasma and Guillermo Goncalvez, CEO @ El Dorado to discuss Visa onchain analytics dashboard, growth of stablecoin enabled card spend nearing $1 billion, and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 2:05 Visa onchain analytics dashboard and adjusted volume methodology 3:56 Growth of stablecoin enabled card spend nearing $1 billion 5:04 Rise of

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