Stablecoins Go Mainstream: Inside the New Payments Stack
Episode 6 ·
Andrei YurkevichProtofire
Kostas AsimakopoulosDDSC
Ran GoldiFireblocks
Eric QueathemVelocity
Alex RaduPulsar Money
Pooja ShahRain
The Protocol Roundtable
Protofire's flagship show on onchain finance. In each episode, founders and senior leaders from payments, banking and blockchain protocols take on one question the industry has to answer now, from how stablecoins change payments to what it takes to move a bank pilot into production.
Companies our speakers came from. Speakers appear in a personal capacity; their views are their own and do not imply that their organisations endorse Protofire.
Episodes
TradFi Goes Onchain, Part 2: From Pilots to Market Infrastructure
Episode 5 ·
- Andrei YurkevichProtofire
Rado PatusProtofire
Emma LandriaultJ.P. Morgan Payments
Martin QuenselCentrifuge
Ryan ZegaAptos Labs
TradFi Goes Onchain: Who's Building the New Financial System?
Episode 4 ·
- Andrei YurkevichProtofire
Luis MedeirosProtofire
Brian ButlerPolygon Labs
Gagan MacCircle
Ilia ShirobokovADI Foundation
Credit Markets on Demand
Episode 3 ·
- Andrei YurkevichProtofire
- Luis MedeirosProtofire
Alejandro LosaFuero
Gareth Christian-LimMidnight Foundation
Muhammad Salman AnjumDeFa
Ran WeiPharos Network
Ghost Town Markets: Building Secondary Liquidity for Real-World Assets
Episode 2 ·
- Rado PatusProtofire
Renat KhasanshynProtofire
Jason WindawiPharos Network
Alan ChiuBoba Network
Zach PraterBase
Ivan PostavskyyCentrifuge
Dillon HansonDIA
Nothing to Hide: On-Chain Privacy in 2026
Episode 1 ·
Ivor JugoProtofire- Rado PatusProtofire
- Brian ButlerPolygon Labs
Luke BowmanSecret Network
Aztec AmayaLitVM
Justin GiudiciTelos
Darren GrayQuickSwap
Joël ValenzuelaDash
Across episodes
- Stablecoin payments
- Why are businesses moving payments onto stablecoin rails?
- Are stablecoin payments cheaper, or just faster?
- Will stablecoins replace card payments?
- Banks and TradFi onchain
- Is TradFi really moving onchain in 2026?
- Why does it take a bank so long to adopt an onchain product?
- What does a bank need to see before a pilot goes into production?
Speakers
Emma Landriault, Episode 5: TradFi Goes Onchain, Part 2: From Pilots to Market Infrastructure
Global Head of Kinexys Labs
J.P. Morgan Payments
Gagan Mac, Episode 4: TradFi Goes Onchain: Who's Building the New Financial System?
VP, Product & Engineering, Arc
Circle
Ran Goldi, Episode 6: Stablecoins Go Mainstream: Inside the New Payments Stack
Chief Payments & Network Officer
Fireblocks
Zach Prater, Episode 2: Ghost Town Markets: Building Secondary Liquidity for Real-World Assets
Growth & Virtual Events
Base
Brian Butler, Episode 4: TradFi Goes Onchain: Who's Building the New Financial System?
Payments Lead, US
Polygon Labs
Also Episode 1Ryan Zega, Episode 5: TradFi Goes Onchain, Part 2: From Pilots to Market Infrastructure
Head of Structured Finance
Aptos Labs
Ivan Postavskyy, Episode 2: Ghost Town Markets: Building Secondary Liquidity for Real-World Assets
Ecosystem & Community Operations Manager
Centrifuge
Ilia Shirobokov, Episode 4: TradFi Goes Onchain: Who's Building the New Financial System?
Head of Blockchain
ADI Foundation
Jason Windawi, Episode 2: Ghost Town Markets: Building Secondary Liquidity for Real-World Assets
Head of Institutions & Protocols
Pharos Network
Kostas Asimakopoulos, Episode 6: Stablecoins Go Mainstream: Inside the New Payments Stack
Head of Partnerships
DDSC
Eric Queathem, Episode 6: Stablecoins Go Mainstream: Inside the New Payments Stack
Founder & CEO
Velocity
Alex Radu, Episode 6: Stablecoins Go Mainstream: Inside the New Payments Stack
CEO & Founder
Pulsar Money
About the show
The Protocol Roundtable is a live show produced and hosted by Protofire, an engineering company that has built onchain infrastructure since 2016. It started in March 2026. Each episode brings founders and senior leaders from payments, banking and blockchain protocols together around one question the industry is working through: onchain privacy, secondary liquidity for real-world assets, onchain credit, how institutions move from pilots to production, and stablecoin payments.
Episodes stream live on X, LinkedIn and YouTube and are also on Spotify. Every episode page has the video, everyone at the table, chapters, verbatim key moments and the full transcript, each linked to its moment in the recording.
The next table has an empty seat
We invite founders and senior leaders building onchain finance in payments, banking and blockchain protocols. Tell us who you are and what you would like to discuss.
- In good companySpeakers so far have come from J.P. Morgan Payments, Circle, Fireblocks, Base and Polygon Labs.
- On the recordYour episode gets its own page with your key quotes and the full transcript, built so search engines and AI assistants can find and quote it.
- Among peersA conversation with people solving the same problems from other sides of the market.