The Institutionalization of Solana

On Ep. 9 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Guillaume Chatain, Chief Revenue Officer @ Société Générale - FORGE and Nick Ducoff, Head of Institutional Growth @ The Solana Foundation to discuss the state of Solana in 2024, Société Générale - FORGE, EURCV & Solana and the future of stablecoins.

Timestamps:

• 01:30 The state of Solana in 2024
• 05:25 Société Générale - FORGE
• 08:07 EURCV & Solana
• 10:41 Société Générale journey
• 14:44 Public vs permissioned blockchains
• 23:01 The future of stablecoins
• 27:11 PayPal, Ernst & Young and Google Cloud use Coinbase for B2B payments
• 36:42 Uniswap launch L2 network Unichain
• 43:13 Interoperability
• 46:20 Overcoming institutional challenges

This episode is brought to you by Visa

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Visa’s Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP) uses smart contracts and cryptography to help banks bring fiat currencies onchain. VTAP allows financial institutions to issue fiat-backed tokens, improving financial efficiency and enabling programmable finance. Express interest in VTAP at globalclient.visa.com/vtap

This podcast is also supported by Digital Asset.

Digital Asset is excited to launch the Canton Network, a proven, trusted, and scaleable service that provides interoperability between institutional-grade tokenization platforms. The Global Synchronizer is now live, managed by Linux and institutions are actively using Canton Coin to manage the governance. No, the banks haven’t launched a token in the classic sense, this is much more interesting. They’ve done it to make all token networks interoperable. Find out more at canton.network