Stablecoins Go Mainstream (The Protocol Roundtable Ep. 6)

Stablecoins are moving from crypto-native rails into real payments infrastructure.

In Episode 6 of The Protocol Roundtable, we’ll look at what this shift means for wallets, cards, treasury flows, merchant payments, compliance, and the companies building the new payments stack.

Hosted by Andrei Yurkevich, Co-Founder at Protofire, the conversation will bring together leaders from Rain, Fireblocks, Pulsar.Money, Velocity, and DDSC to discuss how stablecoins are being used today, where adoption is accelerating, and what still needs to be solved before stablecoin payments can operate at mainstream scale.

Panelists:

Andrei Yurkevich, Co-Founder, Protofire
Pooja Shah, Head of Product, Rain
Ran Goldi, Chief Payments and Network Officer, Fireblocks
Alex Radu, CEO, Pulsar.Money
Eric Queathem, Founder & CEO, Velocity
Kostas Asimakopoulos, Head of Partnerships, DDSC

Topics

What drives firms to switch: speed, freeing up prefunded capital, reaching new countries, customer demand

Whether stablecoin payments are cheaper, and who actually saves

How rules in the UAE, the EU (MiCA) and the US (GENIUS, still being finalised) shaped product decisions

What treasurers and auditors want to know before holding a stablecoin balance overnight

Whether the market settles on a few widely accepted tokens or many that need conversion

What stablecoins can already do that people assume they can’t

Who it’s for: payments, product, treasury and compliance teams working out where stablecoins fit in their own flows.

When: Thursday, 15 October 2026, 13:00 UTC (15:00 CEST 17:00 GST 09:00 ET). 60 minutes, livestreamed.