Stablecoins Go Mainstream ft. Rain, Fireblocks, Velocity, Pulsar.Money, and DDSC

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.