ICYMI: We revamped our website! Over the past few months, we've been working on something much bigger than a redesign. We saw the need for one place that brings together everything we do across investor relations, research, media, and institutional communications. Here's what's new: - @TokenRelations now has its own section within @StrataMedia_'s website, making it easier to explore investor updates, institutional reports, research, and livestreams by project. - Token Relations clients like @Solana, @Ripple, @Hedera & more have their own dedicated pages, so you can navigate their latest updates, livestreams and reports, all in one place. - Our industry research is organized into hubs covering Stablecoins, Tokenization, DeFi, Markets, Analyst Insights, and more. - @_TalkingTokens and @TheMarketRunup are now integrated into the site alongside their respective newsletters, so you can access our podcasts, articles and written content in one go. Whether you're looking for institutional research, executive interviews, investor communications, or market analysis, it's all now under one roof. This is just the beginning, and we have a lot more in the works. Shared some screen grabs, but take a look for yourself and let us know what you think! :)

🚨 NEW PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT: Say hello to StrataMedia Surveys Before starting @StrataMedia_ I spent my career as a journalist and one of my favorite ways to cover an emerging topic was to ask a handful of industry leaders the same set of thoughtful questions. It was one of the fastest and clearest ways to find out where experts agreed, where their opinions diverged, and what trends were taking shape. We're bringing that format to StrataMedia so our audience can follow emerging trends closely and see where there is (and isn't) consensus on major themes. Each month, we'll pick an important topic shaping digital assets and financial markets, then ask a select group of founders, executives, investors, and industry leaders to share their perspectives through a short survey. Our first edition focuses on agentic payments, one of the most talked-about developments at the intersection of AI and financial infrastructure. For this survey, we asked leaders from @Anchorage Digital, @Circle, @RumbleVideo, @Alchemy, and @0xMiden to answer the same set of questions, giving readers a side-by-side look at how some of the industry's leading builders are thinking about where this technology is headed. These surveys are led by our institutional research team and the results will be featured in @TokenRelations' Analyst Insights newsletter and discussed on the @_TalkingTokens podcast. Looking ahead, we're excited and open to collaborate with companies on co-branded surveys and reports exploring themes that matter to their investors, users and the broader industry - all while maintaining the same objective, multi-perspective format. Check out the first edition below and let us know which topics you'd like us to dive into next!

We sat down with @SenLummis on @CryptoAmerica_ for an important and timely bonus episode diving into her take on where Clarity Act stands today. A quick hitting 20-min episode for your Thursday, check it out below!

Super excited to work with @Anchorage through @_TalkingTokens! They're serious operators with 5+ years of running as a federally regulated bank, have issued 1.4B+ stablecoins and clients include BlackRock, Tether, Grayscale, Cantor Fitzgerald and Western Union, among others. I've always admired their work to advance the industry, so working with teams like theirs was a no brainer and I'm glad they felt the same about our show too 🙏

When Uber and Lyft first came out, it would have been a category error to say the size of their market was the taxi market. It turned out that fast, easy, accessible ride-hailing was actually expansionary. It opened up entirely new use cases. That's what we're going to see with stablecoins.

Today’s pod is with @Anchorage CEO @nathanmccauley and Head of Policy @KevWysocki to discuss: - How institutions and policymakers are looking at stablecoins one year after GENIUS - The global rise of dollar dominance and the future of cross-border commerce - The rise of tokenized deposits and the conversations they’re having behind closed doors - How agentic banking may be scaling sooner than we think TIMESTAMPS: 02:00 - The Current State of Institutional Adoption 03:55 - Understanding Stablecoins and Digital Dollars 06:04 - Global Perspective on Dollar Dominance 10:04 - Future of Cross-Border Commerce and Global Payments 12:07 - Building Infrastructure for Stablecoins 13:59 - The Role of Policy in Stablecoin Adoption 20:50 - Conversations Behind Closed Doors 23:01 - Fed Master Accounts and Regulatory Clarity 27:23 - The Rise of Tokenized Deposits 39:10 - Building Trust in the Crypto Industry 41:49 - The Future of Agentic Banking 49:34 - Advice for the Future Watch the interview below or on X:

CZ says we're still early to crypto... In a recent interview on @StrataMedia_'s @_TalkingTokens podcast, @Binance founder @cz_binance highlighted crypto's <1% penetration into global wealth. He also shared several ways that crypto products can improve and drive adoption, including... - Improved fiat on-off ramping. - Friction reduction. - Real yield on stablecoin holdings. "You don't exit the internet".

The tokenization conversation has reached the execution stage. Financial institutions want to trade, launch new products, and explore IPOs onchain. Securitize President @Observatory13 on how institutional demand has changed over the past five years.

I've covered @StellarOrg for about 5 years from my time as a reporter to founder and always admired @DenelleDixon as a leader and what she has built. Excited to launch biweekly Stellar investor updates on @TokenRelations and attend their Meridian event in Oct! Sign up below:

🚨NEW: We sat down with @SummerMersinger CEO of @BlockchainAssn. Summer explains why she's very confident Clarity will pass, the path to a senate vote and how she’s thinking about policy priorities as she enters her second year leading BA. Links below.

Today’s pod is with @joechalom CEO @Sharplink to discuss: - Why he and a group of Ethereum stewards are back on the offensive - The Ethereum Institutional supercycle - What conversations he’s having with institutions (and what they want to do onchain) TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - The Evolution of Ethereum's Narrative 03:38 - Ethereum’s Institutional Supercycle 05:23 - Why Ethereum’s Narrative Is Changing 07:48 - Building Ethereum for Institutional Adoption 09:56 - The Trillion-Dollar Tokenization Opportunity 16:46 - Why the Institutional Supercycle Is Already Here 23:17 - From Experimentation to On-Chain Finance 30:33 - Investing in Ethereum’s Long-Term Future Watch the interview from @Injective Summit below or on X:

OUSD was announced at the end of June. The hype came and went, but @StrataMedia_ Institutional Research Analyst @ahBeaudry’s latest analyst report dove into: - Whether it’s really just Stripe’s stablecoin - The 140 company list: real or not? - Its competition and the potential two paths to success from here TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Introduction to OUSD and Its Impact 02:46 - The Role of Stripe in OUSD 05:33 - The Consortium of 140 Companies 08:00 - Market Dynamics and Competition 10:15 - Investor Reactions and Market Implications 13:20 - Paths to Success for OUSD Read the report or watch below or on X:

Watching the World Cup reminds me of the first time I went to a game in 2024 to see Messi play in Argentina and I spent like $80 on tickets and everyone else I knew spend like $400+ for seats and I couldn’t figure out why my ticket was so cheap. I get to the stadium and find out my ticket was standing room only. We were like a animals packed in a pen. Like 20 rows back of crazy Argentinian fans. I could barely see the field unless I had my arms up and was looking through my phone camera. Comical core memory. Anyways, hope both teams have fun today! Lol