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Why Ramp Is All in on Stablecoins

July 23, 2026 · 49 min

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On Ep. 8 of Stablecoin Stories, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo and Ran Goldi, SVP Payments, Fireblocks are joined by Alex Bazhenov, Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Ramp and Andrew Chapello, Product Lead @ Ramp to discuss customer demand for faster, cheaper global business payments driving stablecoin adoption strategy, integrating blockchain payments with legacy fiat ledger infrastructure and more!

Timestamps:

  • 00:00 Introduction
  • 5:00 Customer demand for faster, cheaper global business payments drives stablecoin adoption strategy
  • 10:09 How Ramp’s spend management, bill pay, banking, and stablecoin products connect
  • 15:10 Customer adoption, product feedback, and making stablecoin accounts invisible to users
  • 17:36 Engineering challenges integrating blockchain payments with legacy fiat ledger infrastructure
  • 23:25 Ramp’s long-term monetization strategy and eliminating on-ramp, off-ramp, and gas fees
  • 33:17 How AI agents automate finance operations and increase productivity across Ramp teams
  • 47:37 Why Ramp believes stablecoins will become bigger than Swift for global payments

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With over $100 billion in monthly stablecoin volume, Fireblocks powers stablecoin strategies at scale with infrastructure that enables PSPs, fintechs, remitters and banks to issue, move, hold, and manage stablecoins. And it’s all done securely, at scale, and with built-in compliance. Learn more at fireblocks.com


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