In this episode, we sit down with Candace Kelly, Chief Legal and Policy Officer at Stellar Development Foundation, for a deep conversation on Stellar, stablecoins, real-world assets, regulation, AI payments and the future of financial infrastructure.

Candace shares her perspective on how Stellar was designed from the outset for cross-border payments and asset issuance, why public blockchain infrastructure can expand access to the global financial system, and how distributed ledger technology may become part of everyday financial services sometimes without users even realizing it.

We also discuss the role of stablecoins as a potential settlement layer, the rise of tokenized real-world assets, institutional adoption, regulatory clarity in the United States, AI-driven payments, digital identity, privacy, and why blockchain infrastructure ...