Everyone Needs a Stablecoin Acquisition Strategy Ft. Dan Mottice, Itai Turbahn, Matt Marcus & Michael Shaulov

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Nov 3, 2025

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Michael Shaulov

Join Dan Mottice, CEO of Beam, who shares insights on integrating stablecoins with traditional payment systems after Beam's acquisition by Modern Treasury. Itai Turbahn, from Dynamic, discusses simplifying wallet complexities for developers. Matt Marcus highlights the importance of stablecoin-backed accounts for financial innovation. Finally, Michael Shaulov of Fireblocks explains how their acquisition of Dynamic aims to create a complete on-chain finance ecosystem, transforming the landscape for digital asset custody and wallet solutions.

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INSIGHT

Single Platform For Fiat And Stablecoins

Modern Treasury aims to unify fiat and stablecoin payments under one API and platform.
The Beam acquisition accelerates delivering seamless fiat–stablecoin orchestration to customers.

ADVICE

Build For Instant Rails And Scale

Prioritize orchestration and instant rails like RTP, FedNow and Visa Direct when building stablecoin flows.
Design systems for hyper-scale and performance to handle hundreds of billions in volume.

INSIGHT

Ledgering Is Core To Stablecoin Accounts

Stablecoin-backed accounts act like FBO accounts but require tight fiat interoperability.
Ledgering under the hood is critical to avoid customer fund disputes and operational failures.

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On Ep. 55 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo is joined by Dan Mottice, CEO & Co-Founder @ Beam, Itai Turbahn, Co-founder & CEO @ Dynamic, Matt Marcus, CEO & Co-Founder @ Modern Treasury and Michael Shaulov, Co-Founder & CEO @ Fireblocks to discuss Modern Treasury's acquisition of Beam for payment infrastructure, Fireblocks acquires Dynamic for embedded wallet infrastructure and more!

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
01:10 Modern Treasury's acquisition of Beam for payment infrastructure
04:39 Challenges and solutions in implementing stablecoin technology
07:06 Fintech and crypto rails merging into unified financial rails
09:37 Benefits of stablecoin backed accounts for businesses
12:20 The importance of ledgering systems in stablecoin operations
16:23 Mastercard's potential acquisition of zerohash for crypto services
24:28 Stablecoin volume growth decoupling from crypto price action
28:18 IBM partners with DFNS for mainframe digital asset custody
31:05 Fireblocks acquires Dynamic for embedded wallet infrastructure

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Tokenized is also presented by Fireblocks

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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Music by Henry McLean