block by block

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U.S. Bank on Stellar: Why a 160-year-old bank chose an open network

October 22, 2026

The team at U.S. Bank knows that being a leader in payments means being on the cutting edge of payments infrastructure. Enter stablecoins. In September, U.S. Bank officially launched the pilot of USBDC on the Stellar network. USBDC is one of the first bank-issued stablecoins deployed on a public blockchain, and it’s designed to make cross-border payments more efficient than ever. Today on block by block, Jamie Walker, Head of Digital Assets and Money Movement at U.S. Bank, sits down with Dene...

How Franklin Templeton cut a $75,000 cost to $1.13 with Stellar

June 16, 2026

In this episode, Denelle sits down with Sandy Kaul, EVP and Head of Innovation at Franklin Templeton, to break down Benji - the first U.S. registered money market fund to use a public blockchain, Stellar, for transaction processing and transfer agency. It didn't start as a tokenization play. It started as a way to cut transfer agency costs. The proof came in a side-by-side pilot: 50,000 transactions cost $75,000 the traditional way, versus $1.13 on Stellar - and those savings go to the end i...

Is Blockchain Privacy a Trade-off? Scaling Confidential Payments on Stellar

March 25, 2026

The biggest challenge for institutions moving to blockchain isn't efficiency - it's privacy. How do you leverage a public ledger without exposing client data or competitive strategies to the world? In this episode of block block, Denelle Dixon sits down with the Stellar Development Foundation’s Chief Product Officer, Tomer Weller, to unpack the team’s strategy for configurable privacy. They explore why privacy and openness don’t have to be a trade-off and dive into the cutting-edge technolog...

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block by block typically books industry leaders. Typical guest background: Senior executives and innovation leaders from financial institutions or blockchain companies, along with directors and researchers from respected academic or digital-currency institutions. Common among recent guests: Leading institutional blockchain or digital-currency initiatives; Developing or deploying tokenized financial products; Publishing original research or analyzing large-scale transaction data. Recent guests include Sandy Kaul and Lisa Nestor.

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