AI Summary
- At Hedera Con 2025 during ETHDenver, industry experts gathered to discuss the future of HBAR, payment systems, stablecoins, and banking.
- Panels with Leemon Baird, Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson, HBAR Foundation CEO Charles Adkins, and Swift’s Alisa DiCaprio took the stage.
- For a talk on what’s fuelling crypto payments, Rob Allen of Australian Payments Plus was joined by Swift’s Alisa DiCaprio, Ahmed Zifzaf of Worldpay, and Sushil Prabhu of DROPP to share their insights on crypto payments. According to DiCaprio, global payments are on the road to becoming faster and more efficient.
- While on stage, Hoskinosn and Baird discussed post-quantum future-proofing for web3 including how banking applications in the future can integrate crypto payments. .
At Hedera Con 2025 during ETHDenver, industry experts gathered to discuss the future of HBAR, payment systems, stablecoins, and banking.
Panels with Leemon Baird, Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson, HBAR Foundation CEO Charles Adkins, and Swift’s Alisa DiCaprio took the stage.
During the panel, tokenization efforts, cross-border payment methods, and initiatives from the DeRec Alliance were touched upon.
SWIFT on innovating banking payments with digital integrations
For a talk on what’s fuelling crypto payments, Rob Allen of Australian Payments Plus was joined by Swift’s Alisa DiCaprio, Ahmed Zifzaf of Worldpay, and Sushil Prabhu of DROPP to share their insights on crypto payments.
According to DiCaprio, global payments are on the road to becoming faster and more efficient. The G20 aims to settle over 75% of global payments within an hour by 2027.
For the Swift director, cryptocurrencies could play a major role in making the G20’s goal a reality with crypto offering the most cost-effective and transparent solutions.
Despite crypto being a preferred settlement, the panel noted difficulties when it came to persuading businesses to make the switch due to regulatory uncertainties.
With inconsistencies across the globe between businesses utilizing crypto, the journey to integrate crypto with traditional banking may take time.
In response to this, DiCaprio stated that Swift is working to innovate messaging protocols to make it easier for banks to integrate new payment technologies.
One of the first priorities will be making it easier for banks to adopt stablecoins and blockchain payment methods by creating a standardized infrastructure.
Jumping in, Wordplay spoke about how they’re on a path to introducing stablecoin payment solutions and testing how blockchain technologies can facilitate global transactions in various ways.
Hedera and Cardano: DeRec Alliance
Aside from comments on banking adoption for blockchain technologies and stablecoins, Hedera’s co-founder Leemon Baird was joined by Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson to discuss the DeRec Alliance.
The decentralized recovery alliance is a group involving Hedera, Cardano, Ripple, and Algorand to bring web3 to the mainstream by improving DeFi security and recovery options.
While on stage, Hoskinosn and Baird discussed post-quantum future-proofing for web3 including how banking applications in the future can integrate crypto payments.
