The United States Federal Reserve will hold its Payments Innovation Conference tomorrow, October 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. The agenda includes discussions on Bitcoin, stablecoins, and digital assets by top financial and tech leaders.
This will be the first time the Fed will officially discuss cryptocurrencies at one of its own conferences.
According to the Fed’s website, the meeting will “consider a broad range of perspectives on how to further innovate and improve the payment system.” The event will feature speakers from Chainlink, Paxos, Circle, Coinbase, BlackRock, and Franklin Templeton, among others.
The first discussion, titled “Bridging traditional finance with the digital asset ecosystem,” will include Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov, with other experts from Lead Bank, Fireblocks, and BNY Mellon. Another session, “Stablecoin use cases and business models” includes Paxos CEO Charles Cascarilla and Circle President Heath Tarbert.
Coinbase’s Chief Financial Officer Alesia Haas will join Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood, Stripe’s Emily Sands, and Google Cloud’s James Tromans in a discussion on “AI in Payments.” The final panel, “Tokenized Products,” will feature BlackRock’s Rob Goldstein, Franklin Templeton’s Jenny Johnson, and DRW’s founder Don Wilson. The sessions will be streamed live on the Fed’s official YouTube channel for the public.
“Innovation has been a constant in payments to meet the changing needs of consumers and businesses. I look forward to examining the opportunities and challenges of new technologies.” Governor Christopher J. Waller said as he explained the purpose of the event.
This event will make a change for the Federal Reserve, which in the past stayed distant from digital currencies. Until now, the Fed had neither hosted nor participated in an official event that is focused on crypto assets. Now, it seems ready to listen and learn from industry leaders.
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