Oct 9, 2026 · 21 min · 6 segments
Simon Taylor and Dan Romero break down the Open USD (OUSD) launch and what it signals about where dollar-denominated settlement is heading. Fresh from Sibos, Simon reports on the shift toward…
... we were kind of chatting before this, but I think, um, the OKX Ice announcement and then the Securitize announcement.
But beyond just everything that's been happening recently, I'd be curious what your, your take on, uh, these kind of announcements are.
Like suddenly you're seeing Tradfi that had these like, uh, envelopes of if in case of emergency break glass, like this is the what we do.
Um, and I think what that's gonna mean is these tokenized stocks coming to the New York Stock Exchange, coming to, uh, potentially, uh, Nasdaq as well.
One thing I did notice is that this is like a joint venture called OKX Ice, which vaguely sounds like a '90s rap group, but it also... it's kind of a great way for an incumbent to do innovation, right? Go find a big partner, uh, who knows what they're doing at the innovation edge.
Go find, uh, fund a joint venture with them and have that do the thing, and you can always acquire that later, bring it back in.
Well, I, I think it's just generally the, the trend now and, and maybe to kind of reset folks, Clarity didn't pass.
Um, I think there were a lot of folks that were hoping with Clarity passing and then the eventual rulemaking that would come out of that, you'd have kind of a long-term framework for how to do some of this stuff.
Um, prior to even Clarity, you, you had people, especially outside the US, kind of doing the version of if we were to rerun stablecoin, stablecoin started outside the US-
... and then worked their way into the US in a gray area, and then eventually you had Genius and, and now they're kind of completely, uh, above board from a regulatory standpoint, and now you have Tradfi interested.
So imagine you have a new administration in 2028, different set of, uh, policies, views on crypto.
... we were kind of chatting before this, but I think, um, the OKX Ice announcement and then the Securitize announcement.
But beyond just everything that's been happening recently, I'd be curious what your, your take on, uh, these kind of announcements are.
Like suddenly you're seeing Tradfi that had these like, uh, envelopes of if in case of emergency break glass, like this is the what we do.
Um, and I think what that's gonna mean is these tokenized stocks coming to the New York Stock Exchange, coming to, uh, potentially, uh, Nasdaq as well.
One thing I did notice is that this is like a joint venture called OKX Ice, which vaguely sounds like a '90s rap group, but it also... it's kind of a great way for an incumbent to do innovation, right? Go find a big partner, uh, who knows what they're doing at the innovation edge.
Go find, uh, fund a joint venture with them and have that do the thing, and you can always acquire that later, bring it back in.
Well, I, I think it's just generally the, the trend now and, and maybe to kind of reset folks, Clarity didn't pass.
Um, I think there were a lot of folks that were hoping with Clarity passing and then the eventual rulemaking that would come out of that, you'd have kind of a long-term framework for how to do some of this stuff.
Um, prior to even Clarity, you, you had people, especially outside the US, kind of doing the version of if we were to rerun stablecoin, stablecoin started outside the US-
... and then worked their way into the US in a gray area, and then eventually you had Genius and, and now they're kind of completely, uh, above board from a regulatory standpoint, and now you have Tradfi interested.
So imagine you have a new administration in 2028, different set of, uh, policies, views on crypto.
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