Industry Expert Outlooks for 2026 with Blockstories

Tokenforge is rethinking tokenisation by shifting it from bespoke, complex financial engineering to a scalable, product-driven experience — more akin to e-commerce than traditional capital markets. In this episode, we explore how this approach changes issuance, distribution, and cost, and why launching the TKFG token may signal a new, more crypto-native path to scale.

Explore Europe's financial system transformation through TARGET2 and T2S, revealing central banks' roles in harmonizing payments and securities and hear why DLT can be the next evolution in financial infrastructure.

Cross-border payments remain slow and opaque. Milind Sanghavi, CEO and Co-Founder of XWeave explains how stablecoins and “Web2.5” infrastructure enable faster, cheaper, regulation-first global money movement.

February highlights traditional finance going on-chain: ECB accepts tokenized securities, BlackRock’s BUIDL trades via Uniswap, and stablecoins gain momentum - alongside tokenized deposits. Plus crypto earnings and the digital euro debate.

AllUnity’s Simon Seiter unpacks the full stack behind institutional stablecoins—from STP minting to reserve management. His message to banks: without wallet infrastructure, you’re already years behind.

The IMF asks: what is the TCP/IP of digital assets? We unpack why architecture beats technology, open beats closed, and standards beat platforms in the race to rebuild global finance.

Stablecoins are moving from crypto hype to payment backbone. Geetha Panchapakesan (ex- PayPal, -Visa, -Moneygram, -Circle) explains why banks, payment service providers, and regulators now see them as the future rail for cross-border money movement.

January marked a turning point for tokenization platforms, with three major launches in a single week. At the same time, the industry pushed back against the Clarity Act, while global CBDC strategies diverge further.

In this episode of BFRR, Stefan Grasmann speaks with Max von Wallenberg (IRON by MoonPay) about what it really takes to run stablecoins at scale — from hidden banking infrastructure and operational complexity to where power and responsibility accumulate in digital money.

We discuss the Blockstories report, which presents 25 expert outlooks for 2026, offering insights into tokenization, digital money, and infrastructure from prominent representatives across the digital asset sector.