Resume · Stablecoin & Payments Strategy
Strategy for stablecoins, tokenized money, reserve design, and payment infrastructure.
For stablecoin issuers, tokenized-fund teams, payments platforms, and product roles translating reserves, redemption, routing, and controls into durable operating decisions.
100+ tokenization engagements · Reserves / redemption / routing · Go-live gates before scale
Decision lens
Extends that framing into go-live standards: what must be true before launch, what can block redemption, where operating responsibility sits across partners, and the specific conditions that should slow a rollout, redesign the product, or tighten controls before scale.
What the operator lens answers
Focus areas
Stablecoin strategy
Payments operations
Reserves and redemption
Go-live readiness
- Reserve design, redemption logic, routing defaults, and hold authority translated into product gates
- Maps where compliance, disclosures, and operating responsibility sit across partners, banks, and gateway operators
- Names the thresholds that should trigger redesign, slower rollout, tighter reserves, or stronger reporting before scale
Can the product move money cleanly when it matters most?
Reserve location, custody dependencies, redemption logic, and what happens when users need to move between providers, banks, gateway operators, or chains under stress.
Where does operational control actually sit?
Routing defaults, holds, application-layer obligations, partner dependencies, and which team or outside institution ultimately owns failure handling.
What should change the launch plan?
The thresholds that should trigger redesign, slower rollout, stronger controls, or tighter reserve and reporting standards before a product scales into avoidable operational risk.
Supporting research
Closest papers for this lens.
Routing the Dollar
Three years of on-chain data across 19 gateway entities and 51 monitored addresses; routing and holds, not only reserve mix, show where operational control sits.
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The Control Layer War
An unpublished internal document on how rules, holds, reporting, and control obligations show up in operations. A public version is available.
Minimum Viable Equivalence Packs
Nine-category diligence framework structured around what risk committees actually ask.
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Stablecoin strategy, payments operations, or product go-live readiness. Tell me what you're building and I'll send the most relevant paper, resume version, or supporting material.