Empire Quadrillions: Stablecoins: We’ve Only Just Begun | Mohamed Afifi
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Feb 4, 2026 Eric Cerenicki, co-founder of Canton Network, builds permissioned, privacy-focused blockchain rails for institutional stablecoin payments. Mohamed Afifi, co-founder of HiFi, builds programmable money infrastructure for payments and tokenized treasuries. They dive into stablecoins moving into TradFi, cross-border payment use cases, privacy and permissioned networks, fragmentation versus consolidation, and the infrastructure stacks reshaping corporate flows.
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Wide Range Of HiFi Customers
- HiFi serves both traditional cross-border payments firms and large corporations seeking tokenized treasury flows.
- Two-person developer teams are also building unexpected, innovative use cases on their rails.
Stablecoins Cut Time And Cost
- Stablecoins increase transaction velocity and reduce costs by bypassing SWIFT and intermediaries.
- Incumbent remittance players must adopt stablecoins or risk being displaced by fintechs.
Fragmentation Then Abstraction
- Fragmentation will increase before consolidation; users want an abstracted single-currency experience.
- Aggregation or hidden implementation details will likely win over visible multi-stable UI complexity.