The US Federal Reserve Board has announced that it will host a conference on crypto payments innovation on Tuesday, October 21. The topics of discussion will include stablecoins, tokenization, and AI, according to the Fed’s Wednesday statement.
“Innovation has been a constant in payments to meet the changing needs of consumers and businesses,” said Governor Christopher J. Waller. “I look forward to examining the opportunities and challenges of new technologies, bringing together ideas on how to improve the safety and efficiency of payments, and hearing from those helping to shape the future of payments.”
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also announced a similar meeting in early August: a set of “crypto roundtables.” Those meetings will seek to provide opportunities for additional stakeholders to meet with Commissioner Hester Peirce, who leads the Crypto Task Force. The Fed will be holding a similar kind of meeting to open the door to discussion of crypto and stablecoins, and their future in economics.
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According to the Fed, the conference will feature panel discussions on several aspects of payments innovation. These include the convergence of traditional and decentralized finance; emerging stablecoin use cases and business models; the intersection of artificial intelligence and payments; and the tokenization of financial products and services. Furthermore, the Payments Innovation Conference will be livestreamed for the public at federalreserve.gov, with additional details to be announced soon. An exact time for the meeting is yet to be set.
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The Federal Reserve has been lenient in its stance towards crypto in 2025. Indeed, the Central Bank has stated that US banking institutions are free to engage in crypto activities and offer crypto services to their customers. The move has resulted in the crypto market surging in 2025, with Bitcoin leading the charge to a new ATH earlier this summer. The landmark approval of the GENIUS Act for stablecoin transparency has also made crypto a hot topic amongst Fed members and the US Government.