Carolyn Pham, the former CFTC commissioner now leading MoonPay's institutional push, says crypto has roughly two and a half years to become too big to fail — and the numbers already prove it's happening. Stablecoins did $28 trillion in volume in a single quarter, dwarfing Visa and MasterCard combined. Tokenized repo is hitting $10 trillion every month. In this conversation recorded live at Consensus 2026, Carolyn breaks down what MoonPay Institutional actually means for every bank and asset manager trying to get into crypto without building from scratch, why the narrative that DeFi is incompatible with KYC is a complete fallacy, and how she built America's first digital asset taxonomy at the CFTC that became the foundation for everything the SEC and CFTC are doing now. She explains why this isn't disruption but modernization, how a $100 million acquisition of Israeli defense tech cybersecurity gives MoonPay the wallet infrastructure institutions actually trust, and why a Bitcoin in every brokerage account is the real point of no return. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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