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Stablecoin transaction volume surpassed $10.9 trillion in 2025. Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and JPMorgan are quietly rebuilding their rails around blockchain settlement. And on July 18, 2025, the GENIUS Act became law — the first comprehensive federal regulatory framework for stablecoins in U.S. history.
The compliance deadline is January 2027. Most payment processors, ISOs, and acquiring banks have no infrastructure to meet it. That is the gap nobody is talking about — and exactly what this panel is here to fix.
Join us for a candid, high-signal conversation between six of the most credible voices at the intersection of crypto infrastructure, compliance technology, stablecoin liquidity, security, and capital — moderated by Crystal Cruse, Board Member of Qredible and Founder of Decent Exposure. This is not a sales pitch. It is the conversation the industry needs to have before the window closes.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Payment processors and ISOs navigating GENIUS Act exposure · acquiring banks evaluating stablecoin merchant portfolios · regulated merchants in high-risk verticals exploring crypto rails · fintech investors sizing up the compliance-infrastructure opportunity · Seed to Series A founders with revenue exploring partial liquidity and growth capital · crypto operators and Web3 builders who need to understand this regulatory moment.
MODERATOR
Crystal Cruse — Board Member, Qredible · Founder, Decent Exposure · Head, CryptoMondays Colorado. A private capital connector whose Inside The Deal Room sessions have convened participants representing $1.4B+ in investor capital, 100+ portfolio companies, and $1T+ in on-chain transaction volume.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/crystal-cruse
PANELISTS
Brian K. Fitzpatrick — Chairman & CEO, Qredible. 2x EY Entrepreneur of the Year nominee with $300M+ in investor returns and 30+ years in compliance and AI-powered document automation. Co-founder of Q-Trust, the blockchain-backed compliance platform covering 43+ regulated verticals and mapping directly to the GENIUS Act's BSA/AML mandates.
Web: qredible.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/briankfitzpatrick
Rafe Furst — Chief Strategy Officer, The Crypto Company (CRCW). 5x Founder, former VC, World Series of Poker champion, and #1 bestselling author on venture capital. Focused on Crypto Treasury Strategies and working with revenue-stage founders on partial liquidity and growth capital.
Web: thecryptocompany.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rafefurst
Dr. Joel Hillier — Serial Entrepreneur & Investor, Founder of Certisyn. Has personally verified and closed billion-dollar deals — and built Certisyn out of the compliance and security failures he saw at that scale. Certisyn runs 120-point security scans and stores audit records immutably on the Ethereum blockchain. Co-curator of Inside The Deal Room.
Web: certisyn.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/joelhillier
Berhan Kongel — is Co Founder and CEO of Keyrails, a company building what comes after stablecoin payments. He has been working with stablecoins since before USDC existed and previously co founded Arf, one of the pioneers of institutional stablecoin credit, helping to scale it to more than $7B in annualized liquidity.
Today, Berhan's focus is on a much bigger opportunity: transforming emerging market financing into a global, investable high-yield asset class. Keyrails connects payments, credit, treasury, and tokenized assets into a single financial network, laying the foundation for the next generation of global finance. Recognized by a16z Crypto as one of the companies helping define "what global finance and the global dollar economy look like for the next era," Berhan brings a rare perspective from building the infrastructure that is already reshaping institutional finance.
Web: https://keyrails.com/
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/berhankongel
Bob O'Brien — Senior Director, GTM Crypto Solutions & Partnerships, Visa. Commercializing stablecoins, cross-border payments, and on-chain settlement for banks, fintechs, and global payment networks, with deep expertise across US, MiCA, and FCA regimes. He brings the view from inside the world's largest payment network.
Web: visa.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/roberteobrien1
Brandon Baker — Multiple Exit Founder, Conduit Network. Building the atomic protocol for machine-speed economies, and why compliance has to be built into the protocol layer, not bolted on afterward.
Web: cndt.io
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/brandonjbaker