How Polygon Became the Payment Chain Processing $1B+ with Sam Fagin
The Rollup7 Nov 2025

How Polygon Became the Payment Chain Processing $1B+ with Sam Fagin

The moment crypto has been waiting for is finally here and Stripe just validated it.

In this episode of Money Moves Fast, we sit down with Sam Fagin from Polygon to discuss why Stripe and major remittance players chose Polygon, how they're processing over $1 billion in stablecoin payments, and why privacy vs transparency matters more than enterprises realize.


We discuss:

- Why Stripe & Major Remittance Players Chose Polygon

- Processing $1B+ in Stablecoin Payments

- How 5,000 TPS Compares to Visa & Mastercard

- Solving Real Problems: FX Risk, Pre-Funding & Settlement

- Flutterwave's African Payments Solution

- The Path to $3T Stablecoin Market Cap

- Privacy vs. Transparency: What Enterprises Actually Want


Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:32 The Moment We've Been Waiting For

01:47 Why $1B+ Flows Through Polygon Now

03:55 Real Enterprise Use Cases Emerging

04:35 The Pear Upgrade: Matching Visa Scale

05:39 Balancing Scale & Sustainability

06:49 Winning as a Jets Fan (Brief Tangent)

08:12 Does Blockchain Tech Really Matter to Users?

09:11 Hibachi Ad, Talus Ad, Alvara Ad

09:40 Dormant Capital & Yield Solutions

11:25 The Unsexy Use Cases That Actually Win

13:05 Dominating the 2030s Stablecoin Race

14:37 Capital Velocity & Distribution Advantages

15:36 Relay Ad, Enso Ad

16:11 Bullish & Bearish Takes on Polygon

18:53 Privacy as a Feature, Not a Bug


Website: https://therollup.co/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1P6ZeYd...

Podcast: https://therollup.co/category/podcast

Follow us on X: https://www.x.com/therollupco

Follow Rob on X: https://www.x.com/robbie_rollup

Follow Andy on X: https://www.x.com/ayyyeandy

Join our TG group: https://t.me/+TsM1CRpWFgk1NGZh

The Rollup Disclosures: https://therollup.co/the-rollup-discl


𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗥: 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘳𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘍𝘪 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬, 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳, 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦. 𝘈𝘵 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭, 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱, 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮, 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘦 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘴.

Avsnitt(624)

Alfonso Gómez-Jordana on Why Every AI Agent Will Need a Wallet

Alfonso Gómez-Jordana on Why Every AI Agent Will Need a Wallet

Alfonso Gómez-Jordana joins AI Supercycle to break down scope cards, verifiable intents, and why Mastercard and Amex are now partnering with crypto-native infrastructure to power agent payments.Alfons...

25 Apr 27min

Mike Dudas: The State of Digital Asset Investing in 2026 (What’s Changed)

Mike Dudas: The State of Digital Asset Investing in 2026 (What’s Changed)

Mike Dudas joins us in the Tokenization Tower to unpack the state of crypto VC, where flows are going, the stablecoin war, why pumpfun and Hyperliquid are misunderstood, how to think about Circle vs. ...

23 Apr 45min

Sky Co-founder: The Next Era of Onchain Finance Is Coming

Sky Co-founder: The Next Era of Onchain Finance Is Coming

For this weeks Stabled Up episode, Sky co-founder Rune Christensen breaks down recent DeFi exploits, Sky's risk model, the future of yieldcoins, onchain lending, and why the next era of DeFi scale wil...

21 Apr 44min

Rob Hadick: Where Does DeFi Go From Here? (…And Why)

Rob Hadick: Where Does DeFi Go From Here? (…And Why)

Rob Hadick joins us in the Tokenization Tower to cover the $292M exploit this weekend unpacking how it happened, what this means for the future of low-risk DeFi, why DeFi founders are still treating f...

20 Apr 45min

Shuyao Kong on Why MegaETH Is the Only Option for Onchain Finance

Shuyao Kong on Why MegaETH Is the Only Option for Onchain Finance

Shuyao joins The Rollup to break down the KPI token model, novel asset strategy, and why MegaETH is building a fashion brand, not a blockchain.Shuyao Kong is the co-founder of MegaETH, the highest thr...

18 Apr 36min

Charles Hoskinson: I Solved Privacy (How I Did It…)

Charles Hoskinson: I Solved Privacy (How I Did It…)

Charles Hoskinson joins The Rollup to cover the Midnight launch, privacy onchain, ZEC & NEAR, how 34% of Bitcoin supply is vulnerable to quantum attack right now, how BIP 361 may be the only way to st...

16 Apr 42min

How Digital Assets Incentives Are Solving the Robotics Data Problem

How Digital Assets Incentives Are Solving the Robotics Data Problem

Jansen Teng thinks crypto is the missing piece to scale robots globally.Jansen Teng is founder of Virtuals Protocol, the leading agentic commerce platform with $500M in agent-to-agent transactions and...

15 Apr 31min

Why Saylor Is Wrong About the Quantum Threat | Alex Pruden

Why Saylor Is Wrong About the Quantum Threat | Alex Pruden

Alex Pruden joins The Rollup to break down the quantum threat to every major blockchain, why Saylor's "just hard fork it" answer is not enough, and why Ethereum may actually be better positioned than ...

14 Apr 41min

Populärt inom Teknik

uppgang-och-fall
elbilsveckan
bilar-med-sladd
market-makers
rss-uppgang-och-fall
rss-elektrikerpodden
rss-laddstationen-med-elbilen-i-sverige
rss-veckans-ai
skogsforum-podcast
gubbar-som-tjotar-om-bilar
har-vi-akt-till-mars-an
rss-powerboat-sverige-podcast
developers-mer-an-bara-kod
bli-saker-podden
hej-bruksbil
rss-en-ai-till-kaffet
natets-morka-sida
rss-technokratin
rss-sakerhetspodcasten
rss-snacka-om-ai