Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Catherine Gu on her time at Visa and why she moved to Solana:

"Once you enter Visa, you truly start to really think about how money moves...that flow of funds is fascinating. And then when you apply new technology, such as blockchain on top of that, you start to kind of to be able to re-architecture a lot of existing designs, and that becomes a really interesting problem to solve...

I really spent a lot of time going deep into tokenization, thinking about tokenized deposits, thinking about stablecoins, think about the role that banks can do. And with that in mind, I built a product at Visa called Visa Tokenized Asset Platform...it was a fascinating journey, just from understanding how payments work, as well as being a product person and to really build something from zero to one to fully appreciate it.

I would say why I moved in 2026, I think throughout 2025, as you know, this whole craziness around stablecoins, like everything shifted thanks to Genius Act...I wanted to be at the epicenter. And Solana is the best place to be."

–Catherine Gu on the Blockworks ​⁠ podcast


Watch the full interview:
youtu.be/6RCgvwdjrZE?si=yKnMXkA-82xIwDzU