The Future of Payments & the Open Web with Denelle Dixon | DWeb Decoded

Denelle Dixon shares her insights into the role of open source in the tech community, highlighting her background at Mozilla which influenced her work at the Stellar Development Foundation. She outlines the network’s focus on asset issuance and payments, with stablecoins playing a crucial role. The use of Stellar has enabled digital aid distribution, yielding substantial cost savings for organizations, such as the UNHCR’s $12 million savings on $5 million in aid delivered to Ukraine. Dixon describes Stellar’s involvement in tokenization, particularly with Franklin Templeton, enabling more affordable access to financial products. She projects continued growth in asset tokenization and diverse use cases, including international payments and gig economy applications, in 2025. Stellar’s infrastructure supports these innovative financial solutions, aiming for broader globalization of financial access.