Industry leaders gathered at Longitude Paris to discuss the potential of stablecoins as the next standard for cross-border settlements. Key speakers included Ambre Soubiran, CEO of Kaiko, Christian Rau, Senior Vice President at Mastercard, Rajeev Chakrabarti, Chief Business Officer at Stellar, and Matthew Ismail, Enterprise Lead at the Ethereum Foundation. The event, co-hosted by Cointelegraph and OKX, focused on the benefits of stablecoins, such as faster transaction times and increased institutional adoption, as pivotal factors in the evolution of global digital payments.