Lily Liu, President of the Solana Foundation, said blockchain is moving closer to becoming mainstream financial infrastructure, with stablecoins and tokenised assets playing a central role.

“This is just one more step in the future that we’ve seen for quite a while, which is where a whole range of financial assets and also data are going to be natively on chain,” Liu said.

She added that blockchains turn “money into data, data into money,” enabling a shared global system that anyone with internet access can use.

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On stablecoins, Liu explained that blockchain can be understood in two main ways. “There’s blockchain as an asset,…