Join CryptoMondays USA on Wednesday, September 9 for an edgy and thought-provoking session with Tony Greenberg, Chief Impact Officer & Founder of ImpactSoul and CEO of RampRate.
Stablecoins get pitched as either a fintech feature or a bitcoin sequel. Tony Greenberg argues they’re neither. They’re a direct challenge to the toll systems sitting between people and their own money. This session delivers a practical framework for telling extractive infrastructure from the future of programmable money, built on Tony’s foundational RampRate piece, “The Tollbooth and the Alternative.”
In this interactive session, Tony will unpack how traditional banking and payment rails operate as rent-collecting chokepoints that quietly exclude 1.3 billion unbanked adults and extract the highest fees from the most vulnerable. More importantly, he will share how stablecoins present a historic, once-in-a-generation chance to reset this ethos. By using programmability to choose who receives yield, how compliance is built, and how value is circulated, we can design payment stacks that actively foster transparency, direct social offsets, and drive genuine financial inclusion.
Tony will also reflect on his journey as an early Internet pioneer—from co-producing the very first webcasts to launching ground-breaking digital record labels—and how he is applying those lessons today to tokenize iconic, high-vibrational real-world assets (from fine art to fossils) to fund global philanthropy via ImpactSoul.
Over more than 25 years at the frontier of technology, digital media, and social impact, Tony has built a reputation for cutting through industry hype to find where emerging technology actually creates durable, systemic value.
Key Discussion Points:
- The Tollbooth Economy vs. Financial Inclusion: Unpacking how traditional payment processors operate as regulatory chokepoints and how we can build transparent, low-cost alternatives for the 1.3 billion unbanked adults globally.
- Stablecoins as a Reset Button: Why the true power of stablecoins isn’t just speed or decentralization, but their programmability—the ultimate design choice to decide who receives yield and how compliance is configured.
- Telling Extractive from Future Rails: A practical framework to assess whether a stablecoin project is a genuine moral upgrade or just the same extractive correspondent banking system wearing a new wrapper.
- The “Conscious Capital” Philosophy: How ImpactSoul is rewiring philanthropy by tokenizing iconic physical assets so that appreciating market value returns directly to community-driven impact projects.
- The Broader Post-Extractive Vision: How Tony is applying these regenerative design choices beyond payment stacks—to AI supply chains, decentralized governance, green compute networks, and community-owned philanthropy.
About Tony Greenberg
Tony Greenberg is an Impact Futurist and a socially conscious connector who has spent more than 25 years transforming enterprise IT sourcing, blockchain, and philanthropy. As the CEO and Founder of RampRate (a Certified B Corp), Tony has transformed how IT services are bought and sold, optimizing supplier relationships for over 250 top brands—including Microsoft, AT&T, eBay, Nike, and Hearst—and advising on over $10B in technology transactions.
A prolific investor and advisor, Tony supports a diverse portfolio of ventures at the frontier of decentralized infrastructure. This includes anonymous/privacy-preserving healthcare wallets, decentralized compute and AI networks, reputation staking mechanisms, and governance models for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Tony also directs the majority of his earnings toward impact investing, community ownership, and decentralized philanthropy.
Fun Fact: Tony’s headlong dive into the intersection of technology and content was sparked in his youth when he was in the recording studio while his Uncle Steve recorded the legendary disco hit “Funkytown” (with Prince recording in the very same studio!).
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
🕔 Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
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