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Conferences, panels, podcasts, executive briefings, and press — on stablecoins for banking, institutional DeFi, and AI agents. Direct, practical, no hype.
Paul Grey
Paul Grey works at Metallicus — the digital banking network — on stablecoins and blockchain infrastructure for banks and credit unions, across business development, strategy, and engineering. He has been building in crypto for over a decade and is the founder of Proton NZ, the #1 block producer on XPR Network, and Second Brain NZ. He writes a weekly crypto newsletter and is based in New Zealand, covering the ANZ market.
What I speak about
Stablecoins as deposit retention
Why bank- and credit-union-issued stablecoins keep deposits home instead of losing them to offshore exchanges — the deposit digitization model, explained for boards and executives.
An ANZ-backed stablecoin network
What New Zealand and Australian institutions can learn from US stablecoin pilots — and the case for anchoring NZD/AUD liquidity at home before it migrates offshore.
Trustless AI agents on-chain
How autonomous AI agents earn reputation and get paid through KYC-weighted trust and on-chain escrow — from someone who built and operates a live agent registry.
Building at the frontier from NZ
Ten years of shipping crypto and AI products from New Zealand — what infrastructure-first building looks like when the noise fades.
Recent
Podcast and press enquiries welcome — I'm available on NZ time and flexible for US/AU schedules.
Quick facts
- Role
- Business development, strategy & engineering at Metallicus
- Founder of
- Proton NZ (#1 XPR Network block producer), Second Brain NZ
- Based in
- New Zealand (NZST/NZDT)
- Formats
- Keynotes, panels, podcasts, executive briefings
- Focus
- Stablecoins · banking infrastructure · AI agents
- Building since
- 2014