We’ve gone from trading goods in the market square to trading digital currencies. But how did we get here?

Legends that helped build the way we pay weigh in on the journey from the first credit card to the movement towards decentralized currencies. In 2022, digital payments and commerce are becoming as frictionless and seamless as paper money. But behind today’s innovations is a massive amount of payments infrastructure that has driven forward major new products across several decades.

In a panel hosted by the founder and Executive Chairman of Marqeta Jason Gardner, the global modern card issuing platform, digital builders of the modern payments era share wisdom from across decades of innovation and share their predictions on what the next wave of financial distribution could look like.