
Raj Parekh is Head of Stablecoins & Payments at the Monad Foundation, where he is working to make Monad a high-throughput settlement layer for programmable money. He previously co-founded Portal, a stablecoin finance infrastructure platform powering hundreds of millions in volume for fintechs and enterprises before its acquisition by Monad, and now serves on its board. Before building in the crypto and stablecoin stack, Raj spent over six years at Visa across security, risk, AI, and global crypto products, including launching USDC settlement and crypto-as-a-service APIs. He also teaches product management at Cal Poly and co-hosts the Money Code podcast, where he explores the evolution of stablecoins, payment rails, and the broader re-platforming of money into code.