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How Anvil Protocol is Making 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Safer and More Efficient

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🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Exploring Anvil protocol with Acronym Foundation President Tyler Spalding. Acronym Foundation President Tyler Spalding joins CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie to discuss how the Anvil protocol is turning digital assets into functional "letters of credit." Using his own Consensus 2026 sponsorship as a real-world test case, Spalding reveals how Anvil’s decentralized collateral management is enabling a more transparent, frictionless version of the Buy Now Pay Later model. - This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie.

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0:00.0

Even though it's crypto and there's a lot of neat tech behind the scenes,

0:02.6

we want to make it look as close to normal life as possible.

0:06.4

People want to adopt this.

0:07.5

They don't want to learn anything else new.

0:08.9

They want to do any different behaviors.

0:10.9

It's the same thing with payments.

0:12.0

We wanted to make it one tap, one scan, like none of these other complicated steps.

0:17.1

It's the same thing with ANBIL, making it really, really simple for both sides of the equation.

0:27.6

Hey, everyone. I'm Jen Sanasi. You're watching Coin Desk. Joining me today is the president of the

0:32.8

acronym Foundation, Tyler Spalding. Tyler, how are you doing? I'm doing great.

0:37.9

Thanks for talking to me, Jen.

0:39.2

Yeah, of course.

0:39.9

Thanks for being here.

0:40.7

We're going to talk all about consensus, your sponsorship and consensus, and a really

0:44.7

unique way that we are leveraging the technology that you're working on to get that

0:51.7

sponsorship done.

0:52.5

But first, I think we should lay a foundation.

0:55.1

Talk to me about acronym foundation. What are you focusing on there? It's really simple. It's just a foundation that we've

1:00.9

set up that sort of investor supports Web3 projects, open source projects, the one that we're,

1:08.2

we have a bias towards anything related to payments. We have sort of some

1:11.8

roots back in a flexa ecosystem where we worked on payments, decentralized payments, sort of

1:18.6

the movement of money. So there's definitely an emphasis there. But right now we're really

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