The Australian securities regulator has brought criminal charges against audit firms failing to comply with auditing standards 3 times in just 18-months. ‼️ afr.com/rear-window/gr…

Payments is a classic iceberg problem. The 90% that goes unseen—tech infrastructure, regulatory hurdles, risk management, licenses, etc—is where real value is built. Yet most discussions and headlines focus on the visible 10%, missing the forces that shape the industry's future.

Casey Neistat The iPhone 16 Pro is the first iPhone I’ve ever preordered without a shred of excitement—in fact, I was frustrated. My 13 Pro was in such bad shape that I felt forced into upgrading. It’s hard to understand why, with all of Apple’s resources and talent, they continue to deliver

Another 250 million in illicit transactions facilitated by the financial messaging system SWIFT. They are not under any legal obligation to do KYC/AML for these transactions despite having full control over who can and cannot send messages on their network.

Every builder can learn from Polymarket. Founder Shayne Coplan did not come from Silicon Valley. He was never anointed by prestige VCs and it’s always been hard to raise money and attract attention. He didn’t get into crypto to launch a token and get rich quick. He got in with

If you’re not greenwashing; prove it.

Love getting emails from banks that denied the crypto industry bank accounts about joining their networking + startup communities

Unbreakable proof of how commercial real estate assets perform.

🔥 BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says tokenizing assets and securities could revolutionize finance.

Hot take: End users just want products that work well, they don’t give a damn about decentralization.

Unpopular opinion: 😂 All governments should track all their spending on the blockchain, an immutable public ledger. It's called "public spending" for a reason.

Will your real estate assets be worth less as the world moves to blockchain-based financial market infrastructure?

Bernie Madoff didn’t want to be audited either.

🚨 NOW: Elon Musk proposes putting the U.S. Treasury on blockchain for full spending transparency. Citizens could track taxpayer dollars in real time.

Put every public expenditure - state, county, municipality - on the blockchain. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Stablecoins: Payments Without Intermediaries The internet made information free and global. So why is it still so hard — and expensive — to move money? The early internet promised a future where anyone could publish, build, or transact without permission. Protocols like email

Introducing Stablecoin Financial Accounts. Hold a stablecoin balance. Send and receive funds with fiat and crypto rails. Accessible from 101 countries: docs.stripe.com/crypto/stablec….

1/ Today we’re publishing Crypto and the Evolution of the Capital Markets. Skeptics like to say crypto is a solution in search of a problem, but in reality, it’s an answer to a decades-old one that the traditional securities markets still haven’t fixed: the lack of a more direct,

This movement of securities from off-chain to on-chain systems is akin to the transition of audio recordings from analog vinyl records to cassette tapes to digital software decades ago.

If you sold an operating system for video stores you’d keep denying streaming was going to be better.