Today, Bitcoin's market cap of ~$2T represents about 11% of gold's market cap of ~$18T. Bitcoin is a better form of money. It has the decentralization and scarcity of gold, but better divisibility, portability, and (i think) even fungibility. It's relatively harder to tell if

A lot is changing at OpenSea: • We're rolling out OS2 — a brand new OpenSea built from the ground up. NFTs 🤝 tokens. • $SEA is coming from OpenSea Foundation • We're changing policies that didn’t make sense for web3: re-enabling locked items and delisted collections, and removing

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

The way I research/learn has changed completely with the new reasoning models (e.g. o3, gemini). Having a tool that you can iterate with is incredible, especially for more isoteric topics.

This is quite significant: global card issuing, powered by Bridge and Visa. Anyone who has dealt with card issuance before knows how annoying handling all of the country-specific requirements is. Thanks to Bridge and stablecoins, you can now, for the first time, easily

At Stripe Sessions, Patrick Collison and John Collison skillfully describe the “gale force tailwinds” of AI and stablecoins… Here’s John showing the first 24mo payment volume growth for Bridge (stablecoins) vs Stripe Whole presentation worth watching

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….

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Only a matter of time before there are AI generated startup pitches that can run the full lifecycle of raising seed capital (zoom calls, responses to questions, term sheets) and successfully raise money from angel investors/vcs. The evolution of the nigerian prince scam.

Banning all international students from attending Harvard, or any other university, is anti-American values.

Big fan of Henri Stern Ꙫ and the whole Privy team. Welcome!

millions of businesses on @shopify will soon be able to accept USDC—with help from Stripe and @stablecoin stablecoins are quietly and undramatically being woven into the fabric of everyday commerce more here -->

you want adoption? google. paypal. bridge. stellar. catch this panel on what it takes to make crypto spendable, swappable, and seamless.

we just had a bridge customer launch cards in 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇧🇷🇨🇴and🇧🇴 on the same day. soon we'll see similar programs launch across 50+ countries.

Historic day for Stablecoins in the USA. Time for us to build. theblock.co/post/363425/tr…

1/ Privy makes it easy to integrate any fiat onramp, starting with native support for Bridge (Bridge). Fiat in, stablecoins out. Or vice versa. Onramp assets to stablecoins easily via ACH, SEPA, or wire. A smooth, programmable experience, built right into our API.

The math is obvious and unequivocal: ~100% of energy over time comes from the Sun. Everything else is a rounding error.

We're so excited to be partnering with Remitly 🌎 to power their stablecoin rails, enhancing the flexibility and reach of their global disbursement network! 🚀 Read about the partnership here: news.remitly.com/innovation/rem…

We raised $60M for this moment: Introducing Slash Global USD (in partnership w/ Base). It's the first banking platform that lets you open a USD account without an LLC, EIN, or the rampant account closures they call "account safety". It took major legislative changes AND 3

Come work with us -- lots of interesting stuff going on to help build the future of x border payments