Major news out of MoonPay 🤯

They are integrating PayPal for US users.

This enables fiat-to-crypto purchases (110+ cryptos) for PayPal users (using PayPal balance, bank ACH, etc.) with just a few clicks.

Selling will be enabled soon.

The onboarding walls are breaking down...

Rly impt.

Ramp famously has a day count on how many days they’ve been in business.

Today is day 1873 & they have:

💰$7.65 billion valuation
💵 Over $1 billion raised
💳 1% SMB spend on Ramp cards

“They are the fastest execution machine in the world.”

My top 6 takeaways with Keith Rabois and…

The simplest way to be a top performer
- ask what you need to do
- do what you say you’ll do
- when you think “I think we should” just do it

This pod with Integrated Kyle e/acc and Santiago R Santos | #9159 is now live on Empire.

We covered why MEV is the only metric that matters, how to value crypto assets, and how to think about the cost of airdrops. Great chat.

Have anyone came across any good resources online around community-led growth strategies? Pls share with me below!

tagging some of the usual suspects Safary 🦁 Kiyo Kaz Tamai justin vogel 🦁

Slowly, surely, then all at once 🚀

Like this post if you're bullish on buying crypto with your PayPal balance.

.Super excited about this partnership as the first fiat-to-crypto onramp to integrate with PayPal. Buying/selling crypto just got fast, easy and seamless. LFG MoonPay 🟣.

Shoutout to Otherlife for the amazing video and social assets 🚀💜

What’s your favourite stablecoin yield strategy? … asking for a friend

Most products are worse off for shipping too late vs shipping too early.

Shipping late is usually a symptom of caring too much what people internally think.

Shipping early keeps users at the center of decisions.

the problem with hiring non crypto natives, and ive seen this cycle after cycle, is that they don’t truly believe in crypto. and when they don’t believe in the industry where they work, they’ll never work as hard as they did in web2/tradfi. even worse, when bear market hits, they…

How do Visa Card issuers make money?

As a card issuer, this is one of the most common questions people ask us.

. Good EL15 thread by nairolf

Couldnt agree more. Likewise at MoonPay 🟣, we love hiring folks who are passionate about the crypto space.

Here are three questions I like to ask to test for that
1. Tell me about your favourite degen story that happened to you
2. What is your favourite NFT/GameFi/DeFi project…

. Memecoins can have a purpose. Love this article by Li Jin on using memecoins as a GTM strategy to bootstrap attention, and add utility to token holders, fueling a virtuous cycle. lisnewsletter.com/p/memecoins-as…

The memecoin craze is back, led in part by the Farcaster with coins like DEGEN, ENJOY, and HIGHER.

I created a dashboard that gives coins financial and social scores, so communities can understand how they stack up against one other and investors can better understand risks.

In business, we are mostly taught to focus on outcomes: scorecards, KPIs, north star metrics etc

Relentlessly focus on the inputs: talent, culture, execution. And the score will take care of itself.

0/ What is a venture studio? and how is it different from an incubator/accelerator?

I've received this question multiple times and here's my attempt to shed some light on a venture studio model.

There are of course many other interpretations, mine is not the definitive version.

Some important crypto thoughts bubbling in my mind this week...
1) Stripe stablecoin news was massive, they legitimize things in fintech the way Elon does in physical industries or Sama does in AI
2) Coinbase is firing on all cylinders - Base, Solana support, fiat offramps,…