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The big banks are worried about stables stealing their deposits, especially if big tech joins in on the fun: 1) If Amazon or Apple launched a stable, not only would it go incredibly hard. But it would be an existential threat to the traditional banking model given how

Was speaking with a couple co-founders this week that were raising a round for a successful product exclusively built on Solana The team's been at it for a number of years. And I'm always curious how teams pick ecosystems and then choose to stay within those ecosystems

And just like that Axiom (YCombinator W25) hits $100m in revenue since launching just 5 months ago: - Took Cursor 12 months to hit $100m of ARR (previous record afaik) making Axiom the fastest company in YC history to hit $100m in real top-line revenue - Probably the purest

Tether not particularly worried about the big banks entering the stablecoin arena Paraphrasing Paulo's quote below: banks will focus on the Western world, while Tether is focused on the unbanked Stepping Back: - World Bank estimates ~1.4B adults unbanked - Tether currently has

When a levered SOL vehicle says you can get more Solana with less risk in their investor presentation, you should probably ask how that's possible? Bonus: when exec comp is tied to SOL / share over a 1 year period but is funded with term debt (w/ plans to issue more debt), you

Cathie Wood coming in swinging w/ a $150m ticket to get this IPO over the line

We're pumped to back Kirill Gertman, Andre and the team at Conduit as they scale the next generation of real-time cross-border payments infrastructure From Latam to Africa to Asia, Conduit leverages stables to unify siloed payment systems globally allowing businesses to move

Add another XRP treasury strategy to the list. $121m for VivoPower. Up 13% on the day post announcement

Felipe is as good as they come. His TED talk below on why tokens are broken is well worth the watch Disclosure, reporting, transparency, value accrual, and launch mechanisms are all structural issues that need to be addressed if the industry is going to continue scaling. Felipe

Before you know it, Robinhood is going to be on a blockchain near you Team's hiring a PM in NY for a new multi-chain 0 -> 1 product Clear that de-regulation is collapsing timelines. And the future is on it's way ahead of schedule

We’re looking for a killer growth marketer to lead all things user acquisition and retention for our first set of acquisitions in Latin America at Inversion . The monumental task here is to onboard millions of users we have access to that have resisted fintech apps and are

The HOOD card goes hard

President of Western Union likes turbo pigeons and doesn't like SWIFT Also finds stablecoins more complex and expensive in most markets. Still below their efficiency and cost effectiveness thresholds for adoption

BlackRock will make ~$104m from managing Circle's treasury this year (~17bps blended on $60.2b USDC o/s) They're also existing shareholders of Circle and made $70m from USDC in FY '23 + '24 They both just struck an updated agreement in March '25 for BlackRock to manage USDC