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my ALL17 demo day standouts: @OsaurusAI: local OSS agents, whoever nails the app for them goes viral @OverseePay: Pakistan dollar app, textbook neobank traction (93% ret., double digit MoM organic growth) @bullringfinance: Africa <> China stablecoin rails, ex‑Nubank/YC team Crypto isn't dead, it

Had a great conversation with TP ICAP's Head of Digital Assets Broking. His view is that one of the biggest opportunities in crypto is moving the global FX market onto stablecoin rails. If that happens, firms like GSR providing liquidity and brokers like TP ICAP providing institutional access will

Robinhood is integrating DeFi rails behind the scenes. Institutional DeFi is hitting record adoption despite weak retail sentiment. Sid Powell explains how Maple Finance reached nearly $2 billion in active loans during a bear market, and how neobanks and traditional asset managers are driving glob

KuCoin Pay Wants Crypto to Blend into Local Payment Rails

We're proud to back @FerdiDabitz and the @augustus_bank team in their Series B raise! Thanks to stablecoin rails, the US dollar now moves 24/7/365, but that's not the case for non-stablecoin dollars sitting in bank accounts, where they're largely stuck on nights, weekends, & holidays. We're seeing m

Russia Passes Landmark Crypto Law, Setting State-Run Rails for Sanctioned Trade

A story from our own operations. A client wanted to test the payment rails before sending the full amount. Smart move, natural. They sent a mere 10 USDC against a 10,000 USDC invoice. Our old system noted an incoming payment, matched it to the invoice, and marked the entire thing PAID. Ten dollars

17 years in, I think we are still early for payments and facing tons of uphill battles because Bitcoin is challenging the core of fiat currencies. The best thing to do is to build Bitcoin into payment rails as an option and develop new rails to support Bitcoin over time. Other than a few exceptions,

Giving agents financial rails changes everything. What we’ve been building across Holoworld and HoloLaunch is about to make a lot more sense.

This week, I'm releasing a 1-hour 45-minute conversation with @raagulanpathy - founder and CEO at @kastxyz. Rags is blunt about why everyone is suddenly building a neobank: crypto hasn't delivered much value to anyone, and the fintech layer on top of the rails is the biggest addressable market of o