Aakash Thumaty
Team at Stripe · CPO at Wormhole
Aakash Thumaty is the chief Product Officer of Wormhole, having previously held positions at Jump Crypto, Stripe and Salesforce Ventures. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University.
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Interesting theory from Chamath that Stripe will go after visa/mastercard with acquisition of PayPal. PayPal has over 400m consumer accounts and if Stripe gets e2e control, this could be huge for stablecoin adoption. https://x.com/theallinpod/status/2078282819621503276
Stripe’s $53 billion PayPal bid is a high-stakes play to own the future of digital payments
💰 $53 BILLION. Stripe just teamed up with Advent to make a bid for PayPal, and it could fold PYUSD straight into Stripe's stablecoin empire. PayPal hasn't even responded yet. What happens next: https://unchainedcrypto.com/stripe-and-advent-bid-53-billion-for-paypal-linking-two-stablecoin-players
Web3 101 的稳定币系列的最新一期。 邀请民道 @mindaoyang 、郑迪两位老师聊了聊引发巨大关注的豪华稳定币联盟Open Standard和新的稳定币选手Open USD。 youtube.com/watch?v=tKUGgP… TL;DR - 这是稳定币行业自去年美国「天才法案」通过之后真正的里程碑事件； - Circle的USDC、Tether的USDT在web3世界的领先优势并不会因此改变； - 联盟中的支付巨头Visa、Mastercard可能是打入内部的「木马」和不稳定因素； - 稳定币的未来在于走出web3、进入普通人生活，豪华联盟的真正推手Stripe此次「秀
据 Digital Asset 报道，全球支付公司 Stripe 于 6 月 30 日在韩国申请“OPEN STANDARD”和“OPEN USD”商标，分别对应全球稳定币联盟 Open Standard 及其发行的 OUSD。商标指定范围涵盖加密支付合规框架、联盟成员间数字货币电子转账及跨网络加密交易身份验证等服务。Open Standard 已有 149 家合作伙伴，包括 Visa、Mastercard、BlackRock，以及 13 家韩国企业。 wublock123.com/news/stripe-ap…
Stripe 旗下钱包基础设施公司 Privy 与 Solana 基础设施公司 Jito Labs 联合推出交易加速工具 FullSend，可将 Privy 钱包签名的交易直接路由至 Solana 当前区块生产者，以提升交易确认速度和成功率。官方表示，该工具自今年 1 月起已在 Privy 钱包中运行。Privy 于 2025 年被 Stripe 收购，目前服务 Klarna、Ramp、Deel、Hyperliquid 等客户。（The Block）wublock123.com/news/news-64308
07.21 TGE GRVT @grvt_io 1. 上了coinbase roadmap 2. 跨链桥 wormhole，做了bsc跨链测试，大概率会上alpha 3. contract eth: 0xad29f2723fcdbcf665f210f25e06f97477e417cf bsc: 0x46f2564e0fa8248d15125e7e54173cfbdef91be7
吴说获悉，跨链协议 Wormhole 发布公告称，Moonbeam 网络将于 2026 年 7 月 31 日正式关停。Moonbeam 将在过渡期内维持平行链运行，但在 7 月 31 日之后该链将停止运营。Wormhole 指出，在此日期之后，Portal 和 Wormhole 的贡献者将无法协助找回存放在该链上的任何资产。Wormhole 建议用户在期限前通过 Moonbeam 官方渠道将外部资产跨链转出。wublock123.com/news/news-64184
It's a quick reminder to not continue feeding MEV bots... You’re casually giving them ~1–2% of your swap value each time. - LlamaSwap by @DefiLlama - @CoWSwap (I like that moo sound) - Portalbridge by @wormhole - @BungeeExchange (there's no better cross-chain aggregator) - @gasdotzip for small gas
A helpful and timely article summarizing the NTT 2/2 bridge carrying WETH to Monad, which requires signatures from both @wormhole and @axelar under the hood https://x.com/k3_capital/status/2073023845909377179