Brent Vegliacich
Co-founder and General Counsel at Rails
Brent Vegliacich is Rails co-founder and general Counsel and was previously an international tax Advisor at Ernst & Young. He holds a Juris Doctor from New York Law School and a Master's degree from New York University School of Law.
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Merchants need payments that do not expose every customer and every transaction to the whole world. Private by default must be the foundation AI commerce runs on, not an add-on. NEAR is building those rails.
NEWS: Circle partners with Kakao Group and Toss Bank to explore stablecoin-based payment rails in South Korea.
Arival Bank launches USDC payment rails for global businesses, targeting Latin America’s cross-border headaches
Yep - transfer over your stocks today to try it out On mobile choose Deposit -> Transfer Stocks As all trading moves to crypto rails (aka tokenization), you can now trade everything in one place with great capital efficiency and liquidity. https://x.com/CoinbaseDuck/status/2080657058555150418
KAST CEO: Most Crypto Neobanks Will Be Gone in 12 Months; Firm Grew 3x Amid Market Crash
the enduring opportunity in asset mgmt will be crypto x tradfi some ppl want securities on crypto rails some ppl want crypto on tradfi rails access prediction markets, 0dte options, perps, tokenized securities on ALL of the world assets toll both sides alpha is in the seams
𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘆. Crypto rails run 24/7. FX markets don't. That mismatch is one of the least talked about problems in stablecoin payments.
Maury Povich shows off stunning Montana hideaway he's owned for 30 years... as he rails against city slickers who flocked there during Covid https://trib.al/N4S3JZL
In college, I stumbled on this list of ideas from @dhh while learning Ruby on Rails for an internship I still remember nearly all of them... can't say the same about Rails https://t.co/XKFrWG13d8
Agentic AI will run on rails that settle at machine speed. Per @FTDA_US, that's Aptos — the fastest chain named, recording and settling in one step, while Visa needs days. The onchain era of markets and machines. Aptos is primed for it. @shelbyserves is its AI data layer. https://x.com/16379118234