Christian Catalini
Christian Catalini was co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Lightspark, and founder and research scientist at MIT's Crypto Economy Lab. He is a graduate of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and Bocconi University in Canada.
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Thank you @thestablecon for the recognition. Happy to receive it on behalf of the entire @lightspark team, which has been building at the bleeding edge of stablecoin payments at an incredible pace.
They never denied building a profile on users, just some had waving about different products in their infra intermixed. The CEO just needs to come out and say there is a no logging policy and that Lightspark, Spark, SSP, whatever, does not log any user information or share with any third-party.
Excited to bring new ways to fund your favorite prediction market bets on @Polymarket starting today via @spark & @lightspark! https://x.com/spark/status/2074539080197775421
About 2 months ago we launched @Lightspark Grid Global Accounts. Empowering platforms to become a “neobank” for their customers globally. Today, we unlock an incredible new dev experience for builders. Super proud of the team for this. Try it here: https://docs.lightspark.com/global-accounts/demo?=
Thrilled to share that @Lightspark Payments Europe just received its CASP (MiCA) and EMI licenses from the Estonian FSA. This milestone enables us to offer a full suite of stablecoin and fiat services in Europe on our own stack end-to-end. Brick by brick.
I love to test how easy it is to integrate @Lightspark Grid. I pointed Fable 5 at https://docs.lightspark.com, told it to build a quick integration, setup prod key. Took 20 minutes and single-shotted it. Funded my account via FedNow (2s) and sent a realtime payment to UAE. EASY!
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JUST IN: YOU CAN NOW SEND MONEY TO CHINA INSTANTLY ON #BITCOIN'S LIGHTNING NETWORK VIA LIGHTSPARK A $1,000,000,000,000 MARKET OPENING TO BTC ABSOLUTELY GAME CHANGING 🔥
JUST IN: YOU CAN NOW SEND MONEY TO CHINA INSTANTLY ON #BITCOIN'S LIGHTNING NETWORK VIA LIGHTSPARK A $1,000,000,000,000 MARKET OPENING TO BTC ABSOLUTELY GAME CHANGING 🔥
We officially reached the point where when we pitch potential customers and walk them through @Lightspark capabilities, we hear "this sounds to good to be true". We follow with "here's your sandbox access, try it". Disbelief → happy customers 🔁! https://docs.lightspark.com