David Marcus
Cofounder, CEO at Lightspark · Team at PayPal
David Marcus is the co-founder and CEO of Lightspark, and was previously the co-founder of the Facebook-initiated cryptocurrency project Diem, as well as the former president of PayPal and vice president of messaging products at Facebook.
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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
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.
💰 $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
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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.
Another massive week for PayFi and our ecosystem partners. Headlines ↓ 1️⃣ Cross-border payments startup @NiumGlobal acquired @Cypher_HQ_, a crypto wallet and card-issuing startup, to expand its crypto card push. 2️⃣ @Ripple received full MiCA CASP authorization from Luxembourg's CSSF, unlocking c
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?=
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