Jose Fernandez da Ponte
President and Chief Growth Officer at Stellar Development Foundation
Jose Fernandez da Ponte is the President and Chief Growth Officer of Stellar's Development Foundation and previously worked at PayPal and BBVA. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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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
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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
Elon Musk is a builder. He has helped build things that changed the world. • Made EVs mainstream • Built Tesla • Built SpaceX • Built Starlink • Built Neuralink • Built xAI • Built The Boring Company • Co-founded PayPal • Co-founded Zip2 • 𝕏.com • Built reusable rockets • Landed orbital boosters •
CZ Discusses Twitter Investment, MiCA Withdrawal, and Saylor's Complex STRC in First Episode of The Starting Block
Last week Kite pushed the foundations of the agentic economy forward on two fronts: shipping hard infrastructure like stablecoin settlement and bridge security, while making the case on identity, governance, and payments. Here's what moved last week: 1️⃣ PYUSD0 is now live on Kite. @PayPal USD, bro
Stellar just landed institutional tokenized gold and is putting its own treasury behind it @matrixdock, Asia's largest real-world asset platform, expanded its tokenized gold token XAUm to @StellarOrg, backed 1:1 by LBMA-accredited bullion. The Stellar Development Foundation is making a direct inves
Spark Migrates $150M in Liquidity to Uniswap, Creating Largest Pool