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Stabledash

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Stabledash

@stabledash

new media for new money 💸. Live show every Tues and Thurs at 9am PST / 12pm EST

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@stabledash
May 14
.@SamBroner spent years at @a16zcrypto studying hundreds of stablecoin-focused startups. Mature fintechs, banks weighing their stablecoin strategy, early teams pitching infrastructure plays. The one pattern that kept surfacing: stablecoins were built for trading, not payments.
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“Go bare metal” has stuck in my head since my chat with @nvs Blown away by what @andrekdo and team continue to ship with our BARE METAL media product. A POV of our “producer view” (warning: you can hear everything)
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We don't talk about systemic risk enough in this industry. "If institutions see that putting money to work in DeFi means all your assets can get wiped out, that's putting real systemic risk into the industry." @aesmonty, Co-Founder & CEO of @range_org on what the Drift hack
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This may be the best time in history to dive in and to start building on @solana @sherazshere, @SolanaFndn GM of Payments & Commerce: "There's going to be a tsunami of activity onchain. The Bridges, BVNKs, the Rains of the world, there is a whole other cohort waiting in the
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"We've never had a bank account ourselves. We've operated on our own infrastructure and stablecoins for the last five years." You'd be surprised how few stablecoin companies can actually say that. @GarrettHarper_, Head of BD at @altitude / @multisig: "In the fintech space,
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.@jackchong_jc grew up in Hong Kong, learned Arabic in the Middle East, spent years in the UK, and moved to New York to build Checker. Then he flew to Lagos and slept on his customers' couches. Here's why: "I've crashed on couches at my customers' apartment in Lagos just to
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"I don't believe AI agents are going to subscribe to you for 10, 20 bucks a month. They can actually just pay for your articles and newsletters as they need them, when they need them, for whatever research and analysis they're doing for the human user on the other side."
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"Where does the yield come from? It comes from the $10 trillion of spend that we'll do for the next five years, all on compute hardware." @0xZergs explaining where sUSDai's yield originates from: "They'll pay you $250 million. How much does it cost to build the actual chips and
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USD.AI
@USDai_Official
Jun 9
USDAI cumulative yield just crossed $20M. Yield is generated from two sources - Depositor yield: generated from borrower interest and PYUSD incentives on undeployed liquidity, net of the 10% NIM/admin fee. - Protocol fees: the 10% NIM on sUSDai yield, plus origination fees.
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@stabledash
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.@Anchorage is building its Atlas settlement network to work with decentralized venues like @HyperliquidX. The first federally chartered crypto bank in the US just named its first CMS exchange partner. "We want to partner with the Hyperliquids of the world. We want to partner
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"For me to convince him to leave Stripe was not a one person problem anymore. It was a three people problem." @milliemyang shares how she convinced her cofounder and his family to leave stripe to build @breezedotcash "We'll give it two years. Either it works or it doesn't. But
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@stabledash
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CMT partner Sam Hallene runs through two portfolio companies pushing real-world credit onchain: Figure, and SBA lender Newity On Figure: "Yes, they'll give you a really aggressively priced HELOC... but their end goal is not to be a HELOC originator. It's to disrupt the capital
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.@jackchong_jc has raised $8M for Checker, the stablecoin liquidity network powering B2B payments for banks, FX desks, and neobanks across Latin America and Africa. "We did more than 3 billion of cumulative volume across the network, and right now on an annual basis doing around
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Checker
@checkercorp
May 19
We’ve raised $8.1M to accelerate our mission of building a global network for modern financial institutions. These rounds were led by @galaxyhq, @almadaventures, and @hiFramework Ventures, alongside leading crypto investors. Read more on @TheBlockCo: theblock.co/post/401906/st…
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We asked @milliemyang (ex-Stripe), CEO of @breezedotcash, why merchant of record status carries so much weight in global payments. Her answer: "Think about yourself traveling from the US to Europe, and you're paying with a card and you suddenly have a lot of declines when you
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