Connor Dempsey
@Cdempsey44
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Scribe @crossmint. Previously Coinbase Ventures, Messari, & Circle
New York, New York
Joined December 2017
🚨SEC Chair Paul Atkins: 🇺🇸“All U.S. markets will be on chain within two years.”
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Stablecoins give people in emerging markets access to financial services they’ve never had. Saving in a stable currency. Accessing investment products. Earning yield on deposits. Often with nothing more than a phone.
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Who ever thought @Citadel would be against innovation that removes predatory, rent-seeking intermediaries from the financial system? Oh, right, literally every single person in crypto.
Wow. @Citadel just declared war on project crypto, taking up arguments made by Gensler in his failed attempt to regulate DeFi and attacking the points made by Commissioner Pierce in her dissent. The opposition letters will be extensive stay tuned.
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Clean way of bucketing AI x crypto: 1. Using crypto to decentralize parts of the AI stack e.g. token incentives to pay for training data (and compute) from lots of disparate sources 2. Using AI to make crypto products more intuitive e.g. agents that run DeFi strategies for
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The Giving Block does great work year after year. Check them out provided you have gains to give!
It’s here 💛 #CryptoGivingTuesday Across the world, the crypto community is joining Crypto for Impact to show how powerful this movement can be for nonprofits everywhere. Be part of the generosity shaping the future of Crypto Philanthropy. https://t.co/yzEFCoHsx4
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Covered in the replies, but for max clarity: 1. MoneyGram is shutting down an old wallet. New one is powered by @crossmint and has very long term plans 2. It was indeed cheap and fast for MG to integrate :) 3. If you use @crossmint and later stop paying, your customers won't
This is probably one of the shortest wallet lifecycles I've ever seen. Released in September, shutting down in December. Respect to MoneyGram for shipping fast and validating their intuition quickly. It also proves @crossmint’s value: their wallet infra is so cheap and fast to
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State of Texas joining Harvard and Abu Dhabi in recent $IBIT purchase. Pretty sure that's the only ETF to ever be owned by all three. More wild stuff for a not-yet-even-two-years-old fund.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Texas becomes first state to purchase $10 million of BlackRock's spot #Bitcoin ETF, according to the Texas Blockchain Council.
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6. AI agents get their own wallets 👀 Agents transact with each other using crypto for data, API calls, and compute. The machine economy surpasses the human one in transaction count.
2026 AI predictions 1. SaaS and agents merge completely in 2026. Every SaaS product becomes an agent platform, and every agent platform builds SaaS features. The ones that don't adapt die or get bought for pennies. 2. Google continues to crush in 2026. OpenAI feels the heat.
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Pendle has been added to the Bloomberg Galaxy DEFI Index! Genuinely grateful for this recognition from some of TradFi's most established benchmarks. Another step toward bringing institutional attention to Pendle's fixed yield markets 🎉
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Grok is still predicting a strong crypto finish for 2025. BTC: $145K ETH: $7.2K Slight down revision from September's prediction, but still bullish in line with @fundstrat, @RaoulGMI, etc. "the setup into year-end is one of the most asymmetric I’ve ever seen," which now
Grok crypto predictions for year end: BTC: $150-180k ETH: $6-8K SOL szn Alt szn Will be interesting to revisit on Jan 1 ‘26
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Excited to publish my Crypto Trends Report for 2025! It frames crypto’s growth as a story of 3 compounding s-curves: asset creation, asset accumulation, and asset utilization The report applies this lens across five key thematic areas – macro, stablecoins, centralized
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Have $100 USDC on the Crossmint agent. Have already seen the Coinbase agent get dealt KK and bluff us off the better hand.
x402 poker night
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If you’re a fintech not already building with stablecoins, you’re late. We’re seeing teams sprint into stablecoins so their products don’t look uncompetitive in a year. Crossmint helps them ship fast. From @rodrifernandezt’s conversation with @stabledash.
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Will put $100 USDC on the Crossmint agent. Who’s taking the other side? Agentic x402 poker tomorrow @ 9pm ET
Tune in tomorrow to watch the first ever poker match between two Ai agents: @CoinbaseDev vs. @crossmint Each agent uses x402 to pay for web research that shapes its strategy and to cover every blind, raise, or all-in at the table. set reminders below👇
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building micro payments into the internet in 1990 would have fundamentally changed the web. imagine a world where monetization happens primarily via txns vs. ads. but money wasnt ready and other business models had to be created. sincerely hope some of this can be unwound
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