Having spent a great deal of time working with stablecoin issuers and crypto payments teams at both @OffchainLabs / @arbitrum and @StablecoinStnd , I’ve come to realise that stablecoins and payments are two sides of the same coin — neither can scale without the other. Inspired

@ajwarner90 "if you want to continue to build the best technology and attract the best human capital, you can never be satisfied or become complacent." amen 🫡

Some personal thoughts on the Tempo and Ethereum news that trickled out today. - Criticizing Dankrad for taking a new job is simply immature. People change jobs and roles all the time. I don't know him personally but from what I understand he contributed a lot to Ethereum while

Preach 'onchain capital markets' to TradFi by day Predict how many albums Taylor Swift will sell by night. Blockchain is for the masses.

Contrarian take: Holding a stablecoin backed by illiquid assets (gold, private credit, GPUs, solar farms) might actually be safer than holding delta neutral ones, in light of recent volatility

Part 2: Binance: Coinbase should list more BNB projects CT: trying to comprehend Chinese tickers on Coinbase Robinhood: List ASTER, XPL CT: Robinhood lists better tokens than Coinbase

Quick takeaways piece from me & @lordvolth → Navigating Crypto in APAC: GTM Insights from Token2049:  https://t.co/CeFLReTsTB APAC’s crypto scene is maturing fast — from Singapore’s regulatory pilots to Korea’s retail energy — but real GTM traction still hinges on moving

If you're wondering why every ecosystem is hyper focused on bringing capital markets onchain, here's one reason why: It's increasingly easy for a DeFi team to add support for 10+ chains and move quickly across ecosystem in search of users / liquidity With

Surreal to see Robinhood on the Arbitrum portal In development. Stay tuned.

Some personal updates :

Check out why stablecoins are foundational to the new global economy from our very own @_ryandesouza

Everyone speaks about product distribution but one underrated heuristics to gauge the success of a product is "founder's distribution" The ability of a founder to successfully evangelise new users, attract TVL, and build a cult.

Risk off -> farm stables on Arbitrum Risk on -> trade perps on Hyperliquid Diversify -> Trade equities on Robinhood Hedge -> Prediction markets on ???

Super excited to record this episode with a great friend and one of the OGs of the stablecoin / payment space in Singapore @Tian_wei They: 1/ Started local currency stablecoins before it was cool 2/ Built out on-ramps to major exchanges in Singapore 3/ Launched crypto cards

The @Theo_Network x @BitgetWallet collaboration has one of the juiciest stablecoin yields today. RWA yields through tokenized Wellington treasury fund ✅ DeFi points through Theo ✅ Distribution through Bitget wallet million of users ✅ All happening on @arbitrum Side note

$ARB chain revenue is almost flipping Base. Besides that, @arbitrum has been showing impressive metrics. Their TVL is at ATHs and they're doing insane amounts of stablecoin transfer volume. This is what scaling looks like. 👌

Unless a crypto neobank is solving for a niche problem statement, i'd imagine they will experience the same high CAC as a fintech if their GTM revolves around launching an all-in-one cards, savings, investment product

When the music stops and the lights come on, how much of onchain payment volume is real demand and how much is just subsidized flow?

A new episode of "The Future of Stable Money" is here! 🎙️ In this episode, our CEO @Tian_wei sits down with his "old friend," @_ryandesouza, the APAC Partnership Lead at @OffchainLabs , the initial developer of @arbitrum. They dive deep into the evolving roles of stablecoins in

While it's not exactly clear what caused the mass liquidations last Friday, one thing's for sure - having more high quality assets to be utilised as a collateral would help mitigate such systematic risk in the long run.

TIL - I've been Theo's number one thBULL on all timeframes. I like a challenge so: Join the thBULLs, and if you steal my rank 1 on a 1 month time frame at the first monthly snapshot of 14th Oct - I'll send you an extra 1000 $THBILL. Theo Network. (For the person who gets rank