Sam Grone
@degentrix
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Product @TrailsHQ: 1-click cross-chain txns in 20s | Building “Stripe for crypto” @0xSequence | Prev: Finance @Amazon, Product @RetailMeNot & @Compass (exits)
New York, NY
Joined August 2013
TradFi x DeFi isn't converging, it's colliding. Tokenized stocks on ARB, RWAs everywhere, 24/7 markets. The infra play: Universal payments, any chain/token/wallet. That's @TrailsHQ: 1-click intents, gas abstracted. Early access: https://t.co/x6d7jOkC3u What's next?
trails.build
Trails SDK, 1-click crypto payments across any chain, any token, any wallet.
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The best products make their value obvious instantly, and you feel smarter for understanding. That clarity is what great storytelling does. Apple makes you feel intelligent. Nike makes you feel powerful. The subconscious message: "this product helps me become ____." Product
The hot new job at tech companies is leading "storytelling." The term doubled on LinkedIn job posts in the U.S since last year. The WSJ writes: "Compliance technology firm Vanta this month began hiring for a head of storytelling, offering a salary of up to $274,000."
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We love our @TrailsHQ Builders ty @silencexlm great qs today too! 🙏
Trails builds universal transaction rails for crypto, making it possible to send and spend digital assets like @USDC with a single click using CCTP from @circle Come learn now! https://t.co/D7dGFhSglw
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Live today at 1 pm ET: Crosschain Payments with CCTP! Hear from @TrailsHQ Head of DevRel, @James__Lawton alongside the Circle @BuildOnCircle team 🚀 @TrailsHQ facilitates cross-chain transactions (any token, any chain) across EVM, in ~20s, powered by @circle CCTP.
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Live today at 1 pm ET: Crosschain Payments with CCTP! Hear from @TrailsHQ Head of DevRel, @James__Lawton alongside the Circle @BuildOnCircle team 🚀 @TrailsHQ facilitates cross-chain transactions (any token, any chain) across EVM, in ~20s, powered by @circle CCTP.
Join us today at 1 PM ET for a live workshop with @TrailsHQ. Trails builds universal transaction rails for crypto, making it possible to send and spend digital assets with a single click. In this session, we’ll break down: → How Trails uses CCTP under the hood → How to
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Great transaction infrastructure is invisible, it just works. We think about this constantly at @TrailsHQ. How do we get there? Fewer dependencies, cleaner paths, tighter execution. Relentless focus on making it seamless. Every layer matters. Every edge case matters.
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We're charting the uncharted. 🗺️ Don't forget that Week 1 of Vision 2025 is all about putting your 2025 BOLD PREDICTIONS on the table. We need the analysts, the pioneers, the visionaries. What's your confident forecast for Crypto, Culture, or Markets? #Vision2025
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Product and leadership lessons that shaped how I work: • Incentives drive behavior, design them intentionally • Customer lens: does this matter to them? • Constraint breeds creativity • Strong relationships compound • Give people agency in decisions, they'll commit more •
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just saw this thread. it is worth resurfacing it in the context of @katana. i think @SmokeyTheBera rightfully questions the value accrual from apps to chains. this is what katana has solved incredibly well. when kat becomes liquid, it will be able to be staked for vkat. vkat
katana.network
katana x aragon introduce vKAT: a chain-wide ve(3,3) system where KAT holders lock, vote, and earn real yield through fees, incentives, and automation.
Apps aren’t helping chains anymore. Now that I've got the clickbait out of the way, a bit more nuance - We've been spending a fair bit of time internally discussing what matters for a chain in the short / medium / long term, especially as value drivers for a token have
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And AI helps us move faster: better prototypes, faster iteration, clearer documentation. But it can’t replace the strategic decisions about what to build, why, and how it fits the business. That requires judgment across disciplines. AI accelerates. It doesn’t replace.
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Product sits between Engineering, Design, and the business to ensure what ships is Valuable, Viable, Feasible, and Usable. At scale, it’s hard for even the best founders to do this alone. Coordinating multiple teams and stakeholders requires systematic execution.
svpg.com
In the first edition of my book, INSPIRED, I discussed how successful products are valuable, usable and feasible, where I defined “valuable” as both valuable to customers and valuable to your...
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“If the founder is a visionary, do you need Product?” Yes, but the type changes as you scale. The visionary sets direction. As you scale, an Operator-type Product person helps systemize, execute, and coordinate that vision across teams. https://t.co/033Sjl9amU
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AI won’t replace Design, Product, or Engineering. We do this every time: “This will replace everything.” Great products come from different disciplines working together. AI just helps us do it faster. https://t.co/NHSYHWTvNC
svpg.com
Learn the essential skills needed in product management and product design roles in the era of Generative AI.
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As I told @MariaBartiromo last week, U.S. financial markets are poised to move on-chain. Under my leadership, @SECGov is prioritizing innovation and embracing new technologies to enable this on-chain future, while continuing to protect investors.
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@1Umairshaikh Figure out your core, unshakable truth or conviction. Validate it with data and outside opinions and competitive benchmarking, at a statistically significant amount. When faced with conflicting data, ask yourself if it's meaningful data or not. If it's meaningful, iterate. If
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Entrepreneurship goes hand in hand with taking rejection well
The number one requirement to be a successful entrepreneur is having an unreasonable amount of determination. Be stubborn on goals, and persistent in finding ways around anything that might stop you getting there.
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Excellent write-up about shipping product and the importance of Design from the CEO of @linear ✨ one of my favorite products tbh so thoughtfully crafted: “Early design needs freedom. Later design needs reality. When those phases get collapsed, you can still ship, often faster
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"Really really good user experiences" and "the power of intents" - @0xMarcB on @TrailsHQ x @katana Love to hear it ty Marc and @0xPolygon team 🙏 💙💛⚔️ 👉 More about how to Earn on @katana, powered by @TrailsHQ, at ~23'37" https://t.co/SsAgHrteKv
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Did you receive your early access API key today? 👀 Over 250 new builders are already using @TrailsHQ for prediction markets, DeFi, marketplaces... 1-click. Any token, any chain, any wallet. Where will you go? 🗺️
🌀 Introducing Trails: the universal intents platform for 1-click crypto transactions. Pay, fund, swap, earn, deposit, or accept payments in any token, on any chain, with any wallet. Crypto transactions should feel internet-native. Now they finally do. https://t.co/7GFYn3Ujt3
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🙏 @0xNairolf gets it; here's how we make it real in 20s on @TrailsHQ 👇 Can you guess which feature we're shipping next? 😏
@0xNairolf you keep leaking @TrailsHQ features 🙈
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