Neil DeSilva
@desilvaneil
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CFO | EIR, Initiative for CryptoCurrencies & Contracts (IC3) at Cornell Tech | public company operating exec | CoCreator, PYUSD stablecoin
New York, NY
Joined December 2011
I'm proud to be the Chair of the 2026 Cornell Blockchain Conference Host Committee, in strong support of this conference's co-hosts: @CUBlockchain, @CTBlockchainNYC and @theBBFund.
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SAVE THE DATE: April 24, 2026 at @cornell_tech in New York City! The institutional frontier tech conference of the year is taking place with a focus on: “The Programmable Economy: AI & Blockchain Redefining Markets.” Serving at Cornell Tech at the @initc3org this year has been a
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“Here is what can be called, without hyperbole, the central passage in American literature.” —Harold Bloom, Wallace Stevens “Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have
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This gets me every time
post a scene that gave you goosebumps
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HNY
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Kiyoshi Yamashita (Japanese, 1922–1971) - Fireworks, Nagaoka, 1950
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Exactly - U.S. stablecoins must remain competitive on a global stage.
For those who misunderstand what’s at stake in the debate on offering rewards on US-issued stablecoins under the GENIUS Act, a sobering and timely announcement from the People’s Bank of China that they plan to pay interest on the Digital Yuan. 🇨🇳🇨🇳 Tokenization is the future and
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I hear precious little about @PayPal in the stablecoin discussion and yet they are rapidly putting together the single best product in the space. Crypto is focused on Tether, Circle, Stripe, etc. and yet here is a company just actually doing the thing!
PayPal taking off-ramp fees to 0 >Typically you get squeezed on costs twice via all major venues, 1st when you swap stables to fiat and then 2nd when you off-ramp fiat to your bank > Was playing around, and you can go PYUSD to USD for free in Venmo. And then you can off-ramp your
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PayPal taking off-ramp fees to 0 >Typically you get squeezed on costs twice via all major venues, 1st when you swap stables to fiat and then 2nd when you off-ramp fiat to your bank > Was playing around, and you can go PYUSD to USD for free in Venmo. And then you can off-ramp your
PayPal now paying 4% on Venmo to holders of their stablecoin, PYUSD For context, Venmo has ~64 million monthly users vs. Coinbase at ~9 million Crypto is going mainstream and heavy distribution channels are being tapped
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SAVE THE DATE 🗓️ April 24, 2026 | Cornell Tech, NYC The Cornell Blockchain Conference returns with “The Programmable Economy: AI & Blockchain Redefining Markets.” 🎫 Early Bird tickets now live: https://t.co/7102IzgZ7f 800+ leaders joined us last year—this year we go deeper on
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The Cornell Blockchain Conference returns to New York City on April 24, 2026 with a timely strategic focus: “The Programmable Economy: AI & Blockchain…
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Ryan Coogler talks about approaching his 'X-Files' TV reboot: "I was talking to a writer ... and she said how she sees movies is you're looking at the most important moment in a character's life, and with TV you're looking at the most important journey in a character's life ...
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@ChaseWilliams_ Don’t let your spectres become your hectors at the mansion of success
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Really good visual summary. Maybe there is something to this whole AI thing.
I asked @notebooklm to summarize @GavinSBaker podcast. Dang, its NOT bad at all. And it didnt even hallucinate (as much as old models). If you have not watched it, here's the link: https://t.co/KCDXbJ5HdV
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I'm being so sincere when I say this is the kind of local journalism every neighborhood deserves.
The scallion oil & mushroom noodles from Simply Noodles near the 72nd Street 1, 2, 3 station. Upsettingly good.
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