Jason Karsh
@jasonkarsh
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I connect products with customers. Currently CMO @stellarorg. Founder, Karsh Consulting. Formerly @blocks @blockaid_ @blockchain @coinbase @geteero @google
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Joined March 2009
Incredibly excited to join the @StellarOrg team as Chief Marketing officer, joining @DenelleDixon to accelerate the adoption of the Stellar network for everyday financial services and increase access to the global financial system. LFG!
SDF is welcoming @jasonkarsh as Chief Marketing Officer. From Coinbase to https://t.co/S29xdDYY2v to the Block, he’s built category-defining brands. Now, he's here to do what he does best: break the mold and scale what matters. https://t.co/7kxcgXGr9p
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Real financial infrastructure > pumping and shilling This is the way
Stellar’s strength lies in its distribution. MoneyGram, Franklin Templeton, and multiple licensed institutions rely on its infrastructure for cash-in and cash-out, compliance screening, and transparent ledger settlement. It remains one of the few public networks with production
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Stellar (@StellarOrg), a fast L1 for institutional-grade tokenized assets, has joined the Chainlink Scale program and is adopting Data Feeds, Data Streams, & CCIP. https://t.co/A35CBQXMvf Through Chainlink's data & interoperability standards, Stellar delivers its builders the
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Excited to see this integration live. Interoperability is key to an onchain future.
Stellar is joining the @chainlink Scale program and integrating Chainlink's Data Feeds, Data Streams, and the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol. One step closer to a unified onchain financial system. https://t.co/ReTiZDQ7oO
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At today's @StellarOrg Q3 report, the headline is that the trend lines are 📈 🧑🔧 37%full time dev growth, 8x industry average 🌐 #4 most used blockchain 🖊️ Over 1M smart contract invocations every day 💸 @PayPal PYUSD, @circle CCTP V2, and @OndoFinance USDY live on the network
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Agree
Marketing and brand are equally as important as the product having market fit → the two together are an unstoppable force. Though for early stage companies, slapping marketing in the mix without a clear founder-led direction is a one way ticket to nowhere. If the founders
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More likely that there will be an emergent set of networks that are useful and interoperable, similar to Amex, Visa, Mastercard
I can't help but think that in 10 years we'll look back on this moment and wonder, why were we launching so many chains and tokens when all we needed was <insert winner>?
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Alphabet bragging about their $100B quarter, meanwhile $300T of PYUSD was minted by Paxos two weeks ago Time for more ambition
“Alphabet had a terrific quarter, with double-digit growth across every major part of our business. We delivered our first-ever $100 billion quarter,” said Sundar Pichai, CEO $GOOG Imagine not holding Google
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This is accurate
The best crypto marketers aren’t rage-baiting on X. They’re busy. Real marketing isn’t about ego, it’s about impact. Attention without adoption is vanity.
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The Visas and the Paypals of the world usually start by building payment solutions on Ethereum and Solana. But they always find their way to @StellarOrg. Lessons there.
Visa to support USDC, EURC, PYUSD & USDG on Ethereum, Solana, Stellar, and Avalanche. Read the full details: https://t.co/vDvq0cTrFZ
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Transaction security isn’t a problem until it’s your only problem. Web3 projects, talk to @blockaid_ about security 👇
The best way to show your users you love them is by adding @blockaid_ to your app leading up to a launch. Blockaid simulates and validates transactions inside of wallets directly and for enterprises leveraging @safe @FireblocksHQ and and Blockaid’s cosigner.
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Build a sustainable marketing plan that scales
If you’re a marketer, read this. You’re surrounded by crypto marketers who’ve been psyoped into believing that hype tactics are the only thing that drive results. They optimize all their strategies around 6-week “hype cycles.” But here’s what I have to tell you: you can become
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Hot take: best marketing strategy is to build a product people want
The two best marketing strategies - tokens go up - airdrop is big Anything else will fall short
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Releases for Stellar Protocol 24 are now available. If you run Stellar infrastructure, make sure to install them ASAP! Oct 20: Stable releases available. Oct 21 at 2100 UTC: Testnet upgrade. Oct 22 at 1700 UTC: Mainnet upgrade vote. Check out the upgrade guide for more info on
stellar.org
Your go-to guide for upgrading to Protocol 24, designed to help businesses and developers prepare for the upgrade with key dates, release information, a changelog, and more.
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Next week, Stellar validators will vote on a protocol upgrade. It's a targeted fix for state archival inconsistencies we caught on Oct 9. tl;dr: there was a bug, it was contained quickly, a solution is in flight, and the upgrade is scheduled for next week. Deets 🧵
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With PYUSD live on @StellarOrg, I’m excited to share that the network can definitely handle $300T if there’s anyone who wants to mint them here
🚨 NEW: PayPal becomes the richest company on Earth with $300 trillion in assets... for about 20 minutes, until Paxos burns the $300 trillion PYUSD stablecoins it just minted.
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Thanks for the discussion Ashlee. Not many people let me talk about eDonkey anymore!
He's spending $1 billion on a space station Our pod this week with @JedMcCaleb of eDonkey, Mt. Gox, Ripple and Stellar fame. Now backing @vast and set on replacing the ISS Thx, as always, to @brexHQ for backing our pods and videos and @e1_ventures for their support
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Still thinking about Spotify CEO Daniel Ek's comment on the @davidsenra podcast: Seek out great ideas by judging people by their best idea, not their worst.
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Exciting to see @WisdomTreeFunds launch an ETP in Europe, driving more awareness of Stellar to institutions and asset issuers https://t.co/CwqbMkHVG8
coindesk.com
WisdomTree lists a physical XLM ETP in Europe; find out what makes it interesting.
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