Pickingunicorns
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Founder at @beansapp.
Amsterdam, Nederland
Joined October 2018
Excited about this one! Super easy to onboard people by sending them some đź’¸. Stay tuned, might be dropping some links to claim today.
1/ 📢 Send anyone #crypto through a link is LIVE! ✅ P2P transfers as low as 0.01 $USDC 🚫 No fees 💰Claim in your own preferred currency First person to click the link below can claim 5 $USDC !
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For years, @hoopssagrado funded their youth programs in Guatemala by carrying around wads of cash 💰 Now, partnering w/ @StellarOrg, they've brought their payments onchain, and the results have been amazing! 💸✨ Next week we welcome @LindsayPoss to dive deeper & explore 👇
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What has #Stellar $XLM done this cycle to stay relevant? 1. $600M in RWA TVL on Stellar 2. @chainlink integration for price oracles, opens up the gates for real #DeFi 3. Soroban (real) Smart Contracts - WASM based on a Rust runtime 4. #DeFi Lending Pools built on Soroban (14%+
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Hot take: best marketing strategy is to build a product people want
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Crypto* nerds to the front. Two ZK related CAPs are potentially coming to Stellar's Protocol 24 (name TBD). The time to comment is now 🧵 *actual cryptography
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With new AI tooling like OpenAI’s Agent Kit, it’s now much easier to build complex agent workflows. Our @Beansapp Merchant SDK lets any app or AI propose a @StellarOrg payment via QR or deeplink — the user just scans or taps to confirm. Imagine: 🧾 An AI booking your workspace
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Current Beans earn APY on USDC: 18.7% 🤑 🔑Non-custodial 📱No gas fees, no complexity 📋 DeFi contracts audited twice 👉 https://t.co/idFWAdROer Built on @StellarOrg
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Still love watching this. From having to carry bundles of cash to pay workers, to just sending a text link.
there are times when I have to pinch myself because I can't believe my job is to go out and do things I believe in, and fulfill the actual promises of blockchain. this summer, I spent time in rural Guatemala working with @BryanWeaverDC and @hoopssagrado to transform payment
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The #Stellar blockchain allows issuers set a “clawback” flag to allow for this usecase. Will be much harder to do on other blockchains.
🚨BREAKING: Circle is considering reversible USDC stablecoin transactions. Circle President Heath Tarbert notes allowing refunds in certain cases of fraud would help the stablecoin industry’s push to become part of the financial mainstream.
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Crypto diehards argue about immutability. Everyday people just want to pay fast and cheap. That’s where blockchain actually delivers.
🚨 NEW: Circle is exploring reversible USDC transactions to recover funds lost in hacks and fraud, per FT.
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The #Stellar blockchain allows issuers set a “clawback” flag to allow for this usecase. Will be much harder to do on other blockchains.
🚨BREAKING: Circle is considering reversible USDC stablecoin transactions. Circle President Heath Tarbert notes allowing refunds in certain cases of fraud would help the stablecoin industry’s push to become part of the financial mainstream.
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#Stellar $XLM is the most underrated project. It’s primarily known for payments (3-5s) moving towards 2,500 tps and 2.5s block time this year. Very low fees (~$0.000004 per tx; or $1 can pay for 250,000 txs). It’s a non profit. It’s also got an in-built DEX with $2-$24M in daily
Less than 24 hours remain for StellarSocialWeek! Will you participate by posting about Stellar across various socials from Sept 22 - Sept 26th? (hashtag "StellarSocialWeek")
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More and more blockchains will be facing this issue.
This is interesting research. But also, duh. Having domain separation between contract code and instances, and implementing state archival are just common sense. Study Stellar.
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Too many caipirinhas last night? 🍸 Your @StellarOrg Meridian XLM can cover breakfast in Rio — just use Beans + Pix 🇧🇷 (no fees). Or let it earn 15% on USDC.
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Congrats friends! It’s been amazing to work on this with you!
We did it! 🚀 DeFindex is the winner of the Stellar #i3Awards 2025 in the Interoperability category! 💎 Huge thanks to @StellarOrg for this recognition, and congrats to our fellow winners @etherfuse and @Decaf_so for their amazing work in their categories 🙌✨
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Shoutout to incredible peeps: 💡 Wouter Arkink @pickingunicorns + the @BeansApp team, changing how we move money in GuateMaya 🌍 @Skylerbadenoch + @HopeforHaiti, always inspiring 🙌 And yes, I totally fangirled @mila_rioja for her powerful work with @REcity_ community currencies
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if you are at Meridian, be sure to say hi to the people behind this story. find @BryanWeaverDC and @pickingunicorns and say hello! stories like this are what make Stellar special. to our community, thank you for building. stay inspired.
there are times when I have to pinch myself because I can't believe my job is to go out and do things I believe in, and fulfill the actual promises of blockchain. this summer, I spent time in rural Guatemala working with @BryanWeaverDC and @hoopssagrado to transform payment
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