Alex Holmes
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Fintech, cross-border payments & blockchain | Stablecoins, crypto & the future of money movement | Fmr Chairman & CEO @MoneyGram
Dallas, TX
Joined June 2015
I’ve been off X for a bit. In that time: I left MoneyGram after an $1.8B acquisition, joined the board of Algorand, joined a bank, started advising payments and Web3 startups, and watched the payments world change faster than ever. Time to get back in the conversation....let's
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And I will be in the front row 🔥 Can’t wait! @StaciW_DC @billbar
On March 10th, Algorand CEO @StaciW_DC and Board Chair @billbar will be speaking at @Abundance360. We’ll be on site demonstrating the latest products and projects on Algorand across key areas such as payments, agentic commerce, and tokenization. CSMO @marcvl will host a live
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Boom! 🚀
Catch all the updates from February 2026 with our latest Pera Monthly Recap 🙌 Check it out and Follow: https://t.co/BA5PDyZqNV
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Catch all the updates from February 2026 with our latest Pera Monthly Recap 🙌 Check it out and Follow: https://t.co/BA5PDyZqNV
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The single biggest barrier to cross-chain adoption has always been asking users to do something new before they can do something useful. This solves that. Existing EVM wallets, no new custody model, isolated signing domains. That’s not a workaround — it’s real infrastructure.
You won’t need a new wallet to use Algorand. We’re shipping cross chain account abstraction that lets MetaMask, Rainbow, and basically any EVM wallet plug straight into Algorand dApps. No custody tricks. No shared signature risk. Your EVM key authorizes an abstracted Algorand
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Simply unbelievable A self-described “anarchist commune” The collapse of $40 billion, the knife at 10 a.m. every day—all point to the same name: Jane Street. https://t.co/83w7VK5Fez
panewslab.com
Jane Street is one of only four authorized participants in BlackRock IBIT (the world's largest spot Bitcoin ETF), the other three being Virtu Americas, JPMorgan Securities, and Marex.
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Excited to join the Board of Directors at Brightwell - a global payments technology company powering embedded cross-border payments for financial institutions. After three decades in this space, including my time leading MoneyGram, I see real opportunity in what this team is
prnewswire.com
/PRNewswire/ -- Brightwell, a global payments technology company powering embedded cross-border payment experiences for financial institutions, today announced...
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Let’s keep building! @algodevs
Head of Developer Relations, @SilentRhetoric, spoke on the state of the industry and what it means for builders. The bear market is the best and most exciting time to build. Recorded during Multichain Day in Denver, powered by @AlgoFoundation and @wrappedxyz.
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Tuned in for my first Community Call today! Really insightful. Great stuff going on @AlgoFoundation Well done to the team. I encourage everyone to join next time, you will learn a lot!
Watch the Algorand February 2026 Community Call. Hear the latest updates from the Algorand ecosystem, featuring special guests @alphaarcade.
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Watch the Algorand February 2026 Community Call. Hear the latest updates from the Algorand ecosystem, featuring special guests @alphaarcade.
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Following up on this… Every major Bitcoin rally has been preceded by traditional finance stress and the liquidity response that follows. Keeping an eye on this space. https://t.co/ZkCg1QdOvT
coindesk.com
Private-equity firm Blue Owl Capital (OWL) tumbled nearly 15% this week as it was forced to liquidate $1.4 billion in assets to pay investors looking to exit one of its private credit funds.
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Private credit headlining the news this morning… Blue Owl just permanently gated redemptions on a retail private credit fund after a $1.4B loan sale. Shares dropped ~6%. Apollo, Blackstone, KKR, TPG all dragged down with it. Bubbles aren’t unique. Bubbles form wherever risk
cnbc.com
The private credit boom is facing a new test after Blue Owl Capital permanently restricted withdrawals from one of its retail-focused debt funds.
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SEC cuts the net capital haircut on qualified stablecoins from 100% to 2% — same as money market funds. Translation: broker-dealers can now use stablecoins as real balance sheet assets. Billions in liquidity will soon be unlocked. In terms of practical impact, this may be the
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Great message Real inclusion means last-mile infrastructure, on/offline capability, biometric identity, and services people actually use — not just accounts they hold. This is the problem @getpaycode solves with biometric identity and offline payments — and why bringing it
Financial inclusion is about more than opening bank accounts. India’s #Aardhaar programme increased bank account ownership from 35% to 78% in a decade, yet 35% of accounts remain inactive. Our latest blog explores the implications, read it here: https://t.co/g7Kxyp6RHg
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Extremely cool! Let’s go Marc!! @marcvl
@AlgoFoundation
“How cool us that? @marcvl speaking at @EthereumDenver at #Futurllama stage explaining all about #AgenticCommerce and #x402 work at @AlgoFoundation” ALGORAND $ALGO 🤖💰↔️💰🤖
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A shoutout to Amir...well done. Having spent my career in global payments, I can say the marketplace approach to remittances is a genuine structural shift — not incremental improvement. Great job! The best is yet to come. https://t.co/U29AlxI8Jb
fintechnews.media
The Middle East’s fintech ecosystem is entering a defining phase, where scale, trust, and cross-border connectivity matter more than ever. In our latest exclusive interview on Fintech News UAE, we...
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January was indeed a strong month 🔥 The growth is truly impressive! 🚀
January was a strong month for Algorand. Total wallets, transactions, monthly active accounts, smart contracts deployed and Stablecoin transaction volume all increased. Algorand also hit 2 billion ALGO staked, mogging other chains in terms of decentralization.
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New era of F1 starts now. 🏎️ 🔥 New power units, new aero rules, new cars from the ground up. Our MoneyGram Haas sponsorship gave me a front-row seat to one of the fastest-growing sports in the world — and lessons in global brand strategy you can't learn from a textbook.
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Fascinating to see where it all ends…Capex up 42-95% YOY across Big Tech. Revenue from AI? Not even close. At some point the music stops. Apple seems to already know that. Are they right? Are they Wrong?
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Throughout my career leading a global financial services company, the highest-performing teams I built shared one thing: empowerment drives results. Removing barriers to women's economic participation could boost global output by up to 20% — the data confirms what I witnessed
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Join the World Bank Group launch of Women, Business and the Law 2026, a global report on legal and policy barriers to women’s economic participation.
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