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Live at 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT. Today's lineup: - @thomasborgers, Walapay - @andy_agant, Agant - @derekbrown, American Spend Beyond Speculation: culture and internet capital markets, 2:00 PM ET - @TheWitzCarlton, ComicBook - @NickyScanz, Superteam USA xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1DGleVzgZ…
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.@derekbrown says the spending data that hedge funds rely on is now available to builders “We at @americanspend do the same kind of thing that a large financial institution does." "Instead of trading against that model, we productize it for retailers and health care professionals and people who are building onchain.”
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LIVE NOW: @Bitso users can now earn up to 10% yield on digital pesos through @morpho vaults. We already talked about the first peso vault on Morpho with @dennisbree back in June: “All our vaults are mostly dollar denominated. So that’s a big peso one.” xitter.cf/Morpho/status/21148251…
Bovedas by @Bitso, powered by Morpho Millions of Latin American users can now earn yield on MXNB and USDC in Morpho Vaults curated by @gauntlet_xyz, directly from the Bitso App.
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Outside the US, “we don’t get paid in dollars. We don’t necessarily spend in dollars.” “There’s a reason that London is the global home of FX, and it’s because not everyone wants to use dollars.” @andy_agant, Founder & CEO of @AgantFinance
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“We fundamentally believe that most of the capital markets are going to come onchain.” — @thomasborgers @walapay_io's roadmap toward that vision: > Now: yield-bearing stablecoins tied to T-bills > Next year: several tokenized money market funds > Then: product baskets and possibly vaults > Later: tokenized equities and ETFs
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Anthropic subscribers spend 2-3x more per payment than OpenAI subscribers per @americanspend “OpenAI has more accounts, but if you look at the Anthropic ATV, the average transaction that’s going on to these cards, it’s 2x to 3x the amount for OpenAI, which really tells the enterprise versus consumer story.” — @derekbrown
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.@andy_agant shares his strategy to dominate the onchain sterling market: > Choose your rivals and your partners carefully > Build on firms that already have distribution > Avoid spending billions to copy their networks > Treat their reach as a commercial opportunity > Set one overarching KPI for success Founder & CEO of @AgantFinance
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NEW: Cavs fans now earn game-day rewards through a @SeatGeek wallet and card powered by @raincards We talked about rewards like these with Rain co-founder @cnaut back in August: “It becomes more unique experiences, whether it’s tickets to the World Cup or an experience with a player that you’re a fan of. I think that’s where rewards are going.” xitter.cf/raincards/status/21150…
Rain now powers @SeatGeek's Game Day Your Way. Bringing tickets, payments, and rewards into one seamless experience. Earn rewards at the game, then use them for a beer at a local bar after a win, all with one wallet and card. Live with @cavs. More to come.
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.@bw_solana, CEO of @anza_xyz, says @solana’s biggest advantage as an open-source chain is its users, because their activity shows the team what to build next. About 2.8 million addresses transacted on Solana yesterday, and it had close to 30% of all DEX volume in crypto. Trading is still Solana’s biggest use case, and he believes the chain that does trading best will end up winning payments and lending too.
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How did @walapay_io raise its $4.6M seed? “We did not take the approach of, let’s go raise a lot of money and then we’ll build. We actually started by building.” “Over time, we gathered more investor interest based on the numbers that we’ve been putting out there.” — @thomasborgers
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TODAY: @BitgetWallet users can now get their own USD and EUR accounts, where any money paid in is converted to stablecoins and sent to the wallet. Back in August, the company’s COO @alvin_kan told us what their users need: “What they want is a financial account that can give them the freedom of access.” xitter.cf/BitgetWallet/status/21…
What if you could have your own US or EU bank account, with just a few taps? INTRODUCING: Virtual Accounts - dedicated USD & EUR accounts inside Bitget Wallet. Get paid. Receive money. Fund your wallet. No walls. No borders. No banks. Just your money in your wallet.
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Stabledash Live is powered by @dfnsHQ - the core banking platform for digital assets. Learn more at ordnl.link/wkGuRbE
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Most crypto treasury companies buy tokens and simply hold them. “We’ve turned that model completely on its head by generating revenue, by directly contributing to the ecosystem, and doing things that no other public company has done yet in this space.” — @hyunsujung_ On top of accumulating $HYPE, @HyperionDeFi earns through: > Running DeFi strategies and validators > Exposure to @doublezero, @hyperlendx and @domaprotocol
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How will Brazilian crypto firms that won’t get licensed stay profitable? > Firms must seek central bank approval by October 30 > Only 11 firms are known to have applied for the license > A license brings capital and audit costs > So many local players are signing referral deals > They pass their users to compliant partners > They earn a share of those users’ revenue > Kraken took MEXC’s Dutch users the same way @caiobrbsa, Co-CEO of @lumxhq
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“We want to be the global player that gives you the biggest coverage.” With @due_network, you pick only the products you need, “whether you want to use our virtual accounts in Brazil or payouts to Argentina.” Most clients start with one and add more over time. “They expand into global payouts. They expand into embedded wallets, and more.” — @robiosss
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NEW: Assets in Anchorage custody can now back DeFi loans, with Atlas managing the collateral via @chainlink CustodySync. Atlas was built to do more than settle trades, as @maceyaj told us in June: “It’s purpose built for any sort of use case that requires operational efficiency, operational safety, sitting atop Anchorage custody.” xitter.cf/Anchorage/status/21147…
We’re excited to partner with @chainlink on the launch of CustodySync, which enables Anchorage Digital Bank to connect custodied institutional assets to DeFi lending markets, and Anchorage’s Atlas Collateral Management Product to manage off-chain collateral for on-chain loans. Chainlink’s industry-standard platform gives our clients more ways to turn their passive capital into productive capital. Anchorage Digital 🤝@chainlink
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New domain endings like .agent are coming. With D3’s Frontier, you can claim names early: > Deposit into a Frontier vault to earn points > Use those points to pick names first “It’s the first onchain crypto-native way that users can get access to some of this valuable internet real estate.” @mxchaelho, Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer of @D3inc
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Bitso is closing every account in Brazil says @caiobrbsa The decision comes just days before Brazil’s October 30 licensing deadline for crypto firms.
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