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Stabledash

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Stabledash

@stabledash

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Stabledash
@stabledash
Jun 11
Geetha Panchapakesan is one of the most deeply embedded payments operators to ever cross over into building for stablecoins. She spent 18 years at Mastercard, MoneyGram, PayPal, Visa Direct, and Circle, working on the infrastructure that moves cross-border money at global scale.
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.@BTraidman led sales at BRD through the Coinbase acquisition, then ran Coinbase's enterprise SaaS org before co-founding HopNow. "Three things are the most important. The team, the team and the team, and that's it." "I've seen this team, I've worked with them closely, and all
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Every institution wants a programmable vault. Few have answered the questions that come with running one. "The hard part of the vault is everything around it." — @natalyathakur "What can initiate, who can initiate movement with the vault? What approvals are required? How does
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Helius acquired Light Protocol, the team building privacy infrastructure on @solana "We have been working with them for a while on figuring out what is the right design for Altitude, and potentially broader for Squads Multisig. So I guess privacy is coming." says @SimkinStepan.
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Helius
@Helius
Jun 10
Big Solana news: The Light Protocol team is joining Helius to help build Solana's most complete ZK privacy layer. Private payments, markets, and finance -- at Solana scale. Fully composable, fully onchain, fully open-source.
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MoneyGram designed its $MGUSD stablecoin stack so no single vendor choice is permanent. "Bridge is an extremely important partner for that issuance. By layering M0 on top of the Bridge issuing capability, it gives us additional optionality in terms of how those contracts are
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"In the age of AI, people have this false sense of, I can just build everything and anything." @natalyathakur, Founder & CEO of @KnovaFinance, calls it the 90-10 rule. "Every institution needs a certain set of capabilities. 90% of enabling digital assets is asset normalization,
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Can you vibe code a neobank? "I think these are great proof of concepts. And now you can speed around to that state pretty quickly." "If you're serious about getting it right, you have to build global coverage, you have to build redundancy. From a payments perspective, if you
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.@LukeTuttle2049 restructured @MoneyGram into independent domain teams. Klarna-style, each with its own leader and metrics. One team wakes up thinking about pay-in, another about pay-out, another about the app. "I just took the board and said that we want to start rolling out a
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"It's all about how can they champion it in a way that doesn't get them fired. If they're going to do this, how do I make sure I don't lose my job? How do I make sure I get promoted because of it?" @natalyathakur, Founder & CEO of @KnovaFinance, on the first wave of institutions
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@dakota_xyz
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Value transfer is nothing new. What runs underneath it is about to be. NEO. @stabledash. Next week.
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Stableminded | EP. 0049 | Presented to you by @altitude Watch our full conversation with Geetha ↓
Stabledash
@stabledash
Jun 11
Geetha Panchapakesan is one of the most deeply embedded payments operators to ever cross over into building for stablecoins. She spent 18 years at Mastercard, MoneyGram, PayPal, Visa Direct, and Circle, working on the infrastructure that moves cross-border money at global scale.
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Geetha Panchapakesan built MoneyGram's cross-border payout rails. After she left, she sent money to her in-laws in India through the same system. It took seven days. "I called my friend. I was like, dude, what the heck is going on? She was like, Geetha, we ran out of pre-fund."
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@stabledash
Jun 12
"It's more table stakes at this point. Like you should be using stablecoins." @BTraidman, co-founder of HopNow, on what changed since his years fielding Fortune 100 calls at Coinbase: "Why are we talking to this beverage company? Oh, because they move billions of dollars a day
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