Joined October 2021
Today is probably a good time to check in on things with @privy_io, which became part of @stripe just over a year ago. Our acquisition was predicated on three factors: stablecoin growth, self-custody as a key enabler of broader global coverage, and rapidly increasing demand for programmable financial infrastructure. As we said at the time, "money has to reside somewhere, and Privy builds the world's best programmable vaults." Since then, the Privy team has executed exceptionally well: assets in Privy wallets have grown ~25x, monthly active developers are up ~3x, revenue is up ~9x, and Privy now facilitates nearly $25B of monthly transaction volume. @tryramp, @Deel, @Klarna, @felixpago, @HyperliquidX, and thousands of other businesses are building embedded banking functionality on Privy. At Stripe, we're deeply integrating Privy into Treasury, @Link, and Connect. In each case, it's accelerating our global expansion, and enabling us to build better functionality faster. (Coming soon: @Link balances.) We're also seeing that Privy's wallet infrastructure is the ideal substrate for agents to transact and earn -- live today with @merit_systems, @orthogonal_sh, @Nevermined_ai, @prlnet, and more. Developers prefer programmable financial infrastructure, but agents need it. We expect that the agentic economy will continue to grow extremely quickly. The Privy team has maintained remarkable product velocity, with major launches this year including deposit addresses, earning on Privy balances, digital asset accounts, custodial wallets, and Stripe's own stablecoin cards. It's also been neat to see how Privy has been accelerated by Stripe, with better onramps, @stablecoin payment rails and licenses, Stripe's fiat capabilities and issuing stack, and integration with @Tempo. Together, we're building one API for holding stablecoin balances and earning yield, moving money in and out of fiat, and orchestrating spend with cards. We still have a lot of work to do, not least in integrating everything across Privy, Bridge, and the rest of Stripe -- there's been so much feature and functionality expansion that we haven't yet had much time to reconcile everything. Overall, though, I'm very happy with how things are going, and excited by where these capabilities are headed. If you're interested in working on the future of stablecoins, agentic payments, and crypto's deployment in the real world, you should get in touch with @sternhenri (now leading all of @StripeCrypto) or others on the team.
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Stablecoins aren't just for holding or trading anymore, they're becoming an emerging rail for global spending. @StripeCrypto and @privy_io are equipping developers with core tooling to build the future of cross-border finance.
We're bringing together Stripe's fiat and crypto infrastructure to make it easier for businesses to build stablecoin-backed cards that work across currencies and markets. More on what we're building with @Plasma,
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Come work with me and @simononchain, I promise it’ll be fun
privy's hiring! we're looking for someone with a research background who's: hungry, opinionated and wants real ownership over how we go to market in crypto you'll find the best teams before anyone else is talking to them, call where the market's heading next, and build the relationships that turn into deals
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We know a little something about the U.S. securities laws and will not “DECIST.” Send your lawyers and we’ll educate them.
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called it 2 months ago
New cabal in town $CASHCAT $UNI $LIT $HOOD
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In one year, @Collector_Crypt has: - Crossed $1B in gross revenue - Ripped 215k packs in a single week - Bought 100k sq ft of warehouse space for robotic storage - Bought back & burned 22.4M+ solana:CARDSccUMFKoPRZxt5vt3ksUbxEFEcnZ3H2pd3dKxYjp (~5.4% of supply) If I was any comfier I'd be asleep
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We've switched to Privy for our login flow. Nothing should change for existing users right now, but this will allow us to improve the experience for non-crypto-native users in the future.
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Kenny Z retweeted
Updated chart hyperliquid:native Remember not to take the targets 100% fixed. I'm flexible with them and manage my trades live based on what I'm seeing. The chart reflects the trade idea I have right now based on the current market conditions and after my initial entry.
Shorted $1.5M $HYPE Still holding my $ETH short too.
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Congrats to my guys @domdotx @0xmitvh on launching @pulsepredicts! If you're looking to get into prediction markets but don't know where to start, look no further. Pulse is protected by @privy_io
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Kenny Z retweeted
privy is everywhere now and that is the best thing that happened to crypto instant 10x improvement in onboarding and ux
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New cabal in town $CASHCAT $UNI $LIT $HOOD
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Come thru if you want to talk about $cashcat $ansem or any of the recent onchain runners with the @privy_io and @fomo squads! DM me for invites!
cohosting a rooftop hapy hour w/ the @fomo team next wednesday in the city drinks, views, great crowd from across crypto dm me if you want in!!
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One of the coolest things I've seen shipped across crypto recently. This is a huge unlock for cross-border payments/remittances to consumer app use cases to everything in between, built on @privy_io. Any developer can now offer users a savings account with a card attached.
1/ Privy devs can now issue cards to spend directly from their connected DeFi vaults. Traditional banking makes you choose between checking and savings accounts. Earn or spend, but not both. Working with Stripe, your Privy balance earns yield until the moment you tap to pay.
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.@Collector_Crypt and @phygitals both goated apps frog been using for like 9 months now Even though I never really mentionned my interest there I’m very pleased to see those 2 win as much as they do I gotta say and I’m not sponsored at all that @phygitals has an absolutely amazing support team, every single issue I’ve encountered been solved as fast as they could no question asked Pokémon has incredible staying power and we’re nowhere near the top when it comes to its relevance, yes some of these prices need to cool down for a healthy continuation but nostalgia and the bits to atoms thesis will fuel this multi decade long growth And btw most collectors cant really explain where does this recent explosion in prices come from when it’s actually really simple: those gachas companies (from Gamestop to Phygitals etc) act as price insensitive buyers on every "high end" slab available on the market (just like a DAT for a crypto coin). To acquire and retain users they have to own the most attractive inventory in their gacha machines, hence why they just end up absorbing the entire sell side liquidity on the market, paying 100K+ for a card that was 25K six months ago and marketing it as 100K+ slab in their gachas They dont invest for a future profit on the cards, they simply pay any *extreme* prices for good marketing So basically: as long as people gamble on slabs and as long as those gacha companies are in green the market will keep going up dragging everything with it up and to the right
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Kenny Z retweeted
every week, $40 million is stolen from defi, routed through a series of mixers before ultimately being used to fund dark nation weapons programs the same defi that is supposed to be the shining star and real use case of our industry has lost over $750 million in the first 4ish months of 2026 and over $17 billion over the last 10 years in a sick twist of fate, this is our golden window. GENIUS Act has passed, CLARITY is around the corner, and the world’s largest institutions are paying attention for now in moments like these, it is important to know where you stand at @plumenetwork, comparing ourselves with defi was never right. we view capital protection as our main priority, and our real time monitoring controls can step in if something goes wrong. defi isn’t perfect, but the financial system isn’t either we have been building Open Finance: technology that leverages the best aspects of both cefi and defi Open Finance is smart contract programmability, fast innovation, open access, cross-chain composability, standardized, while maintaining regulatory licenses and safeguards, access to institutional assets, all going to create products built for scale allowing a global investor base to access the highest quality assets, with the licenses required to attract the best institutions, with a mandate of safeguarding capital if $900T of global assets are going to move onchain.. Open Finance is the only path forward more on this soon
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Kenny Z retweeted
We raised $16M so I bought a $600,000 car Thank you @pulsepredicts
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Protected by @privy_io
It's beautiful 🥹🥹🥹
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Massive congrats to the homies @lucacs and @gabri3l on the raise! @noise_xyz has so much motionnnnn
Noise is excited to announce a $7.1M Series Seed led by @paradigm
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