Eric Charles (🔋, 🔋)

Well said, @brian_armstrong and @cz_binance . Moments like this also remind us that the industry needs a better, safer way to move crypto between platforms. @binance and @coinbase are industry leaders, and both are investors in @meshpay . Both platforms embrace open banking APIs to make fiat deposits seamless. Yet when it comes to crypto, exchanges are still hesitant to enable secure, open banking type experience for deposits from one another. Why? Because exchanges don’t want to lose deposits to competitors so they make the user experience as sub-optimal as possible for the end users. But making withdrawals harder won’t stop users from moving their assets. It only makes the process less secure and opens the door to attacks like this. With 300+ integrations, @meshpay already has the infrastructure to make crypto transfers safer, simpler, and more seamless, reducing reliance on manual wallet addresses and potentially preventing certain types of transfer-related attacks. I’d love to see Binance and Coinbase lead the way in building a safer, open crypto deposit standard for the entire industry. Mesh is willing to provide this infrastructure at zero cost. Security shouldn’t be a competitive advantage. It should be an industry standard.

🚀 Mesh × Visa. 175 MILLION merchants. One giant leap for the future of money! Six years ago, I started Mesh with a simple belief: Money should move freely. Anywhere. Anytime. Today, we’re turning that vision into reality. Through our groundbreaking partnership with Visa, crypto and stablecoin balances can now become spendable at 175 million merchants worldwide. No separate card. No cash-out. Just tap and pay. This isn’t just crypto going mainstream. It’s blockchain and tokenization going mainstream! 🌎 Six years in the making. And this is just the end of the beginning. 🚀 🎤 Unveiling it LIVE on the main stage at Money20/20 today at 10:40am PST!

4 years ago when I said we’d see more fragmentation than consolidation, some people called it a contrarian view. That was our core thesis for @meshpay! Not only have we proven right, but now we’re seeing 10x more fragmentation. New asset classes are coming on-chain—mortgages, equities, prediction markets, deposits, credits, etc.—causing even more fragmentation. This is a 100Tn market opportunity and multi-trillion-dollar companies (#teracorns) will be born in that market.

🚨BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 🚀 Six years ago, when we started Mesh, most people thought crypto payments were a niche idea. The industry was fragmented. Wallets didn’t talk to exchanges. Blockchains didn’t talk to each other. Every company was building the same infrastructure over and over again. We had a simple belief: one day, moving value globally would be as seamless as moving information on the internet. Not many people believed it then. Today, some of the biggest names in payments, crypto, banking, and fintech trust Mesh as a core part of their infrastructure. We work with companies that collectively move trillions of dollars, and together we’re helping build the foundation for the next generation of global commerce. That’s why today’s MAP announcement is meaningful to me. The future of money will not be won by a single blockchain, wallet, exchange, bank, or stablecoin. It will be built through connectivity. Through open networks. Through interoperability. MAP is another step toward that future: bringing together industry leaders to create a more connected ecosystem where value can move freely across networks, platforms, and borders. What excites me most is that we’re still at the very beginning. The opportunity ahead is significantly larger than anything we’ve accomplished so far. To everyone who believed in us early, thank you. And to those who want to help build the future of payments, financial access, and the tokenized economy: we’re hiring. There has never been a more exciting time to join Mesh. 🚀🚀🚀

🚀 Today is a big day: Mesh has officially secured a $75M Series C, bringing our valuation to $1B. 🦄 Fifteen years ago, I came to the United States with almost nothing, driven by belief, grit, and an obsession with building meaningful businesses. After years of endless nights, hard lessons, and selling my previous startup, I took the leap again six years ago and started Mesh. What began as a bold idea is now a $1B company, built alongside an extraordinary team, trusted partners, and world-class investors. This is more than a funding announcement–it’s the beginning of the end for legacy payments. For too long, global commerce has relied on systems designed decades ago: networks optimized for batch processing, delayed settlement, and geographic silos. Incumbents have locked commerce into closed networks, extracting high fees and limiting choice for merchants and consumers alike. That model worked for a while, but it doesn’t work today. At Mesh, we believe payments should be easy, instant, and interoperable by default. Any asset. Any chain. Any geography. Ultimately, today’s announcement is bigger than crypto. It’s about building a new financial system–one that actually works for everyone, not just those who profit from high friction. I want to thank our customers and partners, as well as the investors who participated in this Series C, including Dragonfly, who led the round, along with Paradigm, Moderne Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, SBI Investment, Liberty City Ventures, and others. Becoming a unicorn is not the finish line. It marks the end of the beginning. We are now stepping into our next chapter with momentum, setting out to build a generational business that defines the future of payments. Our next milestones are clear: $1B in revenue and $1T in volume.