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Introducing Musubi - Chainless Swaps Musubi aligns incentives across the ecosystem, promoting integration rather than liquidity fragmentation. Kinto finds the liquidity, and you can swap it as if Ethereum was a single chain. We’re doing our part to create a more cohesive and aligned ecosystem. Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/epiE__Yz

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🌐 Crypto isn't about replacing dollars—it's about transforming how they move. During Mesh's #TOKEN2049 panel, "Crypto Payments and Stablecoins: Returning to Crypto's Original Use Case," Ran (Goldi) Goldshtein from #Fireblocks shared his perspective: consumers likely won’t pay directly with crypto, but instead with familiar currencies like the US dollar. The real innovation lies in how these payments are processed—flowing on crypto rails as stablecoins, transforming the future of transactions. 💸 This shift represents a practical path forward, where stablecoins enhance existing systems rather than replace them. 🚀 At Mesh, we’re thrilled to collaborate with incredible innovators like Fireblocks as we build the future together. #mesh #crypto #stablecoins

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📣 New: Breez SDK - Nodeless 0.3.2 ⚡💧 What’s new in this release? 👀 → Lowball fees for direct Liquid Network transactions → Send all funds is now supported in pay_onchain → Updated default Electrum URLs Plus more updates on optimizations + fixes ⚡ ↓ Check out the link in the comments ↓

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Ryan Bozarth, former CEO of Coinbase Custody, has launched Dakota, a crypto-native banking platform designed to offer reliable financial services to crypto startups and foundations. Dakota leverages stablecoins backed by U.S. Treasuries to provide global business accounts, enabling seamless cross-border transactions and access to competitive yields. The platform aims to bridge the gap between traditional banking and the crypto industry, addressing challenges such as slow money transfers and limited access to financial services for crypto businesses. 

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Announcement from the Aptos Foundation: Circle's USDC and Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP), and support within Stripe crypto products to launch on Aptos Network. By integrating USDC, Aptos is now positioned as the ultimate hub for interoperable DeFi, offering industry-leading speed, reliability, and cost-effectiveness, accelerating Aptos' global financial ecosystem expansion. As we gear up for the native USDC launch on Aptos, the Ethereum-bridged USDC from the AptosBridge will be renamed lzUSDC on block explorers. Ecosystem apps are urged to update their UI and documentation, ensuring a smooth transition for users. Native USDC issued by Circle Token Name: USDC Token Symbol: USDC Mainnet Address: Coming Soon Testnet Address: https://lnkd.in/eUEsSNw3 Bridged USDC from LayerZero Token Name: Bridged USDC (LayerZero)  Token Symbol: lzUSDC Mainnet Address: https://lnkd.in/e3AVh5-n The integration of Aptos into Stripe's crypto products paired with native USDC, will provide a reliable fiat on and off-ramp for the Aptos network, streamline merchant pay-ins and payouts, and offer a seamless connection between traditional finance and blockchain technology. For more information on how USDC, CCTP, and Stripe's integration are making money move better on Aptos: https://lnkd.in/e-39M4-8

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DeFi is missing key building blocks to unlock significant levels of institutional adoption. This latest article by our CEO Jesus Rodriguez explores what's missing👇 https://lnkd.in/dhHFVihd

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"Forget the year of the snake — this is the year of tokenization."🐍🌐 Katherine Ross of Blockworks highlights how tokenized assets are reshaping finance. With insights from Carlos Domingo, explore how Securitize is driving growth in treasuries, DeFi integrations, and beyond. Check out the full article: https://lnkd.in/erDTk7iy

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At #Consensus2024, we're bringing together the industry's visionaries to discuss the current state of crypto trading Join OKX president Hong Fang, dYdX founder and CEO Antonio Juliano and Kraken CEO David Ripley as they share what customers are looking for in the latest bull run, how this behavior differs from past cycles and how the exchanges are handling rejuvenated volumes. 💡 Find out more: https://lnkd.in/gGhWsv9k

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Block, the parent company of Square and Cash App, aims to leverage its dual ownership to create synergy between its point-of-sale software and peer-to-peer payments app. Jack Dorsey, Block's founder, highlighted the advantage of having relationships with both merchants and consumers, stating it's a rare position in commerce and payments. Ryan Budd, Cash App's head of financial products, hinted at plans to integrate a small business experience into Square and incentivize Cash App users to engage with Square merchants. Block is focused on connecting Cash App's consumer base with Square's merchant network, aiming to transform Cash App into a consumer app for interacting with Square merchants. This move aligns with Block's strategy to dominate various aspects of the consumer ecosystem and potentially monetize consumer spending data for advertising purposes. Read More Here: https://lnkd.in/eh-8KS9V Eugene Tsay Wade Robison John O'Beirne Emily C. Chiu Eileen Wiens Jim McKelvey Branded Hospitality Ventures #innovation #venturecapital #hospitality #technology Owen Jennings (OBJ) Brooke Ellis Jamie (Russo) HicksMing-Tai Huh

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Buy stablecoins like $USDC with Kado 💸 We’ve got you covered with support for ACH, wire and SEPA transfers. Fast, easy and inexpensive 🚀

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Are you attending CoinDesk's Consensus 2024 event? Meet Austin Cornell, Sebastian Ramirez, Mark Daly, Adam Leaman and Tanner Sax from Zero Hash to learn why companies including Stripe, Shift4, MoonPay and Transak build crypto and stablecoin products on Zero Hash’s full stack API and SDK infrastructure. Talk to us about: - Fiat to crypto on and off-ramps - Stablecoin payments for global commerce - Global payroll and payouts - Remittance and cross border payments - Offering an embedded crypto investment product We look forward to seeing you in Austin, Texas! #Crypto #Utility #DigitalAssets #Consensus #Stablecoins

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🚨Can UwU Lend Recover From a $19.5M Hack?🔍 DeFi lending protocol UwU Lend was targeted in a rapid $19.5 million theft, executed within just six minutes. This breach underlines the persistent security issues plaguing the DeFi sector. UwU Lend immediately paused its operations following the attack, undertaking significant efforts to remedy the damage and secure its platform. How will it regain user trust? Despite the significant heist, UwU Lend's total value locked astonishingly soared by 135% in a day. What's driving this surge amid the turmoil? Read more below: #recruitment #crypto #blockchain #web3

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Today is an inflection point for Breakout with the announcement of our $4.5m venture growth round led by the experienced team at RockawayX with participation from Mechanism, Round13, CSquared, IOBC, and Mentat Group. Operationally, we’ve accomplished one of the hardest feats — going zero to one. We currently have over 5,000 traders that have collectively traded over $12B in notional volume and we’re growing exponentially. It’s now time to take things to the next level with a stacked treasury that we can leverage to improve our product even further and get Breakout into the hands of tens of thousands of new traders across the globe. I often get asked what it’s like to run a startup and many times I don’t even know where to begin. Startups are HARD. I won’t get into the minutiae but after 4 startups and 16 years, the biggest takeaway for me has been that in order to succeed, you have to mentally overcome the fact that successful startups need to fall forward and constantly navigate unique obstacles without allowing any one of those obstacles to paralyze the company. This is a constant battle that is unachievable without a resilient team that all share the same mindset and entrepreneurial drive. Our team at Breakout is the best I’ve ever been a part of and our growth in such a short period of time could not have been achieved so far without each and every person involved. You know who you are, thank you. We’re going to continue to push the envelope and will have some really exciting news to share in the coming weeks on the product front. Stay tuned. https://lnkd.in/ezPs8pdE

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Anuj Bathla, Senior Director of Business Development of Circle explains how Circle shares similar objectives to Zero Hash to accelerate the real-world use cases of #stablecoins. Anuj shares three key areas, where stablecoins add value: 1. Global access to dollars and the dollar economy, especially for markets with high inflation and currency instability; 2. Cross-border payments; B2B, Payroll, Marketplace, and P2P remittance transfer; 3. Unlocking the ability for people to leverage stablecoins to trade global markets Watch the full discussion between Anuj and Mark Daly, Global Head of Revenue of Zero Hash to learn why and how Zero Hash and Circle partner to simplify access to #USDC. https://lnkd.in/e29BFHuk #Partnership #Payments

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