My new mantra. Every shot you don’t take is a miss.

Generally people want to be helpful. They want to see you succeed. So ask.

How long before a crypto exchange buys a bank in Kenya? 🇰🇪

Today was one of those days. No pictures. Didn't even think to take any. Then my son looked at me and said, "this is the best day ever." That's the whole album. May God bless you with days like this.

Two founders. Eight years of building payout infrastructure. One decision to join Anchorage Digital. @omri_mor and Tom Harel on why they built Routable, and what we build next.

BIG NEWS. Read more about our acquisition: anchorage.com/press-room/anc…

Our first Anchorage Digital Institute during SIBOS brought together senior bankers and decision makers for an in-person event to discuss the evolving stablecoin landscape. Highlights included our Head of International Banking, Monica Ramirez de Arellano, and our Chief Compliance Officer, Dustin Palmer, discussing the company’s regulatory, correspondent banking, and tokenization expertise, with curated fireside chats with leaders from Banco Azteca. From issuance to settlement, we provide the full stack of capabilities institutions need to modernize how money moves.

PRESS RELEASE. CMA APPROVES PARTICIPATION BY KENYAN INVESTORS IN THE DANGOTE PETROLEUM REFINERY & PETROCHEMICALS INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING (IPO) THROUGH A GLOBAL DEPOSITORY RECEIPT

150 years of moving money. Now onchain. $USDPT is @WesternUnion's stablecoin, issued by Anchorage Digital Bank and built on @solana. Near-instant, low-cost transfers across 150+ countries.

On November 18, 1883, America lived through the same noon twice, because the railroads decided the country could no longer run on thousands of local clocks. The law caught up 35 years later. Finance is at the same moment now. Read the full story below.

Mr President has lost touch. Abit.

Today I attended a funeral service at a certain church. Stayed back to catch up with a few friends. About an hour after the funeral service that ended at 10am, a wedding entrouge arrived. Life goes on.

Helping uncle DT sell his shares worldwide? @cngn_co 🤝 @getequity

This is cool! Might be the best demo for open onchain economies @base x @getequity x @cngn_co x @DangoteGroup #ProbablyNothing

Congrats, Uncle DT 🙃. Grateful for the @cngn_co pilots on @solana, @base enabling global buyers to acquire Nigerian assets like #DPRI Thanks to all the cracked builders 💜 @Nectar_finance @getequity ...

Stablecoin issuance in US dollars could reach the trillions. Getting there takes clear rules for moving that much money from traditional rails onto blockchain rails. The GENIUS Act delivers them. The CLARITY Act would do the same for digital asset markets.

The service in Africa is so good that I wish we had a mandatory tipping culture compared to what you’d typically get in the US. I mean the Uber Eats guy can up 5 floors without a lift. Try to get that in San Francisco. The waitress will recommend the right dish when she sees you’re confused. She will rush to the table and bring the menu, make some conversation. The things we take for granted.

For your entire life you've grown up thinking the map of Africa was accurate, and then in your mid 30s you learn from BBC that well, what you see in the picture isn't what you really get. Then you do research and learn this has always been known. National Geographic dropped the Mercator default in 1922, before you were even born. Yet for some strange reason your geography teacher in school kept using it. Probably because they didn't know either. I mean, who is really scrutinizing the size of Greenland whilst in Africa? Lesson: what other things have we believed for life that are false? And how should this shape how we inform the next generation?

So… I’ve joined @Anchorage, to scale stablecoin correspondent banking across Africa. Honest story. When I first joined this industry in 2017, I was drawn in because everyone said Bitcoin was going to make us rich. As a young professional that was reason enough. Plus the job was 100% remote. Fast forward, the work got real. If crypto is meant to bank the unbanked, where are the most unbanked people on earth? Africa. So that became my career, nine years of building on ramps and opening markets, from Binance’s first fiat gateway on the continent to USDC adoption across the region while at Coinbase. During this time, stablecoins have gone from a trader's parking spot to how value actually moves here. But the banks are still locked out. Correspondent banks have been quietly leaving Africa for a decade, and what remains is slow, expensive, and closed on weekends. African banks watch dollar flow leak to rails their risk committees can’t approve. That’s the job now. Anchorage Digital is a federally chartered US bank, and I’m bringing its regulated settlement rail to African banks. The riches were the bait. The problem was the hook. Now let’s get the banks on.

African founders need to understand even VCs are running a business. Earlier this year, about 10 slots opened up at YCombinator for blockchain companies, courtesy of Coinbase, and I (+@deriq_eth) fought all we humanly can to get 2 of the most matured African startups in the list. During the interview, YC asked one of them - "how big is the market you're serving?" At the time, 80% of their customers were from Africa. YC turned them down with a note "once you expand your client-base globally, pls get back to us." Today, that startup is aggressively expanding into Latam & EU. The conditions are not ideal, but VCs don't see the African market as big enough to take a bet. That is the problem.

Chimamanda says "Never admire quietly." How many times does your partner come back from the salon looking great and you say nothing? Or the best you manage is "you should do your hair like that more often," instead of just telling her she looks good. Then a colleague does work that was better than it needed to be, and you notice and stay quiet. Then your boy shows up looking sharp, and you clock it and say nothing. I fall short here more than I'd like to admit. Guys, resolve to admire publicly.