building @privy_io @stripecrypto
manhattan, nyc
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so @StripeCrypto coded
YC (@YCOMBINATOR) IS LITERALLY TELLING FOUNDERS WHERE THE NEXT BILLION-DOLLAR CRYPTO STARTUPS WILL BE BUILT
- APIs for AI agents
- AI Trading Agents
- New USD stablecoins
- Non-USD stablecoins
- Stablecoin-powered neobanks
- New exchanges & trading UIs
The playbook is here.
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have a friend who says that for work she writes slacks / emails mostly in lowercase and adds in a typo every now and then so it’s obvious it isn’t AI generated
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“okay before i answer, i’m gonna tell you a story - during the Persian empire, the messengers had the shortest lifespan because…”
“oh i’m not gonna like what you’re about to tell me”
“no”
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my bf first thing this morning:
“I can’t believe you weren’t more shook by the Tesla event. They basically built a flying car. 0 to 60 in one second is actually insane.”
tesla is a very masculine coded brand and they understand their audience really well
i watched this video with a group of men and women. the men were literally jaw dropped googoogagaing. the girls were like “oh that’s cool”
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his perfect date night: You Can See Everything premiere straight home to watch highlights from the Tesla Roadster event
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working at @privy_io feels more like a high growth startup than ever before now that we are supercharged by Stripe in many ways 💪💪💪
if you want to help enable every business to be global from day 1, designed for both humans and agents, the @StripeCrypto team is HIRING :)
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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ted retweeted
Def one of my favorite projects I've worked on at @privy_io, working with the dream team @deel @tempo to bring the first and biggest enterprise stablecoin privacy use case to life!
Reach out if you're looking to add private stablecoin payments to your fintech stack :)
Private stablecoin payouts for workers across 80+ countries, protected by Privy.
Together with Tempo, we integrated Zones natively into our wallet infrastructure, making it easy for businesses to keep balances and payments private.
Live in production with @deel.
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last week, @deel became the first ever company to run payroll into stablecoin accounts *privately* with @privy_io wallets on @tempo zones (!!)
Deel sets the standard for companies coming onchain - so much fun building with @thierryEdde44 and his team at the forefront of crypto
Privacy is live on Tempo.
Tempo Zones let enterprises keep customer stablecoin balances and payments private, with built-in compliance controls and access to global liquidity.
@deel is the first customer with Zones live in production.
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don’t know if it says more about him or about us that he’s still running this playbook years later
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ted retweeted
On Bridge & Privy:
“There is a certain kind of crypto nativity & way of working in the crypto world that is different to the world that we came from.”
“Folks on those teams are crypto native in a way that would be hard to get there that quickly at Stripe, & they've injected a lot of that crypto nativity into the Stripe culture.”
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no better person for the role!
@sternhenri brings relentless founder energy, customer empathy, and an undeniable vision for the future of global money movement and management.
incredibly inspiring to work alongside him and the entire @StripeCrypto team - join us!!
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calling it now (albeit 3 years after will)
huberman’s next arc is going to be IRL retreats or a physical wellness center
It seems obvious there's a huge opportunity for a modern executive physical that blurs the lines of medical/lifestyle care.
Instead of riding off the reputation of a prestigious hospital, imagine what a luxury medical retreat co-branded with a Huberman would look like.
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got to play IRL @cryptothegame_ this week with the @StripeCrypto team. unreal!
if offsites could be nominated for Emmy awards, this would’ve won hands down
ty to @DylanAbruscato, @jayhinz + @segall_max for making dreams come true
(ps we are hiring!!!)
Yesterday we got the entire @StripeCrypto team together at the Stripe HQ and it was a MOVIE!
With some serious help from @DylanAbruscato we organized an unofficial 4th szn of CTG “Stripe Island”
If you like crypto rails, obsessing over customers, and good times, come join us!
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