Matt Conroy

Engineer @FigureMarkets | Formerly @Figure, @SoFi

[Mike Cagney 🇺🇸 @mcagney]

We're launching an initiative at Figure and looking for a senior (C-level) marketing professional to help in what we're doing. Think of it as an independent startup within the company, and an AI-centric effort across all facets of the business - product, engineering, legal, finance...and marketing.

I'm posting what we're looking for below. If you (or someone you know) fits the bill here, please reach out to me with a CV.

- Success marketing traditional finance and/or blockchain products to retail and institutional investors

- Strong understanding of AI in marketing, including content creation, contextual outreach, social management and channel optimization

- Solid grounding in and belief of self-custody, distributed applications versus fintech super apps

- Hands on player/coach comfortable working with a small, nimble team in a 0 to 1 startup environment

- Experience managing mobile application app store processes

- Strong media relationships with proven track record of managing earned and paid media

- Successful background that should include some combination of fintech, online banking/payments, investing, DeFi, crypto and AI

[Hastra @HastraFi]

PRIME just took top spot on @DeFiLlama's RWA page for DeFi Active TVL.

Active TVL measures real, deployed capital with the majority of that being looped on @kamino.

These aren't idle deposits. This is productive onchain credit at work.

[Hastra @HastraFi]

1/ Simple staking.
Real-world yield.
Supercharged by DeFi.

Introducing PRIME, backed by leading brands across @solana.

[Solana @solana]

Nasdaq-listed @Figure is tokenizing public debt securities, bringing yield backed by US treasuries to Solana DeFi 🔥

[Matt Conroy @mattconroy]

RT @mcagney: Lots of questions around the volatility of $FIGR_HELOC price on @coingecko the past few days. And I have answers.

Coingecko t…

[Matt Conroy @mattconroy]

Can’t wait for blockchain rails to displace those that can shut down access to funds and say it can wait a few days.

[Matt Conroy @mattconroy]

@RobinhoodComms quick suggestion for you; if you are going to operate a credit card (X1) that people depend on, try supporting customers. This is the support response while I’m 2000 miles from a different payment method: “wait a few biz days…” and after I asked about the verification it took 6hrs to hear back.

@AmericanExpress welcome back to primary while x1 sits at home.

[Matt Conroy @mattconroy]

TradFi needs to catch up on some of the basic items before it can successfully transition to a blockchain world. Example from @BankofAmerica where you have to wait for the USPS to deliver your password.

[Mike Cagney 🇺🇸 @mcagney]

Excited to announce that we are recombining @Figure and @FigureMarkets. I split the company in two last year given the regulatory headwinds around blockchain. I was fortunate to bring Mike Tannenbaum in as CEO of Figure, and I became CEO of Figure Markets. With the change in the regulatory environment and the growing public market enthusiasm for blockchain companies, it made sense to recombine the companies. Michael will be the CEO of the recombined Figure, and I'll be the Executive Chairman. I won't be doing anything different - I'm still 100% focused on Figure, Provenance Blockchain Foundation and bringing the best decentralized products to market through both.

[Mike Cagney 🇺🇸 @mcagney]

You can earn 9% lending against Figure loans on Democratized Prime today - only on Figure Markets. RWA collateral, hourly liquidity. Check it out!

https://t.co/6vibVZkNAI

[Matt Conroy @mattconroy]

@cryptoyolo7 @DefiLlama @FigureMarkets If there are other places to earn 9% on USD, school me please. https://t.co/L9CwSQ5jsG

[Matt Conroy @mattconroy]

@chevrolet @Hyundai @Tesla ok. After 8 weeks, the car was returned...

Hats off to @AshevilleChevy for getting the work done quickly after the parts were available. Liriel was excellent to work with.

[Matt Conroy @mattconroy]

My daughter’s Chevy Bolt has now been battery-less for 7 weeks. @chevrolet, should we just list it on Zillow as a tiny home? Meanwhile, @Hyundai or @Tesla seem to have functional EVs. #WarrantyWoes #StillWaiting

[DefiLlama.com @DefiLlama]

Now tracking @FigureMarkets's YLDS coin on our Stables Dashboard

YLDS is a fixed-price, interest-bearing stablecoin that accrues daily and is native to a public blockchain. It’s transferable, SEC-registered, and backed by the same assets as prime money market funds

[Matt Conroy @mattconroy]

Week 5 was uneventful... no news, no parts, just wait longer is the message. Now onto week 6 of waiting for @chevrolet to support their vehicles. #lemon

[Matt Conroy @mattconroy]

3rd week of no timeline from @chevrolet on parts for a Bolt. How can you support electric vehicles if you can't even get a replacement battery in a timely fashion. Super inconvenient as they'll reimburse a vehicle at ~$50/day, but if it is your 20yo daughter's car, you aren't renting for $50/day... sigh

[Matt Conroy @mattconroy]

Welcome to week 5 of waiting for parts from @chevrolet … on the bright side it seems like other manufacturers can fix their vehicles.

[Matt Conroy @mattconroy]

4th week in the books @chevrolet - guess we should be driving a @Ford

[Matt Conroy @mattconroy]

@K3YPTlC 🤣

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

A couple reflections on the quantum computing breakthrough we just announced...

Most of us grew up learning there are three main types of matter that matter: solid, liquid, and gas. Today, that changed.

After a nearly 20 year pursuit, we’ve created an entirely new state of matter, unlocked by a new class of materials, topoconductors, that enable a fundamental leap in computing.

It powers Majorana 1, the first quantum processing unit built on a topological core.

We believe this breakthrough will allow us to create a truly meaningful quantum computer not in decades, as some have predicted, but in years.

The qubits created with topoconductors are faster, more reliable, and smaller.

They are 1/100th of a millimeter, meaning we now have a clear path to a million-qubit processor.

Imagine a chip that can fit in the palm of your hand yet is capable of solving problems that even all the computers on Earth today combined could not!

Sometimes researchers have to work on things for decades to make progress possible.

It takes patience and persistence to have big impact in the world.

And I am glad we get the opportunity to do just that at Microsoft.

This is our focus: When productivity rises, economies grow faster, benefiting every sector and every corner of the globe.

It’s not about hyping tech; it’s about building technology that truly serves the world.