I believe 98% of crypto neobanks won’t survive. Building one has become surprisingly easy with infrastructure providers like Privy and Rain. But building a product is very different from building a business.
How do you acquire users at scale? Through cashback and subsidies? If so, what’s your long-term economic model? How do you generate enough revenue to sustain a team and keep growing?
The most successful outcome for many will likely be either raising enough capital to keep compounding—like Kast—or finding a strategic acquisition, as Cypher did. For most others, surviving independently will be extremely difficult.
Today marks one of the biggest milestones in Cypher's journey.
Cypher is being acquired by @NiumGlobal, the global leader in real-time cross-border payments infrastructure.
Over the past four years, we've built products that brought stablecoins, self-custody, and global payments together. Today, that journey continues on a much larger scale.
We're incredibly grateful to our users for believing in us.💛
Your Solana wallet history is your credit score now.
You can borrow USDC and spend it at a local merchant in seconds.
Nothing gets locked as collateral, and you do not need a bank account.
We just shipped crypto-native loans, and they are live today.
Excited to work with @bzlwang (a fellow Aussie!) and @cclayporter as a design partner to @metalntwx, a Layer-1 blockchain designed for compliant global settlement at scale.
Filling an important gap in infrastructure purpose built for licensed financial institutions to move and settle stablecoins securely, efficiently, and within regulated global frameworks. Follow this team 👇
1/ Multicoin published a full analysis & valuation of Hyperliquid (HYPE).
HYPE is now one of the largest positions in our liquid hedge fund. We've been accumulating aggressively since February.
Here's why we believe HYPE will be one of the best performers over the next cycle:
Introducing the Stablecoin FX Layer.
Every bank, fintech and payment provider is launching stablecoins. But every new stablecoin fragments liquidity.
Today, Spark introduces the Stablecoin FX Layer, built on @Uniswap v4, a shared liquidity infrastructure that allows stablecoins to access shared liquidity instead of building isolated pools.
The initial deployment brings approximately $150M of liquidity to Uniswap v4 across the first USDS/PYUSD and USDS/USDT pools.
This is just the beginning.
Learn more:
https://t.co/S5xVANjUt4