Heading to London next week for Solana Breakpoint with the @sphere_labs team. If you’re working on payments, treasury, or settlement, message me and we’ll find time to chat about what we’re building with SpherePay and SphereNet.
Korea is a rare setup: deep retail demand, friction for global capital, and tokenized securities rules being written now
With DB Securities (part of $11B Korean conglomerate DB Group) we’re exploring STO, RWA, and stablecoin settlement pilots
Enterprise @solana in its true form
We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer 🧑💻
Own customer success engineering for SpherePay end to end. Turn what you learn from customers into better tooling, docs and product, so every integration is easier than the last.
Remote, US-based. Apply: https://t.co/feVZPyno5i
Kazakhstan sits on fast-growing trade corridors between Asia and Europe 🇰🇿
We’ve signed an MOU with Korea’s KOSDAQ-listed Aroot to bring our cross-border payments solution to Kazakh importers and exporters through FORTA, Aroot’s digital finance platform in Kazakhstan.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan is a hidden giant.
Excited to publicly announce our partnership with one of the few, if not only, publicly listed Korean companies, (Aroot) that is simultaneously licensed in Korea as a payment gateway (PG) & in Kazakhstan as a stablecoin issuer partnered with custodian Alatau City Bank to support various cross-border trade use-cases.
Central Asia is the original Silk Road that connected East Asia with the Mediterranean, and supported the heart of ancient and medieval cross-border trade. Given the prominence of ethnic Koreans who still reside in the corridor (Koryoin) and the increasing criticality of minerals, data centers, and other key AI supply chains constraints that Kazakhstan is uniquely posed to service, we are thrilled to be supporting Aroot as a locally licensed partner in the next generation of Central-East Asian trade finance.
Ever since our first trip to Astana last year (shoutouts to @MohitBhalodkar@crypturco@calilyliu@yelennyy@akshaybd@farhaj@cryptolgi), the latent opportunity to accelerate the future was self-evident just by looking around at the vast expanses of land and the tangible tenacity and intelligence of its people. We @sphere_labs couldn't be more proud to hopefully play a small part.
Excited to be speaking at @TechCabal Moonshot & sharing @sphere_labs perspective on the future of money.
This year’s theme “Courage & Conviction - Building for a New World” and in payments, the new world is here: stablecoins, tokenized deposits, agentic payments.
We’re cookn!
After a currency crisis, local stablecoin holdings rise about 75% within a year and stay there, a new @IMFNews working paper finds.
Our CEO @0xdirichlet & SVB’s @A_Vassallo discuss what the move from bank deposits to on-chain dollars means for oversight in their latest report: https://t.co/7NoZMA37JK
A view from the front lines
@0xdirichlet on under-discussed commercial use cases for stablecoins and tokenized deposits, and a future where the two become interchangeable
Greetings from @money2020 👋
If you’re moving money across borders, stop by the Startup Hub to see how our compliance-native API helps companies and their customers access USD and send funds globally.
Sphere business accounts are now self-serve
Sign up at https://t.co/N2cDh99pdc and jump straight into the dashboard.
Finish onboarding on your own time, including business verification, to unlock production access with live money movement and API keys.
Change log 👉 https://t.co/YxOGLSa8YQ
Great discussion, with each bringing deep expertise in a different part of the stablecoin payments stack:
• Arnold @0xdirichlet | @sphere_labs: Navigating bank regulatory compliance
• Zaheer @zaheerebtikar | @Plasma: Whether payments need a dedicated chain
• Jason | @meshpay: Connecting multiple chains & stablecoins
The future of sport is about more than what happens on the court.🎾
In partnership with @NYAtlantics_, we’re exploring what’s next at the intersection of padel and technology, and what it means to be part of a changing sports landscape.
When most of a country’s financial activity already runs through its banks, it seems fair to expect new money rails to start there too.
@0xdirichlet on why tokenized deposits are leading the way in Japan’s digital asset market, from his RealFi x Asia Stablecoin Conference panel.
Compliance is one of the most important functions in financial services. It’s also one of the most duplicated.
Our Chief Compliance Officer on how shared, audited checks could reduce risk for institutions and the customers they serve. https://t.co/vqoFLFTzGE
Send live payments on Sphere before committing to a full API integration ⚡️
Built for B2B and B2C platforms, our Integrators Dashboard lets you onboard customers and track every transfer to settlement, so your engineers can build on their own timeline.