Ira Auerbach

I am excited to share that I have joined @galaxyhq as Chief Product Officer, Digital Assets. @galaxyhq sits at the intersection of traditional finance, digital assets, and infrastructure, with a clear focus on building institutional-grade platforms at scale. I am looking forward to partnering with the team to simplify access to the blockchain ecosystem for both institutional and retail users. Looking forward to help shape what comes next!

This isn’t just another logo x logo partnership—this is a big fucking deal. So excited to form a deep partnership between @SuccinctLabs and @offchain to bring ZK to their rollup stack. Over the next year, our teams will collaborate on a ZKP version of Arbitrum’s rollup stack. The ZK-powered stack will be available for any Arbitrum chain to use, including Arbitrum One ($19B in TVL), Robinhood Chain, @convergeonchain by @ethena and more. What are the implications? Validation of every rollup will be a ZK rollup: Arbitrum is an OG pioneer of the rollup-centric roadmap. They went to market early with optimistic fraud proof technology. But with the launch of SP1 and the Succinct Prover Network, their team saw that ZK was finally here: easy, affordable and ready for integration. The Arbitrum team prioritizing ZK shows every rollup will be a ZK rollup. 1 year exclusivity—the best teams choose Succinct when building with ZK: Succinct and Tandem (the venture arm of Offchain Labs) have committed to a 1 year exclusive partnership! This is a huge vote of confidence in Succinct’s market-leading ZK technology and shows that when teams choose ZK, they choose Succinct. TAM expansion for Succinct: Almost 1/2 of Ethereum’s L2s use Arbitrum’s stack, including Arbitrum One ($19B in TVL), Robinhood, Converge (Ethena), Plume and many others. All of these chains (and future Arbitrum Orbit chains) can leverage the benefits of ZK powered by proofs from Succinct’s Prover Network. With this integration and our existing OP Stack integration (OP Succinct), our prover network can prove Every Single Rollup. It’s been great working with the brilliant minds at @offchain, and the technical integration is well underway. Expect to see a lot more news in the upcoming months!

Excited to be working with @SuccinctLabs!

Was great chatting with @CoinDesk for Crypto Daybook Americas

Short-term price movements are being driven by fear and headlines. But underneath that, the fundamentals of crypto are still moving in the right direction. TLDR, Builders are building. The signal is there. The outlook for the crypto industry is up and to the right.

There are also signs of long-term strength in the broader crypto ecosystem. Developer activity remains strong, code is being shipped, and new projects continue to launch across the space.

Had an exciting chat about the state crypto markets and adoption this week with @AsharqBusiness Here's some of my takes 👇

@AustinBallard1 @offchain @ethereum @arbitrum @fhenix @EspressoSys 💪

.@offchain continues to be the stewards of @ethereum development. The mission is to scale @ethereum through multiple products: @arbitrum, scale your app w/ Orbit, and Stylus. Tandem is continuing this development w/ @fhenix @EspressoSys and more Cc: @iraauerbach

Congrats to the @fhenix team on the exciting milestone!

Excited to join @sgoldfed, @GuyZys and @guyitz next Monday! We'll be chatting about Tandem's partnership with Fhenix and how we're working together to bring FHE confidential smart contracts to life on @Ethereum and @Arbitrum!

@_TalkingTokens @offchain Thanks for having me @_TalkingTokens !

Today's episode is all about Tandem - @offchain' partner studio and VC arm We sat down with @iraauerbach who's spearheading it by helping startups scale on Ethereum and building strong GTM strategies And we learned more about its first 3 investments 👀 Links below!

Had a great conversation with @jacqmelinek on @_TalkingTokens! We chatted about how we’re accelerating innovation on Ethereum through supporting builders at Tandem by @offchain , the latest addition of projects we’re supporting like @fhenix, and much more! Check it out below 👇

@jacqmelinek @offchain @_TalkingTokens Thanks for having me @jacqmelinek !

7 months ago @offchain launched Tandem, a partner studio and venture capital arm, with a $10M commitment. Now, the venture is led by ex-Gemini & Nasdaq Exec @iraauerbach. He's bringing his Palantir mindset to help startups scale Ethereum. Watch on @_TalkingTokens: