Kirill Slavin

6 Months Ago we were at the @easya_app and @AlgoFoundation hackathon building DIIISCO. Now today, we’re meeting @emily4MK, our local MP, in the Houses of Parliament to talk about the UK’s AI Strategy. Massive thanks to @actmembers for hosting!

what happens when a PhD from Oxford University @Jackson_Neuro launches his next big thing on EasyA Kickstart? a whole lot of shipping and a trillion dollar industry that’s about to be disrupted 👇

We’re UKmaxxing in Leeds at the first ever blockchain conference in Yorkshire. Locally built. Globally connected. 🤝 🗓️ Friday | April 17 ⏰ 5PM-9PM Only 100 tickets available and most are already gone! Grab yours now ↓

Most people choose a chain based on hype, ecosystem size, or incentives. We chose @Arc for a different reason: it aligns with how we think stablecoins should actually work. When you build around stablecoins long enough, you start to notice the same pattern, the problem isn’t demand, it’s friction. Users don’t fail to adopt because they don’t understand stablecoins. They drop off because the experience doesn’t match what they expect from money. Waiting for confirmations. Managing gas in different tokens. Switching chains just to complete a flow. At some point, it stops feeling like finance and starts feeling like infrastructure leaking into the user experience. That’s where Arc felt fundamentally different. Sub-second finality isn’t just about speed, it changes how you design products. You stop building around delays and start building for immediacy. Native @USDC as gas removes an entire category of user confusion. There’s no second asset to think about, no hidden step before a transaction works. And once those two things are in place, a lot of assumptions break. You can design for micro-transactions without worrying about fee volatility. You can treat payments as real-time interactions, not queued events. You can build flows where users don’t even realize they’re crossing chains. That’s where @circle infrastructure completes the picture. With CCTP, we don’t have to think in terms of bridged liquidity or wrapped representations. USDC moves as itself, consistently, predictably, across environments. That simplifies not just security assumptions, but how we think about capital altogether. Instead of asking “where is the liquidity?”, we can design systems where liquidity is simply available where it’s needed. That shift is what made @Xylonet_ possible. We didn’t want to build another set of disconnected DeFi tools. We wanted a system where swaps, yield, payments, and crosschain movement all feel like part of the same flow. And with PayX, that philosophy extends even further. If sending value requires a wallet before it can be received, you’ve already lost most users. So we removed that assumption. Identity becomes the entry point, not infrastructure. When someone can receive stablecoins as easily as they receive a message, you’re no longer onboarding users into crypto, you’re integrating value into the platforms they already use. That’s the level of simplicity we think stablecoins require to reach real adoption. Arc gave us the execution layer to design for that future. Circle gave us the primitives to move value without compromise. Everything else is just building on top of that foundation.

shoutout to all the builders who came to hear our founders @kwok_phil and @dom_kwok share their journey! 👏🚀 EasyA is big in amsterdam! 🇳🇱

happening today at 11:30am ET! 🎙️ our founders @kwok_phil and @dom_kwok sit down with @CoinDesk to chat about our EasyA @consensus2026 hackathon. miami. may 5-7. lock in.

Socialism is a mental disease. Even when they have the chance to create wealth, they refuse. They would rather destroy yours so everyone shares the same misery.

Read my full thoughts in the @WSJ: wsj.com/opinion/digita…

It's time to pass the Clarity Act.

good morning to all the founders launching on @EasyA_Kickstart 👏 🚀

It's incredible the extent to which the social sanctioning engine has simply seized up. Hit pieces that would have been 5-alarm fires 5 years ago now come and go with no notice. Nobody cares, it's over.

1,100+ teams applied. 12 made it. We’re one of them. @base Batches 003. Bank like the 1%. Become Liminal.

The White House just published a report that quietly guts the banking industry's main argument against stablecoin yield! Banks have been warning that letting stablecoins pay yield would trigger a $6.6T deposit exodus. That's Bank of America's number - it's widely cited, and being used to justify banning yield in the CLARITY Act. The White House Council of Economic Advisers ran the actual model. Banning stablecoin yield increases bank lending by $2.1B. That's 0.02% of total US bank loans (a rounding error). And it comes with a net welfare loss of $800M - meaning the ban costs consumers more than it protects banks. Here's the full breakdown: - Yield ban boosts lending by $2.1B (0.02% increase) - Large banks capture 76% of that gain - community banks get the remaining 24% - Net welfare cost to consumers: $800M - Cost-benefit ratio: 6.6x - for every dollar of lending gained, $6.60 in consumer benefit gets sacrificed Even under the most extreme assumptions: - Stablecoin market growing 6x - All reserves locked in unlendable cash - The Fed scrapping its monetary framework entirely ... the model only produces $531B in additional lending. Still nowhere near Bank of America's $6.6T deposit flight story. The White House's own summary line: "A yield prohibition would do very little to protect bank lending, while forgoing the consumer benefits of competitive returns on stablecoin holdings." The GENIUS Act already bans direct stablecoin yield. Some versions of the CLARITY Act want to close the affiliate loopholes too. This report is the White House putting the math on the table. The banks' case doesn't hold up.

Today, we delivered a major new product launch with the introduction of CPN Managed Payments. As we continue to scale stablecoin payments, and build on the rapid growth we've already been seeing on CPN, we found a very strong need from banks, PSPs, fintechs and large tech firms for a solution that enabled them to operate fiat-to-fiat and fiat-stablecoin payment flows without needing to stand-up and operate their own wallets and blockchain infrastructure, or handle digital assets and stablecoins directory (minting, custody,etc) and similarly to stand-up the licensing and compliance requirements for using stablecoins and blockchains for payments activity. Managed Payments enables an FI to join and operate on CPN, while Circle handles the rest, building on our decade-plus experience operating the world's most widely adopted, compliant and regulated infrastruture for digital currency payments. CPN Managed Payments significantly expands Circle's CPN offering, and we believe will accelerate adoption by FIs around the world. Details, including the full API set, included below. circle.com/cpn/managed-pa…

Circle was founded on a simple idea: money should move more like information on the internet. As @jerallaire puts it, the goal was to build “a protocol for dollars on the internet,” one that allows value to move over open networks at the speed of the internet. For banks, that vision is becoming a strategic question: → Stablecoins are becoming infrastructure → AI is accelerating the shift → Payments, FX, and settlement are moving toward always-on systems circle.com/blog/building-…

we're inviting ONE THOUSAND of the world's smartest people to build the future of crypto and AI with us at our EasyA @consensus2026 hackathon in miami! yes, ONE THOUSAND!

The Hackathon deadline has been extended: applications close today. 🛠️ @easya_app x Consensus Hackathon alumni have gone on to raise from a16z, Y Combinator, Founders Fund, and more. If you build, this is your shot. Approved participants get a free Consensus pass.

Building treasury infrastructure today still means stitching together banks, ERPs, and manual controls. On Arc, developers can build: → Real-time intercompany funding flows → Programmable multi-entity treasury logic → Automated payroll, vendor payouts, and sweeps → Programmable onchain yield allocation Stablecoin-native gas. Deterministic finality. Opt-in privacy. Treasury logic becomes software.

our campaign across europe is in full swing! following the path julius caesar took: conquered gaul (modern day france) 🇫🇷 then britannia 🇬🇧 next up: batavia (netherlands) 🇳🇱 conquering europe 👑

best part about running @easya_app is helping the world's smartest people build their crypto dreams