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@Visa, @PayPal , @WesternUnion, and @Fiserv aren't piloting Solana. They're live in production. 480B+ transactions. 6 years live and in production. We just launched @solanapayments and payments.org to help you see what payments on @solana actually menas

@harold_ @solana

@CaddleMaya @solana

Another day working at an unserious chain @solana that unserious institutions such as PayPal, YouTube Western Union, BlackRock, Visa, Societe Generale, Morgan Stanley, Mastercard, Worldpay, Franklin Templeton use.

@joshyote @nocircuit @uriklarman @ryanberckmans 🤣🤣 seriously struggling to seriously do so

@nocircuit @uriklarman @ryanberckmans okay, but can you name any serious businesses that are doing anything serious

Serious people doing serious diligence overwhelmingly don't pick Solana. They never did. Too much centralization and crime. Not enough TPS. GENIUS changed everything. Age of seriousness. Mute/block all of Solana. I did a few months ago. Solana is simply not important anymore.

@nocircuit @ryanberckmans Exactly - not relevant to whom?

Visa, Western Union, PayPal, Stripe, Youtube, Worldpay, Nuvei, Fiserv, Mastercard, BlackRock, WisdomTree, Franklin Templeton, Ondo Finance, Citi Bank, Hamilton Lane, JPMorgan, State Street, Galaxy Digital, Société Générale, R3, BNY Mellon, Morgan Stanley, Bitwise, Fidelity, RockawayX, Kingdom of Bhutan, Zodia Markets, and many others disagree with you.

~$4T sits idle in prefunded accounts globally. Corporate treasuries are finally waking up. Stablecoin volumes on @solana crossed $3.7T last quarter alone. Join me + Richard Astle from @FireblocksHQ on March 16th as we walk through what onchain treasury ops actually look like - infrastructure, deployment, and the optimisation opportunities. Register 👇 lnkd.in/d9DyKVCF

@vibhu This is super cool - linkedin.com/in/maya-caddle/

If you're interested, paste a link to your LinkedIn (best way for it to disambiguate between names). I'll reply to a few folks with their assessment.

I created an app that scans the public internet, reads every interview you've done and post you've written, finds your socials, listens to every podcast you've been on, etc., and then builds a brutally honest psychographic profile. Would you want to try this?

@vibhu i want to try this

If you're like me and lived a very public life on the internet, the results are pretty amazing. At the risk of oversharing, here is the intro and then conclusion (this is about 1/10th of the total assessment).

@taylorfox__ @SolanaFndn Welcome to fun!

Excited to announce that today is my first day at the @SolanaFndn working on growing the consumer ecosystem. The mission is to accelerate Solana ecosystem teams to bring billions onchain. Grateful to continue the work I love: find exceptional people and help them turn their ideas into reality. I have utmost conviction that Solana is and will continue to be the consumer chain, home of internet capital markets, and more. There's still so much work to do, we're still early, but even from glimpses so far it's clear: builders are here, momentum is real, and the best is ahead of us. If you're building something interesting, DMs are open - let's chat!

@raagulanpathy Huge congrats!

“To the dreamers” Today we announce KAST has raised a US$80M Series A, co-led by QED and Left Lane. We launched in July 2024, and initially there was no belief in my thesis that the biggest opportunity wasn’t stablecoins themselves, but building a global-first financial platform on top of stablecoins. But one step at a time, this changed. Many individuals came into the pre-seed, and Peak XV and Hong Shan led the seed round. Now QED and Left Lane double down with conviction. Yes it’s a historic day; for a company to go from zero to such a large raise in ~16 months is rare. But for the people at KAST, the ones who I really need to thank for showing up 24x7 - it’s back to the grind. We know the only thing that matters, is not flashy raises, but delivering an outstanding product and service to the billions of people who need it, and the customers who trust us everyday. We are not perfect, we are not even two years old, but god damn we try our absolute best. My final points are to the dreamers and believers. Building KAST, the mission was simple, be the stable backbone to people’s financial life, so they can fly as high as they want. KAST is built for the dreamers, and KAST is for believers who trusted us from very early. People like me, a simple dreamer. KAST is so personal to me, because it came from 25 years of trying and failing in life. I built so many side projects, which never went anywhere. I tried so many startups, some which even scaled and then failed. My parents are now in their late 70s, I thought they’d never see my succeed in the one thing I wanted to do the most, which was to build a generational company which made everyone proud - those who invest in KAST, work at KAST, and those who use KAST. Whilst we are not there yet, in fact far far from it, I’m evidence that if you just stay crazy and keep believing, and keep rolling the dice… eventually, you might get the momentum for it to happen. I believe KAST is in the fullness of time, a trillion dollar company for a billion+ people. I’ve never sold a share, and quite the opposite in 2025 kept buying in a lot more. My conviction is infinite on this one. People will think I’m stupid to go so deep. I don’t care. This is beyond money. Thanks for all the incredible support. Now back to work. Peace ✌🏾

@Billz_io Yes meet users where they are! & innovation will always matter just be strategic in where and how you are innovating.

Imo innovation still matters, but distribution will decide the winners. The road will be tough for startups in this space, but a startup’s advantage is speed, something large companies don’t necessarily have. We must focus all our attention on UX and UI to improve people’s lives without changing their habits.

This is why one of my biggest questions to founders of new crypto companies is how are you thinking about distributions because once these big players switch on stablecoins and crypto more broadly their volumes, distribution and reach will be significant. Of course there is a lot of room for innovation still, but my general heuristic is if you hear it on a podcast you are probably too late.

Of course completely agree although if someone is launching a business in a heavily saturated market there isnt much a foundation can do. + this isnt about marketing spend eg if you launch a crypto native remittance company, it will be really hard for you to gain a huge market share as the big players support stables as they already have the users

@CaddleMaya @Pedromiranda If foundations support founders in starting new projects, it becomes easier for them to find distribution channels against large-scale non-crypto competitors. In crypto, community support far outweighs marketing spend.

@WesternUnion is a global payments giant (globally $800B+ is remitted every year) that has fully embraced crypto and stablecoins by: - launching their own stablecoin USDPT - building out a payments and on/offramping network with the latter leveraging the 36k+ agent network globally - leveraging stablecoins for corp treasury use cases It's been amazing working with @crossmint to bring this to life!

@vibhu @nickducoff @solana @solanapayments haha touche - some big announcements coming ...

@CaddleMaya @nickducoff @solana @solanapayments let's get louder 😉

Few realize how dominant @Solana is in Africa Winning up and down the payments & stablecoin stack in a large market with imminent need for crypto

@nickducoff @vibhu @solana @solanapayments is quietly becoming an African giant 💪

@vibhu @solana @CaddleMaya 🐐

@nickducoff ME!!!

Who agrees?

@MaxFantle Enter everyone proving that they are different...

What’s up with every stablecoin payments platform looking the exact same?

@mert ramps is definitely a huge huge factor - from experience in a past life

if you're still using a CEX as your main crypto account, can you list out the top reasons why you personally still do so? habit? ramps? trust?

@NickyScanz Now you can go here's something I prepared for you earlier!!!

@NickyScanz Happy to be of service!!! 🤣

The timing of this is perfect. Was failing to explain Solana payments last night 😅