Olivia Chow retweetledi
Layoffs are hitting crypto:
• Algorand: 25%
• Crypto dot com: -12% workforce
• Op Labs: ~20 roles
• Gemini: up to 30% (per Bloomberg)
• Messari: leadership shakeup + cuts
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Olivia Chow
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Olivia Chow
@OYokip
Crypto x-border payments advisor. I live on a farm and build ecosystems for = access. Now @ZKZeroKnowledge.
Austin, TX Katılım Aralık 2010
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Olivia Chow retweetledi
Myself and @OYokip wrote about @Celo and @minipay in Zero In, highlighting these numbers and the fact that it's one of the most adopted products in all of crypto (by putting product, not crypto, first).
Now Celo is up 8% over the last few hours on this news.
Celo.eth/acc 🦇 🌳@Celo
🗞️ BREAKING: @Opera goes big on Celo—new proposed 160M CELO stake to transform @MiniPay distribution partner to key network stakeholder Read more about Opera's path to becoming one of the largest institutional CELO tokenholders & how they’re bringing 50M users into MiniPay ↓
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Today Opera asks for 160M $CELO instead of cash to go all‑in on that rail.
3 days ago @austincampbell and I wrote that Celo + MiniPay is QUIETLY where stablecoins are actually being used in the latest Zero In, on Celo's user-token paradox: zero-in.beehiiv.com/p/celo.
The users showed up long before the price did.
$CELO up ~8% today on the news.
MiniPay@minipay
We are taking our partnership with @Celo to the next level with a proposed 160M CELO allocation to transform into a key network stakeholder! This reinforces our mission: accessible finance What this means for you: • 50M+ Opera users can now redeem rewards as USD₮ in MiniPay • MiniPay expanding to 66+ countries with 14M+ accounts • 420M+ transactions powered by Celo's mobile-first rails
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Olivia Chow retweetledi
DAS NYC agenda preview
Why Most Blockchains Still Fail Institutions (And What To Change) with @DenelleDixon and @austincampbell
March 25. Be there.
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I've spent nearly a decade working toward one goal: send money anywhere, 24/7, instantly, cheaply.
@Celo @opera + @minipay are building a global Venmo that actually feels like Venmo, but stablecoins under the hood with self-custody intact.
400k+ verified users aren't lying.
Wrote the full breakdown with @austincampbell on exactly what they're getting right, and where the gaps are.
Study it if you share the goal. 👇
Zero Knowledge@ZKZeroKnowledge
Surprise: @CeloOrg built the Zelle of the Global South. 💰12.6M wallets 🦾$1B+ monthly remittances 👵 grandma-level easy (✅Face ID 🤬 FUCK 12-string seed phrases) BUT 📉: $CELO down ~95% from peak. HODLers enraged. @OYokip & @austincampbell : What's going on?
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Olivia Chow retweetledi
469M @MrBeast subscribers > 349M US population.
Stablecoin sage @austincampbell on @bitsandbips :
God-tier distribution power for MrBeast's bank @step and their not-so-secret plans for a stablecoin.
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Hilarious. This should be an ad for B2B Payment companies.
$300K to $1M/year on average (depending on methodology) were lost PER company to invoice fraud.
Now, it's 10x thanks to @cobie innovation.
@paystand for ERP
@paymentworks for vendor identity
@OscilarInc for risk detection
AI fight AI. Go!
Cobie@cobie
In January I asked OpenClaw to send 50,000 small invoices to Fortune500 companies every day. Through experimentation we have found 2% will pay without checking if this is a legitimate invoice. These companies are wasteful — Claw captures that leakage. $10m ARR as a solo founder in under two months. AI is enabling so many new business models. Thank you!
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This will be my go-to link to send people when they want to understand the mechanics of how a stablecoin works and what, how, who when you buy one.
Complete with diagrams and context with how they fit with today's system.
Nice job @austincampbell
Austin Campbell@austincampbell
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M&A deal up 59% yoy - a record year.
I 100% agree with @A_Vassallo at SVB that this trend will continue into 2026. Consolidation between crypto companies with real business (many OG crypto payments), licenses, and/or solid infra will be acquired by tradfi or the largest crypto companies.
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@austincampbell 13/ If you want the full details with history, policy, and the two real paths forward, the paper by @austincampbell is linked above. It’s worth the read.
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@austincampbell 12/ Crypto doesn’t need to replace banks to matter.
Whether through a firewall or free competition, alternatives keep the system honest.
Monopoly isn’t stability. Choice is.
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0/ Reading this bank reform proposal makes one thing clear:
If we continue to block alternatives without restoring accountability, we’re systematically fueling too-big-to-fail banks by design.
And we’ve seen that one before.
Austin Campbell@austincampbell
1/ If you want to read it and understand why banks are actually advocating for less main street lending and more leverage for hedge fund billionaires when they do this: zero-knowledge.com/blog/banking-r…
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