Stepan | squads.xyz

The best finance stack is the one you never notice. At Altitude, card receipts get matched, invoices get processed, and routine finance decisions happen automatically. Finance runs itself, one workflow at a time.

JTX is now live. Trade spot markets on Solana—memes, tokenized equities, majors, and more. The top 1,000 users on the waitlist, ranked by referrals, have access now.

@jayhinz you're telling me these stablecoins play in an orchestra?

you’re telling me a stablecoin made this sandwich?

One unfortunate side effect of AI is that writing more than two coherent paragraphs online now feels vaguely incriminating. Take the time to develop an argument, use complete sentences, or connect two ideas with suspiciously clean transitions, and people assume you generated it between meetings. A few years ago, the same post might have been called thoughtful. Now it is “AI slop”: polished, generic, structurally impeccable, and somehow saying the conclusion three different ways. We have not lost the ability to think deeply. We have entered a new era where sounding articulate is itself evidence that you probably didn’t. _Would you like me to make this sound more natural, personal, and less AI-generated?_

@alfongj underappreciated banger

Shoutout out to @JorgeSelva and the team at @altitude One of the best experiences ive had using a crypto product where we can receive fiat to a bank acc which automatically onramps 1:1 to stables Highly recommend for any orgs looking for lightweight banking infra

solve compliance, solve onboarding

There are increasingly fewer and fewer reasons why businesses globally don’t have access to the best in class UX we take for granted in Mercury/Ramp etc. Stablecoins and AI help close the gap The last mile is product centric builders with taste

Running your business onchain lays the foundation for immediate & accurate feedback on performance. Most of my career has been building truth & speed into legacy systems so founders & Execs could make better decisions. When your financial data can be combined with contextual/operational data you end up with a living P&L & balance sheet. Most startups I was at failed because feedback loops were slow & inaccurate. @altitude is naturally a truth seeking technology.

@Dannygonzo22 banger post

Altitude now does $1B in annualized payment volume across banking and stablecoin rails. A large share of that comes from companies in crypto on and off ramping stablecoins via ACH, wire, SEPA, and SWIFT. We’ve been running Squads on stablecoins since day one and we built Altitude to be the best way for businesses to move between crypto and traditional payment rails. DM me if on/off ramping is still painful for your business. We’ll solve it once and for all.

Should code ever lose First Amendment protections? This podcast covers free speech and software, including cryptography, cryptocurrency and AI. It should be the internet's most comprehensive. You'll hear from experts like @valkenburgh, @prestonjbyrne, @LazPieper, Sam Enzer, and Professors Eugene Volokh (@VolokhC) and @JaneYakowitz. We trace the history of Cold War export controls through to the recent restrictions on Anthropic's AI models, and explain why the Supreme Court has never definitively answered the question above. Timestamps: 0:00 Anthropic AI export controls 6:17 Intro 9:39 The First Amendment 10:38 @VolokhC on his free speech philosophy 13:42 Speech vs function 19:24 @valkenburgh interview 25:50 The Cold War, munitions list and Phil Zimmermann 29:57 The Bernstein case 34:53 Strict scrutiny 38:48 The Corley case 49:17 Sorrell, Stevens and where the Supreme Court is heading 53:25 @prestonjbyrne on the Supreme Court's AI case 57:23 Defense Distributed and 3D-printing 1:04:00 Where publication ends and conduct begins 1:15:20 Lowe v. SEC and the agency line 1:45:45 Compelled speech 2:04:17 @LazPieper on Sorrell and third-party liability 2:11:29 @prestonjbyrne on the GRANITE Act and foreign censorship Thank you to the presenting sponsor of this episode, @altitude. Nothing in this podcast is legal or investment advice.

@metasal @altitude @Visa @Apple letsgo

never been this excited to pay my bills thank you @altitude x @Visa x @Apple Pay 🇦🇺 🇦🇺 🇦🇺 ⛰️⛰️⛰️ 🦘🦘🦘

There is an enormous opportunity to solve basic financial operations for businesses globally and give companies everywhere access to capabilities that any seed stage US startup takes for granted. Matching receipts to card transactions and uploading invoices for bill pay are obvious examples. Stablecoin service providers offer amazing primitives to build on. Use your product and some AI magic to transform them into delightful workflows that solve real operational pain.

Made a purchase with your Altitude Card? Snap a photo of the receipt and email it to your company's receipt address. Altitude Agent matches it automatically. Every receipt lands on the right transaction. Get an Altitude Card: altitude.xyz/card

@tempo Banger

Introducing Receive Policies On most blockchains, any token can be sent to any account: There's no easy way to restrict who can send you assets or refuse an unwanted token. Receive policies bring these features to Tempo, enforced by the protocol.

@krrishd you’ll be in 17 paid membership clubs and you’ll be happy

it's now worth paying money for things you only had free, rarefied access to because of your taste & talent for discovery. everyone else's agents will catch up to your taste + discovery faster than you think. but they'll hesitate to pay as much as you & your agent might

@tobeycodes Wherever it is, your @altitude card should do the spending

where to spend august?

Now that we've entered the era of everything exchanges and everywhere financial services, it's much harder to argue that the crypto industry hasn't produced anything of value

@vukan0x @metaproph3t Aura detected

“decision markets are multiplayer intelligence” - @metaproph3t