Will Leas

Hello World! Latitude is live. We built stablecoin-to-local-fiat infrastructure across 50+ countries so businesses can move money globally at a flat 0.5% rate, with no hidden spreads or volume commitments. Global payments are broken. We're fixing the rails. $8M seed led by NEA. Team from Uber, Coinbase, Stripe, and more. Full story in Fortune (in comments)

There are two ways to touch 8 billion lives: acquire 8 billion individual customers, or build the infrastructure for the institutions that already serve them. We chose the latter. Today we're announcing OpenFX’s $94M Series A from @Accel, @atomico, @FactionVC, @M13Company , @northzoneVC, @PanteraCapital, and with support from existing investors @flybridge and @hash3xyz.

Today marks a new chapter for U.S. banking. The Cari Network, developed alongside five regional banks, is building a new platform to bring tokenized deposits onchain. Secure. Private. Within the regulatory perimeter. Powered by ZKsync’s Prividium.

@nlevine19 @a16zcrypto @Visa congrats brotha!

Excited to share that I’m joining @a16zcrypto as an Investment Partner, focused crypto x fintech, payments, and onchain finance. This comes after two incredible years at @Visa helping shape our stablecoin strategy and leading onchain data efforts. Deeply grateful to @cuysheffield for his mentorship and leadership. Huge thanks to @cdixon , @AliYahya, @guywuolletjr, @eddylazzarin , and the entire a16z crypto team for the opportunity. If you’re building in the space, I’d love to connect.

Excited to announce our investment in @realMeld - the orchestration layer for global access to digital assets 🌍⚡️ One integration. Global money movement.

@StorkOracle 🙌

Happy New Year 🎊 Stork's total transaction value (TTV) for 2025 surpassed $3 trillion 😎 Stork's 2025 by the numbers, YoY: TTV ↗️ 5X to $3.1T Data Feeds ↗️ 2X to 712 Customer growth ↗️ 56 protocols

@creditcoop_xyz 🫡

Credit markets are stuck in the 1970s. Settlement delays, admin overhead, and costly errors eat billions every year. It’s time for an upgrade. 🧵

Proud to be featured in @Visa's new whitepaper on stablecoin lending. The report uncovers major growth in onchain lending, processing over half a trillion in loans to date. See how we’re making working capital accessible through programmable finance here: corporate.visa.com/content/dam/VC…

We've partnered with @StorkOracle to provide onchain builders with access to Kalshi’s real-time prices, volumes, liquidity, open interest, and resolutions. Every Kalshi event - across 70+ chains

@moshaikh @neilhar congrats fellas!

I can count on one hand the number of crypto VCs with operator experience. Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of great investors in the space right now. But too many funds write checks and too few help founders actually build. And it's holding the industry back. @neilhar @alextang @jerome_ and I started MFV, a $50M operator-led engine built by founders, for founders to change that.

Deploying more capital - steady lads

@j0hnwang @Kalshi Hit on her first wager - highest temperature in Miami. 4/4 so far, lights out

@Will_Leas @Kalshi what did she say

Onboarded my mom to @Kalshi last night AMA

Congratulations to @Figure on their successful debut on the Nasdaq. Via blockchain, they’re revolutionizing capital markets, democratizing finance, increasing transparency & eliminating inefficiencies. Thank you @mcagney, @juneou, Michael T 🤝

Excited to announce our investment in @creditcoop_xyz – next-gen, programmable credit infrastructure bridging TradFi and DeFi rails ⚡️

@colin_basco @AlanaDLevin respectfully, missing the point here ser

@AlanaDLevin 10% is only the beginning for $CRCL if our stablecoin mcap projections are correct.

Breaking: company with revenue model significantly harmed by lower interest rates up nearly 10% on news that the Fed might lower interest rates

Congrats to @lo_tech on closing their $5M seed! High integrity in everything they do. Scaled from just a vision to multiple revenue lines and a validated tech stack. LO:TECH will continue rewiring capital markets for the onchain era. This is just the beginning 🫡

If you are launching a token, working with a liquidity provider, or part of a crypto community that has little trust in market makers, this is for you. The State of Crypto Market Making 2025 pulls back the curtain on how the industry really works, the risks that can destroy value, and how to avoid them. lo.tech/stateofmarketm…

StablecoinX Inc. @stablecoin_x has announced a $360 million capital raise to purchase $ENA and will seek to list its Class A common shares on the Nasdaq Global Market under the ticker symbol "USDE", which includes a $60 million contribution of ENA from the Ethena Foundation Equity markets will now have direct access and exposure to the most important emerging trend in all of finance: The growth of digital dollars and stablecoins. To bootstrap its acquisition strategy, StablecoinX Inc. will use all of the $260 million cash proceeds from the raise (less amounts for certain expenses) to buy locked ENA from a subsidiary of the Ethena Foundation. Starting today, the Ethena Foundation subsidiary (via third-party market makers) will use 100% of the $260 million cash proceeds from the token sale to strategically purchase $ENA across publicly traded venues over the coming weeks, further aligning the Foundation’s incentives with those of StableCoinX shareholders. The planned deployment schedule is approximately $5m daily from today over the course of the next 6 weeks. At current prices $260m represents roughly 8% of circulating supply. Importantly, the Ethena Foundation has the right to veto any sales of $ENA by StableCoinX at its sole discretion. Ideally, tokens will never be sold with a sole focus on accumulation. To the extent StableCoinX subsequently raises capital with the intent of purchasing additional locked ENA from the Ethena Foundation or its affiliates, cash proceeds from those token sales are planned to be used to purchase spot $ENA. StableCoinX's treasury strategy is a deliberate, multi‑year capital allocation strategy that will enables StableCoinX to capture the enormous value of the secular surge in demand for digital dollars while compounding ENA per share to the benefit of shareholders.