Ran Goldi

@masonnystrom @joannatran_ @FireblocksHQ Also, we don't to custody :)

@joannatran_ @FireblocksHQ in my view they're a custodian first

The top high growth, private stablecoin companies today (based on my subjective input, no specific order, no tokens, payments/stables as primary rev driver) - ARQ/DolarApp - Redot Pay - Felix Pago - Rain - Reap - Nomad - M0 - Agora - Coinflow - Mesh - MoonPay - OpenFX Who am I missing?

🚨 Ep. 3 of Stablecoin Stories: Serial Founder Eric Barbier - Why Stablecoins Are the Best Cross Border Rail With hosts: 💳 @sytaylor, GTM, @tempo 🔥 @rangoldi, VP Payments, @FireblocksHQ With guest: 🌐 @ericbarbier, CEO, Triple-A In this episode, Sy, Ran and Eric discuss: 💥 The inefficiencies in traditional remittance that inspired Triple-A 💸 How stablecoins reduce working capital needs in payments 🌍 Real world example of using stablecoins for cross border B2B 📊 Why Fortune 500 companies avoid holding stablecoins on their balance sheet 🪙 Stablecoins as a lifeline for consumers in emerging markets with dollar restrictions 🎮 Adoption of stablecoins in the global gaming sector 🏦 The regulatory landscape and challenges with banks for stablecoin firms *** Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 2:21 The inefficiencies in traditional remittance that inspired Triple-A 7:44 How stablecoins reduce working capital needs in payments 10:55 Real world example of using stablecoins for cross border B2B 13:06 Why Fortune 500 companies avoid holding stablecoins on their balance sheet 18:33 Stablecoins as a lifeline for consumers in emerging markets with dollar restrictions 24:24 Adoption of stablecoins in the global gaming sector 29:08 The regulatory landscape and challenges with banks for stablecoin firms *** 👉𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 '𝘛𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵' 𝘖𝘯 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘛𝘶𝘣𝘦. 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘗𝘰𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳! 👈

The Neo Finance Market Map: An ecosystem map of the 100+ projects building the new financial system.

@chaimlevinson @grok סכם לי את מספר הנסיעות המופיעות בפוסטים ומספר המדינות הייחודיות שהיה בהן

ראיתי שידידיה מאיר דיבר על נתב"ג כמקום של שמאלנים. צחקתי בקול. מזכיר לי את ההוא מברסלב שמעלה סרטונים על צניעות ובסוף התברר שאנס את ילדותיו. אני מכיר את היהודי הזה 25 שנה, אין חולי חו"ל גדולים יותר ממנו ואשתו. חוץ מהשליחות שברחו ממנה באמצע, אתן פה לרגע שרשורפלצת, השרלטן בחו"ל.

Quite the lineup for Tokenized Live on Thursday, 11th September in London: - @sytaylor hosting @GarrettHarper_ (@multisig), @rangoldi (@FireblocksHQ) and Basak Toprak (Kinexys by @jpmorgan) - @Elise_X_Digital hosting Rory Tanner (@RevolutApp) and Iana Vidal (@blocks) - @HadickM (@dragonfly_xyz) hosting @StaniKulechov (@aave) and @gdog97_ (@gdog97_) Tickets still available here: lu.ma/6ryjfi41

@sytaylor @tempo Congrats Simon! Looking forward to working on this together

Guess what, Fintech Nerds? I got a new job. I'm joining Tempo, the payments-focused L1 blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm. I’m moving to an advisor role with Sardine (💙)to focus on @tempo as my full-time day job. (And yes, I’ll still be doing Brainfood, Nerdcon, and Tokenized. Because I love this stuff.) I covered my full rationale for joining in the Fintech Brainfood that just dropped.

@sytaylor We call it Fireblocks :) Business should be stablecoin agnostic as a service made by Feintchs/Payments companies. Fintechs/Payments companies should be chain agnostic as a service made by infrastructure providers such as Fireblocks, BitGo, etc.

Who wins? Despite reporting, I think everyone doing their own chain (Robinhood, Circle, Coinbase, now alledgedly Stripe) only wins if they did what Amazon did when they created AWS. Create a credibly neutral market infrastructure. Push out the operating costs. Compete on software.

Fortune is reporting that "Stripe" is building a stablecoin-focused chain with Paradigm* The midwit take is: "This is centralization" Here's what I think everyone is missing... 🧵

The financial internet keeps getting stronger - with wallets you can trust. @BitPay, @blockchain, @xPortalApp, @BitcoinCom, @FireblocksHQ, @Rakuten, @BifrostWallet, @thisisarculus, @Ctrl_Wallet & @BestWalletHQ are now WalletConnect Certified. Which one do you use the most?

“Power is shifting to the distribution layer — wallets, exchanges, neobanks, and DeFi protocols that integrate stablecoins and own the user experience.” Great report by M0, the thread itself is worth a read.

🚨 Ep. 27 of @TokenizedPod: Stablecoins: The $2 Trillion Opportunity @sytaylor & @cuysheffield are joined by: ➡️ @rangoldi (Goldi), SVP Payments & Network @FireblocksHQ 𝗧𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀: 🔊 Fed Chair Powell acknowledges the mainstreaming of crypto, with "𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘭" 🌐 The TAM of Stablecoins: Standard Chartered say it's $𝟮 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 📊 Standard Chartered Partners with OKX to Enable Off-exchange Collateral ⛓️JP Morgan's Kinexys goes GBP 👾 Kraken Launch Stock & ETF Trading 𝗔𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱: 🌏 Cross-border payments 📱 Stablecoins and merchant loyalty programs 👉 Risk management practices by exchanges in a post-FTX world 🗳️ Tokenized deposits ⚖️ The convergence of DeFi & TradFi *** Timetamps: 00:33 Fed Chair Jerome Powell on crypto mainstream adoption 05:00 Impact of US legislation on stablecoin growth 10:40 Standard Chartered predicts $2T stablecoin market 15:00 Current stablecoin supply and transaction volume 20:00 Domestic vs cross-border stablecoin use cases 24:06 Merchant adoption challenges for stablecoin payments 30:00 Standard Chartered's mirrored collateral with OKX 35:00 Banks leading in crypto infrastructure development 40:00 JPMorgan's Connexus blockchain for GBP payments 44:16 JPMorgan's long-term commitment to blockchain technology *** 👉𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 '𝘛𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵' 𝘖𝘯 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘛𝘶𝘣𝘦. 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘗𝘰𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳! 👈

@cuysheffield @sytaylor @TokenizedPod @cuysheffield we should get ChatGPT extract taxonomy from our sessions, it would actually make for a great article…

@sytaylor @TokenizedPod Have to give @rangoldi credit for explaining the stablecoin sandwich to me in 2022

I'm listening to a federal reserve bank governor who just used the term "Stablecoin sandwich" A term @cuysheffield coined on the @TokenizedPod Want to hear the future? Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts federalreserve.gov/newsevents/spe…

@Stablecoin / Bridge is killing it! Excited to power the best of them.

It’s impressive what @FireblocksHQ has built, now one of the cornerstone enterprise infrastructure of our industry. Had a great time riffing on Payfi, solana, making crypto useful at Spark 24 with Michael and @rangoldi.

I thought we were saving this for the book :) (“How to piss off everyone - the story behind Diem”) Though it failed, a few amazing things came out of it, and I would dare to say this actually helped to pave the way to Stablecoins’ success: 1. Regulators worldwide were educated - as the project spent tens of millions of dollars on legal and lobbying 2. Compliance standards were created, which later on helped them build MiCA and NYDF’s standards 3. More than 20 new projects spawn out by the team members involved. @lightspark @SuiNetwork @Aptos to name a few.

How Libra Was Killed. I never shared this publicly before, but since @pmarca opened the floodgates on @joerogan’s pod, it feels appropriate to shed more light on this. As a reminder, Libra (then Diem) was an advanced, high-performance, payments-centric blockchain paired with a stablecoin that we built with my team at @Meta. It would’ve solved global payments at scale. Prior to announcing the project, we spent months briefing key regulators in DC and abroad. We then announced the project in June 2019 alongside 28 companies. Two weeks later, I was called to testify in front of both the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee, which was the starting point of two years of nonstop work and changes to appease lawmakers and regulators. By spring of 2021 (yes they slow played us at every step), we had addressed every last possible regulatory concern across financial crime, money laundering, consumer protection, reserve management, buffers, and so much more, and we were ready to launch. We had worked on a slow rollout of a limited pilot that some members of the Fed’s Board of Governors were supportive of. At last, Chair Jay Powell was ready to let us move forward in a limited way. The story, as I heard it, is that Jay Powell was told by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at one of their biweekly meetings that allowing this project to move forward was “political suicide,” and she would not have his back if he let it happen. I wasn’t in the room when this conversation happened, so take these words with a grain of salt, but effectively this was the moment Libra was killed. Shortly thereafter, the Fed organized calls with all the participating banks, and the Fed’s general counsel read a prepared statement to each of them, saying: “We can’t stop you from moving forward and launching, but we are not comfortable with you doing so.” And just like that, it was over. One essential point is worth making here. There was no legal or regulatory angle left for the government or regulators to kill the project. It was 100% a political kill—one that was executed through intimidation of captive banking institutions. That was the hardest part of this story for me personally. Not that we had failed, but that America, this country I immigrated to and became a proud citizen of because of its rule of law and value system, behaved in such a way for political reasons. It was a very tough pill to swallow. The bright side of the story, though, was the many learnings from this wild ride. By the end of the project, we had made so many concessions to get a thumbs-up that the whole design of the network became a Frankenstein of our initial ambitions. We also learned the biggest lesson of all, which is that if you’re trying to build an open money grid for the world—eventually moving trillions of dollars a day, designed to be here 100 years from now—you have to build it on the most neutral, decentralized, unassailable network and asset, which, hands down, is Bitcoin. And now this is what many of us who went through this scarring journey are building together at @Lightspark. And this time, we won’t stop until we get it done!

At #Money2020, Fireblocks’ @rangoldi joined @Visa and @Worldpay_Global to discuss stablecoin momentum: "We think we are reaching an inflection point with stablecoins and blockchain payments. Monthly stablecoin volumes from our payments customers have grown 10x in recent months."

🚨 Tomorrow! Join @rangoldi (Fireblocks) and @nikola_plecas (@Visa) in a @pymnts webinar hosted by John Gaffney. We’ll explore Visa’s report on stablecoins settling $2.6 trillion in H1 2024 and how blockchain payments are shaping the future with programmability, fast settlement, and interoperability. Register now → bit.ly/48ie6oc

Join us live on X Spaces to hear from Paxos' very own @nickrobnett, @PBmiami from PayPal, and @rangoldi from @FireblocksHQ as they discuss advancements in blockchain and payments 💡🚀 x.com/i/spaces/1dRJZ…

The philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy wrote on X, “I keep reading everywhere that Lebanon is 'on the brink of collapse.' No. It is on the brink of relief and deliverance.” Moments like this come once in a generation, if they even come at all. The Middle East is too often a solid where little changes. Today, it is a liquid and the ability to reshape is unlimited. Do not squander this moment. Let’s all pray for success, for peace and for the good judgement of our leaders.

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@mert Only means you’re super handsome :) I wonder if I get your pics

so this year's breakpoint makes you use an app that uploads a selfie and uses AI to find all photos of you from the event of course for me, it simply mistaked me for another bald guy fantastic technology