Ran Goldi

@openstandard 🙏

Introducing Open USD: a stablecoin built for the internet economy, designed by the businesses growing it. joinopenstandard.com/blog/introduci…

Last time @Visa, @Mastercard and @AmericanExpress came together was 1996, to create EMV, a standard for cards (actually a cool story, read about it). 30 years after, they are creating a standard for Stablecoins (and they included Fireblocks as well). It worked for the card space, so let's see what happens next. :) The EMV story: lnkd.in/dJvS358m Our @FireblocksHQ take: fblks.co/44zEfxI

NEW EPISODE of the Payments Pulse "Stablecoins, they're not cheaper. They won't solve world hunger. But they're fast, transparent, and predictable." Tune in to our conversation with @rangoldi, SVP of Payments at @FireblocksHQ live at @money2020.

Seven providers means seven reconciliation headaches, seven compliance conversations, seven points of failure. Integration isn't a nice-to-have. It's the product.

"We're in that late nineties period where online shopping was one percent and stablecoins are one percent." @raagulanpathy of @KASTxyz on the @TokenizedPod with @sytaylor and @rangoldi. Listen wherever you get your podcasts: fblks.co/tokenized-stab…

.@LukeTuttle2049 reframes the stablecoin conversation: Remittance can be summed up in one word. Trust. There are few things more intimate than handing someone a stack of money and asking them to send it somewhere for you. Everything else, speed, cost, features, comes after that. @paymentsjournal

Many PSPs talk the talk, Checkout actually walks the blockchain walk as well. As of today, if you’re a @Checkout merchant, you should ask (demand!) them to settle with you 24/7 using Stablecoins. Yes, 24/7. Why? Because you want your capital management to be as efficient as possible, so you could do more for your business. Congrats to the amazing Checkout and Fireblocks teams for working on this - checkout.com/newsroom/check…

RT @FireblocksHQ: Announcing the Open Transaction Layer. An open protocol stack for coordinating onchain transactions between any counterpa…

Lots of "agentic commerce" announcements lately. Most of it is PR masquerading as product. We took our time. Talked to customers. Built the governance layer that's actually missing from the stack. New article on what agentic payments need to work at scale 👇

The industry didn’t stop underestimating stablecoins because the tech changed. It stopped because the unlocks became impossible to ignore 🔓 @LukeTuttle2049 and @RanGoldi discuss on recent @paymentsjournal webinar with @FireblocksHQ and @JavelinStrategy.

Over a decade ago at Uber, we were paying drivers across 40 countries. Their top ask: "Pay me faster." That stuck with me through Coinbase and Stripe, where I kept running into the same wall from different angles. Today, Latitude (@rtp) is launching out of stealth. We raised an $8M seed round in Jan 2025 and have been building quietly since then.

@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?

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.

@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.