Pat Duffy

I’m excited to announce that today we’re officially launching @Cyclops_inc, the stablecoin and crypto platform for Payments Companies. @AlexWilsonTGB and @dcjmgmt are my Co-Founders and @LindsayWysocki is our COO. More on the team later but, for now, let me tell you about what we’ve built. Backed by @Shift4, @CastleIslandVC, and F-Prime, Cyclops is the stablecoin and crypto platform for payments companies. We’re on a mission to 10x the rate at which the top payments companies adopt stablecoin settlement and crypto payments. We spent the last four years building stablecoin and crypto solutions from inside one of the world’s leading payments companies. In hours, we had a team of crypto payments founders and engineers, the buy-in and support of the leadership team and a mandate to build. With every resource you could possibly imagine, this effort still took years. We decided there had to be a better way. The stage is set. Merchants want to accept crypto. Payment platforms are announcing crypto capabilities. Regulatory clarity has arrived and the blockchains are built to support the wave. But when you start building, you discover the real problem: the crypto infrastructure is not designed for payments. As a payments company, you are left with an impossible decision. Either you spend $10M+ and 18 months assembling a team and building, or you stitch together 4-7 separate vendors - for custody, compliance, wallets, liquidity, conversion, settlement, reporting - and hope you like where you end up. Most companies are getting 6 months in before they realize they have to build an entire crypto company inside their payments company just to get this done. We built Cyclops to put an end to this problem - building the crypto and stablecoin infrastructure platform that exists exclusively for payment service providers, merchant acquirers, and payment processors. We're live with customers today. The payments companies that move now will own the market position, and Cyclops will be the key to claiming it and keeping it. If you're a payments company exploring crypto infrastructure, or looking for an upgrade, let's talk. Check out our announcement here: cyclops.io/post/introduci…

I'll be at @FintechMeetup next week in Vegas. We're finalizing the @Cyclops_inc meeting schedule, so DM me if you'll be there and want to connect. 🚀

Excited to build the future of payments together. 🔥

We're growing quickly and hiring like crazy at Cyclops with 20+ people already on the team. We have remote roles across compliance, marketing, product and engineering.

Similar playbook to what we did with @TheGivingBlock. Pick an industry and absolutely dominate it. We're taking stablecoin adoption to the next level with payments companies by doing what's "boring". Great writeup @Snapcrackle 👏 "That's where Cyclops sits. And it's the least exciting wave, which is usually a good sign. The technology works. The regulations are in place. The merchants are asking. The bottleneck now isn't innovation. It's integration. And integration problems are messy vendor-management nightmares that don't make for great conference talks, but determine whether a technology actually reaches the mainstream."

Check out our 2026 Industry Trends: Stablecoins in the Payments Sector. The flywheel is accelerating, as payments adoption drives stablecoin usage, driving more industry adoption, and so on... The world's largest payment companies are no longer experimenting. They're building. cyclops.io/post/industry-…

This is by far the best piece on the @Cyclops_inc launch so far 🔥. Huge shoutout to @rileywk for this piece. refreshmiami.com/news/cyclops-r…

Stablecoin payments startup Cyclops raises $8 million from Castle Island Ventures, F-Prime and Shift4 theblock.co/post/392233/st…

@MattWalshInBos @AlexWilsonTGB @Cyclops_inc We're fired up. And big time shout out to our co-founder @dcjmgmt for helping us build this thing.

Excited to back @AlexWilsonTGB and @thisisPatDuffy @Cyclops_inc!

@seanjudgeciv @AlexWilsonTGB @Cyclops_inc Pumped to crush it with you brother. And big-time shout out to our Co-Founder @dcjmgmt for building with us 🚀

Fired up to be partnered with @AlexWilsonTGB @thisisPatDuffy and the @Cyclops_inc team! Exciting things to come...

@davidjgoosey @Cyclops_inc @AlexWilsonTGB @dcjmgmt @LindsayWysocki Thanks man. We’re fired up for this one!

@thisisPatDuffy @Cyclops_inc @AlexWilsonTGB @dcjmgmt @LindsayWysocki Congrats brother, excited to see what you guys are cooking up!

I’m excited to announce that today we’re officially launching @Cyclops_inc, the stablecoin and crypto platform for Payments Companies. @AlexWilsonTGB and @dcjmgmt are my Co-Founders and @LindsayWysocki is our COO. More on the team later but, for now, let me tell you about what we’ve built. Backed by @Shift4, @CastleIslandVC, and F-Prime, Cyclops is the stablecoin and crypto platform for payments companies. We’re on a mission to 10x the rate at which the top payments companies adopt stablecoin settlement and crypto payments. We spent the last four years building stablecoin and crypto solutions from inside one of the world’s leading payments companies. In hours, we had a team of crypto payments founders and engineers, the buy-in and support of the leadership team and a mandate to build. With every resource you could possibly imagine, this effort still took years. We decided there had to be a better way. The stage is set. Merchants want to accept crypto. Payment platforms are announcing crypto capabilities. Regulatory clarity has arrived and the blockchains are built to support the wave. But when you start building, you discover the real problem: the crypto infrastructure is not designed for payments. As a payments company, you are left with an impossible decision. Either you spend $10M+ and 18 months assembling a team and building, or you stitch together 4-7 separate vendors - for custody, compliance, wallets, liquidity, conversion, settlement, reporting - and hope you like where you end up. Most companies are getting 6 months in before they realize they have to build an entire crypto company inside their payments company just to get this done. We built Cyclops to put an end to this problem - building the crypto and stablecoin infrastructure platform that exists exclusively for payment service providers, merchant acquirers, and payment processors. We're live with customers today. The payments companies that move now will own the market position, and Cyclops will be the key to claiming it and keeping it. If you're a payments company exploring crypto infrastructure, or looking for an upgrade, let's talk. Check out our announcement here: cyclops.io/post/introduci…

Shout out to @Ben_Pousty 🚀

I’m excited to announce that Ben Pousty will be taking over as leader of @TheGivingBlock and the nonprofit business at @Shift4, as @AlexWilsonTGB and I move on to launch our next project (more on that next week…).(1/2)

(2/2) After years of leading the team behind the scenes, Ben is stepping into the leadership role he was born to fill. The Giving Block is in great hands with Ben. Excited to cheer the team on as Ben takes TGB to new heights. 🚀❤️

Polygon is powering stablecoins during the 2026 Winter Olympics. Starting this month, international shoppers can claim instant tax refunds in USDC on Polygon at Milan, Rome, and Venice airports. Enabled by @GlobalBlueGroup + @Shift4.

After 50 days on the job, visits to every NASA center, a dozen town halls, and reviewing thousands of workforce submissions, it is clear there is much we can do to better empower our people and focus resources on the most pressing objectives. Getting back to the Moon means getting back to the basics. NASA must regain its core competencies in technical, engineering, and operational excellence, and in doing so, we’ll save up to $1B a year to fund more missions of world-changing science and discovery. With the directive issued today, we are strengthening the NASA team and executing urgently on the President’s national space policy.

@ChrisJBakke @intern

Watching my friends spend $1500 and 30 hours of their time setting up an AI chatbot that summarizes the weather:

We're heading to the Moon. The launch window opens as early as Feb. 6 for our crewed @NASAArtemis mission. Throughout the journey, we'll bring you live coverage on NASA+: plus.nasa.gov

I fly my own aircraft, cover all my own expenses, and donate my salary to Space Camp. To the limits of the law, I will never have taxpayers incur a dollar of expense for me to serve as Administrator at NASA. This includes donating the use of my aircraft for workforce incentive flights and inspiration.