Yellow

Counting down to Paris Blockchain Week 2026! I’ll be representing @Yellow, focused on strengthening partnerships and exploring new opportunities across the ecosystem. If you’ll be around, let’s connect.

Just arrived to the city! @EthCC Cannes is going to be ínstense (again), love it 😻

Yellow: Live Pitch Session x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

One for your calendar! Join a video Telegram AMA featuring @0xburakcem and the @ChainReachCalls team. Follow their Telegram channel tagged in the photo. Burak will be detailing growth strategies for Yellow and the broader Yellow ecosystem on Thursday at 5pm CET.

A Sustainable Path Forward for Yellow: VCs Refunded After deep reflection, we’ve decided to refund 80% of the initial raise to our VC investors who believed in Yellow when it was just a vision. It’s not the conventional path, but it is the only path that stays true to why we started. Let me explain why 80% of the initial capital goes back to early VCs, and what it means for the future of the Yellow community. The story has its roots more than 20 years ago at the European Space Agency. I was a passionate software engineer who helped launch rockets; then I left my job to build a semantic search engine as an entrepreneur. In 2008, the crisis hit and everything collapsed overnight. That experience forged one of my principles: don’t trust anyone until the money is actually in the bank. Promises tend to vanish the moment the world shakes. In 2013, I became the “S” in GSR, after my surname, Sirkia. Growing a market-making company in crypto turned out to be the perfect sandbox to further explore the nature of human relationships and the role of trust. But what looked like a winning lottery ticket swallowed me whole, and I had to check into a clinic to reclaim my health. The first days of my 21-day water fast were hell, but I walked out with the kind of clarity that only comes through fire. Ever since, I have deeply recognized the gift of Satoshi. Seeing the industry from the inside out, I admired the idea of trustless payments and a store of value that doesn't rely on trusting governments or banks. I simply couldn’t accept the centralized, custodial, and gated status quo of trading. I wanted to take what Satoshi showed was possible and extend it into the world. So I joined forces with @0xYellow and @camille_yellow to co-found Yellow. We were solving one problem after another to ultimately allow for value to move instantly and almost as freely as data. Today, more than 500 builders ship on our open-source SDK. The $YELLOW token is a big part of the ecosystem now, and its sustainable future is a high priority for everyone on the team. Refunding seed investors is a natural extension of my past experiences, and of deep care for the vision we bring to life. Capital always comes at a cost, typically at the expense of relationships with the community of token holders. We refuse to let that happen at Yellow. By refunding 80% of the initial raise, we make sure that the network is owned, operated, and rewarded by the people who build on Yellow, who use Yellow, and who want Yellow to thrive. Refund is our way to honor the community, to protect our ecosystem's future, and to stay true to our core vision. Yellow is now lighter, faster, and more than ever aligned with the people who use and secure the network. — Alexis & the Yellow team

[ 🎉 XRP Tokyo 2026 Speaker Announcement! 🤝 ] We’re pleased to announce that Alexis Sirkia @AlexisYellow, Captain at @Yellow will be speaking at XRP Tokyo 2026! 🔹 Speaker Introduction 🔹 Alexis Sirkia is a pioneer in DeFi and blockchain technology. He is the chairman and "captain" of Yellow, a comprehensive chain-agnostic ecosystem that straddles Web2 and Web3. Yellow provides a software kit for developers to create apps that use state-channel technology, peer-to-peer smart contracts, and on-chain settlement. Alexis grew up in Andorra to Finnish parents. He qualified as an engineer, and his early career involved work in the military, Airbus and the European Space Center. Alexis then co-founded GSR, a leading cryptocurrency market-making firm that played a role in Ripple's early growth. An award-winning innovator, he's also been recognized for his work on a semantic search engine. Alexis seamlessly blends work and adventure, circumnavigating the world as the captain on his sailing catamaran, all while staying connected 24/7 via Starlink.