This is my Roman Empire.

Cross-border payments, powered by stablecoins. @sphere_labs joins us at Telekom & Friends Vol. 3: Blocks & Brews, bringing the next generation of payment infrastructure to Berlin Blockchain Week. Stay tuned 👀 June 18 | @BerBlockWeek RSVP👇 luma.com/gu20fy2p

Back in CDMX this week for Stablecoin Conference with the @sphere_labs team! DM if you want to talk cross-border payments over tacos 🌮🇲🇽

The picks are in! JC 🤝 Jaime = Spain 🇪🇸 Who’ve you got lifting the trophy? #ppl #propadelleague #fifaworldcup2026

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My bet: most people won't think about payments anymore by 2030 Bank, fintech, blockchain. The underlying tech won't matter to users. The expectation will be that money moves instantly, securely, and at near-zero cost. Takeaways from my @WebSummit Rio panel on new money rails👇

Right in the heart of New York City 🫡 JC and Jaime took on the Newmark Padel Tournament yesterday, trading shots with the Manhattan skyline as the backdrop🗽 #PPL #Propadelleague @sphere_labs

Branding matters.

@NYAtlantics_ 👀 x.com/sphere_labs/status/205…

The Sphere dashboard just got a refresh. ✨ Streamlined onboarding, a step-based Transfer flow, and a dedicated Offloader Wallets page. Full details in the changelog: docs.spherepay.co/changelog#…

What started as a hackathon project turned into a payments giant. In this week's Inside Scoop I interviewed @NADEAU__ from @sphere_labs discussing Sphere, Stablecoins and recruitment in this institutional era. To read the full interview, click on the quoted post below👇

How could this be perceived as anything but a massive failure in today’s world? Would Stripe even be investable today? Which investors would ever think that only launching after two years of work and with 50 users would ever be the beginning of something gigantic? I can’t see how anybody would be happy with this today. And yet, almost imperceptibly, Patrick and John were painstakingly laying the foundation for something that was built to last and built to grow strong and immovable like a Sequoia. How can mushroom growth rates produce anything other than mushroom longevity? I’m not saying that real value CAN’T be built quickly. But I think it’s far more common than we like to talk about that founders work for two, three, four, seven, even fifteen years before something extremely valuable is born into the world and really takes off. James Dyson worked on the design of his vacuum cleaner for 5 years before he got to a working prototype and 8 years before it became a commercial product. Dylan Field worked on Figma for four years before launching a *closed* beta. Tim Leatherman worked on his idea and prototype for 8 years before he had his first multitool design that was ready to sell. Palmer Luckey spent about 7 years from the time he began working on VR prototypes before Oculus released the first consumer headset. Jensen Huang started Nvidia in 1993 and it wasn’t until 4 years later in 1997 that they had their first major commercial success with the RIVA 128. Steve Wozniak was the fastest and went from an idea for a personal computer in 1975 to the Apple II release 2 years later in 1977. Time and again the reality is that great things take time to build. I’m not saying it doesn’t take hard work. I’m definitely not saying it doesn’t take determination and extreme focus. But it does take time. I think we try and pretend that it doesn’t take time and lift up the seeming exceptions to the rule. Why not be honest and instead focus on the determination and extreme grit that it takes to keep building for years before any outward success arises or glory is received? I hope we can be honest with young founders and repeat these stories again and again so that they learn to work thanklessly for years before the outward vindication comes, because that’s what it really takes.

Knicks fan says “My Mayor is Muslim, my bagel is Jewish, my Christian’s Dior”

the four horsemen of the apocalypse

Your CEO should be strong. Your CTO should be wise. Your COO should be wicked, cunning, of mysterious origins, fluent in the dark arts, blurry in pictures,

Truly the best way to offramp is @sphere_labs Can not recommend it enough. For individuals, no better ramp direct to your bank For business, for all tools you need to build payment infra

Correspondent banking plays hot potato across borders. Variable routes, variable fees, variable timing. Sphere uses stablecoins to streamline the messy middle for businesses. Domestic settlement on each end stablecoins between = cross-border payments cut from days to minutes.

New @sphere_labs intern just dropped (I am pet sitting. Meet Ellie. She’s been sitting under my feet all day ready to assist!)

Go move your stake to the @sphere_labs validator! Spheriously!

SF probably has some of the highest talent/capital density in the world, but increasingly the least unique alpha. The most interesting new ideas of this decade will come from the places that the really smart MIT or Waterloo new grad would never think to reside in.

The quiet part out loud is that @airwallex is part of a *very* short list of companies that would be uniquely qualified to evangelize stablecoins - *considerably* more than household names like Stripe. But why would they, when they've already done a significant chunk of the hard work to get the infrastructure set up that stablecoins short-circuit? They should understand the hidden gatchas better than most - re: @awxjack's controversial commentary on stablecoins last year (mostly correct, tbh). Curious to see what they do here, as it will carry immense signal for the industry, although I would guess it's mostly a distraction for their core business.