Founder @EliosPay | Self-custody × payments

Joined January 2022
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I once wired money from Singapore to Europe: Rejected! Payee's account had a "&" in the name, that I didn't include as my bank's UI didn't support that character. Funds bounced btw continents for months. Each bounce cost me. This illustrates why we're building @eliospay 1/6
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Underrated part is verifiability. Plenty of wallets can stop agents from overspending. Only a smart account based one lets counterparty verify the limits exist before transacting. For sustainable agent economy scaling: Verifiable policies >> trust me bro policy
AI can't own property. AI can't sign contracts. AI can't start companies. (Unless it's onchain.) @sreeramkannan
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For context: Hyperliquid is now #5 across all chains by stablecoin market cap. Behind only Ethereum, Tron, Solana and BSC. Not bad for something people still call “just a perps exchange.” @HyperliquidX @eliospay
On June 4, Hyperliquid reached a new all-time high in stablecoin market capitalization, surpassing $7.05B.
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Samy | Elios retweeted
Oh hold up yall… “… and composability, without giving up your keys”

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Stablecoin finance built natively on HyperEVM. Tap into Hyperliquid's liquidity, speed, and composability, without giving up your keys. Spend, send and save. No compromises on UX. Join the waitlist → eliospay.com/
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The uncomfortable part: this passed two audits and lived in an inherited base class, surfacing only in a specific assembly. Might be a controversial take, but while not a silver bullet, I think frontier models a la Mythos will make the space more robust (to the extent dev teams have the discipline to use them prior to going to prod). Point-in-time human review struggles with bugs that live between contracts.
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ICE CEO on Hyperliquid: 11 people doing what legacy finance needs thousands to do. Finance can be rebuilt from first principles at a fraction of the cost. Savings get competed back to everyday people. This is why I wake up every day building @eliospay
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Brian gets it. Stablecoins = the dollar on internet-native rails. Payments shouldn’t still need 3 days, 4 intermediaries, and a prayer to cross a border @eliospay
Major areas where the financial system still needs an update: 1. Tokenization of real-world assets - Real estate, stocks, bonds, funds, etc. onchain for instant settlement, fractional ownership & massive distribution. 2. 24/7 Global trading - Pooled global liquidity, every asset, every person, with great leverage and capital efficiency. 3. Next-gen payments - Near-instant, low-cost global transfers using stablecoins, including for Agentic payments. 4. AI-powered risk, credit, compliance, and advice - Better decisions, less fraud, and broader access to capital. Everyone gets access to a great financial advisor. 5. Innovation friendly regulation - Move from one-size-fits-all to risk-based rules that encourage innovation and competition instead of stifling it. 6. Expanded access - Open protocols that reduce middlemen and self-custodial wallets to expand access to everyone with a smartphone. 7. Capital formation - Low cost and turnkey for anyone to raise money for a good idea, increasing the number of startups. 8. Sound money - A refuge from inflation, when discipline is lost in fiat money. Jobs not done until we get these working for all. Will require lots of tech innovation and policy work to get there.
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Banks: “You can’t pay yield.” Crypto: “What if users click a button and receive definitely-not-yield?” Never change, crypto 🤣
Crypto regulation is getting serious and moving markets: > CLARITY is imminent > Banks lost to Coinbase > Hyperliquid scaring the TradFi incumbents > Kalshi/Polymarket fighting the states > The SEC may bless tokenized securities Must-watch deep dive with @RebeccaRettig1 ⤵️
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$HYPE unreleased footage of the $50 break
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Agree on the dollar leg. The harder part is that "house all of finance" needs credible neutrality, and "extends US dominance" potentially sits in slight tension with it. So it's going to be a bit of a balancing act..
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bull thesis for hyperliquid is that it's a better trading platform than the existing tradfi alternatives: 24/7 perps on all markets a design that allows for extensibility & deeper liquidity as more exchanges are built on top for US: if they win w/ a USD-backed stablecoin then that extends USA dominance of the dollar globally
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Samy | Elios retweeted
Replying to @Cbb0fe
Built different TM
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Samy | Elios retweeted
Replying to @defyneric
Agree with most of this. Cambrian phase, brutal failure rate, but real businesses still come out the other side, and interchange was never the moat. Zooming out: ~10,000 banks on earth, 30 worth over $100B. Crowded fields still mint giants. Card's just the wedge @eliospay
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Solid breakdown. At @eliospay we're building on AA and bullish on it, it's the one way to keep a self-custodial ethos without compromising on UX/UI. Also agree that AA primitives are exactly the right stack for on-chain agents 🤖
► Where Account Abstraction Actually Failed Last cycle, I used to expect account abstraction was the tech that could onboard the next billion users. Yet, I still just open rawdog EOAs everyday and click confirm like nothing changed. Looking at it cleanly, AA didn’t actually fail technically. By May 2026: – 62M smart accounts deployed – 2.4B cumulative UserOps – $180M gas sponsored by paymasters – 14M EIP-7702 delegations since Pectra Problem is users never cared. AA became middleware for developers instead of a real consumer narrative. Most users didn’t even know they were using it. Farcaster, games, embedded wallets, Polymarket quietly deployed smart accounts underneath while users just clicked buttons. There was never really a hyped AA narrative moment because better wallet UX is probably not a strong enough driver for behavior. The tech also started abstracting the abstraction itself with stuff like ERC-4337, ERC-6900, ERC-7579, EIP-7702, native AA, paymasters… Honestly, L2s accidentally reduced part of AA’s value prop too. When tx fees already cost fractions of a cent, ppl stopped caring as much about gas abstraction. Too early for humans, but AI agents might be the thing that finally forces it to matter tho. AA primitives by chance are basically the exact stack AI agents need to exist safely onchain. An AI economy running millions of autonomous microtransactions per day probably cannot exist on EOAs at all. The machine economy is accidentally reviving the entire AA thesis. – Active smart accounts going higher since agents started executing onchain – 100M x402 transactions happened within ~7 months – AWS launched AgentCore Payments – Coinbase pushing Agentic Wallets hard – @privy, @zerodev_app, @turnkeyhq, @pimlicoHQ pivoting toward agent infra now – @safe went from DAO multisig infra to AI-agent treasury tooling Unlike many crypto innovations, AA projects were always hard to drive speculative demand around. So AA got less retail attention and lived in the shadow of more tangible narratives.
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Worth naming what CLARITY actually unlocks. The Howey test, the SEC's go-to legal frame for crypto, was decided in 1946 over a Florida company that sold vacationers fractional orange groves and farmed the trees on their behalf. Programmable money has been analyzed through citrus law ever since🍊 Stablecoins and payment rails can finally escape it!
CLARITY is closer than ever. The bill is strong. It will benefit the American people by making the US financial system faster, cheaper and more accessible. It will also ensure that the US leads in the global race to build the next generation of our financial system. Huge thank you to the Senate, their staff, and 3.7m @standwithcrypto advocates for helping to get this legislation to where it is today. Mark it up.
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Jamie Dimon has entered the stablecoin group chat. No hoodie. No laser eyes. Just tokenized Treasuries and an SEC filing. Still counts. #Stablecoins #Tokenization #Blockchain #JPMorgan #Crypto @jpmorgan @CoinDesk @eliospay
NEW: @jpmorgan files to launch a tokenized Treasury money market fund ($JLTXX) designed as GENIUS Act-compliant reserve assets for stablecoin issuers.
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BREAKING: @coinbase EXCHANGE HAS BEEN DOWN FOR 5 HOURS SOURCE: exchange.coinbase.com/trade/
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Samy | Elios retweeted
Hyperliquid habibis 🇦🇪 Dubai - May 1 @getoutofhome and I organized a chill HL meetup, come thru! The chads at @HyperliquidR hooked us up with annual report copies! Supported by @hypurr_co @StratiumX @HyperliquidR Community Partner @arts_dao Sign up: luma.com/nijrqlzn
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Samy | Elios retweeted
gm 🥖 Présent à Paris pour la PBW ? N'hésitez pas à nous rejoindre pour un apéro exclusive sur les quais de Seine sous le soleil parisien. RSVP : luma.com/238n1o8c Cet événement est rendu possible grâce à @hlnames @eliospay @RiverdotInc & @Dreamcash
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I once wired money from Singapore to Europe: Rejected! Payee's account had a "&" in the name, that I didn't include as my bank's UI didn't support that character. Funds bounced btw continents for months. Each bounce cost me. This illustrates why we're building @eliospay 1/6
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We chose to build on @HyperliquidX A chain built to house all of finance. Best-in-class execution. No VC pressure. Builder-first economics. The ethos matches ours: let a thousand flowers bloom on credibly neutral infrastructure. 5/6
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Stablecoins: $300Bn market, growing 60% y/y. 40M wallets transacting monthly. GENIUS Act passed. On-chain finance is inevitable. Follow @eliospay → waitlist in bio 6/6
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