@MoonPay Trade // Founder @decentxyz (acq.) @princeton @ycombinator

New York, NY
Joined January 2021
Best part of any Italian gym is all the equipment is brand new
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Best retail-shaped tokenized MMF we’ve seen. Flood gates
Regulated funds are meeting stablecoin holders where they already are. WisdomTree and MoonPay are collaborating to bring WTGXX to a new generation of investors.
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Excited to support Open USD and The Open Standard! 0 mint/burn fees + distributed yield make OUSD an extremely competitive liquidity pair and treasury asset on day one.
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Excited to work with the @FTDA_US team to help distribute tokenized funds onchain
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FINAL: Princeton 16, Notre Dame 9 The Tigers played like a champion today and captured their SEVENTH @NCAALAX championship in program history!
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charlie retweeted
we broke the trending algo 🚀
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🚨 JUST LAUNCHED MOONPAY TRADE One-click fiat to DeFi liquidity Welcome to MoonPay Institutional @cdsiren @wdcollier @willkantaros 🙌🚀💜
BREAKING: MoonPay has acquired Decent and launched MoonPay Trade the only API you need for onchain execution, settlement, conversion, and payments on 200+ chains and protocols one-click to DeFi for institutions, apps, and enterprises performant, compliant, and live now
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I've advised the Decent team since day one, and this one was special because it was truly just a group of friends building together. I remember the first conversations I had with the original cast 4 years ago @wdcollier @willkantaros @cdsiren @xanderscarlson The product went through multiple evolutions during those years, and huge props to the Decent team for taking risks, adapting to the market, and building payment infrastructure that truly has pushed the space forward. The journey continues as part of Moonpay, congrats to the Decent team.
I'm excited to announce that Decent (@swapsxyz) has been acquired by @MoonPay, and we've rebranded to MoonPay Trade 🌕 From @ycombinator's W22 batch, starting in music(!), to this - the journey has been anything but linear, and I wouldn't have it any other way. The last 4 years have been full of learning and growth. With MoonPay, our mission hasn't changed: make it effortless to go from any asset to any asset, regardless of type - fiat, spot crypto, prediction markets, RWAs and more. All in 1-click. Since the acquisition we've been quietly heads down integrating with top fintechs, wallets, and institutions + across the entire suite of MoonPay products - that silence ends now! Pumped to start sharing more about what we're building with MoonPay Trade, MoonPay Institutional, and everything else in the pipeline. Couldn't be more excited to work with @KeithGrossman, @ivanhodl, and the entire MoonPay team to build the way the world moves value. MoonPay already reaches hundreds of millions of users today, and will be a foundational part of global finance for years to come. We're just getting started. 🚀
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Thrilled to announce that Decent (@swapsxyz) has been acquired by @MoonPay and is rebranding to MoonPay Trade. MoonPay Trade is a single API providing institutional-grade cross-chain execution across 200+ chains. It extends Decent's core routing and liquidity layer to new chains, new markets, and — most importantly — new users. We started Decent in @ycombinator's W22 batch as a music NFT company, tokenizing musicians' streaming royalties (the OG RWA). We always saw NFTs and crypto as enabling technology, the most efficient (and interesting) way to solve an economic problem for our target users. That didn't work with $80 gas fees on Ethereum, so we deployed to L2s like Optimism, Base, and Arbitrum as they launched. Over the next year, our NFT protocol took off — over 25M NFTs minted across 5 chains. Our biggest pain point became users asking why they couldn't mint if their ETH was on a different chain. So, we built the first chain-abstracted transaction modal, launching with Arbitrum and Uniswap. For us and many others, it was the first "aha" moment of how users will end up transacting in a multi-chain environment. We iterated from the first solution, building backwards from our desired app UX, to create a novel, low-level liquidity layer that quickly processed >$1B. We couldn't be more excited to enter the next phase of growth with MoonPay. The day-to-day reality of founding a company was an all consuming effort to make something people want. The endlessly motivating dream though was to carve our a place in the world by building something that touches the daily lives of everyone in it. With MoonPay, we see that opportunity. MoonPay reaches hundreds of millions of users today and will be a globally important company as the interface between TradFi and DeFi. We couldn't be more excited to work with Ivan and the MoonPay team to build the way the world moves value.
BREAKING: MoonPay has acquired Decent and launched MoonPay Trade the only API you need for onchain execution, settlement, conversion, and payments on 200+ chains and protocols one-click to DeFi for institutions, apps, and enterprises performant, compliant, and live now
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It took a village. I'm grateful to have have (1) had the best co-founders in @wdcollier @willkantaros & @xanderscarlson and (2) the opportunity to work with some amazing people, including: @zev2axa @thebestedric Anabel Song Archetype @Ashegan @katherinewu & @DannySursock Thomas Bailey @ Road Cap YC @daltonc & @harjtaggar @RicoMallozzi @ianlapham
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been building something at @designerfund. the question: how does a small fund open up cold inbound to more founders without losing signal? the answer we're testing: an AI-enhanced application that reads your deck, gives you real feedback, and routes the strongest fits to us...
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Three years ago in Paris, a documentary crew stopped Charlie and I at dinner in Place des Vosges and asked if we’d participate in their documentary about love in the city (in a fake proposal scene on the Siene). It rained, we cancelled, laughed about it, and moved on (I did). This week, in Paris with my family, we ran into two of the documentary crew members at dinner — "in Europe from LA for a similar project". We talk, they mention that they’re filming the next day — and invite us as a ‘raincheck’ on three years ago to meet at the Palais Garnier, (a venue I had been trying to visit for years), for a ‘private filmed tour’. The next day, we get to the opera house, (it's shut down for the film), and start filming. We move through the entire building — hidden reservoir beneath the basement, grand staircase (and I’m asking my best questions). Finally, we reach Napoleon’s suite at the opera: there’s a red leather journal, Charlie’s family, and as it turns out — no second documentary. So . . . it’s a yes.
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If you use Brex DM ME! (Have a thing for you)
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prop amm's where the oracle just says $1 who's building this?
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How are YOU getting ready for N̶F̶L̶ ̶S̶u̶n̶d̶a̶y̶ @monad Mainnet? I'll be prefixing all words with Raptor and Instacarting bricks to the office to get the team acquainted with the heaviest blocks around
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Today we're launching Subconscious: a new platform for building agents with long-horizon reasoning and tool use, backed by MIT research. One API call. Tool use. Context beyond existing limits. If you're building agents, let's talk.
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