Investor @SamsungNEXT || Investor in @LayerZero_Core, @raincards, @BastionPlatform, @hyperbolic_labs, and others.
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Super excited to see the partnership launch between Samsung and Coinbase!
This is just the start of the initiatives we’ve been working on quietly at @SamsungNext with the Samsung Wallet team over the past 12+ months. Grateful to have played a small part in bringing this to life and excited for what’s ahead.
Selling your fiat just got easier.
Simply buy crypto or fund your account with @Samsung Pay on Coinbase.
Rolling out this week, starting in North America.
Very excited for this! Zero is designed (by an exceptional team) to be the foundational infrastructure layer for the tokenization of all assets.
Advancements like this allow everyone to move towards a more efficient, fair, and open financial system.
Huge congratulations to @cnaut, @rooqster, and the whole @raincards team on raising a $250M Series C!
“Our goal is to make onchain feel like nothing at all, while unlocking the benefits under the hood.”
And they are doing just that. Excited for this next phase of growth!
“Power is the most important product in the world”.
Excellent team with an audacious mission. Fully aligned with Base’s approach to save the American grid.
Very happy we at @SamsungNext can be a small investor in @basepowerco!
Today we are announcing our $1B Series C, but money isn’t the story. The story is what we’ll do with it, and the scale of the challenge ahead.
Our mission isn’t constrained by capital, supply, or demand. It’s constrained by talent. To build America’s next great power company, we need the engineers, operators, and creatives ready to take on the challenge to join us.
Power is the most important product in the world. It runs through everything: our homes, hospitals, schools, factories, and future. And the grid that delivers it is breaking.
At Base, we’re building the future of power so human progress can accelerate. In the past two years, we’ve grown from an idea into one of the fastest growing energy companies in America.
Now we’re entering a new phase of growth. Our first manufacturing site is rising in the heart of Austin, inside the former Austin American-Statesman printing press. Here we’ll build our own hardware to meet surging demand and scale nationwide. This is a key step in putting a battery on every home in the country.
Few teams get to say their work powers human progress. We do. With a billion dollars of fuel, our next wave of growth will be defined not by capital, but by people who choose to step up, take ownership, and build the next great American power company.
The old system is breaking. Come build the new one.
Our Series C was led by Addition, with participation from both new and existing investors including Trust Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Thrive Capital, Lightspeed, Andreessen Horowitz, Altimeter, StepStone, Elad Gil, 137 Ventures, Terrain, Waybury, Ribbit, CapitalG, Spark, BOND, Lowercarbon, Avenir, Glade Brook, Positive Sum, and 1789.
Phase 1 ✅
Samsung has incredible distribution and we're on a mission to bring real crypto adoption to the real world. Much more to come.
Excited to be partnering with @Samsung to make crypto even more accessible.
We’re offering 75M+ Samsung Galaxy users in the U.S. free access to Coinbase One to bring them onboard. And we’ve fully integrated Samsung Pay, so every Coinbase user in the U.S. can use that to buy crypto.
Sam Campbell retweeted
the scary thing isn’t the idea that the barbarians are at the gates, it’s that they’ve been inside of the city walls for years and it took us until now to notice
10 year ago today I bought my first (half) bitcoin on @coinbase for $120. I sold it 5 months later for a 70% return
I'm thankful in hindsight because it taught me a (expensive) lesson about selling exponential assets too early
Bought more and haven’t sold a single BTC since 🟠
Very excited to back the Rain team as they move the whole crypto space towards more real world utility and adoption of stablecoins! Growth and execution have been top tier ☔️☔️
The forecast? Heavy Rain. ☔️
We’ve raised $58M in Series B funding—led by @SapphireVC with support from @dragonflyvc, @galaxyhq, @SamsungNext, @lightspeedvp, @NorwestVP & Endeavor Catalyst.
Thanks to our team, partners, and investors for helping us rebuild global payments that flow the way they should.
🔗 rain.xyz/resources/rain-rais…
🔗 theinformation.com/briefings…
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The destruction in LA is beyond tragic.
Over a decade of poor policies, weak leaders, and failing infrastructure, resulting in 12K+ homes & business destroyed and many more displaced.
Praying the for the firefighters, first responders, and families who have lost their homes.
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Stablecoins are room-temperature superconductors for financial services. Thanks to stablecoins, businesses around the world will benefit from significant speed, coverage, and cost improvements in the coming years. Stripe is going to build the world’s best stablecoin infrastructure, and, to that end, we are delighted to welcome @stablecoin to @stripe.
Bridge is joining forces with Stripe!
I’m incredibly excited
We started 2.5 years ago and we’ve done a lot since then :) We’re going to do a whole lot more in the years ahead. This is an important milestone, but we’re still at the very beginning of the Bridge journey.
We started Bridge because we thought stablecoins could become a core, global, regulated payment platform. Our first year was hard. The digital asset space was in turmoil. We struggled to find partners / customers.
We launched with our APIs in March 2023.
After launch, we quickly saw inbound interest from cross-border payments companies. People talked about stablecoins for x-border money movement, but we didn't understand the space or need.
These developers onboarded, showed us what was possible, and Bridge quickly started to scale.
After that, we had government entities onboard with us to disburse aid, fintechs build US dollar-based savings and spending products, SpaceX to manage their global treasury, and many others.
Our belief that stablecoins could be a new payment platform started coming true. Developers worldwide were dreaming up new stablecoin-enabled financial products and coming to Bridge to bring them to life. And each new use case was larger than all of those that came before it.
Today, we’re moving many billions in payment volume. Our business has grown >10x this yr. But more importantly, we’re now helping 100s of developers all around the world. And their products are giving millions of consumers and businesses more economic choice.
A lot has changed (and improved) over the past 18 months. But we’re still incredibly early.
Stablecoins represent an entirely new payments platform. Realizing the potential of this platform will be a decades-long journey.
As we’ve gotten to know the Stripe team, it’s become clear that we both share a vision for what’s possible with stablecoins and an excitement around the opportunity to create and build this future
Stripe operates globally and understands better than almost anyone the problems created by our existing localized payment systems. Our teams share an excitement about stablecoins and vision for how to maximize their impact.
Together, we’ll be able to solve bigger problems, support more developers, and help more consumers and businesses all across the world.
We built Bridge to solve our most vexing global financial challenges; to pull a more connected world forward; to give everyone more economic choice.
We’re thrilled to be joining forces with Stripe to fully realize these ambitions.
Full blog post here --> xitter.cf/Stablecoin/status/1848…
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