Harry Alford

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Dive into the latest advancements at @portal-hq, including Solana embedded wallets, cross-border payments in Brazil, and many important product enhancements! https://paragraph.xyz/@portal/april-newsletter

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This is insightful. Visa (w/ Allium) created an onchain analytics dashboard to track stablecoin activity. https://visaonchainanalytics.com/

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Global payments as a term isn't factual. Many were built decades ago, and consumer expectations have changed. Technologies like stablecoins can help you move money globally, instantly, and cost-effectively. You have to bridge the system with the world we live in today.

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Kraken has rolled out its self-custody wallet for digital assets, following the likes of Binance, OKX, Coinbase, Bitget and Bybit. https://cointelegraph.com/news/kraken-exchange-self-custody-crypto-wallet-following-other-cexs

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Great time at the DC launch of Read Write Own by @a16z.

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If you're looking to better understand the onramp market, then I recommend this Dune dashboard by @meso. An onramp refers to a platform that enables users to acquire crypto assets and gain access to their respective markets. https://dune.com/meso_team/onramp-providers

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This is a bigger deal than people think. https://www.theblock.co/post/286513/us-paypal-customers-will-be-able-to-use-stablecoin-for-international-payments

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We're bringing embedded wallets to Solana, supercharging your apps with high throughput and low fees. ⚡️ Read how partners are already using it and reach out to get access today! https://www.portalhq.io/post/introducing-solana-embedded-wallets

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Introducing Solana embedded wallets! As the Solana ecosystem continues to grow and evolve every day, we believe it will continue to be at the forefront of payments, tokenization, NFTs, and DeFi. Click to read more about our exciting announcement. https://www.portalhq.io/post/introducing-solana-embedded-wallets

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The majority of my meetings the past few weeks have been with payments and fintechs in emerging markets. There are obvious similarities in the required features in order to solve their users problems. They want:

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Catch up on recent happenings in Web3 payments, transformative blockchain use cases, exclusive team intros, and @portal-hq's groundbreaking Signer API! https://paragraph.xyz/@portal/march-newsletter

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I just bought coffee onchain at Compass Coffee. No gas and one click buy with @coinbasewallet on @slice

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"More than a third of Latin American consumers say they have made a payment for an everyday purchase with stablecoin." Read how stablecoins grew exponentially over the last five years in @liam.eth's thorough research. https://liamhorne.com/stablecoins#fn:4

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Exchanges are evolving to become more secure and user-centric. Figure is the latest entrant, raising $60M to build an exchange that utilizes multi-party computation (MPC) wallets to combat single-point-of-failure risks that exist on centralized exchanges. https://blockworks.co/news/figure-raises-60m-launches-dex

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Does anyone else think “Flubber” when they read blob?

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It's great to see @portal-hq recognized in this Consumer Web3 chart! As infrastructure is progressively abstracted away, consumer applications and experiences become the center of attention. At Portal, we are excited to support these apps with our wallet, security tooling, account abstraction, and more.

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We're inspired by some of the topics about RWAs and stablecoins covered in the unStable Summit! ✨ 🔷 Opportunities unlocked by RWAs 🔷 Stablecoin use cases 🔷 The future of stablecoins and interoperability Let's continue the fun at #ETHDenver!

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The wallet landscape is going through a major shift in tech innovation with the advent of embedded wallets (also known as MPC or WaaS [Wallet As A Service]) and Smart Accounts. These advances will have major implications on how users interact with crypto apps. https://paragraph.xyz/@cbventures/state-of-wallets-part-1

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Stablecoins are the future of money, and it's not hard to see why. Y Combinator recognizes their potential, adding stablecoins to its list of requests for startups. With low-fee, fast transactions, stablecoins are becoming integral to the future of finance.

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Wallets account for $4.4 trillion in global payment volumes according to JP Morgan report https://www.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jpm/treasury-services/documents/jpm-payments-are-eating-the-world.pdf

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