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Christian Catalini

@ccatalini
16 posts
2026-02-27
1/ It's happening: “the intelligence tools we're creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly” https://x.com/...
2026-02-27 View on X
CNBC

Block says it is laying off 4,000+ of its 10,000+ employees, saying AI tools have changed “what it means to build and run a company”; XYZ jumps 15%+

Block said Thursday it's laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its headcount.

1/ It's happening: “the intelligence tools we're creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly” https://x.com/...
2026-02-27 View on X
Reuters

Block reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $6.25B, gross profit up 24% to $2.87B, driven by a 33% surge in Cash App, and forecasts Q1 gross profit up 22% to $2.8B

Block (XYZ.N) on Thursday said it will cut over 4,000 jobs, nearly half its workforce, as part of an overhaul …

2026-02-26
1/ It's happening: “the intelligence tools we're creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly” https://x.com/...
2026-02-26 View on X
CNBC

Block says it is laying off more than 4,000 of its 10,000+ employees; XYZ jumps 19%+ in extended trading

Block said Thursday it's laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its headcount.  The stock skyrocketed more than 24% in extended trading.

2025-09-30
Bazaar vs cathedral, but for payments: x402 (open) vs Stripe (closed). Permissionless composability or curated reliability? https://x.com/...
2025-09-30 View on X
CNBC

OpenAI rolls out Instant Checkout to let users make single-item purchases directly in ChatGPT, starting with US Etsy sellers, and plans to add Shopify merchants

the chatbot will start letting its 700,000,000 users shop directly from their chats Jibin Joseph / PCMag : ChatGPT Now Lets You Make Purchases Without Leaving the App Nishit Singh ...

2025-09-13
2/ Tether, which arguably built an empire on the latter, is now aiming for leadership in the former via GENIUS Act compliance. It's a brilliant strategic shift, and one that completely reframes the competitive landscape. [image]
2025-09-13 View on X
The Block

Tether launches the US-regulated USAT stablecoin and names Bo Hines, the former Executive Director of the White House Crypto Council, as CEO of its new US unit

from a misunderstood/opaque offshore stablecoin to a $169B market leader, now pioneering financial innovation in the U.S. Excited for the Tether America launch event. [image] @cowb...

1/ A classic choice in finance is whether you make your money from the rules, or from the gaps between them. https://x.com/...
2025-09-13 View on X
The Block

Tether launches the US-regulated USAT stablecoin and names Bo Hines, the former Executive Director of the White House Crypto Council, as CEO of its new US unit

from a misunderstood/opaque offshore stablecoin to a $169B market leader, now pioneering financial innovation in the U.S. Excited for the Tether America launch event. [image] @cowb...

2025-09-07
3/ There's a cliché in tech and finance that being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong. Looking back on Libra, the stablecoin project I helped design inside Meta, I can confirm we weren't just early; we were also comically, spectacularly wrong.
2025-09-07 View on X
Forbes

Christian Catalini, co-creator of Meta's Libra stablecoin project, reflects on Libra's failure, what Stripe's Tempo blockchain can learn from it, and more

including one of the card networks the whole thing is designed to replace—and “neutrality.” [image] Brij Singh / @brij : Facebook's Libra turned out to be a strangely “successful” ...

1/ @Stripe just pulled back the curtain on @tempo, its corporate blockchain, and the pitch is a classic. You get an all-star team, state-of-the-art tech, an impressive roster of partners—including one of the card networks the whole thing is designed to replace—and “neutrality.” [image]
2025-09-07 View on X
Forbes

Christian Catalini, co-creator of Meta's Libra stablecoin project, reflects on Libra's failure, what Stripe's Tempo blockchain can learn from it, and more

including one of the card networks the whole thing is designed to replace—and “neutrality.” [image] Brij Singh / @brij : Facebook's Libra turned out to be a strangely “successful” ...

2025-08-13
1/ Can crypto scale without losing its soul? Short answer: yes—if competition and interoperability are real. Longer answer in 🧵: [image]
2025-08-13 View on X
Fortune

Sources: Stripe appoints Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang to serve as CEO of its planned Layer 1 blockchain Tempo; a source says Huang will remain at Paradigm

Matt Huang (left) and Glara Ahn at a 2024 gala in Hollywood, Los Angeles.  —  As Stripe pushes further into crypto …

2025-08-12
1/ 🚨 Can crypto scale without losing its soul? @stripe and @circle are both building their own chain! The question isn't speed or functionality—it's openness. Are we building an open protocol for money, or branded rails? [image]
2025-08-12 View on X
The Block

Circle reports Q2 revenue up 53% YoY to $658M, USDC circulation up 90% YoY to $61.3B, a $482M net loss, and unveils Arc, a stablecoin-focused Layer 1 blockchain

- Circle is planning to launch a stablecoin-focused EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain called Arc.

2025-02-19
Microsoft's quantum breakthrough with Majorana 1—decades shrunk to years for a million qubits? This timeline acceleration is absolutely wild 👀https://x.com/...
2025-02-19 View on X
The Verge

Microsoft unveils the Majorana 1, its first quantum processor that uses the Majorana particle instead of electrons, that can potentially fit a million qubits

Microsoft has spent 17 years researching a new material and architecture for quantum computing.

2024-01-27
Reminded me of @cdixon's graphs about why Web3 matters: https://x.com/... [image]
2024-01-27 View on X
The Platform Law Blog

Apple's changes for iOS app distribution in the EU fail to offer fair and reasonable commissions and show its disdain for both the DMA and app developers

Yesterday, Apple made an important announcement regarding changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union in response to the Digital Markets Act ("DMA").

2022-12-31
The incentives behind tokens have led crypto astray. Time for a reboot of how entrepreneurs, developers and investors approach the space! — @matt_levine https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-12-31 View on X
Bloomberg

Crypto created a toy financial system and had a toy financial crisis; in order to work in the long run, crypto must prove its real usefulness outside of finance

On Oct. 25, Bloomberg Businessweek published “The Crypto Story,” a cover-to-cover issue of the magazine that I wrote about what crypto is and what it all might mean.

2022-02-01
13/13 My hope is that the Libra/Diem journey, research papers, and open source code will be useful for entrepreneurs and developers writing the next chapter of crypto — Nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus! 🚀🌕 https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-01 View on X
CoinDesk

Silvergate Bank acquires the Diem Association's tech and other assets by issuing $132M in stock and paying $50M in cash and aims to debut a stablecoin in 2022

The Diem Association is shutting down.  —  Silvergate Bank confirmed Monday that it's purchasing the technology and other assets from Diem …

1/13 Four years ago we came together as the founding team of ≋Libra to use crypto to democratize access to the financial system. As the last person from the original ≋ founding team involved in this phase of Diem, here are some personal thoughts and reflections on the journey.
2022-02-01 View on X
CoinDesk

Silvergate Bank acquires the Diem Association's tech and other assets by issuing $132M in stock and paying $50M in cash and aims to debut a stablecoin in 2022

The Diem Association is shutting down.  —  Silvergate Bank confirmed Monday that it's purchasing the technology and other assets from Diem …

3/13 We started with a very bold — and possibly ahead of its time — white paper that had a number of gaps, but was also responsible for accelerating progress on the public sector side towards central bank digital currencies. We followed with our own fair share of mistakes...
2022-02-01 View on X
CoinDesk

Silvergate Bank acquires the Diem Association's tech and other assets by issuing $132M in stock and paying $50M in cash and aims to debut a stablecoin in 2022

The Diem Association is shutting down.  —  Silvergate Bank confirmed Monday that it's purchasing the technology and other assets from Diem …