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Matt Huang

@matthuang
44 posts
2026-02-25
Stripe on the singularity “We're reminded of the phenomenon of falling into a large black hole. If you ever experience that particular misfortune, you won't actually feel anything special at the moment you cross the event horizon: the path is locally smooth, even though the
2026-02-25 View on X
Financial Times

Stripe hits a $159B valuation after an employee share sale to investors like Thrive, Coatue, and a16z, a 70% jump from its $92B valuation in February 2025

2026-02-24
Stripe on the singularity “We're reminded of the phenomenon of falling into a large black hole. If you ever experience that particular misfortune, you won't actually feel anything special at the moment you cross the event horizon: the path is locally smooth, even though the
2026-02-24 View on X
Financial Times

Stripe hits a $159B valuation after an employee share sale to investors like Thrive, Coatue, and a16z, a 70% jump from its $92B valuation in February 2025

Deal will allow payments company to stay private for longer  —  Stripe's valuation has soared by more than 70 per cent to $159bn …

2026-02-18
Collaborating with Josh and the team at Thrive has always been a joy for us at Paradigm. But working with them as an investor in Tempo has given new appreciation for just how long-term and partnership-oriented they are. Congrats!
2026-02-18 View on X
Bloomberg

Josh Kushner's Thrive raised $10B+ for its tenth and largest fund, lifting its AUM to ~$50B; sources: it distributed 64% of capital raised during the 2021 peak

2026-02-17
Collaborating with Josh and the team at Thrive has always been a joy for us at Paradigm. But working with them as an investor in Tempo has given new appreciation for just how long-term and partnership-oriented they are. Congrats!
2026-02-17 View on X
Bloomberg

Josh Kushner's Thrive raised $10B+ for its tenth and largest fund, lifting its AUM to ~$50B; sources: it distributed 64% of capital raised during the 2021 peak

The backer of OpenAI, Stripe, SpaceX and Skims says it's taking “ride-or-die” approach to investing.

2026-02-10
Excited to welcome @dwr, @varunsrin, and the rest of the Merkle team to Tempo!
2026-02-10 View on X
The Block

Farcaster co-founders Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan, along with the team at Merkle, join stablecoin startup Tempo, weeks after Merkle sold Farcaster to Neynar

Quick Take  — Romero and Srinivasan's move follows Farcaster's sale to Neynar and the founders' exit from day-to-day leadership of the protocol.

2025-09-07
On Tempo, permissionlessness, L1 vs L2 Tempo will be a permissionless chain. On day 1, anyone will be able to deploy a token, and anyone will be able to transact on the chain. Some projects think that attracting real-world usage and serious institutions requires giving up on
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” ...

2025-06-13
Stablecoin supercycle
2025-06-13 View on X
CoinDesk

Shopify partners with Coinbase to enable USDC payments for its merchants through Coinbase's Base layer-2 network, starting with a limited group of merchants

The integration is set to roll out on June 12 to a limited group of early access merchants, with wider availability expected later in the year.

2025-02-26
Nature is healing
2025-02-26 View on X
CoinDesk

Uniswap Labs says the US SEC has closed its probe into the company and will not file enforcement actions, after the SEC dropped OpenSea and Robinhood probes

WSJ: BBG John E Deaton / @johnedeaton1 : Hayden lays out the problem when it comes to regulators more interested in pushing a political agenda than enforcing the law. Hayden mentio...

2024-11-12
Strategic Bitcoin Reserve *should* be a bipartisan concept.
2024-11-12 View on X
Financial Times

Bitcoin passed $89K for the first time, Tesla closed up 8.96%, Coinbase closed up 19.76%, and Robinhood closed up 7.4%, as investors pile into “Trump trades”

It Just Had Its Best One Ever Steven Walgenbach / Inside Bitcoins : BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Hits New Record As Polymarket Odds Of Bitcoin Hitting $100K This Year Soar Vladimir Popesc...

2024-06-14
Excited to announce that Georgios Konstantopoulos has been promoted to General Partner at Paradigm (alongside his role at CTO). @gakonst 🇬🇷🐐
2024-06-14 View on X
Bloomberg

Paradigm says it raised $850M for its third fund, which will focus on early-stage crypto projects; Paradigm launched a $2.5B crypto fund in November 2021

- Venture capital firm raised a $2.5 billion fund in 2021  — The new fund will invest in early-stage crypto projects

2023-06-13
Congrats to the team on Uni v4 https://github.com/...
2023-06-13 View on X
CoinDesk

Uniswap Labs details Uniswap v4, the next version of the decentralized exchange, and invites feedback; Uniswap v3 launched in 2021 and has processed over $1T

The biggest decentralized crypto exchange is opening its development process to the public for the first time as the SEC cracks down on its centralized competitors.

2023-06-07
Crypto has never been more under fire and uncool... and so it's never been a better place to be a builder or investor if you know it's the future 🛡️
2023-06-07 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at the similarities and differences between the SEC's lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance, as the SEC views every crypto exchange in the US as illegal

SEC v. Crypto  —  “A decent rule of thumb,” I wrote in March, “is that all cryptocurrency exchanges are doing crimes …

@AutismCapital We haven't dropped crypto... The website now emphasizes the research-driven approach we've always had, and doesn't reflect a pivot away from crypto. We remain as excited and committed to crypto as ever. (Check out our recent investments, research writing, policy work, etc).... https://twitter.com/...
2023-06-07 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at the similarities and differences between the SEC's lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance, as the SEC views every crypto exchange in the US as illegal

SEC v. Crypto  —  “A decent rule of thumb,” I wrote in March, “is that all cryptocurrency exchanges are doing crimes …

2023-03-16
One of the largest private company financings ever... in the middle of a bank meltdown. Congrats @collision and @patrickc ! https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-16 View on X
Axios

Stripe raised a $6.5B+ Series I at a $50B valuation to help its employees cover tax obligations for the expiration of RSUs and to fund a new stock tender offer

Digital payments firm Stripe on Wednesday announced that it has raised more than $6.5 billion at a $50 billion valuation.

2022-11-17
We are shocked by the revelations about FTX, Alameda, and SBF.
2022-11-17 View on X
Reuters

Sources reveal FTX and Alameda's dubious financial practices, like showing investors some of the same assets on their books despite claiming separate operations

more than I realized. A run on the bank and market crash exhausted liquidity. So what can I try to do? Raise liquidity, make customers whole, and restart. Dylan Matthews / @dylanma...

2022-11-16
We are shocked by the revelations about FTX, Alameda, and SBF.
2022-11-16 View on X
Reuters

A look at SBF's desperate efforts to raise $7B+ from Sequoia, Apollo, TPG, the Saudis, and others; FTX's internal accounting software hid FTX-Alameda transfers

As customers withdrew billions of dollars from crypto exchange FTX one frantic Sunday this month, founder Sam Bankman-Fried worked …

The blow-up of FTX has caused some to question crypto's value. But the issues at FTX are precisely ones that decentralized finance can solve through increased transparency and security. Crises such as this one help to clarify the true merits of what we're all building towards.
2022-11-16 View on X
Reuters

A look at SBF's desperate efforts to raise $7B+ from Sequoia, Apollo, TPG, the Saudis, and others; FTX's internal accounting software hid FTX-Alameda transfers

As customers withdrew billions of dollars from crypto exchange FTX one frantic Sunday this month, founder Sam Bankman-Fried worked …

2022-09-16
Ethereum Merged! Beyond the apropos excitement for Ethereum and its future (withdrawals! 4844! etc)... A massive technical achievement by an open & decentralized community over 8+ years. Incredibly bullish on crypto communities as *new institutions* that can build Great Things.
2022-09-16 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Speaking hours after Ethereum's Merge update, SEC Chair Gary Gensler says cryptocurrencies that let holders stake coins may be subject to US securities laws

SEC chairman says system used by ether following software update could trigger securities laws  —  WASHINGTON—Ethereum's big software update …

Ethereum Merged! Beyond the apropos excitement for Ethereum and its future (withdrawals! 4844! etc)... A massive technical achievement by an open & decentralized community over 8+ years. Incredibly bullish on crypto communities as *new institutions* that can build Great Things.
2022-09-16 View on X
The Block

Ethereum activates its long-awaited Merge upgrade, in development since 2020, and transactions are now being processed under proof of stake

First off, thank you for reading and as always, nothing you read or hear of my content is ever financial advice. Ryan Whitwam / ExtremeTech : Ethereum Switches to Proof-of-Stake, W...

2022-08-02
Another month, another bridge hack. https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-02 View on X
Cointelegraph

Hackers drain nearly the entire $190.7M in crypto from the Nomad token bridge, which raised an April 2022 seed from Coinbase, OpenSea, and five other companies

Hundreds of potential exploiters appear to have drained all of the bridge's $190 million in TVL in just a matter of hours.  —  57 Total views