In this State of Stables special, Messari’s @0xSynthesis1 explores the cross-border stablecoin economy with Arnold Lee, co-founder of @sphere_labs. 1:11 What Sphere Is 3:22 User Benefits 15:39 How Liquidity Works 25:33 Role in Routing 34:52 Use Cases 44:39 Competitors 47:27 Future and Risk

No it doesn’t- when people withdraw on Hyperliquid it goes through @sphere

Been playing with AI @sphere_labs. We talk a lot about products but I wanted to capture the mission. It boils down to empathy. Behind every payment is a person and a barrier they didn’t choose. My grandmas 90. She doesn’t know stablecoins exist. But when I send her money on Christmas Day, she knows I love her. And that’s what matters.

Tb to the day I told my dad I was signing up for Uber. He refused—gave me his car, his garage to sleep in, and his credit card for food and gas. I lived on $300/month that year, building full-time in web3. No YC. No VC. Just my dad. I’m going to make sure it pays off for him.

Want to stand out in fintech and/or crypto? Tell the truth. No one else is.

Hey kid, need an off-ramp?

gm weekend warriors. @sphere_labs

You’re either training AI to replace you, or someone else is. Up to you.

I have a habit of disappearing from socials for years at a time. Talking feels hollow. So I go quiet… Until more stories start building up. Lessons. Scars. Moments I can’t understand until I share them. Truth comes into focus when they meet someone else’s reflection.

I’m actually pretty sympathetic to the white American conservative. They were subject to countless slings and arrows over the last several decades, from constant insults to racial quotas, with an extraordinary escalation once wokeness really got underway in 2013. Over the course of decades they tried all manner of parley with the left, sending many good guys like Mitt Romney, only to find their outstretched hands repeatedly thrown back in their face. So, eventually they just elected Trump. And then even Trump was constantly impeached and undermined during his first term. After that, and the political prosecutions, and the assassination attempts, and the Biden inflation, and the open borders…any residual feeling of charity is gone. Trump voters feel forced to become meaner than they ever wanted to be. This extends down from the political realm to the personal, where young American men now quickly learn that nice guys finish last in their post-apocalyptic social landscape. With inflation hitting them economically, Tinderification hitting them socially, open borders hitting them demographically, and China hitting them economically, the MAGA man is understandably radicalized politically. So: even if I disagree with specific policy moves, even if I think much of what’s happening is actually accelerating the decline rather than reversing it, I do understand why they’re doing it. The American right believes that the hour is late, and that a Hail Mary effort in the form of mass deportation and reindustrialization can restore the country of 1945, or maybe 1991, or something like that. Personally, I don’t believe this Hail Mary can succeed. But neither do I wish to stand in the way. This is their big thing, and they are going to give it the college try, and then we will see what happens on the other side.