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Crypto reflections -- Interoperability: The Liquidity Angle
eitan
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eitan
@eitank
On a mission to make money transferrable, interoperable, secure and accessible.
CEO at Kima Labs. Enabling seamless settlements of digital assets and fiat.
- Over the past few months, I’ve been revisiting foundational books that shaped how we think about systems, power, coordination, and risk. Works like Where Wizards Stay Up Late, Seeing Like a State, Skin in the Game, and others. My goal isn’t nostalgia. It’s to surface timeless
- 1/ 🚀 Excited to share that Kima is one of the 70 global innovators in the ECB’s Pioneers Partnership Program, piloting programmable payments in the digital‑euro sandbox. #DigitalEuro #CBDC
- BOOM! Kima just leveled up. We're now powered by @alibaba_cloud . This isn't just cloud infra. It's firepower. Scalability, security, global reach -- all dialed to the max. Kima's new era of unstoppable, cross-ecosystem finance just launched. We're just getting started. #Web3Thrilled to collaborate with @KimaNetwork to enhance network infrastructure with Alibaba Cloud's scalable and secure solutions! With our advanced cloud capabilities and support from @CloudicianTech, we're strengthening Kima's transaction processing, resilience, and
- Not all interoperability is created equal. Most platforms give you a nice API. But under the hood? •Bridges •Wrapped assets •Custody Kima isn’t an orchestration layer. It’s a settlement rail. Here’s how the landscape actually compares 👇 🧵
- DVD killed the VCR formats. Browser made us OS agnostic. etc. I hope @openbazaar will help make currency-bound transactions join the list of obsolete annoyances. openbazaar.org/blog/Freedom-T…
- Banks clear $5T/day via Fedwire, yet a USDC payout still hops 3 rails before finality, locking capital and adding risk. A vertical layer settles fiat/stablecoin in one atomic motion will cut risk like CLS did for FX. =>Kima DM for a Unified Settlement primer. #wjgs @KimaNetwork
- Cash in bank, USDC on-chain. Both forms of money. Yet they clear on rails built 50 years apart. The world needs them stitched together so a bank, a digital wallet and a bank account can settle in one atomic motion. Hence @KimaNetwork . #stablecoins #Payments
- What will it take to accomplish real blockchain interoperability? crypto.news/how-to-accompl… #Blockchain #DeFi #interoperability #Technology #Web3
- Stablecoins are $150B+ and growing. Yet most businesses still can’t use them natively. 🤯 Banks won’t touch them. Blockchains don’t talk to each other. That’s where Kima comes in - to fix this. Fast, secure, and seamless.
- Replying to @tzahi_kanza @DavidSacks and 2 othersIn addition to legitimacy, it’s about effective integration. As crypto enters the policy arena, the challenge is how governments will integrate technologies built for openness into systems designed for control. That tension is where meaningful innovation—and inevitable
- Replying to @eitank5/ Banks, fintechs and payment platforms: what conditional‑payment use case would you pilot first in a digital‑euro sandbox? Let’s discuss. 👇 #ProgrammablePayments
