Leo Schwartz

RT @bdanweiss: @leomschwartz here's the story! https://t.co/ro0wVpTnZW

New from the Circle S1: Circle paid Binance a one-time $60.25 million fee, as well as a monthly incentive fee, to promote USDC on its platform and maintain a portion of its treasury in USDC https://t.co/cCrqKzgrld

RT @BrendanPedersen: Democrats were happy to bash the Trump family last night over the stablecoin project they announced. But Dem lawmake…

Over the past few years, Trump's business empire has dramatically shifted from real estate and licensing to his publicly traded Trump Media shares and crypto holdings. Conflict of interest concerns from his first term look quaint in hindsight: https://t.co/cGtwopdazh

Scoop: Haun Ventures is raising its second round of crypto megafunds, targeting $1 billion with a June close. Led by former federal prosecutor Katie Haun, the firm raised $1.5 billion across two debut funds in 2022 https://t.co/YrvzcGNsgR

I love our economy https://t.co/vfwlYiE8qP

VCs, get in my DMs/email!

Dan Primack @danprimack

VCs always tell me they can't talk about active fundraising, on advice of lawyers. That may be about to change: https://t.co/KH7y8uC2MH

NEW: The fintech unicorn Mercury is officially severing its relationship with Evolve, the troubled banking partner for Synapse. A good excuse to read my story from last week with @agarfinks on what went wrong: https://t.co/em2v7fc202

As the Senate prepares for a landmark vote on stablecoin legislation, Sen. Elizabeth Warren is circulating a memo laying out risks, from Big Tech control of the financial system to consumer safety: https://t.co/ji1Y2SSR9X

RT @leomschwartz: Almost a year ago, the a16z-backed fintech Synapse collapsed, trapping $200 million in customer assets and revealing the…

Almost a year ago, the a16z-backed fintech Synapse collapsed, trapping $200 million in customer assets and revealing the wobbly, unregulated infrastructure underlying much of our new financial system. My investigation w/ @agarfinks on what went wrong: https://t.co/em2v7fc202

The Senate voted tonight to repeal key financial regulation that would have supervised digital payment platforms for fraud, privacy, and, ironically, debanking. A major win for Silicon Valley and Elon Musk's payment ambitions for X: https://t.co/Vp5WUwRynX

I spoke with SEC commissioner (and so-called 'Crypto Mom') Hester Peirce about the agency's new approach toward blockchain and the decision to drop lawsuits against companies like Coinbase: https://t.co/UCegPGnmzq

I spoke with former House Financial Services chair Patrick McHenry about his new role at Ondo Finance and his optimism for stablecoin legislation https://t.co/mrwzUbkMlZ https://t.co/4RdPuvdGls