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Almost everything of value can be collateral. Most of it just isn’t...yet
Last week, Peter Thiel’s @foundersfund led a $5M token buy in @anvil_xyz.
The same week, @cryptosmiff sat down with Anvil founder @trspalding in Singapore for Conviction.
The full story on the universal collateral layer 👇
00:00 Intro, Singapore
01:03 2011: the internet never had money
09:38 Seven years at Flexa
15:23 Founders Fund's token buy
18:32 Expanding what counts as collateral
22:52 The Vegas default: who gets your Pokémon cards?
26:04 The $50K car problem
28:20 What's next for Anvil
29:39 AI won't have a credit score
Tyler Spalding retweeted
Last week, Peter Thiel’s @foundersfund led a $5M token buy in @anvil_xyz.
The same week, @cryptosmiff sat down with Anvil founder @trspalding in Singapore for Conviction.
The full story on the universal collateral layer 👇
00:00 Intro, Singapore
01:03 2011: the internet never had money
09:38 Seven years at Flexa
15:23 Founders Fund's token buy
18:32 Expanding what counts as collateral
22:52 The Vegas default: who gets your Pokémon cards?
26:04 The $50K car problem
28:20 What's next for Anvil
29:39 AI won't have a credit score
Tyler Spalding retweeted
"It's not like AI will have a credit score or software will have a credit score."
@AcronymFNDN President @trspalding makes the case for AI and software pledging collateral to get credit, as Anvil launches its SDK and Founders Fund leads a $5M purchase of ANVL tokens.
Thank you to @SPGlobalRatings for being a sponsor of the CoinDesk Media Network.
Tyler Spalding retweeted
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The event featured top-tier educational content, valuable networking, and forward-looking discussions on blockchain innovation. We look forward to seeing you next year.
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Tyler Spalding retweeted
Really excited about this product because it enables applications with no prior web3 integration to start leveraging the power of DeFi right out of the box. If the goal is crypto adoption in mainstream tech, then we need to make it as easy to adopt as possible.
Most of DeFi uses collateral to take out loans. Anvil uses it to keep promises. Verifiable guarantees for payments and credit, now easy to integrate with our new SDK. Excited to have Founders Fund and an incredible group of partners in the Anvil community.
NEW: $5M from Founders Fund, Pantera and others, plus a brand-new SDK, as Anvil tries to make crypto fade into the background of everyday business.
@AcronymFNDN President @trspalding joins @kateirwin to break down how a DeFi letter-of-credit protocol powers buy now, pay later, accounts receivable and reservations, and why Bitcoin, Ethereum and tokenized real-world assets could become on-chain collateral.
Watch the full conversation on Markets Outlook:
00:00 - Tyler Spalding Joins Markets Outlook
02:02 - Anvil Launches Its SDK for Builders
03:10 - DeFi's New Playbook: Letters of Credit
04:09 - Founders Fund Leads $5M Anvil Token Round
05:40 - Why a Governance Token Still Makes Sense
09:12 - The First Companies to Integrate
11:42 - What Makes Anvil's On-Chain Collateral Different
14:22 - Collateral in the Age of AI Agents
14:57 - Bitcoin, Ethereum and the Future of Collateral
Tyler Spalding retweeted
Collateral moving onchain isn't just an inevitability, it's already in progress. Institutions don't just need infrastructure, it also need to be supported by enterprise-grade governance. It is super exciting to see who is showing up to help define the Universal Collateral Layer.
LATEST: Peter Thiel-backed Founders Fund leads a $5 million token buy in crypto collateral protocol Anvil
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Excited to continue building with such a great team across the board. ⚒️
LATEST: Peter Thiel-backed Founders Fund leads a $5 million token buy in crypto collateral protocol Anvil
coindesk.com/business/2026/1…
Tyler Spalding retweeted
Confidential DeFi at scale, live today.
Zama is the fastest growing confidentiality protocol for onchain finance.
Today, Zama expands confidential access to 16 curated yield vaults across 5 institutional curators and 5 assets: USDC, USDT, AUSD, WBTC, and tGBP, all deployed on @Morpho.
The same trusted curators and strategies that institutional capital already uses, now with confidential entry.
Alongside the vaults, the Zama Confidential Swap Protocol goes live. Swap between confidential assets without exposing intent or size.
Curated by: Armitage by @wintermute_t, @Bitwise, @flowdesk_co, @RockawayX, @SteakhouseFi
Access: @Morpho, @utila_io, @yield_xyz, @zerion
Incentives: @pendle_fi, @merkl_xyz
With support from: @Tether (USDT), @BitGo (WBTC), @tokenGBP (tGBP), @withAUSD (AUSD)
Shield, send, deposit, earn, and swap, all confidentially at: app.zama.org
Tyler Spalding retweeted
Why Flexa Co-Founder Tyler Spalding Is Bullish on Zano 👀| Free the Money Ep. 40
@Trspalding is President of the @AcronymFNDN and the former Co-Founder & CEO of @FlexaHQ, a digital payments network. He has been mining and building in crypto since 2011 and has more than 20 years of experience across technology, payments and aerospace, including engineering work with the U.S. Air Force and NASA programs. His work in crypto and Web3 has spanned a number of projects, including @Anvil_xyz and @Spenders_club, with a longstanding focus on payments and bringing digital assets into real-world use.
In this episode, Tyler shares his perspective on what it will actually take for digital assets to become usable money and why privacy is essential for adoption at scale. For the first time publicly, Tyler discusses his longtime support for Zano, what he believes the project has gotten right, and why its approach to privacy and security has positioned it ahead of the curve in preparing for emerging AI threats.
We also discuss stablecoins, private digital dollars, Zano’s Hard Fork 6, cross-chain interoperability & Zcash. Tyler makes the case for Proof of Stake over Proof of Work, including the security risks he sees in PoW networks, and we explore the bigger challenge of moving crypto from something people simply hold to something they can privately and securely spend in the real world.
Remember to subscribe and hit the bell “🔔” icon to get notifications.
Want financial privacy? Check out my favorite privacy coin @zano_project
You can buy Zano seamlessly on MEXC using a VPN, or browse the full list of exchanges where Zano is available here: zanolist.com/exchanges
You can also find educational content, tutorials, and interviews on the official Zano YouTube Channel: youtube.com/@ZanoProject
0:0 Background
2:46 Why Bitcoin Changed Everything for Tyler in 2011
5:48 Stablecoins & Digital Dollars: “Money Is Really Equal to Debt”
10:55 Discovering Zano: Why Tyler Became an Early Supporter
14:12 Why Privacy Is 100% Vital for Crypto Mass Adoption
19:53 Zano Confidential Assets: Bringing Privacy to Bitcoin & Crypto
24:38 Spending Private Zcash in the Real World With Flexa
27:49 Zano Hard Fork 6: Gateway Addresses & Cross-Chain Integration
31:19 Zcash vs. Zano
32:35 Freedom Dollar: The Private Stablecoin Built on Zano
35:56 AI Hacks: The Growing Security Threat to Crypto
39:15 How Proof of Work Vulnerable to a 51% Attack
45:50 Why Proof of Stake Could Be the Future of Crypto
46:34 Digital Spenders Club: Making Crypto Spendable in the Real World
51:38 No KYC: Paying Merchants Directly With Crypto
52:39 Tyler Spalding’s Must-Read Books on Money
54:19 Economic Finality
Tyler Spalding retweeted
SOLANA CARD.
AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY AT SOLANA SUMMER HOUSE.
TOMORROW, AUGUST 29.
Tyler Spalding retweeted
Hard Fork 6 is LIVE 🔥
Zano just passed block 3,833,000 and yet another huge upgrade is now active on mainnet.
What changes:
🔹 Gateway Addresses are live. Services like exchanges and bridges can now integrate Zano by reading a single account balance, instead of scanning the whole chain and rebuilding it from scattered outputs
🔹 Registration is permissionless. Any service can set one up without asking anyone, and every registration burns 100 $ZANO
🔹 Stronger consensus: tighter validation rules and a more decisive fork-choice rule
🔹 Per-output payment IDs, so services can match deposits to the right account with recipient privacy intact
And what doesn't change: your wallet is exactly as private as it was yesterday. Gateway Addresses are built for services, not for everyday users.
If you haven't updated your wallet yet, do it now at zano.org/wallets. An old version won't follow the new chain.
The hardest barrier to Zano adoption just came down.
The work now moves to getting exchanges, bridges, and other services actually integrated. That part starts today. 🔒
Tyler Spalding retweeted
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Tyler Spalding, President Acronym Foundation, shares his views. Access the full report: thetacapital.com/insights/th…
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Tyler Spalding retweeted
1/ World, meet Cohort I of the Ethereum Security Subsidy Program. Out of 100+ applicants, here are the 30 projects selected for our first of many cohorts.
Proudly securing @ethereum mainnet together with @ethereumfndn, @nethermind and @chainlinklabs.
Tyler Spalding retweeted
It's almost time for @consensus2026 again this year... theblockchainvideo.com is still open, but we're visiting Miami with a new theme.
Tyler Spalding retweeted
ok these jackets go crazy
@spenders_club, we're gonna need more of these
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