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What’s the Magic Age for Entrepreneurs?
What’s the Magic Age for Entrepreneurs?
When I started my first business at the experienced age of 12, I was selling garage sale treasures on eBay. I would…
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Matthew Sheffield shared thisGlad to finally announce our partnership with Lido. Composability makes an asset more valuable and drives DeFi ecosystem growth. Grateful to Kean Gilbert and the team for the collaboration to get here, and looking forward to what’s ahead. Credit to our incredible Head of DeFi Cameron ODonnell, CPA for driving the Sharplink end. Shoutout to Anchorage Digital for adopting support to mint and redeem within the QC. Institutional DeFi continues to make strides!Matthew Sheffield shared this🚀🚀 Sharplink is staking $200M of ETH through Lido Finance 🚀🚀 Sharplink, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBET), one of the world's largest corporate holders of Ether ("ETH") and a prominent advocate of Ethereum adoption, today announced that it will stake $200M of ETH through Lido. Sharplink will receive wrapped staked ETH (“wstETH”) a token representing staked ETH and its associated staking rewards, to be held in custody with Anchorage Digital. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/dJb-m4w8 Joseph Chalom, Matthew Sheffield, Mandy Campbell, Cameron ODonnell, CPA
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Matthew Sheffield shared thisGreat conversation with David and Casey today on Vibestream. We kicked off discussing what is a DAT (clip below) and made our way through deployments, EIPs, and somehow ended on why bringing back Blockbuster might make sense. Thanks for having me on the show!Matthew Sheffield shared thisSharpLink CIO Matthew Sheffield explains corporate digital asset treasuries (DATs): DATs put crypto on a public balance sheet. Sharplink was early to ETH, raising $425M then $3B, and now holds about 890,000 ETH, deployed for yield.
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Matthew Sheffield shared thisDAYS during Consensus earlier this year was a standout event. A schedule full of great speakers talking about generating institutional grade, onchain yield. Looking forward to picking the conversation back up during 2049 week.Matthew Sheffield shared this25+ industry leaders will take the stage at DAYS Singapore on October 6! DAYS Singapore brings together leading voices across digital assets, institutional finance, and onchain markets. Meet the speakers: › Matthew Sheffield, Chief Investment Officer at Sharplink › Sonya Kim, Co-Founder at 3F › Vadim Khramov, Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Edge Capital Group › Hunter Horsley, CEO at Bitwise Asset Management › Elizabeth Yenko, Vice President - Innovation at New York Life Ventures › TN L, Director at Pendle › Joseph Chee, Chairman & CEO at Solana Company - a Digital Asset Treasury Company › Lingling JIANG, Partner at DWF Labs › Kefei Lin, General Manager at SBI Holdings › James Wo, Founder & CEO at Digital Finance Group (DFG) › Yannick Socolov, Head of Special Projects, Onchain at Bitwise Asset Management › Lasse Clausen, Founding Partner at 1kx › Pei C., CEO at Theoriq › Marcos Viriato, Co-Founder & CEO at Parfin › Jasmine J., Head of Tokenization Ecosystem at Fidelity Investments › Evgeny Gokhberg, Founder at Re7 Capital › Artem Stopnevich, CEO at The Vault › Felix Lutsch, Head of Ecosystem at Symbiotic › Jose Martinez Sanguinetti, Founder & CEO at Sothys Capital › Anna Dinescu, Managing Partner at Hilbert Capital › Daniel K., Chief Strategy Officer at DeFi Development Corp. (NASDAQ: DFDV) › Sam Gaer, Chief Investment Officer at Monarq Asset Management › Chunda McCain, Co-Founder at Paxos Labs › Piotr Saczuk, Founder at stablewatch & Osero › More to be announced Digital Asset Yield Summit brings private capital together to explore yield opportunities in digital assets. Invite-only and capped at 300, it’s a buy-side-majority room: 40% LPs/allocators, 40% GPs/asset managers. 🔗 Request your Ticket → https://lnkd.in/dbA-Vgfc 🔗 Apply for Complimentary Capital Allocator Pass → https://lnkd.in/eU7t4rWh See you in Singapore!
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Matthew Sheffield reposted thisMatthew Sheffield reposted thisA.G.P./ Alliance Global Partners acted as the Sole Placement Agent for Sharplink Inc.'s Registered Direct Offering. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/e-fFEnym
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Matthew Sheffield shared thisThe EF wrote this for the people whose job it is to be skeptical, not those of us who already believe. It reads like an internal due diligence memo a central bank would build before picking a settlement layer. It's objective, and unapologetic in comparing Ethereum to other chains. It explains the importance of different evaluation criteria to set the table before laying out the facts on Ethereum's dominance: Page 5: Quantifies security cost. Finalizing a fraudulent transaction on Ethereum costs about $50.7B to pull off, against $76B staked. Your stake gets slashed on the way out. That's more than Solana, BNB Chain and TRON hold combined. Page 28: Want to know who really controls a chain Look at genesis distribution. ETH: ~17% to insiders. Other chains were 50-90% to insiders. Check the charts. Page 37: Zero outages since 2015. None of the other players compared can say that. Page 38: Ethereum runs 5+ independent clients. Other L1s compared run 1-2. They explain the importance of client diversity too. Page 47: "Public blockchains aggregate global liquidity. Stablecoins, tokenized securities, and financial primitives on Ethereum are immediately usable across a broad market of participants. Permissioned ledgers remain liquidity-constrained by design. Even when technically functional, they often fail to achieve economic relevance beyond the initiating consortium." It goes on from there. This is a great information source that I hope becomes one of the first resources governments and institutions reference when considering their settlement network.Matthew Sheffield shared thisToday, the Ethereum Foundation Global Policy Strategy (GPS) team is publishing "Ethereum Basics for Governments and Institutions", a non-technical primer for the public sector and institutional leaders choosing the neutral infrastructure on which to coordinate with other parties while preserving their own sovereignty. The report covers how Ethereum works, how it is governed, how it compares with alternatives, and where it is already being deployed. The infrastructure underpinning modern economies is fragile, and governments and citizens alike are bearing the cost. Cloud outages cripple public services. Cross-border financial systems are weaponized. Identity providers are breached. These are not isolated anomalies; they are the inevitable tax of relying on centralized systems. For policymakers, this is a question of sovereignty and systemic risk. For institutions making deployment decisions, it is a question of resilience and counterparty exposure. Both point to the same answer: infrastructure that is credibly neutral, where the rules are enforced by the protocol rather than at the discretion of an operator that can be compromised or controlled. Ethereum was built for exactly this purpose.
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Matthew Sheffield posted thisTesla’s charge themselves overnight when power costs less but I can’t schedule agents to run less time sensitive tasks when demand for compute is lower and get a token discount. Who’s building this dynamic pricing model (and orchestration logic)?
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Matthew Sheffield reposted thisMatthew Sheffield reposted this"Deploy slowly. Unwind fast." — Matthew Sheffield, Chief Investment Officer at Sharplink, breaks down one of the most important security principles every DeFi treasury company should be building around. 🔗 Watch the full "Compliance & Risk Frameworks: The DeFi Accounting Playbook" panel on YouTube → https://lnkd.in/d9DesRZc Digital Asset Yield Summit is the ultimate forum for capital allocators to discover the latest advancements in digital asset yield. Every attendee is reviewed. Every session is relevant. Every introduction is intentional. 🔗 Request your Ticket → https://lnkd.in/dbA-Vgfc 🔗 Partner with Us → https://lnkd.in/dC8j7k9Z See you in Singapore, October 6
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Matthew Sheffield shared thisIt’s published, Sharplink is set to join the Russell 2000 & 3000 in June! As companies grow into inclusions, the percent of their holders that are index tracking grows. At scale, a company can have 25%+ of its stock held by passive funds. This is an important milestone for our company and means millions of people are set to gain exposure to the Ethereum opportunity.
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Matthew Sheffield shared thisI will be speaking at the Agentic Finance Summit hosted by Microsoft on June 3rd, discussing the convergence of ai agents and blockchain rails. Since October, x402 protocol alone has enabled agents to process over 175 million transactions onchain. Stablecoin micropayments between autonomous actors has been a use case the industry has been discussing for over a year as a large growth vertical for network demand. We are starting to see that take form, and it will likely be one of the most impactful shifts in demand for Ethereum, as the world's decentralized trustware. If you don't have a ticket yet and would like to attend SHARPLINK25 is our friends & partners code - https://lnkd.in/ew7YPHiH
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Matthew Sheffield liked thisPaul is a 2019 graduate of Lehigh's CSB program and a 2020 CS masters grad. Congrats on the promotion! Computer Science and Engineering @LehighU Lehigh University Computer Science and Business AssociationMatthew Sheffield liked thisI’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase!
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Matthew Sheffield liked thisMatthew Sheffield liked thisWhy do institutions look at RWA collateral differently? Because there's a book of records behind the token. Hack it, and it can be burned and reissued to the proper owner. Ryan Navi, CIO of Forward Industries, on non-bearer assets onchain.
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Matthew Sheffield liked thisClosing out August with a major milestone. One year ago, I joined Anchorage Digital. I came in believing that crypto's next chapter wouldn't be won by the loudest voice in the room, but by the most trusted one — and this year proved that thesis right in ways I didn't fully expect. We became America's first federally regulated stablecoin issuer, launched USDtb as the first OCC-supervised stablecoin alongside Ethena Labs, and had our consent order lifted — real, hard-won proof that you can build a category-defining crypto company and hold yourself to the highest bar of institutional trust. Our CEO testified in front of the Senate Banking Committee. BlackRock named us an eligible digital asset custodian. We partnered with Google Cloud on agentic banking infrastructure, brought Anchorage Digital Prime to market, launched our Ventures program, and welcomed Mountain Protocol, Hedgey, and Securitize for Advisors into the fold. Tether invested $100M at a $4.2B valuation. And this year we have some our biggest plans yet. Being on the Institutional Sales team through all of this — watching skepticism turn into signed agreements, one relationship at a time — has been the professional privilege of my career so far. But if I'm honest, some of what I'm proudest of this year happened outside the office. I launched Dumbo Dads Run Club, building a small community of dads who show up for each other one mile at a time. And through my nonprofit Tucks Travels, I helped send 12 students to Costa Rica for an experience that will stick with them for life. We also funded over 200 students to get their passport — their first stamp into a bigger world. It turns out that's the thread running through this whole year: earning trust, opening doors, and building things that let people go further than they thought they could. Anchorage is doing that for an entire industry. I'm just trying to do a little of that for the people around me too. Here's to year two — more trust earned, more doors opened, more miles logged. 🎉 #Anchorage1Year
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Matthew Sheffield liked thisMatthew Sheffield liked thisWe launched Deribit options on CoinRoutes. Now you can trade options the same way you trade spot and futures through the portal, or API. Live Greeks, real-time risk, one workflow instead of jumping between platforms. Big thanks to Douglas Love for leading this on our end, and to Luuk Strijers and Chantal Bradford at Deribit https://lnkd.in/eRzki6Fz
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Matthew Sheffield liked thisThe least glamorous parts of a business are often the most important. I really enjoyed sitting down with Amanda Timm on Beyond the Balance Sheets podcast to talk about something I spend a lot of time thinking about: what actually makes organizations work. We covered leadership, communication, scaling teams, AI and blockchain, and why building the right foundations matters if you want the big ideas to actually work. Thanks to Amanda for a great conversation. Give it a listen!Matthew Sheffield liked thisThe biggest ideas only work when the foundation beneath them does. Our COO, Laine Litman, recently joined Amanda Timm on Beyond the Balance Sheets for a wide-ranging conversation on what it takes to build, scale and lead organizations through periods of growth and change. They discussed her career across traditional finance and digital assets, why strong operating foundations often matter more than the “exciting” parts of a business, and how the right infrastructure and data can unlock the potential of technologies like AI and blockchain. Tune in to the full conversation: https://lnkd.in/gERPm-KZ
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Matthew Sheffield liked thisMatthew Sheffield liked thisRockawayX has acquired Relayer Capital, a crypto long / short hedge fund founded and led by Austin Barack. Relayer will become RockawayX Liquid Opportunities Fund and focus on undervalued tokens & crypto-related equities. Austin will continue leading the strategy as CIO. We see a compelling opportunity for active management in digital assets today. Many protocols and applications now have real usage, revenues, and fundamentals we can underwrite, while the market still misprices them. The strategy’s strong performance this year has been driven by positions in Venice.ai, Hyperliquid, Grass Network and other projects with strong usage and that are exposed to major themes (i.e. private AI, on-chain trading). We only add a new strategy when we have conviction in the team, approach, and our ability to outperform over the long-term. We’ve known Austin for 6+ years and seen his edge and instincts across market cycles firsthand. We’re thrilled for him to join RockawayX and strengthen our US presence. Read coverage by Forbes, ✍ Nina Bambysheva: https://lnkd.in/gMTJT_Ck$2 Billion Crypto VC RockawayX Targets $150 Million For New Hedge Fund$2 Billion Crypto VC RockawayX Targets $150 Million For New Hedge Fund
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Matthew Sheffield liked thisI still remember leaving mortgages, consumer credit, and CLOs behind in '22 to rejoin Matt. Timing, as they say, is everything. We were both at Citi in structured products, which was a good place to learn that a new asset class is only ever as good as the plumbing underneath it and that counterparty risk matters. That's been the job here ever since. Building institutional-grade asset management on digital rails. Getting the regulatory footprint right while the rules were still being written. Handling custody through a cycle that kept us all on our toes. Forging a team that I'm proud of, and risk management that held through the ups and the downs. The backdrop was certainly tougher than the one we'd have picked, and I can't imagine having made this much progress without Matt and this team. Years of long hours on the work that needed doing, and more dedication and diligence than any of us thought we'd signed up for. Thank you for the graft. To M&G and everyone else in the round, thank you. We'll put in the work to take Hivemind to its next stage. The foundations went in during the tougher half of the cycle, which is the only time you find out what holds. When I joined, I used to say blockchain was inevitable, if not imminent. I'd drop the caveat now. There's a lot more frontier ahead, and no team I'd rather go at it with.Matthew Sheffield liked thisToday, our group company Hivemind Digital Group is announcing the completion of $17M in strategic funding, led by M&G Investments, with participation from CPIC Investment Management (H.K.) Company Ltd., ZA Global, FalconX, and Sonic Boom Ventures, alongside board members and senior executives at leading financial institutions. We are pleased to welcome Alex Seddon, Head of Impact and Private Equity at M&G Investments, to our Board of Directors. Our thesis has been consistent since day one, and becomes even more clear today. Blockchain and the broader frontier technology are increasingly becoming a new form of financial asset, and having a profound impact on reshaping financial service infrastructure. Investors should be able to access these new financial primitives with institutional-grade transparency and governance. This milestone accelerates the infrastructure build-out that makes it possible, and we are excited to be at the forefront of the grand financialization of frontier technology. Read the full announcement ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gKB7f7aJ
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