Austin Bennett

Thanks everyone for stopping by our stand at the Club Fair yesterday! Looking forward to an exciting year ahead 🌲🌲🚀

Glad to see our work on Voting Bloc Entropy (VBE) at @initc3org being highlighted by @CoinDesk !! While decentralization in DAOs is hard to get right, we believe that having the right metrics such as VBE is essential to better governance

The GENIUS Act is among the most transformative laws in decades. @Jerallaire, with @RichardQuest on @CNN, explains what this means for stablecoins.

It's truly extraordinary to see the US Congress come together in a very strong bi-partisan manner to deliver an enormously significant piece of legislation that will unleash American technology innovation to build the new internet financial system. Tomorrow will make history.

Come see my talk + many other great ones at BASS SBC 2025!

Today, we introduced Circle Gateway, a new developer service that enables a unified @USDC balance for instant crosschain liquidity. → Maximize efficiency: No more prefunding or rebalancing across chains. → Scale effortlessly: Serve demand on multiple chains with one…

🧵 New paper: "Transaction Proximity: A Graph-Based Approach to Blockchain Fraud Prevention" Blockchain exploits have cost billions in losses a year, and current solutions are broken. We propose a middle ground solution that shows strong empirical promise👇 1/

Circle Payments Network Mainnet is officially live! Today marks a major milestone for Circle, for @USDC, and for the future of stablecoin powered payments. It started as an idea, but with our first transactions already happening on CPN, it has become a reality. Cross border…

It was great to speak about Sybil vulnerability within Quadratic Voting mechanisms at @StanfordCrypto's Blockchain Governance conference!

We're excited to share that we will be hosting on 5/9-5/10 the second annual Stanford Blockchain Governance Summit, a two-day in-person conference on the future of blockchain governance. When: 5/9 and 5/10, 9AM to 6PM Where: Stanford Law School RSVP: lu.ma/sbgs25

For any @stanford students interested in blockchain, law, or governance, take LAW 1078: Blockchain Governance! Super great class on the legal, regulatory, and technological structures around DAO governance. You can find the course here: scs.stanford.edu/24sp-cs352b/sy…

📖 Stanford Blockchain Review, Vol. 7 No. 2 #62 - "What Makes a Stablecoin, Stable?" by @AustinB31415 from @StanfordCrypto interviews Circle's Chief Economist @GordonLiao on USDC's resilience and the future of stablecoins in DeFi. review.stanfordblockchain.xyz/p/what-makes-a…

As Stablecoins become increasingly popular, the question of what makes a "good" Stablecoin becomes far more important. Check out my interview with @gordonliao about Stablecoin design and analysis of the landscape in the @StanfordCrypto review! review.stanfordblockchain.xyz/p/what-makes-a…

Super cool to see Wyoming taking steps to implement the WST! Another great step towards using blockchain technology for fast-payment systems. Link Here: coingeek.com/wyoming-state-…

Great article from the @NewYorkFed about the impact of sanctions on TornadoCash usage. Lots of interesting data about how this impacts token price and usage as well as validator cooperation with OFAC. Check it out! Link: newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/m…

Proof of Liquidity of @StanfordCrypto in NYC!! ☔️🗽

the compound raid today shows the need for daos to move beyond vanilla token voting as a governance mechanism

SCOTUS’s recent overruling of Chevron Deference could be interesting with the SEC’s expanded definition of securities dealers. Currently, this may include DeFi protocols like Uniswap. I’ll be following this litigation closely! Link: news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law…