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Founder @zardotapp (a16z, Coinbase). Accelerating stablecoin adoption for people living in countries with unstable money | Founded @SadaPaypk (Acquired)

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Joined May 2009
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Team cooked. 🔥 We built ZAR’s brand to feel rock solid, and our motion design reinforces that in every part of the app. Nothing floats or bounces. Every element moves and locks into place like it has weight. Everything lands with intent. When your currency loses value every month, the thing holding your dollars should feel rock solid.
Bitcoin was built for anyone, but buying it hasn't been easy for much of the world. ZAR brings dollars to the Global South, and now Bitcoin too.
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We wondered if handing over stablecoins could feel as elegant as handing over cash. It now happens ~4,000 times per week on ZAR. Type the amount, digital cash appears on screen, receiver scans to claim it. The merchant never needed to know your account number.
Cash in. Dollars out. Look for the pink sign.
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Cash in. Dollars out. Look for the pink sign.
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Scaling @sadapaypk to millions of users in Pakistan taught me that trust is physical. 30M+ corner shops across emerging markets move $500B+ a year in cash. Remittances, bills, top-ups. People already trust these shops with their money. We're turning them into the place to get digital dollars, and the start of onchain commerce across the global south.
We added 1,000 shops to our network every week in October.  Each one is a trusted local merchant becoming an access point for stablecoins. ROCK. SOLID. MONEY.
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Tell me how often you're typing the following prompt into Claude Code and I'll tell you how far along you are in your AI adoption > How's it going?
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We added 1,000 shops to our network every week in October.  Each one is a trusted local merchant becoming an access point for stablecoins. ROCK. SOLID. MONEY.
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Twenty-six years later, coding agents have broken most of eXtreme Programming's assumptions, but not its best ideas. So I rewrote XP for the age of agents.
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