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Digital Assets GTM & Ecosystems @Mastercard | Stablecoins · Tokenization · Payments infrastructure | Former @jpmorgan, @DCGco, @NYLVentures, @CitiVentures

New York, NY
Joined January 2017
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Puja Samuel retweeted
Open USD (OUSD) is live on BVNK. As part of @Mastercard, a founding consortium member of @openstandard, BVNK offers a direct integration path for OUSD. Enterprise teams get a direct route to mint, redeem, send, receive, store and convert OUSD alongside traditional and digital currencies.
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Puja Samuel retweeted
Mastercard is joining the XRP Ledger Hackathon. When a payments giant shows up for a builder weekend, you know the ideas coming out of that room are going somewhere. New York. October 24–25. Register now: luma.com/xrpl-hackathon-nyc @Mastercard
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Puja Samuel retweeted
As AI agents begin to act, payments move into the background — at machine speed and massive scale. Today we’re introducing Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines — bringing structure, governance, and trust to this new class of payments. Launching with 30+ partners to bring this to life from day one. This isn’t just more payments. It’s a new operating model for commerce. 👉 Learn more: mastercard.com/us/en/news-an…
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Mastercard just put AI agents on 150M+ merchants. That’s the start, not the finish. Next-gen payments = programmable money, self-custody, non-human initiators. Stablecoin rails, agentic commerce, tokenized assets, machine-to-machine. At #Consensus2026 looking for:
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→ Networks extending us into new rails → Founders building agent-native commerce → Wallets + platforms that need risk, identity, settlement at scale If you’re building any of this, let’s talk!
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Puja Samuel retweeted
Your digital wallet just learned how to speak IRL. 🤝
The @MetaMask Card is the bridge between your crypto and your everyday life.
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JPMorgan is going onchain. @TyLobban, Head of Digital Assets @ Onyx, joins us to reveal JP Morgan's crypto strategy. - What is Onyx? - Project Guardian - Institutional adoption - Onchain payments and settlement Full episode links ↓
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Puja Samuel retweeted
We're thrilled to join this 4-week innovation sprint powered by @encodeclub with Onyx by @jpmorgan as premier sponsor. Hackathon bounties for Lens devs: 🥇Best App - 2.5k USDC 🥈Runner-up App - 1.5k USDC 🏆Best Integrations - 500 USDC (x2) Get involved: encode.club/digital-identity…
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.@thecryptotutors’ Crypto For The Culture, a virtual, free crypto diversity conference, is taking place November 3 from at 8:45 am to 5 pm PT. Sign up: cryptofortheculture.io/
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Puja Samuel retweeted
We at @DCGCo are thrilled announce our seed investment in @spaceandtime! They are on a mission to build a decentralized database architecture that is future-proof and ready for enterprise adoption. Let’s dive in 👇
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Chanel taps Unilever executive as new CEO voguebusiness.com/companies/…
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