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DoorDash just launched instant deposits for Crimson on Astra's Payments Cloud. A company that could have tried to build this in-house chose to build it with us. Here's what that sentence takes to earn. When you sell payments infrastructure, you're asking a company to hand you the one part of their product where a failure is instant, visible, and unforgivable. Money doesn't get a grace period. No demo closes that gap. Only volume does. Morning Consult named DoorDash the fastest-growing brand in America. When a company moving at that speed needs to move money in real time, the infrastructure underneath it has to be right the first time and every time after. Someone is at the pump, needs a full tank, and is a few dollars short. They add funds in seconds and pay. That's the moment we're built for. Dashers can now add funds in real time via Visa Direct and Mastercard Move, and spend on their Crimson Visa Debit Card immediately, powered by Astra. This is what we built Astra to do. Move money the instant it matters, at the scale it matters, delivered through the Payments Cloud. #Fintech #Payments #PaymentsCloud

Card networks have been untouchable for decades. So… are they actually starting to lose ground? 👀 Real-time payments ⚡, open banking, wallets, and account-to-account flows are changing how money moves. Not slowly. Fast enough to make you question what “default” even means anymore. In this episode of Behind the Checkout 🎙️, John Lunn, CEO & Co-founder at Gr4vy, sits down with Hans Morris, Managing Partner at Nyca Partners and former President at Visa, to unpack what’s really happening. If you’re thinking about where payments are heading next, this one’s worth your time. 🎧 YouTube: https://lnkd.in/g7WPHMqk 🎧 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gR4z-7jw 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/grEntnXG Subscribe to our YouTube channel and be the first to know when a new episode drops 🚀

🛍️ COMMERCE WITHOUT CLICKS 🛒 For as long as I can remember, I have been obsessed with shopping. In fact, I often refer to myself as a “high-volume shopper” and my bank account does not like this. Though my obsession with shopping is not only in personal pursuit, it carries curiosity across the technology that enables it and the behaviors it forms. The way a storefront is laid out. The psychology behind a checkout flow. The moment a new payment method crosses the chasm from novelty to habit. Commerce, the internet, and technology have shaped my life, career, and honestly my worldview. 🏠 I just moved into a new apartment. What should be an exciting chapter has turned into weeks of furniture hunting that has honestly made me want to give up. I have spent hours scrolling through endless product pages, trying to compare dimensions and materials across a dozen tabs, reaching out to interior designers who are either booked out, way over budget, or not exactly my style. Of course, I have experimented with every AI tool I can get my hands on to help me search, discover, compare, and purchase. None of it works the way it should. The experience is fragmented, exhausting, and still requires me to do all the heavy lifting in person and online. 💡What’s funny though, is that instead of making me even more cynical, the frustration has made me more convinced than ever that we are on the edge of something massive. I can see a future where all of these problems are solved. The gaps in the experience are where the opportunity lies. I want to describe something, and that should kick off a whole set of workflows in the background. An agent knows me and what I like, so it searches and discovers, compares every option across price/quality/availability/reviews, negotiates where it can, and handles the purchase. Shopping that is faster, cheaper, more personalized, and actually DELIGHTFUL! 👩🏻💻Of course, we aren’t even close to this end-to-end experience today. The infrastructure that powers commerce today was built on one core assumption: that the buyer is a human. And before we get to the future I describe, the pipes need to be rebuilt altogether. That is what my partner Atul Ajoy and I set out to explore in our first piece for The Commerce Journal. It is the first of much content we hope to present. We wrote it because we believe this is the most important infrastructure moment in commerce since mobile. If you work in commerce, payments, fintech, or AI, I think you will find something here worth thinking about. Give this a read and play around with the toys we built in, and let us know what you think. 👇 Commerce Without Clicks: The Dawn of Agents in Shopping https://lnkd.in/gYAaPmXe

Some news I've been excited to share — I'm joining Nyca Partners as an LP investor and advisor (LPA), and I couldn't be more thrilled. Over the last couple of months, I've had the chance to spend real time with the Nyca team — and what struck me was how smart, thoughtful, curious, and genuinely kind everyone has been. For those who don't know Nyca: they're a fintech-focused venture capital firm dedicated to connecting innovative startups to the global financial system. Their fingerprints are on some of the most important fintech infrastructure of the last decade. What I'm most excited about is bringing an AI-first lens to fintech alongside this team. The intersection of AI, identity, cybersecurity and financial services is where so much of the next wave will be built — and I can't wait to roll up my sleeves with the founders and partners doing that work. To Hans Morris, Ravi Mohan, Stephanie Khoo, Duncan King, Jasleen Kaur and the entire Nyca team — thank you for the warm welcome to the Nyca family. I look forward to working together. 📷 Last night's welcome dinner with Bay Area LPA community and Nyca team!