For the last three years, we’ve been building the most advanced global money movement platform on top of Bitcoin. Real-time. Borderless. At the lowest cost possible. Today, we’re opening Lightspark Grid up to developers, banks, wallets, and financial institutions everywhere.

With Lightspark Grid, we have real-time connectivity to and from 65 countries, connecting over 14,000 banks, mobile money providers, and wallets, serving 5.6 billion people across a combined $93 trillion in GDP.

And it’s all interoperable through real-time invisible Bitcoin settlement. Invisible, because in most cases, payors and payees don’t even know they’re using Bitcoin to move value on the internet.

18 months ago, we took a first step to make this possible by building and open-sourcing the Universal Money Address standard, which is now used by banks to offer seamless, real-time, fiat-based global payments to their customers.

But now we’re taking it further.

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