​Discussion Topic:

​The payments space in crypto has seen immense growth over the past year from startups, VC's, fintechs, and existing tradfi institutions. In this Whitepaper Reading Circle, we'll dive into a key developments:

• ​Visa and Mastercard's crypto program

• ​Coinflow, Stripe, MPP (on Tempo), and x402.

​We'll also discuss where each of us imagine the space heading (or NOT heading). The discussion will be fluid, with no fixed agenda. Anything goes :)

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​Session Lead

​Derrick:

• ​Investing at Big Brain Holdings

• ​Lead several WPRC sessions in SF & Denver on MEV, Prediction Markets and more. Help start the Whitepaper Reading Club SF ecosystem :)

​Session Format

• ​10 mins silent reading to start

• ​Discussion-first, no panels

• ​Bring questions (technical depth welcomed)

• ​Short notes + key takeaways shared after the session
  

​Important: Not a promotion of projects or ideas :)

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​We want to thank Republic for offering their amazing office to us!

​Republic

​Republic is a global investment platform building the on-chain infrastructure for private markets in the digital age. The platform provides regulated, institutional-grade rails for private investing—spanning securities, funds, and tokenized assets—enabling more efficient, transparent, and globally accessible capital formation.

​Through its global platform, Republic supports the full lifecycle of private investing: from primary offerings and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization to self-custody and secondary liquidity. Investors can access opportunities through a full suite of regulated structures, including individual deals, funds, SPVs, accredited offerings, and tokenized securities across asset classes such as startups, crypto, real estate, and film. Businesses can leverage Republic’s infrastructure for asset structuring, capital formation, blockchain integrations, tokenization, and broker-dealer services.

​Whitepaper Reading Club

​We are a community of 800 builders, founders, researchers, in Singapore, Malaysia, San Francisco, Lagos, Bangkok, and New York. We come together in person every month to discuss the latest blockchain projects (website)

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​AlpenGlow (Aug 2025)

​​​​​Summaries

​​​​​​We create detailed and easy to understand summaries for each paper (summaries) and have held 70+ sessions since June 2023, covering topics from Account Abstraction, Parallel Chains, EIPs, Bitcoin Ecosystem to AIXCrypto. We are ecosystem-agnostic, not for profit and with a strong focus on projects with technical, product or social innovations.

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