Archive - Blueprints by Bridget Harris

The Most Profitable Business Per Employee in the World

150 employees generated $14 billion in profit — $93 million per employee — in 2024, leading some to conclude tether is running the most efficient…

May 5 •

March 2025

February 2025

Notes on cefi packaging defi

The most difficult and annoying part of decentralized finance (defi) today is undoubtedly its user experience — fragmented, slow, risky, and frankly…

Feb 13 •

January 2025

On a stablecoin bank

Notes on the feasibility of a new type of bank

Jan 3 •

and

December 2024

Borderless payments, 2.0

A 2024 update on the cross-border payments industry

Dec 20, 2024 •

November 2024

Stripe’s Acquisition of Bridge is a Stroke of Genius

Controlled by banks, B2B payments account for $120 trillion yearly — compared to Stripe’s $1 trillion — with the banks extracting fees every step of the…

Nov 17, 2024 •

August 2024

Good things take time

A crypto whitepill. By Bridget Harris & Gaby Goldberg

Aug 22, 2024 •

and

June 2024

Abstraction to adoption

On the industry deciding crypto should be easy to use (or making a new buzzword?)

Jun 26, 2024 •

May 2024

Aggregation, settlement, execution

New dynamics between these layers and how we assign value to them

May 6, 2024 •

January 2024

On data availability layers

Covering the main characters: Avail, Celestia, and EigenDA

Jan 25, 2024 •

December 2023

Revisiting borderless payments

What's old is new again. By Gaby Goldberg & Bridget Harris

Dec 6, 2023 •

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