Kevin Hurley

And I think it's healthy to be able to brainstorm things together and just throw things out, have others be able to build on those things and build great solutions on top of that. So I think that is probably the thing I'm most proud of. If I'm looking at like the technical side, it's probably when Coinbase integrated with us.

I think that was really a great validation of what we've been working on. So typically Coinbase builds things in-house. So for us to be chosen as their partner for Lightning was really an honor and helped show that we were on the right track to bringing more users and more companies onto the Lightning space. Let's flip the script a little bit.

I think that was really a great validation of what we've been working on. So typically Coinbase builds things in-house. So for us to be chosen as their partner for Lightning was really an honor and helped show that we were on the right track to bringing more users and more companies onto the Lightning space. Let's flip the script a little bit.

I think that was really a great validation of what we've been working on. So typically Coinbase builds things in-house. So for us to be chosen as their partner for Lightning was really an honor and helped show that we were on the right track to bringing more users and more companies onto the Lightning space. Let's flip the script a little bit.

So I think when we first launched, what I mentioned before, we were trying to make it simpler than anything else out there. But I think we quickly found we just didn't go far enough. And when we shared it with companies, they still felt overwhelmed by the complexities of Lightning.

So I think when we first launched, what I mentioned before, we were trying to make it simpler than anything else out there. But I think we quickly found we just didn't go far enough. And when we shared it with companies, they still felt overwhelmed by the complexities of Lightning.

So I think when we first launched, what I mentioned before, we were trying to make it simpler than anything else out there. But I think we quickly found we just didn't go far enough. And when we shared it with companies, they still felt overwhelmed by the complexities of Lightning.

And channels themselves, again, were such a foreign concept that we quickly had to step back and rethink what we were doing and figure out how we can abstract that complexity away even more. I think the team did an amazing job coming together to change the interface that we exposed to customers, to make it much simpler, to fully abstract all that complexity away,

And channels themselves, again, were such a foreign concept that we quickly had to step back and rethink what we were doing and figure out how we can abstract that complexity away even more. I think the team did an amazing job coming together to change the interface that we exposed to customers, to make it much simpler, to fully abstract all that complexity away,

And channels themselves, again, were such a foreign concept that we quickly had to step back and rethink what we were doing and figure out how we can abstract that complexity away even more. I think the team did an amazing job coming together to change the interface that we exposed to customers, to make it much simpler, to fully abstract all that complexity away,

And I think when we spoke with customers, we really found that they didn't want to know or necessarily be deep into the intricacies of things that could happen in Lightning. So we needed to quickly pivot and make sure that we were providing an experience that helped them get on board quickly and easily while still being secure and safe for them to use.

And I think when we spoke with customers, we really found that they didn't want to know or necessarily be deep into the intricacies of things that could happen in Lightning. So we needed to quickly pivot and make sure that we were providing an experience that helped them get on board quickly and easily while still being secure and safe for them to use.

And I think when we spoke with customers, we really found that they didn't want to know or necessarily be deep into the intricacies of things that could happen in Lightning. So we needed to quickly pivot and make sure that we were providing an experience that helped them get on board quickly and easily while still being secure and safe for them to use.

So it was really just amazing to see how quickly the team came together and were able to make such core changes so quickly.

So it was really just amazing to see how quickly the team came together and were able to make such core changes so quickly.

So it was really just amazing to see how quickly the team came together and were able to make such core changes so quickly.

We're going to keep building what we feel are amazing experiences on top of Lightning. I think we've gotten the core foundation to a point where we feel pretty confident that we can onboard partners easily. They can transact and have a very successful Lightning operation. But now it's time to bring these more use cases that can actually build a broader user base.

We're going to keep building what we feel are amazing experiences on top of Lightning. I think we've gotten the core foundation to a point where we feel pretty confident that we can onboard partners easily. They can transact and have a very successful Lightning operation. But now it's time to bring these more use cases that can actually build a broader user base.

We're going to keep building what we feel are amazing experiences on top of Lightning. I think we've gotten the core foundation to a point where we feel pretty confident that we can onboard partners easily. They can transact and have a very successful Lightning operation. But now it's time to bring these more use cases that can actually build a broader user base.

There's only so much that you can do if you're only planning on doing Lightning payments and sets. I think that you want to be able to do things like we're doing with UMA, where you can abstract even the Bitcoin portion of it away. And you can just see it as a global payments rails where anyone can transact in any currency.