Erin Regen
ChainalysisChief Revenue Officer, Government Solutions · New York, NY · chainalysis.com
Blockchain analysis software that governments, banks and exchanges use to trace transactions and check them for risk.
Title matches (+2). Named in the source, so the person is real (+1). New York presence confirmed from their own company page (+1). Headcount is not stated anywhere I could open, so no point for size.
Government-side revenue leader at the moment a government-facing integration ships. Four days old at the time of the run, which is the window where a note about it still reads as attention rather than research.
Chainalysis blockchain intelligence is now integrated into the Penlink digital investigation platform, so investigators can enrich open-source intelligence with wallet attribution and pivot into Reactor.
chainalysis.com · open the sourceThe Penlink integration is the first one I have seen that lets an investigator pivot from an OSINT record straight into Reactor without leaving the case.
Subject: Penlink + Reactor, and 25 minutes in New York
The Penlink integration landed on Thursday and it is the first one I have seen that lets an investigator move from an OSINT record into Reactor without leaving the case file. That is a workflow problem, not a data problem, and most vendors solve the wrong one. I work on infrastructure for digital-asset firms and I am in New York the week of 8 September. Would 25 minutes work while I am there? I am happy to come to your office.
Erin, saw the Penlink integration go live this week. Pivoting from an OSINT record into Reactor without leaving the case is the part that actually saves an investigator time. I am in New York the week of the 8th, worth a coffee?
Jeremy Allaire
Circle Internet GroupCo-Founder, CEO and Chairman · New York, NY · circle.com
Issues the USDC stablecoin and runs the payment and blockchain infrastructure around it.
Founder and CEO (+2). Named and quoted in the source (+1). Headquarters is the 87th floor of One World Trade Center, from their own pressroom (+1). Headcount not stated in a primary source.
The trip lands eight days before their mainnet date, which is both the reason to meet and the reason they may say no. The message says so instead of pretending the calendar is clear.
Circle named the founding validator cohort for Arc, its blockchain for financial markets, ahead of a 16 September public mainnet launch. Validators include BlackRock, DTCC, ICE, Mastercard, Visa and Standard Chartered.
circle.com · open the sourceEleven validators including DTCC, Visa and BlackRock committing before Arc is even public is a different kind of proof than a testnet number.
Subject: Arc validators, and a coffee before the 16th
Saw the founding validator cohort for Arc last week. Getting DTCC, Visa and BlackRock committed six weeks before the 16 September mainnet is the part most people will underrate. I work on infrastructure for digital-asset firms and I am in New York the week of 8 September. Would you be open to 25 minutes near One World Trade while I am there? Happy to come to you. If the timing is wrong with mainnet that close, I understand and can follow up in October.
Jeremy, the Arc validator list caught my eye. DTCC and Visa committing before public mainnet says more than most launch posts do. I am in New York the week of the 8th. Worth a coffee, or is that too close to the 16th?
Anton Katz
TalosCEO and Co-Founder · New York, NY · talos.com
Trading and portfolio-management software that banks, hedge funds and asset managers use to buy, sell and hold digital assets.
CEO and co-founder (+2). Named and quoted in the funding release (+1). Their contact page gives 300 Park Avenue South, so the address is confirmed rather than scraped from a directory (+1). Repeat institutional backers make the account a fit (+1).
Six months past the raise, so the money is being spent rather than announced. The angle is the strategic investors, not congratulations, because everyone sent congratulations in February.
Extended the Series B by $45M to $150M total at roughly $1.5B post-money. New investors Robinhood, Sony Innovation Fund, IMC, QCP and Karatage; a16z crypto, BNY and Fidelity returned.
talos.com · open the sourceThe part of the Series B extension that stuck with me was who wrote the cheques. Robinhood and IMC investing in the venue they trade on is a stronger signal than the valuation.
Subject: Your Series B investors, and a coffee in New York
The Series B extension in January was covered as a valuation story, but the interesting part was Robinhood and IMC investing in a platform they also route through. Customers becoming shareholders is a harder thing to build than a round. Six months on, that money is being spent rather than announced. I work on infrastructure for digital-asset firms and I am in New York the week of 8 September. Would 25 minutes near Park Avenue South work?
Anton, the Series B extension read as a valuation story, but Robinhood and IMC backing a venue they trade on is the better signal. I am in New York the week of the 8th and would like 25 minutes if you have it.
Ran Goldi
FireblocksSVP, Payments and Network · New York, NY · fireblocks.com
Custody and transfer infrastructure that banks, exchanges and fintechs use to store and move digital assets.
SVP rather than founder or CMO, so the title is one step outside the stated ICP (+1). Named and quoted in the launch release (+1). New York presence from the release dateline (+1). Scored honestly rather than rounded up.
He owns the payments line the launch belongs to, which makes him a better first contact than the CEO. Lower ICP score on paper, higher chance of a reply.
Launched Fireblocks Flow, stablecoin acceptance infrastructure for payment service providers and fintechs, letting merchants accept digital-asset payments and settle in a stablecoin of their choice. Flutterwave and Nuvion named as partners.
prnewswire.com · open the sourceFlow reads like the first stablecoin acceptance product built for the PSP rather than for the merchant, which is a harder sell and a better one.
Subject: Flow, PSPs, and 25 minutes in New York
Flow caught my attention because it sells to the payment service provider rather than to the merchant. That is the harder side of the market and the one that actually moves volume, which most stablecoin acceptance products avoid. I work on infrastructure for digital-asset firms and I am in New York the week of 8 September. Would 25 minutes work while I am in town? I am happy to fit around your calendar, and a short call first is fine if that is easier.
Ran, Flow stands out to me because it sells to the PSP and not the merchant. That is the harder side and the one that moves volume. I am in New York the week of the 8th, would you have 25 minutes?
Tyler Winklevoss
Gemini Space StationCEO · New York, NY · gemini.com
Runs a crypto exchange and a regulated prediction-markets venue for retail and institutional customers.
CEO (+2). Named in the earnings release (+1). New York dateline and a NYDFS-chartered trust entity (+1).
The DCO licence buried inside an earnings release is the real story and almost nobody referenced it. That is what makes the opener land instead of reading like a press summary.
Q1 2026 revenue of $50.3M, up 42% year on year, alongside a $100M strategic investment from Winklevoss Capital at $14 per share funded in bitcoin. The same release notes a CFTC derivatives clearing organization licence granted in April 2026.
globenewswire.com · open the sourceThe DCO licence was the line I underlined in the Q1 release, not the revenue number. Clearing your own derivatives changes what you can build next year.
Subject: The DCO licence, not the revenue line
Most coverage of the Q1 release led with revenue up 42%. The line I underlined was the CFTC derivatives clearing licence in April, because clearing your own contracts changes what you are able to build next year rather than what you booked last quarter. I work on infrastructure for digital-asset firms and I am in New York the week of 8 September. Would 25 minutes work while I am there?
Tyler, everyone read the Q1 release for the revenue line. The CFTC clearing licence in April seems like the bigger one, since it changes what you can build rather than what you booked. In New York the week of the 8th, worth 25 minutes?
Contact not resolved
Ondo FinanceCEO · New York, NY · ondo.finance
Turns US Treasuries, funds and stocks into blockchain tokens that investors can hold and trade onchain.
The account is a strong fit. The contact is the problem.
Leadership changed in May 2026. Any dataset snapshot taken before then still names the previous CEO, so the contact is resolved but not trusted.
Ondo's founder and CEO Nathan Allman died in May 2026, and Ian De Bode moved from president to CEO. A list built from a stale snapshot would address a first email to a man who has died. There is a good live signal here as well, a FINRA authorization for Oasis Pro Markets on 23 July, so this prospect is worth a human minute rather than a delete. It is held for a person to resolve the contact by hand.
Leadership change, CoinDesk, 26 May 2026 · coindesk.comOasis Pro Markets FINRA authorizations, 23 July 2026 · prnewswire.comThere is no verified signal to write from, so the tool produced nothing rather than filling the gap. This prospect waits for a person.
Contact not resolved
Coin CafeFounder · Brooklyn, NY · coincafe.com
Brooklyn bitcoin brokerage that lets retail customers buy, sell and store bitcoin.
In the city and in the sector, but small and consumer-facing rather than the institutional profile the run asked for.
Nothing published in the last 120 days. The only substantial item is a 2023 enforcement action.
Searched the company newsroom, trade press and general news. Every first-page result is the May 2023 New York Attorney General settlement over hidden storage fees. Writing to this prospect means either referencing a three-year-old enforcement action or making something up, so the tool writes nothing.
The only thing search returns, 2023 settlement · finance.yahoo.comThere is no verified signal to write from, so the tool produced nothing rather than filling the gap. This prospect waits for a person.
Contact not resolved
Uniswap LabsFounder · New York, NY (unconfirmed) · uniswap.org
Builds the software and apps for the Uniswap decentralised exchange, where users swap tokens without an intermediary.
Strong company, but the city is the whole point of a travel run and the city is the field that failed.
New York presence appears only in business directories. No primary source states an address, and this is a trip built around meeting people in one city.
The signal itself is fine: Permissioned Pools shipped on 23 July with Superstate and Securitize as launch partners. The location is not. For a run whose entire purpose is booking face-to-face meetings, an unverified city is a blocking failure rather than a small one, so it is flagged instead of scored down and left in the pile.
The signal, which is real: Permissioned Pools, 23 July 2026 · blog.uniswap.orgThe only location evidence, a directory · builtinnyc.comThere is no verified signal to write from, so the tool produced nothing rather than filling the gap. This prospect waits for a person.