Decades of moving money. 5+ years connecting crypto and fiat. And now, delivering more for MoneyGram customers. @DenelleDixon, CEO and Executive Director of @StellarOrg, talks with @DefiantNews about why this next chapter matters 🎙️

Before money moved at the tap of a screen, it moved through rooms like this. Payment instructions clicked out over telegraph wires from one office to another. On the other end, real people received them, checked and verified names and amounts, recorded each detail by hand, and carried each transaction forward, one careful step at a time. MoneyGram’s roots go back to 1940. For those early networks, moving money depended on more than wires and machines. It depended on people trusting that what they sent would make it where it needed to go. The tools look very different today, Paper ledgers became digital records. Wires gave way to modern payment networks. Money transfers have shifted from days to minutes. But the reason people send money is still familiar. Rent. A medical bill. School supplies. A little help from someone hundreds or even thousands of miles away. Because being there isn’t always possible. Showing up still is.

“The goal is to be customer focused.” @_therealjosh on the principle @anthonysoohoo pushes every day, and why our long-standing partnership with @StellarOrg naturally led to expanding across @solana and @tempo to meet customers where they are. From The Future of Money Podcast with @HenriArslanian 👇

Sometimes money sent home becomes something much bigger. In Jamaica, it helped start a goat farm. "My Nephew was unemployed, so I started [sending money for him to start] a goat farm to generate his own income. The goat farm also helps other young men in the community because they are also employed on the farm. They are being paid to cut grass for the animals and also to keep the goat pen clean on a daily basis. This goat farm business is very important to my nephew because he’s now generating his own income. So, it is a life changing experience." MoneyGram customer, U.S. -> Jamaica