Fun CEO Alex Fine says crypto payments will outgrow on-ramps and bridges as unified funding flows hide blockchain complexity from users
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Promote with Leviathan NewsPhantom already bundles Stripe’s onramp, Bridge conversion, CASH and a debit card inside one wallet, per Stripe’s 2026 case study. That UX win creates a middleware choke point: Fun says it handles more than $3B monthly across Polymarket withdrawals and deposits into Aave’s largest vaults.
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