Today we're launching Iris, the financial network telecom operators plug into to earn on what they already own. Operators built the roads the digital economy runs on. Everyone else got rich building the city on top. From 2012 through 2025, traffic on operator networks grew more than 50% a year. Operator revenue grew about 1%. The companies on top took the difference. Operators own what those companies pay dearly for: distribution, the billing relationship, daily engagement. And money already runs through all of it, in subscriber payments, top-ups, advertising and settlement. Iris sits underneath all of it. Same business, new revenue, settled in dollars. Iris runs the rails. The operator keeps the economics. VIVA, a licensed carrier in Bolivia, is the first operator live on Iris. Real transactions, settled in USDi, operating reserves held in dollars. Until now, operators built everything and kept almost none of the value. Now they build almost nothing and keep almost all of it.

Sep 16, 2026 · 2:00 PM UTC

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Huge! The new era of superapps just started.
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The eye pic is unsettling but ok
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operators already have the users... makes sense
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Wow, you’re building something really interesting here, big ups Iris 🫡
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VIVA going live already, thats not just a deck
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the traffic vs revenue gap is wild
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turning existing telecom relationships into financial distribution is a serious opportunity
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Finally someone building for the operators not around them
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Epic to see
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Wow 👏👏👏👏👏
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very well
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