Lead is a state-chartered commercial bank that provides banking infrastructure and stablecoin-related services to fintech and digital-asset companies. Lead's Twitter Score is 10 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #89,393 among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Lead was co-founded by Jackie Reses, who serves as Co-Founder, CEO and Chair, alongside co-founders Ronak Vyas as Chief Technology Officer, Homam Maalouf as Chief Product and Data Science Officer, and Erica Khalili as Chief Legal and Risk Officer. Regulated by the FDIC and classified by the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council as an active non-member commercial bank, Lead operates as a U.S. connector enabling exchanges, payment orchestrators, fintechs, and crypto-native companies to move money between blockchain networks and fiat. Its infrastructure allows customers to transfer fiat following cryptocurrency conversion, hold resulting balances in FBO accounts, and move funds across its payment rails.
Lead closed a $70 million Series B on September 4, 2025, at a stated post-money valuation of $1.47 billion. The round drew backing from ICONIQ, Greycroft, Ribbit Capital, Coatue, Khosla Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Zeev Ventures. In late 2025, Lead acquired stablecoin-payments company Loop, with Loop's founder Eleni Steinman subsequently taking on the role of stablecoins lead at Lead. Lead counts Chainalysis, Stripe, Visa, Bridge, and Mastercard among its affiliates.
Lead has published 2,559 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 43 accounts, totaling 157 mentions.
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The accounts that follow Lead include 56 founders, 12 angel investors, 17 influencers and 4 VCs, among them DEGEN NEWS, Cuy Sheffield, sam.frax, Keith A. Grossman, Mika and John Palmer.