Striga (@strigahq) — Twitter Score 10 out of 1000

Striga was a regulated payments infrastructure company that provided APIs for crypto custody, trading, virtual IBANs and card issuing, and was acquired by Lightspark in October 2025, after which it was rebranded as Lightspark Europe. Striga's Twitter Score is 9.9 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #95,459 among 498,071 tracked accounts.

Striga was co-founded by Prashanth Balasubramanian and Bernardo Magnani, originally launching in 2018 under the name Lastbit before rebranding to Striga. The company operated under an Estonian VASP license covering 30 countries across the European Economic Area, and its platform enabled European businesses to handle customer onboarding, EUR virtual IBANs, branded Visa cards, crypto deposit addresses and crypto-fiat trading through a single API layer. Infrastructure support extended to Bitcoin, ETH, USDC and other assets across L1/L2 networks, including Bitcoin Lightning.

Striga processed well over $200 million in volume prior to its October 2025 acquisition and helped European businesses move more than 2,000 Bitcoin in under 28 months. Following the acquisition, the rebranded entity, Lightspark Europe, became the first company to receive both a MiCA license and an EMI license, as of June 2026, with APIs and documentation remaining online. Striga was backed by Y Combinator, UC Berkeley SkyDeck, Stillmark, Fulgur Ventures and Buildit.

Striga has published 429 posts on the platform. The account has been mentioned by 4 accounts, with 5 total mentions.

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The accounts that follow Striga include 56 founders, 8 angel investors, 21 influencers and 3 VCs. Among them are Udi Wertheimer, Cuy Sheffield, leighcuen.substack.com, Blockstream, Christian Catalini and Julia Lipton.