2025: A year in review

It’s been a transformative year for Mesh. As we look back on all the progress we made in the last 12 months, it’s a wonder what a small and passionate team can achieve when everyone puts their best foot forward.

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Here’s a short recap of some of our biggest moments from 2025.

Partners

We formed new partnerships that expanded our reach and impact.

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🤝 We collaborated with PayPal to deliver its new “Pay with Crypto” feature, which enables consumers to pay using crypto and merchants to instantly settle in stablecoin or fiat. PayPal was also instrumental in bringing our total capital funding to over $130 million.

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🤝 We announced our support for Tempo - Stripe and Paradigm’s new L1 - by bringing our industry-leading wallet connectivity and payment orchestration tools to the ecosystem.

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🤝 We partnered with Paxos so its customers can safely verify the ownership of external wallets and exchange accounts before depositing assets.

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🤝 We announced support of Google’s new Agent Payments Protocol (AP2): a brand new framework for enabling AI agents to securely transact on behalf of users.

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🤝 We partnered with RedotPay, which enables low-fee stablecoin-powered spending, to level up their payment experience.

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🤝 We partnered with Stake so its users can deposit funds from their wallets directly within the platform.

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🤝 We started powering direct crypto deposits for Rain, the global card issuing and payments platform backed by stablecoins.

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🤝 We joined forces with Noah, a payment infrastructure platform for stablecoins, so its users can now receive fiat payments that convert instantly to stablecoins.

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🤝 We partnered with Aptos so its users can now deposit assets from 300+ accounts directly into their self-custodial wallets.

Products

We launched new products and shipped a ton of new features shaped by customer feedback.

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📱 Mesh Wallet lets users delegate financial actions to AI that intelligently route payments, spin up wallets on the fly, and operate across hundreds of platforms—all without human intervention.

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📱 Mesh Wallet-as-a-Service makes it simple for any platform to spin up secure, self-custody wallets using existing logins like Google, Apple, or Instagram.

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✨ A revamped and refreshed UX reduces clicks, screens, and decision points, getting the user from start to finish faster and more efficiently.

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🍎 Apple Pay support lets users pay with any token using a single tap at checkout, while merchants receive instant stablecoin settlement.

Profile

This year marked a step-change in how Mesh shows up in the world–bringing greater visibility, industry recognition, and a refreshed brand.

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📚 We were mentioned in Pitchbook's Q4 deep dive on stablecoins. The report is a sharp, insightful read on where stablecoins are headed and why they matter.

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🏆 We received the Payment Technology Award at the Global FinTech Awards 2025 as recognition for our SmartFunding technology.

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🎤 We debuted our “Agentic Commerce” series on the Tokenized Podcast, which dives into the future of autonomous finance.

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✨ We refreshed our brand to match our momentum, introducing a new logo and color palette that feels as bold and dynamic as the tech behind it.

People

We expanded our global footprint, strengthened our leadership, and deepened our presence across the ecosystem.

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🇮🇳 We officially opened our India office in Bangalore, which will serve as a key hub for product development.

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🇩🇪🇹🇷 Our Product & Engineering teams gathered in Munich and Istanbul for quarterly offsites full of strategy sessions and hands-on workshops.

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🇦🇪🇸🇬 Our CEO Bam Azizi took the main stage at TOKEN2049 in both Dubai (to demo our Apple Pay support) and Singapore (to unveil Mesh Wallet).

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🗽 We sponsored the first-ever Stablecon conference in New York City, which was a huge success.

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🏛️ Our co-founder and COO, Adam Israel, visited DC along with advocacy group Stand With Crypto to push for clear crypto legislation (it worked).

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We also welcomed some first-rate talent to our global team, including Daniel Hooper (CISO), Dacheng Zhao (SVP of Product), Chaitanya Bhuskute (Head of Engineering), and Chris Keith (Director of Sales). These and other hires pushed us past 100+ team members–a major milestone for a scrappy startup!

Closing thoughts

They say that in the fast-moving world of crypto, one year can feel like several. 2025 proved that. With so many new products, partnerships, and milestones achieved in such a short time, our team showed what’s possible when passion meets purpose.

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None of this would have been possible without our incredible customers, partners, and investors who support us every step of the way. You know who you are–thank you!

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We can’t wait to see what 2026 brings.

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Words: Geoffrey Lyons

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