Crypto markets continue to see exciting adoption and activity, and that is showing up in how companies and projects are using Dinara. We are now hearing teams ask for a solution that not only helps them manage their treasury assets but one that can help facilitate revenue and day-to-day operations.

If that’s you, let’s chat!

⛽ we are releasing our Gas Station feature which will remove managing gas fee tokens from the customer user experience. For users who don’t want to worry about having enough of the right gas token on a given chain, this is for you. We want to make it as seamless as possible to transact with and from your Dinara account.

🏆 we are launching customer case studies on our website! Be on the lookout in the coming days for those. These case studies highlight real pain points for our customers and spotlight the solutions they have found by using Dinara, as well as highlight the important work these teams are doing to build real products in the crypto economy.

🗽 for those of you in New York, our co-founder and CEO Laurence Latimer will be speaking at the Empire Startups conference during 2024 New York FinTech Week on April 10th. If you want to attend the conference, you can sign up here for 15% off with the code Dinara15.

Lastly, we want to extend a hand to any in our network that are looking for service providers to help them navigate business building.

Given where Dinara sits in the ecosystem, we have built a robust network of providers supporting crypto businesses, including accounting/taxes, fractional c-suite services, insurance, crypto data infrastructure and analytics, developer tooling, and more. Please let us know if we can be helpful!

If you’re interested in learning more about Dinara, please reach out to sales@dinara.com.

If you like what we’re building, we’d love your support on social media: Twitter/X | LinkedIn

✨ New Products & Solutions

Our offering continues to improve – adding to our suite of products and delivering support for the core financial services workflows that our customers need. More to come!

⛽ Gas Station

We are very excited to share that we will be releasing Gas Station, a product that will abstract away gas fees from the user experience.

Gas fee management is one of the most cumbersome aspects of transacting with digital assets. Users are required to keep close tabs on the gas fee tokens they have in their wallets to ensure that they always have enough to pay for transaction fees.

This is an exceptionally manual process, and one that has become increasingly challenging for those building and transacting across multiple blockchains, as each blockchain has different gas token requirements. Founders and finance teams are responsible for replenishing their wallets on an ‘as-needed’ basis to make sure that enough of a balance is maintained to pay gas fees. This creates an intangible operational headache.

At Dinara, we want to make it as easy and seamless as possible for you to transact with digital assets and run your business onchain. To that point, our Gas Station product will abstract away gas fee management from the user experience. Our goal is to help you spend more time building your business, and less time worrying about if you have enough of the right gas token on a given chain. Simply create and send a transaction and have it work instantly; never worry about gas fees again.

If you’re interested in how we can help support your needs, please reach out! We’d love to share how we’re building a platform that can support end-to-end digital asset workflows.

✨ Upcoming Events

Our team will be hosting dinners in San Francisco and Los Angeles in late April and early May, respectively. We also expect to attend Consensus 2024 in May, and are putting together events around that conference.

If you are interested in co-hosting an event with Dinara, please reach out to our team.

Are you or someone in your network building in crypto and looking for crypto banking services, custody, and fiat on/off ramp support?

Reach out to sales@dinara.com, or visit us at www.dinara.com.

The Dinara Team

“What we are seeing is a generational opportunity and reminds me of the early days of mobile technology.”

You can watch the full podcast here to learn how we are making it faster and more seamless for our clients to integrate and manage their fiat and digital assets.

To learn more about Dinara’s crypto banking services and why according to a client, “it’s easier to access our platform than an online bank account,” please reach out to sales@dinara.com.

With the recent shift in both price and sentiment, we’re seeing a lot of teams increase their activity in crypto, including incorporating it into treasury strategy, using it to enhance revenue operations, and using it for various payments use cases. If that’s you, let’s chat.

⛰️ we were on the ground at ETHDenver 2024, co-hosting two great events and seeing firsthand the shift in sentiment from last year. We share a few takeaways below!

🛠️ we launched several new features and upgrades, including write access for our APIs and additional security components for mobile approvals.

🧾 we also launched our Proof of Reserves, making it easy for any Dinara client to verify their assets onchain directly from within their account. Dinara was built on the belief that great platforms earn your trust, but they should never blindly require it.

📈 in a bit of non-Dinara specific news, Bitcoin made a new all-time high earlier this week! 🎉 ₿

‍If you’re interested in learning more about Dinara, please reach out to sales@dinara.com.

If you like what we’re building, we’d love your support on social media: Twitter/X | LinkedIn

✨ New Products & Solutions

Our offering continues to improve – adding to our suite of products and delivering support for the core financial services workflows that our customers need. More to come!

🛠️ Enabling API Write Access

We are very excited to share that we are now providing clients with write access to Dinara’s APIs.

Dinara customers are now able to automate certain workflows, letting them manage their accounts and assets with more efficiency. This has become a clear need for not just our existing customers but other firms looking to use Dinara, and an important step in helping us build Dinara into a fully-integrated platform for founders and operations teams.

We want to make it as easy and seamless as possible for you to transact with digital assets and run your business onchain. With Dinara’s write access APIs you can now automate activities like sending crypto and creating new approved assets.

If you’re interested in how we can help support your needs, please reach out! We’d love to share how we’re building a platform that can support end-to-end digital asset workflows.

🧾 Proof of Reserves

We are excited and proud to share that Dinara now provides Proof of Reserves natively within our platform. This is critical to not only building trust with customers but maintaining it.

From the beginning, our mission at Dinara was to build a financial services platform for firms building in the digital asset space, with transparency at the center. We believe in leaning into the verifiable nature of public blockchains, particularly when it comes to securing our customers’ assets.

By providing Proof of Reserves for any asset on the platform, directly within a customer’s account, we make it easy for founders and operations leaders to verify that their assets are where they should be, and that Dinara is doing its part to keep them safe. We have always provided fully segregated client wallets and now with our Proof of Reserves solution clients can validate that and their exact asset balances at any time.

If you have any questions about our Proof of Reserves solution or how it can help provide your team with peace of mind, please reach out!

⛰️ ETHDenver: Dinara’s Takeaways

Like many of you, our team was on the ground at ETHDenver last week. In addition to the beautiful setting and great conversations, there was a palpable shift in sentiment from last year and excitement for the year ahead in crypto.

Several observations that our team took away from the event and the energy around it:

• Market upswing = vigor and energy: There was renewed vigor this year and the energy level was significantly higher, reflecting the asset price going up. We're seeing a lot of liquid token strategies taking advantage of the current market upside.

• Crypto is "growing up": Our team was enthusiastic to see "real" sustainable business models being discussed. Folks have spent the last 12+ months heads down and building -- and we’re beginning to see more mature products and business activity as a result.

• VCs are back: There were a lot more people participating from various industry segments including VCs who were back in full force. The general sentiment was that there is more activity to come this year.

• Pragmatic solutions: There's been a mindset shift to a new pragmatism which is healthy. This technology is here to stay and we're focused on building the supporting apparatus to deliver real value to businesses.

Are you or someone in your network building in crypto and looking for crypto banking services, custody, and fiat on/off ramp support?

Reach out to sales@dinara.com, or visit us at www.dinara.com. 

The Dinara Team

This update is another example of our commitment to keeping pace with our customers’ needs and building the right infrastructure to support the crypto economy.

Our integration with Lido will help customers simplify their digital financial experience and better manage their treasury.

To learn more about Dinara’s crypto banking services, please reach out to sales@dinara.com.

💸 we opened up our advanced payments solution to limited alpha, which will allow Dinara customers to create and execute mass payment actions. For example, Dinara customers can now send tokens to hundreds of wallet addresses in just a few clicks.

🥩 we launched our integration with Lido, allowing Dinara customers to seamlessly connect with the industry’s largest liquid staking protocol securely from their Dinara account.

🗞️ our CEO Laurence Latimer wrote a piece for Inc., sharing his thoughts on how entrepreneurs can succeed in the face of industry headwinds.

🗞️ we will be at ETHDenver this month, co-hosting several events, including a brunch on Thursday, February 29 and a small, private dinner with other crypto founders and VCs. If you or your team will be in Denver, let us know – we’d love to see you there!

If you’re interested in learning more about Dinara, please reach out to sales@dinara.com.

If you like what we’re building, we’d love your support on social media: Twitter/X | LinkedIn

✨ New Products & Solutions

Our offering continues to improve – adding to our suite of products and delivering support for the core financial services workflows that our customers need. More to come!

🦄 Advanced Payments with Dinara

Some of the most-requested capabilities we have received from customers and potential customers alike center around payments functionality. We are incredibly excited to share that we are now in limited alpha for our advanced payments solution.

What does ‘advanced payments’ mean to Dinara and its customers? It means that businesses building with Dinara can now send crypto to as many addresses as they need to in one workflow. Just provide Dinara with the addresses and amounts, and start making mass payments.

As an example, companies can now send 100 OP tokens 1,000 user addresses to reward them for interacting with one of your products.

We are excited about this release not only because it helps our customers more easily make payments but because it is the next important step to delivering on our promise of making Dinara a fully-integrated platform from which founders and operations teams can run their digital asset business.

If you’re interested in how we can help support your payments needs, please reach out! We’d love to share how we’re building a platform that can support end-to-end digital asset workflows.

🥩 Integrating with Lido

Since launching our WalletConnect functionality, we have continued to integrate with the top decentralized applications in the industry. One of the protocols core to crypto’s decentralized security and financial use case is Lido, the liquid staking provider.

Lido allows users and companies to secure proof of stake networks and earn a yield on staked assets while retaining the ability to use the staked asset (e.g., stETH) in DeFi.

This integration allows Dinara customers to access liquid staking solutions directly from their Dinara wallets. While customers can stake natively on the Dinara platform, liquid staking allows them to put these staked assets to use while earning a yield.

✨ Upcoming Events

Our team will be at ETHDenver in late February, excited to get together with early stage teams building the future of crypto protocols. We will be co-hosting a brunch (register here!) as well as a small, private dinner. If you are interested in joining us, please let us know!

We are also hosting a dinner at Republique in Los Angeles in mid-February. We’d love to host you! If the event reaches capacity, please add yourself to the waitlist and we will make sure to save you a place at our next dinner event.

If you are interested in co-hosting an event with Dinara, please reach out to our team.

Are you or someone in your network building in crypto and looking for crypto banking services, custody, and fiat on/off ramp support?

Reach out to sales@dinara.com, or visit us at www.dinara.com.

The Dinara Team

Check out a couple highlights from December below and then a quick year-end recap:

🥩 we began rolling out our staking product to existing customers, allowing them to earn a staking yield on major assets for much cheaper than what is offered by other alternatives.

🦄 we announced our integration with Uniswap, which allows Dinara customers to seamlessly connect with the industry’s largest decentralized exchange securely from their Dinara account.

🗞️ our CEO Laurence Latimer joined Yahoo! Finance to share his thoughts on the highly anticipated Bitcoin ETF approval, predictions for the crypto market in 2024, and reasons to be optimistic on crypto’s development and future potential.

If you’re interested in learning more about Dinara, please reach out to sales@dinara.com.

If you like what we’re building, we’d love your support on social media: Twitter/X | LinkedIn

📅 2023 Recap

Though a challenging year for the industry, 2023 was a milestone year for our team after launching at the end of 2022. We are deeply appreciative of the trust that our early customers have placed in us, and are extremely excited to build from that foundation.

As a quick recap, here is what we are most proud of delivering in 2023:

• We launched Dinara with our first customer in December of 2022 and onboarded clients from various industries and segments within crypto in 2023. Most importantly, we continue to strengthen our partnerships with our earliest customers as they consistently engage and provide feedback to our platform and services. This insight is integral to what we are building and how we move forward.

• After bringing to market our initial enterprise financial services solution, we spent 2023 continuing to build, launching several new products, including: an enhanced custody solution and fiat on/off ramps, staking, WalletConnect functionality, and integrations with decentralized applications like Uniswap.

• We also launched Dinara Connect, our partner program with an exceptional first cohort of partners that includes: Chainalysis, Vouch, Bitwave, QuickNode, TaxBit, Fenwick, Propeller Industries, and Spark + Mint.

• After launching in four initial states, we gained regulatory sign-off to launch in Colorado in Q4 2023 and are anticipating approval in several additional states in early Q1 2024.

• Despite largely keeping our heads down to focus on product and customer experience, we garnered  media coverage in the second half of the year, with our CEO Laurence Latimer sharing more about Dinara with Forbes, Yahoo! Finance, and others. We think he looked pretty good doing it!

✨ New Products & Solutions

Our team continues to improve – adding to our suite of products and delivering support for the core financial services workflows that our customers need. More to come!

🦄 Integrating with Uniswap

After launching our WalletConnect functionality, we have begun to integrate with some of the top decentralized applications in the industry. The first of these to announce is Uniswap, the largest decentralized exchange protocol in crypto.

This integration allows Dinara customers to effortlessly manage their assets and engage with Uniswap directly from their Dinara wallets. A number of our customers require access to liquidity for longer-tail assets, and now they can do that seamlessly and securely from their Dinara accounts.

This upgrade not only simplifies Dinara customers' financial interactions but also aligns with our commitment to increase connectivity across the crypto ecosystem and empower our community.

Please reach out to learn more – we’d love to share how we’re building Dinara as a platform that can support end-to-end digital asset workflows.

✨ Upcoming Events

Our team is kicking off 2024 with several intimate dinners in January, including one at Kokkari Estiatorio in San Francisco and another at Republique in Los Angeles. If you’re interested in joining us, please register and if there is still room, we’d love to host you!

If you are interested in co-hosting an event with Dinara, please reach out to our team.

Are you or someone in your network building in crypto and looking for crypto banking services, custody, and fiat on/off ramp support?

Reach out to sales@dinara.com, or visit us at www.dinara.com.

The Dinara Team

"Entrepreneurship requires a resilient mindset and a commitment to the problem space you are looking to solve. Downturns often weed out the less stable players and the companies that survive often thrive. As I look ahead to 2024, I am optimistic about recent events and know that those within the ecosystem who have continued to build are well-positioned to succeed."

You can read more in the full article here.

Watch a clip of the in-studio segment below:

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/bitcoin-already-priced-spot-etf-154806115.html

We believe that empowering our community with such interoperability not only simplifies their financial interactions but also aligns with our commitment to increase connectivity across the crypto ecosystem.

This latest upgrade marks another step forward as we continue to deliver a cutting-edge, user-centric digital finance experience.

To learn more about Dinara’s crypto banking services, please visit www.dinara.com or reach out to sales@dinara.com.

“Meteoric growth: Total crypto market cap (~$1.4T today) gets to $2.5T by EOY 2024. This momentum will be driven by more institutional adoption and optimism on legislative action.”

Record fundraising: In terms of capital raised by crypto startups/protocols, the lowest quarter in 2024 will outperform the highest quarter in 2023 (~$3B in Q2 2023)."

You can read more in the full article here: Predictions That Could Shake Up the Cryptospace in 2024 - E-Crypto News

Check out our highlights from November:

🥩 we are rolling out our staking product to existing customers, which will allow them to earn a staking yield on major assets for much cheaper than what is offered by other alternatives.

👛 we launched our WalletConnect feature, and are now working with customers to support operational needs that require access to third-party applications. A notable use case that we can see emerging for our customers: WalletConnect can allow those with long-tail or low-liquidity assets to easily tap into decentralized liquidity sources directly from their Dinara accounts.

🗞️ our CEO Laurence Latimer shared his views on a potential Bitcoin ETF approval and the 2024 outlook for the crypto industry in Forbes, EthNews, and The Crypto Basic.

🍽️ Dinara co-hosted a dinner in San Francisco with Vouch and attended a happy hour in San Francisco hosted by SVB. These events continue to be important in helping us build deeper relationships with existing and potential customers, and in expanding our network to support those around the table.

🤝 we are kicking off an incentive program for those individuals and companies that make referrals to Dinara. We want to make it as easy as possible to support those in your network who are building in crypto, and provide them with the services they need to run their business seamlessly. If you have any questions or want to learn more about this, please reach out to our team!

If you’re interested in learning more about Dinara, please reach out to sales@dinara.com.

If you’re interested in what we’re building, we’d love your support on social media: Twitter/X | LinkedIn

✨ New Products & Solutions

Our team continues to improve – adding to our suite of products and delivering support for the core financial services workflows that our customers need. More to come!

🥩 Staking

We are beginning to roll out our institutional staking product for existing customers, and expect to share a public launch of this in December.

With this product, Dinara customers will be able to seamlessly stake major assets natively on the Dinara platform, allowing them to earn staking rewards directly into their accounts. This will also include an easy-to-use dashboard to track and manage rewards so that your team understands what they have earned in real time.

We expect our staking fees to be far lower than those of other alternatives: our fee should settle in the neighborhood of 10-15% of staking rewards, rather than the 25-35% charged by other providers.

Staking is foundational to participating in the digital asset economy. Doing so supports the blockchain by maintaining its security and helping to verify new blocks of data being added to the network. We’re not only excited to bring this solution to our customers to provide them another yield-bearing tool for their operations, but to also help them participate in securing the networks of the assets they operate with.

Please reach out to learn more – we’d love to share how we’re building Dinara as a platform that can support end-to-end digital asset workflows.

✨ Upcoming Events

Our team continued to host thoughtful, engaging events in November, allowing us to spend quality in-person time with potential and existing partners throughout the month. We co-hosted a dinner with Vouch at Original Joe’s in San Francisco and a happy hour with SVB at House of Web3 in the Presidio.

We are hosting a dinner this week in Miami before Art Basel before turning our attention to preparing for 2024.

We have already begun to plan dinners for January 2024 – if you are interested in joining us or co-hosting an event with Dinara, please reach out to our team.

Are you building in crypto and looking for crypto banking services, custody, and fiat on/off ramp support? Reach out to sales@dinara.com, or visit us at www.dinara.com. 

The Dinara Team

"While everyone predicts that a bitcoin ETF and an Ethereum ETF will get approved and launch with tremendous enthusiasm, we believe that the actual uptake will be slower than anticipated," Laurence Latimer, the chief executive of Dinara, enterprise banking software company, said in emailed comments.

"Moreover, we predict the approval will drive a surge in bitcoin demand, pushing prices higher and bringing bitcoin back into the popular consciousness as a 'good' thing rather than as a negative headline, further helping accelerate mainstream adoption."

You can read more in the full article here: Money ‘Flooding’ In—Crypto Now Braced For A Huge Multi-Trillion Wall Street Earthquake Amid Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP And Crypto Price Boom (forbes.com)

Check out Dinara’s highlights from October:

👜 we are closing in on the launch of our WalletConnect feature, which will allow Dinara customers to access and use third-party applications directly from their Dinara account. This expands the number of use cases we can help our customers solve.

🍽️ Dinara hosted dinners in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle to better understand how we can deliver for our customers and partners. These events continue to be catalytic in helping us build deeper relationships with existing and potential customers, and in expanding our network to support those around the table.

🎰 our co-founders Laurence and Keith attended Money20/20, spending time with existing and potential partners. It was great to see growing optimism on the important role that digital assets and blockchain technology will play in the future of finance.

🎙️ Laurence sat down at Money20/20 with Lou Carlozo from the Bankadelic podcast to discuss the future of finance. We believe that the next wave of crypto innovation will be spurred on by widespread enterprise adoption and at Dinara we're making that as seamless as possible. Listen here!

Some photos from our team’s travels in October!

If you’re interested in learning more about Dinara, please reach out to sales@dinara.com.

If you’re interested in what we’re building, we’d love your support on social media: Twitter/X | LinkedIn

✨ New Products & Solutions

Our team continues to improve – adding to our suite of products and delivering support for the core financial services workflows that our customers need. More to come!

📱 WalletConnect

Our mission has always been to make it as easy, simple, and seamless for our end users to manage their digital asset operations.

We’re closing in on the public launch of our WalletConnect feature and are actively working to set up several existing customers with beta access. This will allow our customers to access third-party applications – e.g., Uniswap and other decentralized applications – directly from their Dinara accounts.

For some of our customers, there are applications external to Dinara that are important to their workflows. This feature will allow those users access to those workflows without having to move assets between counterparties or wallet providers, limiting the risks associated with moving assets across vendors and streamlining operational procedures.

Please reach out to learn more – we’d love to share how we’re building Dinara as a platform that can support end-to-end digital asset workflows.

✨ Upcoming Events

Our team had an extremely productive October, hosting several dinners and spending quality in-person time with potential and existing partners throughout the month. We hosted at Cotogna in San Francisco, Fia Restaurant in Los Angeles, and Rider in Seattle.

These in-person events continue to be great opportunities to build deeper connections with those already in our network, and meet new teams building at the forefront of the crypto industry.

We are excited to continue hosting events in November and December, and into 2024!

We already have some great events lined up for the rest of the year:

🌉 Dinner with Dinara in San Francisco

We’ll be co-hosting a ~15-person dinner in San Francisco for other crypto founders and operators with Vouch, the leading web3 insurance provider. While we are just about at capacity, we would love to include anyone interested in the next dinner that we host in San Francisco.

⛰️ Dinner with Dinara in Miami

We’ll be hosting a ~10-15-person dinner in Miami in early December for other crypto founders and operators. If you’re interested in joining us or know someone else who may be interested, please reach out. Our event will take place a few days before Art Basel kicks off.

If you aren’t able to make our upcoming dinners in San Francisco or Miami but want to be included for future events, let us know!

We are beginning to plan our H1 2024 event schedule. If you’re interested in co-hosting an event with Dinara, please reach out to our team.

Are you building in crypto and looking for crypto banking services, custody, and fiat on/off ramp support? Reach out to sales@dinara.com, or visit us at www.dinara.com.

The Dinara Team

We’re thrilled to announce our collaboration with Spark + Mint, a leading Creative Web3 Marketing Agency. Founded in 2020, Spark + Mint has championed the launch and growth of countless Web3 ventures with a laser-focus on creative marketing excellence. Their dedicated support to early-stage protocols, DAOs, and companies is vital in shaping the Web3 narrative, ensuring memorable brand experiences and robust market presence.

Dinara will offer Spark + Mint clients preferred pricing and early product access to help remove the friction and cost often associated with finding a banking services partner. Dinara's secure, fully integrated platform makes it quick and easy to send, receive, convert and manage both crypto assets and fiat currencies, creating a frictionless experience for clients.

Spark + Mint specializes in crafting comprehensive Web3 marketing solutions, ensuring projects resonate within the decentralized ecosystem. Their suite of services includes:

• Strategic Branding, Design & Positioning

• Growth, Content, Social and Email Marketing

• Community Engagement, PR & Communications

• Metaverse and IRL Event Engagements

• Paid Promotions & Media Outreach

In partnership with Spark + Mint, Dinara is working to support those already building with the firm to safely and seamlessly manage their financial operations, and help new crypto companies and projects access Spark + Mint’s transformative creative marketing services. Spark + Mint takes a unique approach to partnering with their clients, aligning their own compensation with that of the projects they work with. Startups and businesses leveraging Spark + Mint receive a world-class design partner.

“Spark + Mint's unwavering dedication to creative Web3 marketing uniquely positions them alongside the long-term visions of their partners. They are more than just a service provider; they are an integral pillar in the growth and success of every venture they collaborate with,” said Laurence Latimer, co-founder and CEO of Dinara.

To learn more about Dinara’s crypto banking services, please visit www.dinara.com. Read more here.

About Spark + Mint

As a premier Creative Web3 Marketing Agency, Spark + Mint stands as a dedicated collective of creatives, marketers, and product designers that have played an integral role in shaping and launching dozens of Web3 ventures. Their agency division commits to a dual vision: one of creative excellence and the other of growth marketing. Simultaneously, their venture studio zeroes in on social impact-driven projects, underscoring their belief in the transformative power of Web3 to enact genuine societal change. By delving deep into fringe communities, embracing the nuances of emerging technologies, and adeptly communicating their essence to mainstream audiences, Spark & Mint isn't just narrating the Web3 story; they're actively writing its chapters.

About Dinara

Dinara makes business banking services for crypto companies simple, secure, and seamless. With Dinara, crypto startups and VCs can streamline their financial operations across the organization – from custody and trading to treasury management, payments, and reporting. Dinara provides one integrated solution where teams can hold or transact with crypto and fiat, all on a regulatory compliant platform. Together with its partners, Dinara is bringing institutional services to those building in the crypto economy. Dinara is backed by top-tier crypto investors, including Archetype, Castle Island, North Island Ventures, and B Capital. To learn more, visit www.dinara.com.

🔜 an overview of our near-term potential product roadmap, which is focused on products that will support some of the most critical needs our customers have. We take a customer-driven approach to product development, and are genuinely appreciative of the candid feedback provided to us by our existing customer base.

💻 launched our read-only API solution that allows our customers to access key account information and integrate it seamlessly with other applications in their financial operations stack.

🎟️ attended Permissionless, Mainnet, North Island Ventures Summit, Cryptio's Crypto Finance Forum, the Real World Asset Summit, and co-hosted a Crypto Operations Community Brunch with Vouch Insurance and Magna, where we met with customers, continued to get the word out about Dinara, and learned about other exciting developments in our industry.

🤝 heard from one of our customers that we provided the introduction for them to the VC that is leading their upcoming financing!

🎰 our co-founders Laurence Latimer and Keith Dallara will be in Las Vegas for Money20/20 in late October. If you’re attending or considering attending Money20/20, please reach out! We’d love to connect live.

🍽️ we’ll be hosting several intimate dinners in October in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle. If you’re interested in joining us, please let us know. We’d love to see you in person! Considering the interest we’ve received already, we are likely to host several events in November as well.

Some photos from our team’s travels in September!

If you’re interested in learning more about Dinara, please reach out to sales@dinara.com.

If you’re interested in what we’re building, we’d love your support on social media: Twitter/X | LinkedIn

🔍 Quarterly Business Reviews & Potential Product Roadmap Highlights

Throughout September, we held quarterly check-ins with our customers to get an update on their progress and give them a forum to share feedback with us on both our existing products and what they want to see from products on our near-term roadmap.

The feedback on our existing products has been exceptionally positive and the candor with which our customers continue to share feedback – both positive and constructive – is greatly appreciated and not something we take for granted.

Below are some highlights from our QBRs and insight into what we’re working on right now.

🧑‍🎓 Lessons Learned

• There is real value in a platform that can be an all-in-one solution to manage a team’s financial operations. Dinara already delivers a much improved experience for the core use cases it solves, and the platform will become even more powerful as additional products and services are added.

• A platform that can provide seamless connectivity to the traditional finance system is key for companies in crypto. Dinara’s fiat on/off ramp product has quickly become integral to the weekly and monthly workflows that our customers have.

• Abstracting complicated crypto UX away from our end users is critical. While many of our customers are crypto savvy, making the platform powerfully simple for non-technical users and those coming from traditional CFO backgrounds continues to be a point of pride and emphasis for our team.

🗺️ Potential Product Roadmap Highlights

• Wallet Connect. Dinara customers will soon be able to connect their accounts to off-platform web3 and decentralized applications, enabling them to access a wide range of use cases without having to leave the security of their Dinara wallet. 💼

• Staking. We are looking at ways to support firms holding proof of stake assets as part of their long-term treasury, yield generation, and network participation strategies. 🥩

• On-Chain Yield. Many of our customers are looking for ways to generate yield on idle or excess assets, and this has only become more pronounced in the current market environment as finance and operations teams look for low-risk opportunities to extend their runway.💰

• Crypto Card Program. We continue to hear from startups, protocols, and growth-stage that they need for a card program that allows them to pay for day-to-day corporate transactions from their digital asset holdings, and ties into seamless spend management tooling. 💳

If you are interested in any of the product roadmap items shared above, please reach out. We’d love to chat and learn more about how we can support you.

✨ New Products & Solutions

Our team continues to improve and add to our suite of products, delivering support for the core financial services workflows that our customers need. More to come!

💻 Read-Only API Access

During September we launched read-only API access availability for our customers, allowing them to access key account information – e.g., balances and transactions – through our API.

Our customers are now able to access and integrate this information with other applications in their financial operations stack. Some simple examples of how this can be used:

• A startup that wants to pull its balances and transactions data from its Dinara account into their accounting application for ease of reconciling their Dinara transactions with others across the organization.

• A VC firm that wants to pull its holding and activity data from its Dinara accounts directly into their fund administration dashboard.

✨ Upcoming Events

Our team was all over the US in September meeting with customers and partners along the way.

It was inspiring to learn more about the incredible products being developed and scaled in our industry. It was also great to see old friends and make some new ones. There is something special about IRL events!

We already have some great events lined up for October:

🎰 Money20/20 & Related Events

We are expecting to have several team members at Money20/20 the week of October 23rd. If you are in Las Vegas that week and want to connect, reach out!

🎬 Dinner with Dinara in Los Angeles

We’ll be hosting a ~15-person dinner in Los Angeles for other crypto founders, operators, and investors. If you’re interested in joining us or know someone else building in crypto who may be interested, please reach out. We have a couple seats remaining but expect to hit capacity soon!

🌉 Dinner with Dinara in San Francisco

We’ll be hosting a 16-person dinner in San Francisco for other crypto founders and operators. If you’re interested in joining us or know someone else who may be, please reach out. We are just about at capacity, but will open a waitlist for the event.

⛰️ Dinner with Dinara in Seattle

We’ll be hosting a ~10-15-person dinner in Seattle in late October for other crypto founders and operators. If you’re interested in joining us or know someone else  who may be interested, please reach out.

If you aren’t able to make our dinners in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle this month but want to be included for future events, let us know!

We expect to host at least one event in San Francisco and Los Angeles most months, and 1-2 events in Seattle and Miami every quarter.

Are you building in crypto and looking for crypto banking services, custody, and fiat on/off ramp support?

Reach out to sales@dinara.com, or visit us at www.dinara.com. 

The Dinara Team

🤝 the launch of Dinara Connect, our comprehensive partner network initiative designed to support founders’ and businesses’ access to institutional services when they need them. Please reach out to partner@dinara.com if you are interested in learning more.

💸 the launch of our fiat on-ramp solution – easily convert USD from your fiat bank account into stablecoins with Dinara.

🍽️ we’ll be at several of the upcoming conferences, including Permissionless and Mainnet. We’d love to meet you in person!

If you’re interested in what we’re building, we’d love your support on social media: Twitter/X | LinkedIn

🤝 Dinara Connect

In August, we launched Dinara Connect, a comprehensive partner network initiative that brings together trusted institutional partners for our clients, helping them build faster and more efficiently.

Dinara Connect will provide startups, VCs, and other businesses with access to leading financial, legal, technical, and advisory providers. We believe this is the first step to creating an enterprise-grade infrastructure stack that helps crypto projects and business lines get off the ground and legitimize the crypto industry’s approach to company building. Join us.

🙋 Why

Over the last 18 months, we have spoken with more than 1,000 founders, GPs, and financial operations professionals in the crypto ecosystem. It became clear to us, particularly since launching our closed alpha at the end of 2022, that founding teams and operations leaders in crypto face meaningful challenges to efficiently finding and vetting institutional partners. Unlike the traditional startup landscape, there isn’t yet a coordinated approach to early stage crypto company support.

Many founders are left improvising when they need support, choosing ad hoc point solutions without a clear understanding of when each one will be needed, and where to go to find them. We believe that the right suite of tools and relationships at the right time can help founders navigate this uncertainty and the complexities of early stage crypto building.

📇 Who

We have launched with a select number of launch partners, including Bitwave, Chainalysis, Fenwick, Propeller Industries, QuickNode, TaxBit, and Vouch. We expect to expand this initiative to include a variety of services that are widely needed across the ecosystem, focusing on foundational relationships in which we can be additive and that drive value to our customers.

If you are a founder or operations leader looking for crypto banking services or support from any of our partners, please reach out. We’d also welcome talking with any providers who support the early stage crypto ecosystem to learn more about the companies you work with and how you might be able to support our clients.

✨ New Products & Solutions

Our team continues to improve and add to our suite of products, delivering support for the core financial services workflows that our customers need. We are excited to share the progress we’ve made in recent weeks. More to come!

💸 Fiat On-Ramps

We announced the launch of our off-ramp solution in July and were excited to add on-ramp support in August. With this comprehensive solution, firms can seamlessly convert fiat from their bank account into stablecoins in their Dinara account. This is critical for firms that need to convert USD into crypto to make payments or add to their digital asset holdings, and VCs looking to streamline their investment workflows.

✨ Upcoming Events

🤠 Permissionless

Our co-founder and CEO Laurence Latimer will be in Austin, TX at Permissionless from September 11-13th. Please reach out if you’ll be in town and want to connect!

Please reach out if you’re interested in our next event – we expect to host or co-host ~one dinner a month in the Bay Area going forward.

🗽 Mainnet & Related Events

We will have several team members at Mainnet and various other events the week of September 18th. If you’re in the New York City area that week and want to connect, reach out!

Are you building in crypto and looking for crypto banking services, custody, and fiat off-ramp support?

Reach out to sales@dinara.com, or visit us at www.dinara.com.

The Dinara Team

We’re excited to announce our partnership with Propeller Industries, one of Dinara Connect’s launch partners. Propeller plays a crucial role for early-stage teams building in crypto, stepping in to provide financial services expertise for teams not yet in need of full-time talent. Propeller has helped dozens of crypto startups navigate their early days, including the Solana Foundation and Messari, proving itself as a trusted partner for innovative teams.

Dinara will offer Propeller clients preferred pricing and early product access to help remove the friction and cost often associated with finding a banking services partner. Dinara's secure, fully integrated platform makes it quick and easy to send, receive, convert and manage both crypto assets and fiat currencies, creating a frictionless experience for clients.

"Propeller and Dinara both work closely with those building in the early stage crypto ecosystem to enable thoughtful and efficient growth. We are excited to join Dinara Connect and support early stage companies alongside Dinara by ensuring founding and finance teams have access to the services they need, when they need them,” said Sam Leichman, digital assets practice lead for Propeller.

In partnership with Propeller, Dinara is working to support those already building with Propeller to safely and seamlessly manage their financial operations, and help new crypto companies and projects access Propeller’s enterprise-grade, cost-effective financial services solutions. Startups and businesses leveraging Propeller can focus more time and effort building the innovative products that will help crypto fulfill its potential, improving their chances of success.

“Bringing together a network of institutional partners is not only great for our customers, as it helps them get access to the services they need to operate and scale efficiently, but also for the crypto industry at large,” said Laurence Latimer, co-founder and CEO at Dinara. “Propeller plays a key role in the crypto economy, stepping in to provide critical financial services expertise for early-stage teams not yet in need of full-time talent. Hiring too early can create unexpected challenges, while not solving for the finance function at all can hamstring a company’s growth significantly – Propeller helps companies navigate this middle ground.”

To learn more about Dinara’s crypto banking services, please visit www.dinara.com or reach out to sales@dinara.com. Read more here.

About Propeller Industries, LLC

Propeller Industries is a leading strategic finance and accounting partner for venture-stage businesses. Propeller leverages its fractional team model, deep industry pattern-recognition, scalable technology stack and global operating platform to deliver real-time reporting and analytics to founders and management teams trying to navigate the challenges of growth. Propeller is headquartered in New York, NY. To learn more, visit www.propellerindustries.com.

About Dinara

Dinara makes business banking services for crypto companies simple, secure, and seamless. With Dinara, crypto startups and VCs can streamline their financial operations across the organization – from custody and trading to treasury management, payments, and reporting. Dinara provides one integrated solution where teams can hold or transact with crypto and fiat, all on a regulatory compliant platform. Together with its partners, Dinara is bringing institutional services to those building in the crypto economy. Dinara is backed by top-tier crypto investors, including Archetype, Castle Island, North Island Ventures, and B Capital. To learn more, visit www.dinara.com.

We’re excited to share more about our partnership with TaxBit, one of Dinara Connect’s launch partners. TaxBit’s API-powered platform can act as your company’s single system of record to unlock scalable tax and accounting compliance that meets the needs of a broad array of businesses amid an ever-evolving regulatory landscape.

Dinara will offer TaxBit clients preferred pricing and early product access to help remove the friction and cost often associated with finding a banking services partner. Dinara's secure, fully integrated platform makes it quick and easy to send, receive, convert and manage both crypto assets and fiat currencies, creating a frictionless experience for clients.

“TaxBit and Dinara both deliver critical infrastructure for the digital assets ecosystem. We are excited to join Dinara Connect and add value to our mutual Enterprise customers by ensuring compliance with the latest guidance from IRS Treasury, the FASB and other governing bodies,” said Simon Frey, VP of Revenue.

In partnership with TaxBit, Dinara is working to support those already building with TaxBit to safely and seamlessly manage their financial operations, and help new companies and projects access TaxBit’s tax and accounting reporting solutions for crypto teams. Startups and businesses that partner with the right providers can focus more time and effort building the innovative products that will help crypto fulfill its potential, improving their chances of success.

“Bringing together a network of institutional partners is not only great for our customers – as it helps them get access to the services they need to operate and scale efficiently – but also for the crypto industry at large,” said Laurence Latimer, co-founder and CEO at Dinara. “Trustworthy financial reporting tools are needed by every company in the crypto economy, yet frustratingly difficult to find. TaxBit is a partner that not only provides that solution, but helps companies stay compliant across their reporting structures amid crypto’s evolving regulatory landscape.”

For more information about TaxBit, please visit taxbit.com or reach out to info@taxbit.com.

To learn more about Dinara’s crypto banking services, please visit www.dinara.com or reach out to sales@dinara.com. Read more here.

About TaxBit

TaxBit is the leading tax and accounting solution for the digital economy, designed by CPAs and tax attorneys. Its platform caters to top exchanges, businesses, and governments. TaxBit has secured over $230 million from leading global investors to automate regulatory tax and accounting compliance hurdles, paving the way for the widespread adoption of digital assets at scale.

For more information about TaxBit, please visit taxbit.com.

About Dinara

Dinara makes business banking services for crypto companies simple, secure, and seamless. With Dinara, crypto startups and VCs can streamline their financial operations across the organization – from custody and trading to treasury management, payments, and reporting. Dinara provides one integrated solution where teams can hold or transact with crypto and fiat, all on a regulatory compliant platform.

Together with its partners, Dinara is bringing institutional services to those building in the crypto economy. Dinara is backed by top-tier crypto investors, including Archetype, Castle Island, North Island Ventures, and B Capital. To learn more, visit www.dinara.com.

We’re excited to share more about our partnership with QuickNode, one of our Dinara Connect launch partners. QuickNode is a blockchain development platform that provides projects of all sizes with reliable infrastructure, managed RPC services, elastic APIs, and the powerful analytics needed to scale successfully. With globally-distributed elastic multi-chain infrastructure, QuickNode can support applications across the Web3 ecosystem throughout their entire growth journey from MVP to mass adoption.

Dinara will offer startups in the QuickNode ecosystem preferred pricing and early product access to help remove the friction and cost often associated with finding a banking services partner. Dinara's secure, fully integrated platform makes it quick and easy to send, receive, convert and manage both crypto assets and fiat currencies, creating a frictionless experience for clients.

"We are thrilled to partner with Dinara, a company that shares our vision for the transformative power of Web3. This partnership underscores our mutual commitment to support the crypto community by ensuring they can access the most performant and secure solutions available. Our joint efforts will help to empower developers and startups alike." – Jordan Patapoff, Senior Technical Director of Ecosystem at QuickNode.

In partnership with QuickNode, Dinara is working to support those already building with QuickNode to safely and seamlessly manage their financial operations, and help new companies and projects access QuickNode’s end-to-end suite of development and infrastructure tooling for crypto teams. We believe that by partnering with institutional solutions, crypto startups can spend more time focusing on their business and building innovative products.

“QuickNode’s comprehensive suite of developer services helps crypto teams scale from day one, and we’re excited to bring their foundational platform directly to our customers,” said Laurence Latimer, co-founder and CEO at Dinara. “It is critical to the success of our clients and other early stage companies that they have access to institutional-grade services like those provided by QuickNode and our broader network of partners.”

To learn more about Dinara’s crypto banking services, please visit www.dinara.com or reach out to sales@dinara.com. Read more here.

About QuickNode

QuickNode, the leading end-to-end developer platform, is transforming Web3 and blockchain infrastructure by simplifying dApp development and providing high-performance access to over 24 blockchains. Since 2017, QuickNode has empowered hundreds of thousands of top developers and companies to focus on innovation by accelerating dApp build times and offering enterprise-grade solutions to businesses of every size.

About Dinara

Dinara makes business banking services for crypto companies simple, secure, and seamless. With Dinara, crypto startups and VCs can streamline their financial operations across the organization – from custody and trading to treasury management, payments, and reporting. Dinara provides one integrated solution where teams can hold or transact with crypto and fiat, all on a regulatory compliant platform.

Together with its partners, Dinara is bringing institutional services to those building in the crypto economy. Dinara is backed by top-tier crypto investors, including Archetype, Castle Island, North Island Ventures, and B Capital. To learn more, visit www.dinara.com.

The right suite of institutional tools and services can help founders navigate the complexities of building in crypto, and this was the driving force behind the launch of our partner program, Dinara Connect.

Dinara's secure, fully integrated platform makes it quick and easy to send, receive, convert and manage both crypto assets and fiat currencies, creating a frictionless experience for clients. Now, through Dinara Connect, we’re bringing together other key industry leaders and resources to help reduce friction and costs for our clients and enable them to spend more time building innovative products.

Today we’re excited to share more about one of the early members of Dinara Connect, Chainalysis. Chainalysis provides solutions to help companies and projects build and operate with best-in-class compliance and on-chain risk management.

Chainalysis provides the data, software, services, and research that powers compliance and intelligence solutions that have been used to solve some of the world’s most high-profile criminal cases and grow access to crypto assets safely. Their suite of products are critical to the industry, helping drive forward the vision of greater financial freedom with less risk.

"Chainalysis and Dinara are aligned in our missions of helping web3 projects and businesses build and scale safely and compliantly”, said Liz Nell, Head of US Commercial Sales. "Chainalysis is excited to lend our expertise to supporting the broader crypto community through Diana Connect."

With this alignment, Dinara is working to support those already building with Chainalysis, and help new companies and projects access Chainalysis’s market leading crypto data, security, compliance, and market intelligence solutions. We believe that by partnering with institutional solutions, broader market participants can build trust in blockchains and crypto startups can focus more time and effort building innovative products that help crypto fulfill its potential.

“Bringing together a network of institutional partners is not only great for our customers, as it helps them get access to the services they need to operate and scale efficiently, but also for the crypto industry at large,” said Laurence Latimer, co-founder and CEO at Dinara. “Chainalysis is a critical part of the crypto business data and compliance stack, and we look forward to deepening our relationship with them.”

To learn more about Chainalysis, please visit www.chainalysis.com or reach out to sales@chainalysis.com.

To learn more about Dinara’s crypto banking services, please visit www.dinara.com or reach out to sales@dinara.com. Read more about this announcement here.

About Chainalysis

Chainalysis is the leading blockchain data platform. We provide data, software, services, and research to government agencies, exchanges, financial institutions, and insurance and cybersecurity companies in over 70 countries. Our data powers investigation, compliance, and market intelligence software that has been used to solve some of the world’s most high-profile criminal cases and grow consumer access to cryptocurrency safely. Backed by Accel, Addition, Benchmark, Coatue, GIC, Paradigm, Ribbit, and other leading firms in venture capital, Chainalysis builds trust in blockchains to promote more financial freedom with less risk. For more information, visit www.chainalysis.com.

About Dinara

Dinara makes business banking services for crypto companies simple, secure, and seamless. With Dinara, crypto startups and VCs can streamline their financial operations across the organization – from custody and trading to treasury management, payments, and reporting. Dinara provides one integrated solution where teams can hold or transact with crypto and fiat, all on a regulatory compliant platform.

Together with its partners, Dinara is bringing institutional services to those building in the crypto economy. Dinara is backed by top-tier crypto investors, including Archetype, Castle Island, North Island Ventures, and B Capital. To learn more, visit www.dinara.com.