Lightspark expands its go-to-market team with three senior hires. June 1, 2026 Christina Potter, Alexander Gillette and Griffin Camper Last month we launched Grid Global Accounts, a full-stack financial account infrastructure that lets any platform turn its app into a global financial account, without becoming a bank. Platforms can now offer branded dollar accounts, Visa debit cards, instant payouts across 65+ countries and 14,000+ banks, and an account built AI-native from day one - with scoped, revocable permissions so agents can transact within boundaries users control. Every piece of that stack used to belong to someone else - interchange, FX margin, reserve yield, etc. Now it stays with the platform. Grid Global Accounts changes who we sell to, what we sell, and how. It raises the bar for the team behind it. So we're thrilled to welcome Christina Potter as Vice President, Enterprise; Alexander Gillette as Vice President, Fintech; and Griffin Camper as Product Marketing Lead. Meet the team Christina brings over 15 years of payments and fintech experience. She has held senior roles at PayPal, Verisign, and Payoneer, led pay-by-bank adoption at Trustly, and most recently served as VP Enterprise at BVNK. At Lightspark, Christina will lead go-to-market efforts with global enterprises, marketplaces, big tech, large banks and card networks, owning the relationship with our most strategic accounts as we expand the Visa partnership and pursue enterprise integrations. Alex joins from Ripple, where he led commercial efforts across crypto-native and traditional financial institutions since 2023. His twelve-plus years in B2B fintech span payments, crypto, SMB lending, marketplace lending, BaaS, and brokerage infrastructure. At Lightspark, Alex will lead sales into payments service providers, payroll, exchanges, neobanks, and fintech platforms, driving early Grid Global Accounts adoption. Griffin brings nearly two decades of experience in product marketing, go-to-market strategy, and ecosystem growth. As employee #8 and first sales hire at NextRoll, he helped scale the company from zero to $150M+ ARR, founding the NYC office and building a 50-person team. He later co-founded Tento, building a partner-led fintech distribution model from scratch that originated $25 million in loan volume. At Lightspark, Griffin will own product marketing, shaping how Grid Global Accounts, Spark, and Lightspark's expanding capabilities are positioned and communicated as the company enters its next phase of growth. Lightspark's customer and partner base already spans some of the most significant platforms in global finance. Christina, Alex, and Griffin are here to expand Lightspark's commercial coverage, ensuring the world's most financial platforms are on it.

Lightspark CEO David Marcus has predicted Bitcoin will exceed $1 million in value over the long term, despite current volatility. The former PayPal and Meta executive told CNBC that whilst Bitcoin's price fluctuates, it consistently trends upward over extended periods. Bitcoin currently trades around $76,000, approximately 40% below its October peak of $126,000. Marcus bases his prediction on Bitcoin eventually surpassing gold's $32.3 trillion market capitalisation, describing it as "the only thing that's deflationary by nature" and a superior digital alternative to gold. Beyond serving as a store of value, Marcus envisions Bitcoin becoming a settlement layer for global payments. At the Bitcoin 2026 Conference, Lightspark announced Grid Global Accounts, a dollar account powered by Bitcoin connecting to 175 million Visa merchants across 33 countries.

Lightspark partners with turnkey to launch Grid Global Accounts. May 1, 2026 Grid Global Accounts allow any platform to launch a branded dollar account with real-time movement across 65+ banking rails, Visa card spending, cross-chain stablecoin compatibility, and secure AI agent delegation. All of this is made possible through Grid's unified financial infrastructure, which connects domestic and global banking rails, card networks, and blockchain settlement into a single programmable account. Lightspark, San Francisco, USA - April 28, 2026: Lightspark, the company behind the Spark Bitcoin Layer 2 network and the Grid payments API, is launching Grid Global Accounts, a product that allows any platform to offer branded dollar accounts to its users anywhere in the world. Grid Global Accounts combine the reach of traditional banking infrastructure with the speed and programmability of stablecoin rails, creating what the company calls the most fungible dollar balance ever built. What Grid Global Accounts enable. Grid Global Accounts give platforms a single integration point to offer their users a dollar balance with unprecedented reach. That balance can move in real time across more than 65 domestic and global banking rails, from ACH and SEPA to local payment schemes across emerging markets. Beyond traditional rails, account holders can spend directly using a Visa debit card, giving platforms the ability to issue branded debit cards to their users without intermediary card program managers. Grid Global Accounts also support cross-chain compatibility with dozens of blockchain networks and stablecoins, allowing account balances to flow between fiat and crypto settlement with no manual bridging. And for platforms building with AI, secure agent delegation (currently in beta) lets users connect their AI agent of choice to their Grid account, enabling autonomous money movement within platform-defined controls. What Turnkey powers inside Grid Global Accounts. Turnkey provides the wallet infrastructure underneath Grid Global Accounts, handling the signing, key management, and policy enforcement that help make the product's most distinctive features possible. * Cross-chain stablecoin compatibility - signing across dozens of chains from a single account * Secure agent delegation - policy-based signing so platforms can safely connect AI agents to accounts * Non-custodial key management - users and platforms own their keys, not Lightspark, not Turnkey "Lightspark is building an incredibly ambitious payment product, setting a high bar for financial infrastructure going forward," said Bryce Ferguson, CEO and co-founder of Turnkey. "Turnkey exists to make products like this possible." Why embedded wallets are the right model for this new product release. Grid Global accounts use the same embedded wallet pattern that Turnkey powers for consumer trading apps like Moonshot and Axiom, DeFi platforms like Infinex and OneBalance, and payments companies like Mural Pay and Flutterwave. The difference with Grid Global Accounts is scope: the wallet is not just holding crypto. It is the settlement layer for a dollar account that spans banking rails, card networks, and blockchain protocols simultaneously. The future of financial infrastructure. Grid Global Accounts point to a clear shift in how money moves and how financial systems are built. Stablecoin adoption is accelerating across remittances, payroll, and B2B payments, and agentic finance, where AI systems manage and move money on behalf of users, is moving from research demos to production beta. Turnkey's role in Grid Global Accounts reflects how the infrastructure layer is becoming the execution backbone for these systems. The result is a new class of financial products that no longer resemble traditional crypto wallets, but operate entirely on crypto rails. Building something similar? If you're building a payments platform, fintech product, or consumer application that needs embedded wallet infrastructure, explore Turnkey's embedded wallet solutions or get in touch to discuss your use case. About Turnkey Turnkey provides secure, scalable, and programmable crypto infrastructure for embedded wallets and onchain transaction automation. To learn more, visit turnkey.com or @turnkeyhq. About Lightspark Lightspark builds infrastructure that makes it easy to move money globally across fiat, stablecoins, and Bitcoin. The company's products include Grid, a payments API for cross-currency transfers and embedded financial services, and Spark, an open-source Bitcoin Layer 2 network for instant, low-cost Bitcoin and stablecoin payments. To learn more, visit lightspark.com or @lightspark