New Hire: Colin DeLarso Joins Cyclops as Director of Strategic Partnerships
Mastercard and Barclays veteran brings nearly a decade of crypto and digital asset partnerships experience to the Cyclops team.
Cyclops is excited to welcome Colin DeLarso as Director of Strategic Partnerships.
Colin joins Cyclops after 4.5 years on the Mastercard Crypto team, most recently leading Crypto Product Partnerships. In that role, he drove key blockchain and digital asset partnerships and worked across product, engineering, business development and strategy. Originally joining Mastercard’s crypto team during its foundational period, Colin played a key part in strengthening Mastercard’s position in digital assets and led partnerships across consumer, settlement, P2P, infrastructure and commercial flows across the team. Before Mastercard, Colin spent 4 years at Barclays Investment Bank, where he created a crypto partnerships function within the bank’s ventures and innovation group, known as Rise.
Colin came to Cyclops because he sees abstracting complexity away from the customer as the key to mass adoption, whether that’s a consumer product like a card or wallet, or a B2B product like Cyclops. He’s spent his career watching that principle play out at two of the largest institutions in finance and payments, and he's excited to join a team that’s been building in the stablecoin and crypto infrastructure space for close to a decade with a clear understanding of what real adoption in payments requires.
At Cyclops, Colin will drive strategic partnerships, working across the team to build and strengthen relationships with partners and expand Cyclops’s capabilities. He will play a critical role in positioning Cyclops as the partner of choice for payment companies as they enable crypto payins, payouts, settlement and more.
We’re excited to have Colin join the Cyclops team and help lead the way on strategic partnerships as we grow!
About Cyclops
Cyclops was founded by a team of payments executives and crypto veterans fed up with stablecoin fragmentation. After selling their first company to Shift4 and spending years building its stablecoin settlement, payin and payout products with multiple partners, our founders set out to unify stablecoin infrastructure themselves — and Cyclops was born.
Cyclops is the first complete stablecoin platform built exclusively for the payments industry, partnering where best-in-class capabilities exist and building where they don’t. The result: stablecoin and fiat settlement, payins, payouts and treasury optimization, all through a single API and onboarding process.
