Steve Payne stands out at Pegasus for blending venture work with M&A and advisory experience at Architect Partners, where he focuses on crypto payments, stablecoins, and digital-asset deals like Coinme/Polygon and Banxa/OSL. He has also written about how stablecoin settlement is driving major crypto payments M&A, and his interest in payment innovation goes back to earlier work on micropayments and SmallBall.