Arnold Lee

Co-founder & CEO of Sphere Labs, building software to accelerate more efficient and open money movement. Most of my career was spent building software for physical-world systems: sensors in concrete, IoT networks, distributed infrastructure. The core problem was always the same: why is it so hard to get information to flow reliably from point A to point B in real time? Payments bring this problem to a new scale. The inefficiency is structural. Global businesses still route money through chains of correspondent banks that weren't designed for the pace of a global internet economy, paying in both time and fees. Every fix has been another layer on the same broken infrastructure. Sphere was built to fix that, and we're pursuing it on two fronts. SpherePay, our flagship product, is cross-border payments infrastructure for global businesses and fintechs, processing volume across 160+ markets in under 30 minutes at a fraction of correspondent banking costs, with embedded compliance workflows. SphereNet is the longer arc: a compliance-native settlement fabric for regulated finance, built for institutions and sovereign systems. https://x.com/sphere_labs