Arnold Lee is the Founder & CEO of Sphere, one of the world’s fastest-growing stablecoin payments companies. Sphere operates SpherePay, a B2B payments platform bridging the U.S. and emerging markets, and SphereNet, a permissioned Solana-based environment built for regulated finance with compliance and privacy at its core. Backed by Jump Trading, Hudson River Trading, Coinbase, Kraken, Solana Ventures, as well as sovereign affiliates and global commodities houses, Sphere processes billions of dollars annually, powering cross-border payments that increasingly touch real-economy trade in raw materials, industrial goods, and energy flows.

Arnold began his career in IoT engineering, working from firmware for thermocouple sensors to full-stack development on solar compactors, before becoming an early blockchain engineer contributing to open source projects on Solana and Ethereum. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Columbia University. Today, Arnold leads Sphere’s mission to make stablecoin payments safer, faster, and more accessible worldwide.