Alex Wilson is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Cyclops, the only purpose-built stablecoin infrastructure platform designed exclusively for the payments industry. He is based in Miami and studied at Wake Forest University School of Business.

Alex co-founded The Giving Block in 2018 alongside Pat Duffy, a pioneering crypto philanthropy platform that captured over 90% market share among nonprofits accepting crypto. The Giving Block was acquired by Shift4 Payments in 2022, where Alex went on to serve as Head of Crypto and Stablecoins.

After experiencing firsthand the pain of stitching together multiple vendors to build crypto features at Shift4, Alex set out to create a single, unified stablecoin infrastructure layer for payments companies. His vision is for Cyclops to be the go-to platform payments companies turn to when building any stablecoin solution.

Alex launched Cyclops alongside co-founders Pat Duffy and David Johnson, securing an $8M seed round from Castle Island Ventures, F-Prime, and Shift4 Payments in March 2026, followed by a $20M Series A led by Nava Ventures in July 2026. Clients include Mastercard and Shift4, with backing also from Coinbase Ventures and Circle.

Cyclops has grown its merchant network to 300,000 and achieved 350% month-over-month volume growth within its first year. The company has expanded globally, grown its team to 31 employees, and joined the Mastercard Crypto Program as part of its go-to-market strategy.