{"version":1,"id":"eleni-steinman","title":"Eleni Steinman","summary":"Eleni Steinman is a payments and stablecoin executive known for co-founding and leading Loop Crypto and for heading the stablecoins function at Lead Bank.","content":"**Eleni Steinman** is a payments and [stablecoin](https://iq.wiki/wiki/stablecoin) executive based in New York City. She is Head of Stablecoins at Lead Bank and was a co-founder and chief executive officer of Loop Crypto, a stablecoin payments company acquired by Lead Bank in 2025.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-hnac10e9m7)​[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-3jmarsgaq5)​\n\n## Career\n\n### Government and Consulting\n\nSteinman worked as a financial specialist at the Export-Import Bank of the United States from June 2010 to June 2014, then as director of its Budget Division from June 2014 to March 2015.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-hnac10e9m7) \n\nDuring that period, she completed two government details through the Presidential Management Fellowship program: as an international financial economist at the U.S. Department of State in 2011, where she received a Meritorious Honor Award, and as a program examiner in the Commerce Branch of the Office of Management and Budget in 2012.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-hnac10e9m7)​\n\nFrom March 2015 to May 2016, Steinman was a senior consultant at FI Consulting. She later worked as a summer strategy associate at Hugo & Hoby in 2017 and as a summer analyst at JPMorganChase in 2009.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-hnac10e9m7)​\n\n### Blockchain Infrastructure and Loop Crypto\n\nSteinman joined [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) infrastructure company bloXroute as a strategy and operations manager in June 2018. She became its head of strategy and operations in July 2020 and held that position until November 2021.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-hnac10e9m7)​\n\nIn November 2021, she co-founded Loop Crypto and became its chief executive officer, serving in the role through December 2025.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-hnac10e9m7) Loop provided merchants with a way to accept [stablecoin](https://iq.wiki/wiki/stablecoin) payments for different billing models, including subscriptions with automatic payments, and was backed by [Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)](https://iq.wiki/wiki/andreessen-horowitz).[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-hnac10e9m7) \n\nSteinman announced that Loop was joining Lead Bank in a post dated December 10, 2025; in June 2026, she described Lead as having acquired Loop the previous year.[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-3jmarsgaq5)​[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-hnac10e9m7)​\n\n### Lead Bank\n\nSteinman became Head of Stablecoins at Lead Bank in December 2025, where she leads the bank’s stablecoins function.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-hnac10e9m7) In June 2026, she described the bank’s platform as being built to support real-time movement of money and said Lead had partnered with Mastercard to expand settlement capabilities.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-hnac10e9m7)​\n\nIn public discussions of payments, Steinman has distinguished card authorization from settlement: a card payment may appear instantaneous to the user, while the actual movement of money happens later. She has also discussed the role of payment networks in domestic and cross-border transfers.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-hnac10e9m7)​\n\n## Education\n\nSteinman earned an MBA from Yale School of Management. At the University of Florida, she completed a master’s degree in finance, a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in finance, and a Bachelor of Arts in political science. \n\nShe reports that she was one of 20 students accepted into a four-year combined MSF/BSBA program, graduated magna cum laude, and received a full merit scholarship.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-hnac10e9m7)​\n","categories":[{"id":"people","title":"people"}],"tags":[{"id":"Founder"}],"images":[{"id":"QmRVEV2Ew4kokRwtFoHBVHKv5x5JsS6QaN4rGCmHHYnUgs","type":"image/jpeg, image/png"}],"media":[],"metadata":[{"id":"references","value":"[{\"id\":\"hnac10e9m7\",\"url\":\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/elenisteinman/\",\"description\":\"LinkedIn profile\",\"timestamp\":1792429312419},{\"id\":\"3jmarsgaq5\",\"url\":\"https://elenithinks.com/\",\"description\":\"Personal website\",\"timestamp\":1792429312419}]"},{"id":"linkedin_profile","value":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/elenisteinman/"},{"id":"website","value":"https://elenithinks.com/"},{"id":"main-image-origin","value":"{\"imageId\":\"QmRVEV2Ew4kokRwtFoHBVHKv5x5JsS6QaN4rGCmHHYnUgs\",\"originalId\":\"QmRVEV2Ew4kokRwtFoHBVHKv5x5JsS6QaN4rGCmHHYnUgs\"}"},{"id":"previous_cid","value":"QmSL5obupSPtoFRBkW8HfUyqYGGgGq87uXJ7ZrPz3Ak3Rf"},{"id":"commit-message","value":"Make minor edits to the Eleni Steinman wiki"},{"id":"previous_cid","value":"QmSL5obupSPtoFRBkW8HfUyqYGGgGq87uXJ7ZrPz3Ak3Rf"}],"events":[{"type":"DEFAULT","title":"Loop Crypto joins Lead Bank","date":"2025-12-01","description":"Steinman announced that Loop Crypto was joining Lead Bank.","link":null,"multiDateStart":null,"multiDateEnd":null,"id":"c1c097bc-1497-4998-8dde-6a017fd7b674"}],"linkedWikis":{"founders":[],"blockchains":[],"speakers":[]},"user":{"id":"0x8af7a19a26d8fbc48defb35aefb15ec8c407f889"},"author":{"id":"0x212Cb3F4aE6611054637f9f78F18fB628AD258bb"},"language":"en","operator":{"id":"0x212Cb3F4aE6611054637f9f78F18fB628AD258bb"}}