<p>Square Crypto, the crypto initiative of payments company Square, has <a href="https://twitter.com/sqcrypto/status/1174721064959709186?s=21">announced</a> the hiring of new members to its team. The company has brought on Valentine Wallace, Jeffrey Czyz, and Arik Sosman to complete the firm's "inaugural developer team." Wallace was formerly a software engineer at Lightning Labs, the Lightning Network development startup, Czyz was a software engineer at Google, and Sosman was a software engineer, building the Calibra wallet for Facebook Libra.</p> <p>According to Square Crypto, Wallace, Czyz, and Sosman will join Matt Corallo and Steve Lee to contribute to the free open-source bitcoin developer base, adding that "There’s no project we won’t consider, as long as it improves or proliferates bitcoin."</p> <p>The Square Crypto initiative was first <a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/i-love-this-technology-and-community-square-launches-a-new-crypto-unit/">announced</a> in March. The firm will work towards building out the inchoate bitcoin and crypto ecosystem, separately from Square's own business interests in the market.</p>