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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 month

Stay tuned!

Agora

@AgoraDollar

1 month

We are thrilled to announce that we have raised a $12 million Seed round, led by @dragonfly_xyz . Agora is building next-generation payments and asset infrastructure for the transmission of value on blockchain-based rails.

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

Have been playing around with the Solana Saga over the last 24 hours. A few thoughts: 1) Hugely admire the @solanamobile team for pushing the envelope in mobile and innovating with regards to how users experience + interact with crypto/dapps.

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

Is anyone starting a competently run bank that will service crypto companies and funds?? Asking for (many) friends

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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Earlier this week we publicly announced @AgoraDollar and a few details on what we are building. As we begin to share more about the company over the coming weeks, I wanted to share some of my personal journey into the space.

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

Judging @Solana 's upcoming Grizzlython! Join before March 14th and get started building!

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

5 months

$HODL has been reserved in the chamber for years

Eric Balchunas

@EricBalchunas

5 months

VanEck's bitcoin ETF ticker will be $HODL.. a departure from the more boring Boomer-y choices from BlackRock, Invesco and Fidelity. Who knows tho, maybe smart to differentiate here. Plus, VanEck specializes in niche and has solid retail base.

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

We are thrilled to announce our seed investment in Tristero ( @0xtristero ), which is looking to build a truly “dark” darkpool exchange through the use of zk tech.

Crypto startup Tristero sets out to build autonomous dark pools

Big trades can move any market, but this is especially true in the still relatively small asset classes of cryptocurrencies.

www.axios.com

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

7 months

TradFi 🤝 Crypto Builders @ProtocolGuild

VanEck

@vaneck_us

7 months

Big announcement! We intend to donate 10% of our $EFUT ETF profits () to @ProtocolGuild for at least 10 years. Thank you, Ethereum contributors, for nearly a decade of relentless building & ongoing stewardship of this common infrastructure. Details 👇

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

Someone on the house financial services committee just asked Powell if stablecoins go to zero when a CBDC comes out… Clearly, a lot of education still needs to be done. Or we need more elected officials under the age of 60

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

27 days

In Dubai next week for @token2049 ? 🇦🇪 Catch my panel with @paoloardoino , @leptokurtic_ , and @mcarrica as we chat about Stablecoins, Digital Money, and the Future of Payments. 💵 Main Stage at 5:20 Thursday. 🎙️MC'd by @HadickM .

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

@gaborgurbacs Would love to understand how they came up with these numbers and what their plan is to acquire these assets…FTX/Alameda never even had this much money

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

Excited that the broader crypto community is celebrating and engaging with the launch of the Saga. Looking forward to seeing @rajgokal and @amytongwu on @saydialect 🙏

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

11 months

Thrilled to be supporting @StaniKulechov and the @LensProtocol team as they work towards building a human-centered social layer that preserves user ownership and portability

Lens Protocol Closes $15 Million Funding Round

$15 million in funding has been raised for Lens Protocol – the user-owned social layer of the Internet.

mirror.xyz

Stani^

@StaniKulechov

11 months

$15M Seed round was raised for @LensProtocol to enable the social layer for web3 – the next generation internet that is founded on human connection 🌿

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

2) Ability to use biometrics, in this case fingerprint tapping, enables significantly more seamless transactions. The Seed Vault is 🔥 tech.

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

2 years

@zhusu This is exactly how you create hyperinflation. Stimulus checks to support the ongoing inflation and maintain demand at the higher prices. Have to let the free market work it out

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

2 years

The market is saying #Bitcoin is a better store of value/less risky than $COIN

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

3) The pre-loaded dapp store, onboarding flow, and install sampling are well done. Enjoyed using @phantom , messaging with @saydialect , and browsing @MagicEden much more than on an iPhone/clunky mobile browser.

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

4) There is a massive opportunity for hardware manufacturers (eg. Apple and Samsung) to more deeply integrate crypto wallets and dapps, potentially opening up significant new revenues streams.

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

Excited to be partnering up with @omeragoldberg and the @chaos_labs team to build an automated economic security system to protect user funds throughout DeFi!

Chaos Labs

@chaos_labs

1 year

1/ We are thrilled to announce we have secured $20M in seed funding led by @galaxyhq and @PayPal Ventures to automate on-chain risk optimization! 🔐

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

24 days

Back in Dubai for Token, having been here for Roundtable in January. So much momentum around digital assets in the UAE, and Token SG was one of the most energizing events of 2023. Catch me running around @token2049 , @rwasummit , and + with @DrakeEvansV1 - exciting week ahead!

Agora

@AgoraDollar

24 days

Meet the Agora team in Dubai this week @token2049 ! @Nick_van_Eck and @DrakeEvansV1 will be meeting with developers and businesses, as well as speaking on various panels throughout the week about our digital dollar AUSD. Who is integrating AUSD for growth? 👇

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

9 days

There’s a lot happening in the world of stablecoins and digital money This was a fun discussion

Agora

@AgoraDollar

9 days

@Nick_van_Eck 's panel from Token2049 in Dubai just dropped🔥 Listen to him share more about: 1) Agora's open-model and why AUSD is the best 1:1 stablecoin for businesses and dapps🤝 2) How that can benefit users 😎

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

2 years

Excited to share what had us so eager to back @__sishir and some early @SpectralFi metrics in advance of his talk at fellow General Catalyst portfolio company @circlepay conference this week! #ConvergeSF22

Our Investment in Spectral: Building Programmable Creditworthiness

Privacy, decentralization, and pseudonymity are central to the crypto ethos and a core tenet of how we guide our investment framework.

www.generalcatalyst.com

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

22 days

Exclusion of overnight reverse repurchase agreements and not focusing on weighted avg. duration of the reserve portfolio are some of several major challenges in this starter pack Fortunately, there are a lot of smart folks on the case helping to get this right

Austin Campbell

@CampbellJAustin

22 days

So I am reading the Lummis-Gillibrand stablecoin draft and one of the things that makes it really, really hard for me to be optimistic about these efforts sometimes is when there are catastrophic basic failures within these bills that I know are based upon things the folks in the…

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

5) On the other hand, if they are slow, it’s possible that manufacturers with lower market share may be more aggressive here. At the very least, these mobile devices can be used as a much better Ledger if not your everyday phone.

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

2 years

Rule #1 - never be the main character

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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6) iOS and ecosystem capture is super 💪. Wondering if we see alternatives to iOS and Android in the coming years…

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

Favorite non-NFT merch of the week courtesy of @JKrantz and @_joinfire 🔥

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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Story time. Drake said "we need an operator" before he agreed to leave Frax and start Agora with me. It was the day before his wedding and I had just gotten off a 12 hour redeye for "vacation". I put vacation in quotes because I just ended up working on Agora the whole time…

Drake Evans is hiring

@DrakeEvansV1

1 month

I believe that digital dollars will grow 10x and that current incumbents treat users worse than banks. I also believe that there are a billion people out there who need access to dollars. I know we have a compelling vision for the tools and products we can build to support a…

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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Excited to meet in person some of the best and brightest building on @SuiNetwork over the coming days as well as others in town for PBW

Agora

@AgoraDollar

1 month

It's Paris Blockchain Week and @SuiNetwork is hosting their inaugural #SuiBasecamp ! This week the Agora team will be in Paris to share more about our new digital dollar - AUSD. We'd love to meet with you and share more about how our open-partner model can help grow your…

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

Looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones @EthereumDenver this week! Catch @JoshuaPulman @ginevra_king @__sishir @kaledora talking about RWA on the DeFi Stage this Saturday

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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Looking forward to judging the @crosschainco & @TechCrunch Web3 Demo Day next week on Jan 11th! Join me in hearing from 12 projects that will present their plans for reshaping the future of web3. Register for free access to the live stream: …

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

Great write up from @matthew_sigel that is worth reading in full

VanEck

@vaneck_us

1 year

The year is 2030. Is ETH closer to $343 or $51K? Even if it puts a stake in your heart, we model both scenarios. @matthew_sigel Remind me of this in 7 years. 🕰️

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

7 months

Blockchain-based networks are transforming the core infrastructure of the financial world through reduced transaction costs, improved settlement times, and composability. We believe that new financial primitives like @OstiumLabs will contribute to the much-needed upgrade of the…

Ostium Labs

@OstiumLabs

7 months

We're thrilled to announce we've raised $3.5M, co-led by @generalcatalyst and @localglobevc , with participation from SIG, @alliancedao , Balaji Srinivasan and others! We're building the first decentralized perpetuals exchange for Real World Assets ⬇️

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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Agree - we need more investment in applications. Scaling for billions of users is irrelevant if you don’t even have a few million. TikTok and ChatGPT hit 100mm MAUs in <12 months. Would love to see crypto get to 100mm+ in the blink of an eye via consumers. Feels like…

cami 🧸

@camiinthisthang

1 year

Web3 doesn’t have a UX problem, the problem is we simply don’t have many (any?) compelling applications that are overall superior to the incumbents. We don’t need another wallet. We don’t need account abstraction. We simply need compelling, useful applications.

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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Making it a priority to use “Digital Assets” more this year. Love “Crypto”, but its long-form is a bad descriptor for many tokens or projects in the space. Very few tokens and projects are trying to be currencies. Dropping Web3, it’s an amorphous term

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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Frax and Agora 👀

Sam Kazemian (¤, ¤)

@samkazemian

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@DrakeEvansV1 was the main architect & engineer of Fraxlend while he was with us, one of the most efficient & now 9-figure TVL lending facilities in DeFi. Can't wait to see what they do in the fiat stablecoin world! @fraxfinance x @AgoraDollar RWA partnership will be glorious🤫

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

Bringing darkness to markets near you

General Catalyst

@generalcatalyst

1 year

How can we build a truly "dark" dark pool exchange that aims to promote fairness & reduce costs? Enter @0xtristero . We're thrilled to lead Tristero's seed & welcome @futurenomics & team to the GC family! Why we invested by @bonatsos & @Nick_van_Eck ↓

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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Looking forward to chatting about digital dollars with Tether ( @paoloardoino ), Ethena ( @leptokurtic_ ), and Mountain ( @mcarrica ) next week! Differing models, perhaps some shared views? Come and see

Rob Hadick ＞|＜

@HadickM

1 month

If you're at @token2049 in Dubai next Thursday, I have a feeling this panel will get interesting. Come see me try and get @paoloardoino , @leptokurtic_ , @Nick_van_Eck , and @mcarrica argue, I mean chat, about the future of stablecoins

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

2 years

New York should get rid of the BitLicense entirely. No other state has created such an employer and consumer unfriendly regulatory regime. NYS should be the #1 Crypto hub in the US. NY crushed the Bay Area in crypto funding last year.

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

10 months

Always pleasantly surprised at the step-up of content and convos at dev-oriented conferences EthCC and DevCon were head and shoulders above every other industry gathering last year IMO, so not sure why this still comes as a surprise Refreshing nonetheless

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

2 years

Awesome kickoff to #Bitcoin2022 with the always insightful and funny @howardlindzon 🌴🚀. Oh and @JanvanEck3 too

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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After spending my whole career building investment cases based on other founders’ visions, there was no better time or opportunity to build towards a future and vision I believed in. @AgoraDollar is that company. We’re building a more financially inclusive future, where…

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

10 months

Feels like the groundhog emerged and didn’t see its shadow today. Spring coming soon?

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

23 days

Consensus for the last year has been rates going down. 10YR has been rising, CPI hotter than expected, and gold prices exploding to fresh ATHs. What if rates went up?

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

Very fortunate to have @marcbhargava joining the @generalcatalyst team!!

Niko Bonatsos

@bonatsos

1 year

I am thrilled to be welcoming @marcbhargava to @generalcatalyst ! We are doubling down on partnering with ridiculously ambitious crypto and fintech early stage founders.

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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@Bfaviero The ultimate NYC/Miami dual grind is Nov-April in NYC when it’s too cold to go outside and May-Oct in Miami when it’s unbearably hot + humid. You’ll never leave your desk! :)

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

2 years

Thrilled to be backing @__sishir and the entire @SpectralFi team! Check your on-chain credit score today:

Spectral: A Machine Intelligence Network

Join Spectral challenges to build ML models and tackle complex data science problems. Win big rewards, preserve your model IP, and earn ongoing income.

www.app.spectral.finance

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

2 years

Spectral raises $23M to help create on-chain web3 credit scores by @jacqmelinek

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

11 months

Auspicious time for a Curve competitor to be approaching mainnet

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

10 months

E̶t̶h̶C̶C̶ EthSafari

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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@zebulgar Think it was pretty clear before this point he was bronze at math

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

Got CAC? Sharing a less dilutive solution for founders looking to grow their business. Brought to you by my fantastic partners @__kvm @pranavsinghvi

kvm

@__kvm

1 year

We believe equity should be preserved for what it was intended to underwrite: unstructured risk like investments in product and engineering. Components that are “structured”, like S&M and CAC, deserve a solution that is precisely matched to their output

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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Beware the Ides of March

Helene Meisler

@hmeisler

1 year

The oddest thing is this is the exact same weekend that Bear Stearns went under 15 years ago.

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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Blockchain-based networks and assets are revolutionizing payment systems and financial markets. This is one of the few times in human history that the form of money and financial markets are undergoing rapid transformation. Digital dollars, assets, and blockchain-based markets,…

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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@bet_etf @vaneck_us This is incredible. More Jan memes please

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

Between @jphackworth42 analysis of Uniswap's token airdrop and Token Terminal's of DEX token incentives, founders of dapps should reevaluate whether giving away their "cap table" to early users is an effective use of resources Most are seemingly mercenaries, not missionaries

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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Why will blockchains win? 1) Instant Settlement 2) Low-Transaction Costs 3) Transparency 4) Permissionless Value Transfer

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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@Shaughnessy119 Grayscale should get a bottom of the barrel valuation relative to other asset managers because of competitive/regulatory risk + unwind. ETF gets approved and their egregious 200bps gets cut to <50bps overnight

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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This upcoming halving will be my third. Bitcoin and Satoshi’s whitepaper first drew me into crypto in early 2016. I had a proclivity for history, financial markets, and investing. Perhaps unsurprising when asset management is the family business. Barron’s was required reading at…

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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Bitcoin the asset (and network) immediately resonated with me, coming from a family of gold bugs. My grandfather launched the first gold fund in the United States in 1968. He was a hard-money economist and believed the fiscal largesse of that decade would lead the U.S. Treasury…

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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I continued with my investing career, spending the next 5+ years as a technology investor focused primarily on enterprise software. DeFi summer came along in 2020 and that was my second “magic” moment (h/t to Uniswap/Aave). Having spent a few years in enterprise software, I had a…

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

2 years

$USD to global currency markets #dollarmilkshake

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

This isn’t rhetorical

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

@fattah_zaid @column Wouldn’t mix an exchange with a bank, especially given the context of this space. It’s sad that not stealing/risking customer deposits is enough of a differentiator. The most vanilla, independent bank could succeed

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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So, as I sat there and read the whitepaper, I had that “magic” feeling very similar to the first time I used an iPhone. I spent the next few years evangelizing family and friends about Bitcoin, several of whom turned to crypto full-time.

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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@CampbellJAustin deserves a hat tip for connecting us. When I shared with him my 10 year vision for Agora (digital dollars are just the start), he gave me sly grin, pulled out his phone, and referring to Drake said "this is your guy". A few months later...voilà!

Drake Evans is hiring

@DrakeEvansV1

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When @Nick_van_Eck told me he wanted me to help him build a better digital dollar I thought he was crazy. It would be an impossible task to unseat the duopoly. A few months later we closed a seed round led by @dragonfly_xyz . This is the story of why I’m building @AgoraDollar

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@Nick_van_Eck

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At the time, I didn’t contemplate crypto “as a career” because I just saw assets. I viewed Bitcoin as a globally accessible hedge on fiscal + monetary policy going awry. I didn’t, yet, understand the larger opportunity blockchain networks would drive (though I did pitch it to…

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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DeFi sucked me back into crypto and for the first time, full-time. Applications like @Uniswap , @aave , @dYdX were new financial market primitives operating autonomously, 24/7 on blockchain-based networks. I spent the next few years digging into the market professionally, helping…

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

In our view, centralized crypto exchanges, today, are the worst of both worlds: the compliance/regulatory uncertainty of crypto paired with the counterparty risk of TradFi. We're excited about a less centralized future that has the potential to empower individual sovereignty.

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

“Reports of [Bitcoin’s] death have been greatly exaggerated”

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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@DrakeEvansV1 and my DMs are open!

Haseeb ＞|＜

@hosseeb

1 month

If you're a business that uses stablecoins—wallet, exchange, remittances, etc., check out @AgoraDollar ! They are going to be putting the stablecoin yield back in the hands of application developers, rather than in the coffers of the big issuers. (I.e., BUSD as a service)

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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1971-2021 was one big generational pump and dump

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

Should read *CryptoCEX-like moment Rotating solvency tests of Q4 ‘22 feels so long ago

zerohedge

@zerohedge

1 year

Any minute now: regulators start going after twitter accounts spreading rumors of failing banks and starting bank runs.

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@Nick_van_Eck

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This wasn’t the first time I had heard about Bitcoin, but it was the first time the Bitcoin case was laid out to me. I finally sat down and read Satoshi’s white paper.

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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I began to admire investors who, through research and qualitative assessments, were able to consistently outperform and win. There are many different forms and styles of investing, though public equity investors seemed to be the most competitive and intelligent. Set on being a…

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

10 months

Chaos continues to be an innovation leader. Builders in the perps and options space would greatly benefit from connecting with @omeragoldberg and team

omer

@omeragoldberg

10 months

1/ After months of rigorous research, and simulations, we're excited to share the @GMX_IO V2 Risk Framework and Methodologies. @chaos_labs is pioneering research in the DeFi derivative space, and bridging the gap between theory and practicality. Stay tuned more soon 🙏

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The team is hiring and testnet sign up is open

Hourglass Testnet

We will be accepting participants as capacity allows in order to guarantee that we can support everyone adequately. All information shared here will be kept private and is being collected to determ...

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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@thecurious_gark @solanamobile Not replacing current phone. Decade+ of iOS lock-in is way too strong. Historically have used iPad/separate device to manage most of my crypto activity. Atm the Saga would fall into that category

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

Very much looking forward to this conversation on what's driving the adoption needle!

Penn Blockchain

@PennBlockchain

1 year

📢Incoming: #PBC23 2/10/2023 Panel Announcement🔥 "Web3 Adoption: What Does it Take?" featuring @ai of @lightspeedvp @pakman of @coinfund_io @madfes of @tribecap @Nick_van_Eck of @generalcatalyst Moderated by @Zackseward

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

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Solving an enormous DeFi infrastructure need: Over-collateralization was the quick solution for a lack of credit risk infrastructure. Spectral is focused on filling the credit assessment gap in DeFi by building a permissionless and decentralized infrastructure for Web3.

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

2 years

Insightful reading and considerations for early-stage crypto teams from @jsfranklin221 !

Jared Franklin

@jsfranklin221

2 years

1/ The median age from founding to IPO hit a low of 4 years for companies going public in 1999. The strategy was called "Get Big Fast." And as we know, many imploded. But a lesser known fact was that many who grew slower and more organically survived.

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

From @CampbellJAustin to gods ears

Austin Campbell

@CampbellJAustin

1 year

I did, in fact, say all of these things for the Congressional record.

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

@zck @johnsonyyang @CraneMcrane -1000 Crane starting line

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

@matthuang Digital Assets is even better still

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

@davidmarcus @andrewrsorkin This is the correct take

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

Knowing @futurenomics and the team for some time, we believe they have compelling expertise across topics required to be successful here: they are crypto-native, highly technical, with an above average understanding of markets.

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

2 years

If NY continues this pay to play game with licenses and annual fees people will just leave and the companies won’t be built here. Giving people more economic reasons to leave than they already do…

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

22 days

@jchervinsky There are also significant issues around the allowable and excluded reserves

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

9 months

Hoping Carl is right here, and he’s on the nose on many things! TBD!

Crypto Carl

@CarlKVogel

9 months

Thrilled to expand by prior thread into a @Blockworks_ op-ed. Bitcoin ETFs lock people into traditional finance, but a PayPal stablecoin could onboard the next ten million into crypto

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

@KanavKariya Bitcoin -> Digital Gold Stablecoins ✅ Other “Crypto’s” -> Digital Assets Web3/“Crypto” Co’s -> DA Companies

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

@nic__carter Seems like it. Got a few SVB recs yesterday for crypto companies. Already looking not so hot...

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

2 years

@futurenomics @zebulgar $SNAP and $PTON also scams

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

11 months

@gaborgurbacs @StaniKulechov @LensProtocol Users own + control their digital profile, data, content, and followers and can move freely between applications, porting their digital identity and social graph with them. The dream is that this will enable innovative social experiences and monetization models that better serve…

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

@JKrantz Headquarters can be in Rye, NY

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

Exchanges/liquidity infrastructure are one of the few areas in crypto to date that have demonstrated both scale and revenue. GC is excited to support continued disruption in this space.

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

@DavidMicley @aya_kantor @VidiellaLaura @HadickM @AElkrief @ShiliangTang Denver Swole 😤😤

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

1 year

@zerohedge

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

9 months

@ErichGrant and team are lights out, a lot more enterprises coming down the pipeline!!

C14

@c14_team

9 months

🚨PARTNERSHIP ALERT!🚨 🔥We partnered with @BitMartExchange to integrate our fiat-to-crypto on-ramp solution! 📰Read this article published on @CoinMarketCap to learn more about the partnership!👇

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

2 years

Patiently waiting for Nintendo to launch an NFT-based @Pokemon game, sit back, and print

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