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@0xlaguna

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amateur sound designer, early stage investor @vaneck_us , prev- investor @circle_ventures / @circle Disclosure:

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@0xlaguna
Juan
10 days
Excited to share what we’ve been up to. A thread on what’s next or @wyatt_lonergan and I:
@vaneck_us
VanEck
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Let’s be honest: crypto is at a crossroads. Obsession with infrastructure investments and token launches has created an imbalance, diverting attention from products that deliver real value to users. Trust has eroded as too many VCs chase short-term gains with unlocks. What’s
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(i) Stablecoins are the open source banking as a service layer and will play a pivotal role in the era of blockchain utility. We think they will eventually become a foundational building block for the next generation of Fintech products. And;
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(ii) Over the next 5 years, blockchain-enabled applications will accrue most of the value on a relative basis due to competition in the underlying infrastructure (L1s/stablecoin issuers).
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After spending the last few months with their incredible crypto team ( @JanvanEck3 , @vaneckpk , @matthew_sigel , @GabeRabello @Patrick_Bush_VE @mattmaximo1 @thijsvanboven1 @n_frankovitz ) we couldn’t be more excited to partner with this next generation of founders
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We’ll be sharing more details on our thesis and first few investments soon. If you are a founder thinking about the next generation of B2B payments, tokenized assets & markets, and on-boarding the next wave of consumers and institutions on-chain, we'd love to chat. 📥
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This is why we joined VanEck, a leading asset manager with a strong track record in pioneering institutional adoption in digital assets, to launch an early stage Venture fund focused on the application layer.
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Back in 2021, I met @Wyatt_Lonergan while at @circle . It became clear that aligning with the USDC ecosystem was gonna be a major differentiator for us long term. @jerallaire took a bet on us to help launch @Circle_Ventures .
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We’ve spent the last 3 years going deep in the stablecoin ecosystem, which has grown to >$160B in circulation while settling billions in daily volume. After backing backing over 100 founders building across this ecosystem, we came away with two insights:
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@vaneck_us Hi intern.
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@cnaut @raincards Thank you Charles. Excited to keep following the @raincards journey through this next phase.
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A simple (yet true) case for “crypto x AI”: removing friction for devs to leverage frontier models by making them permissionless/easier to compose with.
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@levelsio
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There is no other answer possible then Make an Open AI compatible API endpoint that can be CURL'ed If you can make that it means it'll just work with any code Without 100 libraries, 10 forms and 5 different disjointed Google dashboards, 3 survey popups and 1 cookie popup
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@Patrick_Bush_VE @MikeIppolito_ Are the two not constantly responding to each other? Or why does culture have hierarchy over economics?
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