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A financial system where fans can become owners. Not after IPO, but from inception....
This is one of the ideas that personally got me into crypto. 🧵
Announcing our investment in @legiondotcc
Juan
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Juan
@0xlaguna
- 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
- Excited to announce our investment in @dawninternetUnveiling our investment in @dawninternet
- Replying to @0xlaguna(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;
- 1/ Excited to announce our investment in @superformxyz as they build the infrastructure layer for onchain yield.
- What does Stripe need to believe to underwrite Bridge at $1b? a). Stable (agnostic) <> fiat rails, orchestration, and compliance is too hard to build/hire for. Or… b). Something about onchain payments is so disruptive, that the 12 month lead time this buys is priceless.
- Replying to @0xlaguna(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).
- Replying to @0xlagunaAfter spending the last few months with their incredible crypto team (@JanvanEck3, @vaneckpk, @matthew_sigel, @GabeRabello @Patrick_Bush_VE @mattmaximo @thijsvanboven1 @n_frankovitz) we couldn’t be more excited to partner with this next generation of founders
- Replying to @0xlagunaThis 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.
- Replying to @0xlagunaWe’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. 📥
- Some happy Friday news below :) I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined @vaneck_us as Head of Investor Relations for Digital Assets.
- Replying to @0xlagunaBack in 2021, I met @wyattlonergan 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.
- Confidential payments remains as one of the key building blocks to bridge traditional commerce onchain. Excited to see more research in this category via @inconetwork and @circleIntroducing the Confidential ERC-20 Framework @inconetwork and Circle Research release a new whitepaper and open-source repo on transforming ERC-20 tokens into confidential wrapped versions that preserve user privacy using fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) while maintaining
- 1/ Superform has raised $3M led by @vaneck_us Ventures to launch SuperVaults: Intelligent Onchain Yield Products The first SuperVault, SuperUSDC is now live, earning 22% APY: superform.xyz
