Nick van Eck (@Nick_van

Nick van Eck

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Nick van Eck

@Nick_van_Eck

Bringing the world’s money onchain 💸 | CEO and Co-Founder @withAUSD | prev General Catalyst jobs.gem.com/agora

Joined November 2021

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Nick van Eck
@Nick_van_Eck
Apr 24
Today, @withAUSD filed its application for Agora National Trust Bank with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Securing this charter would enable Agora to operate in the United States under a unified federal framework and expand its product suite beyond stablecoin
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Nick van Eck
@Nick_van_Eck
Mar 20, 2025
Just got out of a meeting where we discussed moving $500M-$1B in monthly cross-border flows to stables. Stablecoins are a going to vampire liquidity from the correspondent banking system. 100x improvement. The efficiency gains in capital markets are going to be glorious.
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Nick van Eck
@Nick_van_Eck
Jul 7, 2024
Replying to @johnhfio
40 years of interest rates going down and ballooning the federal debt levels. Generational pump and dump
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Nick van Eck
@Nick_van_Eck
Jun 18, 2025
Applications with millions of users are choosing to build on the @withAUSD stack! They’re choosing to build on the Agora stack because of liquidity, security, and utility we offer out of the box for custom stablecoins. Agora: - institutional grade custodians, overseeing $
FSL Ecosystem
@fslweb3
Jun 18, 2025
GGUSD is now live 💥 GGUSD is FSL’s first stablecoin - fully backed by US Treasuries and created in partnership with Agora (@withAUSD). It offers competitive APY simply by holding in your FSL ID wallet. No staking. No lock-ups. Just rewards. Mint GGUSD by using the swap
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Nick van Eck
@Nick_van_Eck
Nov 6, 2025
Please stop using the term stablecoin to refer to hedge funds and debt products with no rights, simply because they attempt to hold a peg near a dollar. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Nick van Eck
@Nick_van_Eck
Sep 6, 2025
Stripe has clearly gotten to the stage where they are comfortable “playing with fire.” Tempo is a clear shot across the bow that they are trying to build the next generation Visa network. There are many features here that make it a more practical network for businesses. The
Matt Huang
@matthuang
Sep 6, 2025
On Tempo, permissionlessness, L1 vs L2 Tempo will be a permissionless chain. On day 1, anyone will be able to deploy a token, and anyone will be able to transact on the chain. Some projects think that attracting real-world usage and serious institutions requires giving up on
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Nick van Eck
@Nick_van_Eck
Apr 1, 2025
Coinbase makes more money off USDC than Circle. And more money off Eth than Ethereum. *ducks* h/t @Austin_Federa
matthew sigel, recovering CFA
@matthew_sigel
Apr 1, 2025
🚨 Circle Files for IPO $1.7B revenues (+16% y/y) $285M EBIDTA (-29% y/y) $155M Net Income (-42%)
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Nick van Eck
@Nick_van_Eck
Sep 7, 2025
Proposal: Agora stablecoin infrastructure to power USDH with a coalition of best-in-class providers. Introduction If Hyperliquid relinquishes their canonical stablecoin to Stripe, a vertically integrated issuer with clear conflicts, what are we all even doing? Summary -
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Nick van Eck
@Nick_van_Eck
Jun 26, 2025
Pay to Play Much has been made about how parts of the crypto industry operate under a “pay to play” model. This is extractive, harms consumers, and creates opacity in markets. Seemingly, that “pay to play” nature has now permeated the regulated intersection of stablecoins and
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Nick van Eck
@Nick_van_Eck
Jul 10, 2025
Excited to have this milestone out in the open! We launched Agora to build the enterprise-first, stablecoin infrastructure company. We've long believed that stablecoins would eat traditional financial services and payment rails. A decade or two from now, there will be tens of
Agora
@withAUSD
Jul 10, 2025
We are thrilled to announce that Agora has raised a $50 million Series A round, led by @paradigm and with additional participation from @dragonfly_xyz. This milestone enables us to accelerate the development of Agora’s full-stack platform for stablecoin infrastructure,
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Nick van Eck
@Nick_van_Eck
Oct 9, 2025
The crypto brain drain from legacy finance + payments businesses is very real. Dozens of friends + colleagues who were spearheading digital assets at Goldman, JPM, WorldPay, Visa, etc. have jumped into crypto-native startups the last 6 months because they can move the puck
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Nick van Eck
@Nick_van_Eck
Aug 6, 2025
.@ethena kicked off a new era for what I think is going to be one of the continued largest and fastest growing segments of crypto native businesses. I’m still tinkering with the best way to articulate this segment…yieldcoins, onchain asset management…don’t love any of
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Nick van Eck
@Nick_van_Eck
Apr 6, 2025
Agreed. We are in inning #1 of non-speculative crypto. Blockchain-based systems will eat payments and financial services over the next 20 years and dwarf what we’ve achieved to date. Taste of just the cross-border segment size 👇
Matt Huang
@matthuang
Apr 6, 2025
FWIW, I haven't felt this bullish in the 5y forward view for crypto since ~2018
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Nick van Eck
@Nick_van_Eck
May 27, 2024
“Yield-bearing stablecoins” are not money or stablecoins. Stablecoins are already a $150 billion market and settle $10T annually. We see them growing to $3T by 2030. “Yield-bearing stablecoins” are not part of this market. At @AgoraDollar, we believe that digital dollars are
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