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We are excited to announce @HadickM and @tomhschmidt have been promoted to Managing Partners, joining @hosseeb and Bo in leading Dragonfly.
The promotions recognize the role both have played in shaping Dragonfly into the firm it is today, and mark the firm’s move to a broader partnership. As co-leaders, Rob and Tom will help carry forward what Dragonfly has always done: backing the founders building the future of money and markets.
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.@HadickM on @MTSlive re: agents + money:
“When you’re built on top of Plaid, you have a bunch of failures, failure rates at 2% or so for ACH. And there’s a lot of capital inefficiency in it as well.”
“If you ask your LLM what bank should you use that is agent friendly, they’ll tell you Mercury. They won’t tell you JPMorgan.”
“A financial institution that controls those different accounts and is able to monetize those different accounts, that is AI first and agent first, that is where you’re likely to see a lot of this happen.”
“The concern is the surplus will continue to shift from banks to fintechs.”
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Is crypto VC going extinct?
"No, I think it's evolving."
"If you rewind the clock back to 2021–2022, there were a lot more VCs who raised money on the idea that they were going to deploy into a crypto venture."
"And the idea was that, well, anybody can do this. You just have to sling some money around and some tokens and everything goes up automatically."
"We're in a very different world now. We're in a regime where there's not that many players that are really institutional quality, and that can really add value to a lot of these projects."
"Most of the easy money in crypto is gone now."
@hosseeb on @BloombergTV at Token2049
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.@gdog97_ on the thinking behind Ethena Pay
"Not everyone on earth is going to set up a MetaMask wallet or a Phantom wallet, load it up with stablecoins and come and interact with what is quite a scary experience like operating on chain."
"Take the apps and experiences that people are used to and plug crypto into the background so that it's almost abstracted away... thinking about crypto as a more efficient backend for fintech rather than the product itself."
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