Wyatt Lonergan and Juan Lopez (Vaneck Ventures) on Stablecoin Adoption and The Institutionalization of Crypto (EP.611)
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This is Wyatt from Castle Island, and today on the podcast, I was joined by Wyatt Lonergan and Juan Lopez of VanEck Ventures. VanEck Ventures is the crypto focused venture capital arm of VanEck, a major global asset manager, and Wyden and Juan bring deep experience in the crypto and stable coin space having spent previous years at Circle Ventures. I hope you enjoy our conversation.
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Wied and Juan from Fanuc Ventures. Thanks for joining. Excited to chat today. I think the only two Wieds, at least, that I know in the crypto space on the call. That'd be awesome. I'd start with backgrounds. We'd love to hear about what you guys are up to today and then maybe touch on what you've done in the past in the industry. I'm
gonna kick off, and I'll pass it over to Wyatt. He could share more about Vanic Ventures and sort of the origination story. I'm Juan. Been working together with Wyatt for the past three years. Started my career in corporate finance. I worked with an IBM's own corporate treasury. I've been in crypto since twenty seventeen ish or so, but the bug really didn't hit me until I was there and saw what the opportunity was in replacing the entire back end of a corporate treasury organization with stablecoins. So I joined Circle in 2021, moved around a little bit. I got to meet Wyatt as he was getting C
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