Nick van Eck interview

Nick van Eck, CEO and Co-Founder of Agora, joined me to discuss the new AUSD stablecoin and what makes it different from other stablecoins in the market.

Get to know Nick:

  • Metaverse theme – Classical Greece
  • Favorite food – Sushi
  • Favorite musician/artist – Tiesto
  • Favorite movie – Gladiator
  • Favorite Book – Eragon book series
  • Hobby – Spending time with family and friends

Topics:

  • Agora’s AUSD Stablecoin
  • Impact of upcoming Stablecoin Regulation in the US
  • Enterprises using Stablecoins
  • The future of payments
  • VanEck’s embrace of Crypto
  • Bitcoin adoption and growth
  • Tokenization

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Timestamps

01:43 Nick’s background

03:08 Van Eck and Crypto

07:13 AUSD targeting Enterprises

11:05 AUSD reserves

12:37 Preventing depegging

13:38 Stablecoin yield

15:11 Stablecoin legislation

17:19 KYC and AML for stablecoins

18:34 AUSD markets

19:45 Money Transfer companies disruption

21:12 Wallets

24:20 Future of payments

28:16 CBDCs

35:15 Tokenization

41:47 Wrap up questions


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