The Future of Institutional Crypto Adoption REVEALED! | Nathan McCauley

**Nathan McCauley** (0:00)
Internet companies don't exist anymore. Every company is an Internet company. And in the same way, every bank is going to become a crypto bank. The trends around stable coins, where every bank is going to want to figure out some way to adopt stable coins, the dollar is the main product of all banks across the country. And so a 10 times better dollar product must be adopted by banks in some way, shape or form.

**Tony Edward** (0:25)
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Hey everyone, welcome into the Thinking Crypto Podcast. I'm Tony Edward.

**Amanda Wickroft** (2:52)
And I'm Amanda Wickroft.

**Tony Edward** (2:54)
And joining us is Nathan McCauley, who is the co-founder and CEO of Anchorage Digital, which is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Nathan it's great to have you back on.

**Nathan McCauley** (3:14)
So happy to be here. Thanks for having me on again.

**Tony Edward** (3:17)
Yeah, Nathan, lots happening around Anchorage. You guys continue to lead in many ways in building infrastructure for the crypto industry. So Amanda and I have a lot of questions for you about the latest and greatest.
I would love to kick it off with news that Anchorage Digital is participating as a seed investor in the new JPMorgan OnChain Liquidity-Token Money Market Fund. That's a mouthful. Tell us about this investment and how you'll be supporting this fund.

**Nathan McCauley** (3:43)
Yeah. It's great.
We are big supporters of tokenization generally, and there's a lot of different ways to manifest that. We help support institutions with tokenization. We are the largest crypto custodian right now of tokenized assets. And so we look at any opportunity to both help assets come on the chain and to really be pioneers in that space. And so one of the nice ways to be pioneers of that is to understand it both from a product perspective, but also from a customer perspective. Why not yourself try to hold the asset and use it yourselves? And so in a lot of ways, we...
You know, some places call it dogfooding, dogfooding of a product where you hold yourself so you can understand, say, accounting implications, custody implications, trading implications. And so in many cases, we look at opportunities to do that. And this new fund from JPM is no exception.