Castle Island Ventures

The urgency is high.

What does he know? Is quantum finally here? Got an expert guest, Nick Carter, founding partner at Castle Island Ventures here, one of the earliest voices in Bitcoin, urging quantum readiness.

Are we too late?

Is [laughs] is it too late? No.

[gentle music] Matt Walsh and Nick Carter are partners at Castle Island Ventures.

All views expressed by them or the guests on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Castle Island Ventures.

Guests and hosts may maintain positions in the assets discussed on this podcast.

You should not treat any opinion expressed by anyone on this podcast as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy, but only as an expression of their personal opinion.

Um, I also love the cross-pollination here.

But to me, you know, look, if, if you wanna talk about utility, and I only really invest in anything that has utility except for Bitcoin, which I'm invested in as well, the founder's fund for the investment firms in VC, you got Arlington Capital, Castle Island, all these big baller.

Then you got the brokers, Citadel, Cumberland, right? I mean, massive.

QCP Group, then you got the pla- uh, the financial platforms, iCapital.

[gentle music] Matt Walsh and Nick Carter are partners at Castle Island Ventures.

All views expressed by them or the guests on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Castle Island Ventures.

Guests and hosts may maintain positions in the assets discussed on this podcast.

You should not treat any opinion expressed by anyone on this podcast as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy, but only as an expression of their personal opinion.

We have a lot to talk about.

Justin Drake, um, actually Yehuda Lindell from Coinbase had a really good thread too.

Um, before we do, a couple of quick things, Castle Island content.

Uh, I sat down with Esther Wong, the co-founder of Cashi, talking about the stablecoin landscape.

And you've raised roughly what life to date?

Roughly 30 million, Tiger, QED, Lux is on the cap table, Acrew, Coinbase, Castle Islands and Crypto Folks as well.

Yeah.

But yeah, our entire thing was never taking an existential risk, never relying on outside capital.

So without further ado, here's my conversation with Esther from Cashy.

Matt Walsh and Nick Carter are partners at Castle Island Ventures.

All views expressed by them or the guests on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Castle Island Ventures.

Guests and hosts may maintain positions in the assets discussed in this podcast.

You should not treat any opinion expressed by anyone on this podcast as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy, but only as an expression of their personal opinion.

Matt Walsh and Nick Carter are partners at Castle Island Ventures.

All views expressed by them or the guests on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Castle Island Ventures.

Guests and hosts may maintain positions in the assets discussed on this podcast.

You should not treat any opinion expressed by anyone on this podcast as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy, but only as an expression of their personal opinion.

Matt Walsh and Nick Carter are partners at Castle Island Ventures.

All views expressed by them or the guests on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Castle Island Ventures.

Guests and hosts may maintain positions in the assets discussed in this podcast.

You should not treat any opinion expressed by anyone on this podcast as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy, but only as an expression of their personal opinion.