A billion dollars just moved into crypto, and the person behind it is not a gambler chasing the next hot coin.
Katie Haun is a former government prosecutor who once investigated crypto fraud for the US Justice Department. She later became a top executive at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the most respected investment firms in Silicon Valley.
In 2022, she left to start her own fund focused entirely on crypto and blockchain. This week, she raised another $1 billion.
If you’ve ever wondered whether crypto is just a speculative asset or something much bigger, this massive move deserves a closer look.
What Katie Haun Sees That Most Investors Are Missing
When the internet was being built in the 1990s, the people who made the most money long-term were not always the ones with the flashiest websites. They were often the ones who built the servers, the fibre cables, and the payment systems that every website needed to function.
Haun is making the same bet on crypto. She believes the financial system is being rebuilt on blockchain technology, and she wants to own the infrastructure that powers it.
Her track record proves this to be true:
A company called Bridge, which she backed, was bought by Stripe for over a billion dollars.
Another company called BVNK, which helps businesses move money using crypto rails, was bought by Mastercard (NYSE:MA) for close to two billion dollars, which is the largest crypto acquisition ever recorded.
Neither of these was a crypto experiment. Each was a real business solving a real problem that’s plagued traditional banking for years, while reshaping how money works globally.
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