Like so many other crypto thinkers, venture capitalist Nisa Amoils feels Facebookâs Libra is a 100-ton payments elephant in the middle of the crypto space. However, it isnât changing the way she invests.
âIt doesnât really change my thesis,â she said. âIt only really changes a thesis if your focus pretty much on investing in payments because Facebook, if it gets approved, becomes a dominant player and then any other startup and that space canât compete.â
Instead, she said, Libra reduces the risk associated with cryptocurrency. After all, if the worldâs biggest social network is in the space, how can you go wrong?
âOn a macro level it does reduce risk so part of what I focus on in the portfolio is risk management,â she said. She considers Libra âvery important [as] this eliminates some of the regulatory risk out there.â
Amoils is a venture capitalist and lawyer and has been watching the crypto space for years. She sees Libra as a platform play.
â[Facebookâs David Marcus] talked a lot about the entrepreneurial efforts and intentionally being open source and allowing developers to commit on top and build wallets or other products on top of what theyâve already laid the groundwork for,â Amoils said
âIt encourages entrepreneurial development,â she said. âIf that happens then thatâs a good thing.â
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