Why Institutional FOMO Is Now the Biggest Force in Crypto | Morgan Krupetsky, Ava Labs
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Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
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Why is institutional FOMO driving the latest wave of crypto adoption?
The idea is generally um that stablecoin uh market cap doesn't bear the end user any yield. And so let's see if we can Convert some of that stablecoin market cap into our products and services, i.e., in the first instance, tokenized money market funds. Step two of that though, and at this point, like tokenization tech is generally pretty commoditized, right? It's really the integrations and BD and go-to-market and education that they ultimately should be spending a lot of time on.
Today's guest is Morgan Kropetzky, the VP of On-Chain Finance at Ava Labs. She sits at the center of Avalanche's institutional strategy as major financial institutions increasingly use blockchain rails for settlement, tokenization, and programmable finance, to say the least. Morgan, maybe to start off, we've had this conversation a lot on the show before, but like over the past year, the conversation around crypto has really shifted. speculation, trading, etc., more to infrastructure, tokenization, uh, institutional adoption, which I'm sure you're seeing internally too. So maybe at a high level, what do you think has changed institutionally that has kind of made tokenization more real to the traditional financial audience and really bringing like this on-chain finance world to fruition?
Yeah, and thank you for having me, Jacqueline. It's good to see you as always. Um I think maybe at a high level, there's just been such a large degree of like institutional FOMO that has really started to permeate the industry. And it's super interesting to see. I started at Avalabs four years ago and my sole mandate at the time was just to focus on getting banks, asset managers, and FMIs to leverage Avalanche in the context of their blockchain and digital asset strategies. And really since then And you kind of alluded to this, we've really seen this kind of convergence between TradFi, DFI, CFI, tokenization, um, and and further supported by a much more conducive, especially in the US regulatory environment, which just all has kind of come together to create a perfect storm for institutions to really start to
How have banks, asset managers, and fintechs changed their on‑chain strategies in the last year?
really invest in the space. And so I would say over the past year in particular, you know, obviously Genius passing has been huge in terms of um enabling or or prompting enterprises to create stablecoin strategies and figure out kind of how and what they should be doing in this space. And that I think has been coupled with institutions really seeing how much stablecoin market cap there's been on chain. Um, and that in turn has prompted them to really get excited about issuing and offering tokenized money market funds in the space. Um, and as More enterprises have got involved, i.e., you know, Stripe acquiring Bridge, DTCC announcing plans, NASDAQ, others. It's really again kind of created this institutional FOMO, if you will.
Um, where now, especially as we kind of go through and look, look to clarity, hopefully being passed in the, you know, in the future. Um, we're seeing all these different types of financial services institutions start to staff up uh significantly and really build and grow out their digital asset teams and I think that that will continue. Um so I think it comes down to institutional FOMO.
Yeah. Do you find that the strategy across these different institutional teams is similar or they all kinda want different things?
Yeah, that's a good question. Um I think it depends and I think like historically crypto has just lumped like all the institutions together and it's like a lot more Yeah. It's like the institutions.
Institutions is such a generic term. I know buy institutions. Yeah.
I mean there's I mean, there's so many different types, right? Like you have asset managers who are called or generally referred to as like the buy side. And even within asset managers, right, you have real money like sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, endowments, um You have hedge funds, and then there's you know further kind of breakdown within that world. Then you have banks, like incumbent banks, but then you also have neo banks and wealth tech platforms.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why is institutional FOMO driving the latest wave of crypto adoption?
0:01–2:23
2
How have banks, asset managers, and fintechs changed their on‑chain strategies in the last year?
2:23–7:35
3
What makes tokenized money‑market funds the low‑hanging fruit for institutions?
7:35–14:37
4
Why are stablecoins considered the gateway to on‑chain finance for traditional players?
14:37–22:20
5
What advantages does private‑credit financing have on blockchain rails?
22:20–29:36
6
How are regulatory and liquidity challenges shaping tokenized asset adoption?
29:36–36:36
7
What role does Avalanche’s hybrid‑permissioned architecture play in enterprise adoption?
36:36–42:44
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What practical advice does Morgan Krupetsky give to newcomers in on‑chain finance?
42:44–44:03
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