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Private Capital Markets

<ul><li>Chainalysis hit $190M of annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2023, up 36%, as they benefited from counter-cyclical demand from regulators and law enforcement agencies investigating crypto crimes like the $8B collapse of FTX.</li><li>Chainalysis continued to grow into 2023 albeit at a slower rate with counter-cyclical demand from law enforcement agencies and regulators, contracts which now make up 66% of revenue.</li><li>Chainalysis’s focus has returned to its crypto customers, building new use cases and workflows for fraud prevention, product analytics and CRM around its data moat.</li></ul>

Chainalysis hit $190M of annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2023, up 36%, as they benefited from counter-cyclical demand from regulators and law enforcement agencies investigating crypto crimes like the $8B collapse of FTX.Chainalysis continued to grow into 2023 albeit at a slower rate with counter-cyclical demand from law enforcement agencies and regulators, contracts which now make up 66% of revenue.Chainalysis’s focus has returned to its crypto customers, building new use cases and workflows for fraud prevention, product analytics and CRM around its data moat.

Layer2 Financial / Private Capital Markets

<ul><li>Stablecoins are evolving from "carnival tickets" for crypto speculation to legitimate digital money for global transactions, with double-digit month-over-month growth, particularly in cross-border payments and remittances.</li><li>COVID-19 accelerated the adoption of stablecoins as companies looked for faster and cheaper ways to move money cross-border in the wake of disrupted supply chains, and as cross-border workers increasingly used stablecoins to send money home to their families.</li><li>The stablecoin ecosystem is becoming increasingly fragmented, with various types including yield-bearing tokens like Paxos's Lift Dollar, centralized fiat-backed coins like USDC and BUSD, algorithmic stablecoins like DAI, and tokenized deposits like JPMorgan’s stablecoin.</li></ul>

Stablecoins are evolving from "carnival tickets" for crypto speculation to legitimate digital money for global transactions, with double-digit month-over-month growth, particularly in cross-border payments and remittances.COVID-19 accelerated the adoption of stablecoins as companies looked for faster and cheaper ways to move money cross-border in the wake of disrupted supply chains, and as cross-border workers increasingly used stablecoins to send money home to their families.The stablecoin ecosystem is becoming increasingly fragmented, with various types including yield-bearing tokens like Paxos's Lift Dollar, centralized fiat-backed coins like USDC and BUSD, algorithmic stablecoins like DAI, and tokenized deposits like JPMorgan’s stablecoin.

<ul><li>Today, we’re increasingly seeing fintechs diversifying, moving towards alternate models of monetization like subscriptions, interest from deposits and lending, and tips.</li><li>The fintech industry is seeing a trend of consolidation, with larger platforms acquiring smaller fintechs to leverage established customer bases and cross-sell financial products.</li><li>Real-time payments (RTP) may not significantly threaten card networks for consumer-to-business transactions but could revolutionize disbursements and payroll processes.</li></ul>

Today, we’re increasingly seeing fintechs diversifying, moving towards alternate models of monetization like subscriptions, interest from deposits and lending, and tips.The fintech industry is seeing a trend of consolidation, with larger platforms acquiring smaller fintechs to leverage established customer bases and cross-sell financial products.Real-time payments (RTP) may not significantly threaten card networks for consumer-to-business transactions but could revolutionize disbursements and payroll processes.

<ul><li>Kapital ( has seen product-market fit around their stablecoin treasury product that lets companies deposit money and hold it in Circle's USD-denominated stablecoin USDC, with "almost every company" using it to de-risk against the high volatility of local currencies like the Colombian peso.</li><li>As payment rails, Kapital uses USDC to settle international transfers for their customers fast (in minutes) and cheaply (~$0.0037 per transaction) vs. paying ~$50 to send a wire and 1-3% on currency exchange fees.</li><li>While incumbent banks move money slowly & expensively and monetize on each transaction, Kapital is aiming to be fast & cheap and drive volume through value-added products like Kapital Flex (buy-now-pay-later for B2B procurement) and engagement & retention for its core subscription SaaS platform.</li></ul>

Kapital ( has seen product-market fit around their stablecoin treasury product that lets companies deposit money and hold it in Circle's USD-denominated stablecoin USDC, with "almost every company" using it to de-risk against the high volatility of local currencies like the Colombian peso.As payment rails, Kapital uses USDC to settle international transfers for their customers fast (in minutes) and cheaply (~$0.0037 per transaction) vs. paying ~$50 to send a wire and 1-3% on currency exchange fees.While incumbent banks move money slowly & expensively and monetize on each transaction, Kapital is aiming to be fast & cheap and drive volume through value-added products like Kapital Flex (buy-now-pay-later for B2B procurement) and engagement & retention for its core subscription SaaS platform.

<ul><li>We got really interested in stablecoins, and saw that they might be able to solve some of the problems that we were having really well.</li><li>We&#39;re making the bet that digital money is going to require the rebuilding of a brand new infrastructure that doesn&#39;t yet exist.</li><li>Our goal has been to unlock as many of these different use cases and provide customers with as many modular options as they want.</li></ul>

We got really interested in stablecoins, and saw that they might be able to solve some of the problems that we were having really well.We&#39;re making the bet that digital money is going to require the rebuilding of a brand new infrastructure that doesn&#39;t yet exist.Our goal has been to unlock as many of these different use cases and provide customers with as many modular options as they want.

Farooq Malik And Charles Naut, co-founders Of Rain, On stablecoin-backed Credit Cards

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Corporate card and expense software backed by self-custodied stablecoin collateral

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Chainalysis At $190M ARR

TL;DR: Sacra estimates that Chainalysis hit $190M of annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2023, up 36%, as they benefited from counter-cyclical demand...

Sacra

Stablecoins And Fintech Infrastructure

During and after COVID, stablecoins like USDC and USDT became a key way for companies in emerging markets to transact cross-border, allowing them...

Sacra

The Future Of Interchange

Early fintechs like Chime scaled to $100M+ with nearly all their revenue coming from interchange—the fee they generate every time their customers...

Sacra

Stablecoin Diplomacy

TL;DR: As B2B neobanks in the U.S. raced to offer FDIC insurance and treasury products in the wake of SVB's collapse, a parallel trend has played...

Sacra

Farooq Malik And Charles Naut, co-founders Of Rain, On stablecoin-backed Credit Cards

What is Rain in short and what inspired you guys to build it...

Sacra

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Chainalysis At $190M ARR

TL;DR: Sacra estimates that Chainalysis hit $190M of annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2023, up 36%, as they benefited from counter-cyclical demand...

Sacra

Stablecoins And Fintech Infrastructure

During and after COVID, stablecoins like USDC and USDT became a key way for companies in emerging markets to transact cross-border, allowing them...

Sacra

The Future Of Interchange

​​Early fintechs like Chime scaled to $100M+ with nearly all their revenue coming from interchange—the fee they generate every time their customers...

Sacra

Stablecoin Diplomacy

TL;DR: As B2B neobanks in the U.S. raced to offer FDIC insurance and treasury products in the wake of SVB's collapse, a parallel trend has played...

Sacra

Farooq Malik And Charles Naut, co-founders Of Rain, On stablecoin-backed Credit Cards

What is Rain in short and what inspired you guys to build it...

Sacra

Early fintechs like Chime scaled to $100M+ with nearly all their revenue coming from interchange—the fee they generate every time their customers...