Agora
Agora provides white-label stablecoin infrastructure for financial institutions — the plumbing that lets a bank, fintech, or asset manager issue a branded programmable dollar without building the reserve management, compliance, and redemption stack from scratch.
The founding team combines Wall Street asset management (Nick van Eck comes from Van Eck Associates) with core stablecoin engineering (Drake Evans led early work at Frax). This blend has made Agora the go-to partner when a regulated institution decides to launch its own dollar token.
AUSD, the flagship reference token, has crossed $340M in circulation across 6 chains. The first bank partnership goes live in Q2 2026, followed by additional institutional launches later in the year.
White-label stablecoin infrastructure for financial institutions. We wrote the seed check on the thesis that every fintech will eventually issue programmable dollars.
Nick van Eck
CEO & Co-FounderDrake Evans
CTO & Co-FounderSam Ridley
Head of BDAlena Salazar
Head of Compliance- 2023Founded by Nick van Eck and Drake Evans
- Q3 2024Oryon leads seed
- Q1 2025AUSD launch
- Q2 2026First bank partnership goes live
AUSD in circulation crossed $340M. First bank partnership announced Q1 2026.
“Agora is the picks-and-shovels layer for the coming wave of institutional stablecoins.”
— Fintech Weekly, 2025