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Haseeb Qureshi

Managing Partner, Dragonfly Capital

Search every verified Haseeb Qureshi interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital, has been active across podcasts, conferences, and interviews discussing the firm's investment approach and the future of the crypto industry. He described Dragonfly's focus on startups building infrastructure for money and markets, noting the firm closed its $650 million Fund IV earlier in the year. He also stated his view that dedicated crypto venture capital may not exist as a distinct category by 2030, arguing that crypto is becoming integrated into most businesses that touch money. In interviews, he discussed backing over 150 companies, including NEAR, Ethena, and Variational, and explained that gaining access to deals is often more important than selecting the right company, while also acknowledging that passing on some high-profile investments taught him more than his wins. Qureshi has also commented on market conditions and regulatory developments. He said he doubted Bitcoin would reach $1 million by 2030, suggesting a path to $300,000 or $400,000 was more plausible, and discussed how the AI stock selloff had dragged crypto markets down. He predicted that the failure of the CLARITY Act and political dynamics following the midterms would likely mean limited US crypto legislation for the next two years. On AI, he revised an earlier position, stating that AI agents do not necessarily need crypto for payments, but argued that individuals need crypto to maintain privacy and financial autonomy amid growing AI and state surveillance. He also discussed Hong Kong's position as a leading Asian crypto hub, saying he believed it would remain dominant, and spoke about the importance of censorship resistance and cryptography resilience in a potential quantum computing future.

Recent appearances

  • 24hrs Inside a $4 Billion Venture Capital Fund in New York

    November 14, 2026 · 📺 Will Phillips

    In this episode, I go behind the scenes with Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Rob Hadick and Lindsay X. Lin at Dragonfly in New York. The crypto venture capital firm manages around $4 billion and backs startups building the future of money and markets. Earlier this year, the partners closed their $650 million Fund IV. Tom took me back to what the firm was investing in when it started in 2018. Lindsay explained how they help founders keep up with changes in Washington, and Rob walked me through what each partner brings to an investment. Haseeb told me why he thinks crypto VC might be over by 2030.…

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  • $4 Billion Fund Manager Reveals The 5 Crypto Coins He’s Going All In On In 2027 | E194

    November 12, 2026 · 📺 When Shift Happens

    Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly, has backed more than 150 crypto companies. He explains how top investors actually pick and win deals, and why the AI boom looks a lot like crypto in 2020. He also explains why most of the difficulty in venture is getting a seat at the table, and how an underdog can win without a big brand. He also shares what drew him to early bets like NEAR, Ethena and Variational. He ends with the bets he believes in most right now, what would make him bearish on crypto, and why the culture of trying new things matters so much. THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER 💡Go beyond…

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  • The AI Trade Is Taking Bitcoin DOWN With It | Haseeb Qureshi

    November 12, 2026 · 📺 Cointelegraph

    Could Bitcoin really reach $1 MILLION by 2030? Dragonfly Capital Managing Partner Haseeb Qureshi explains why he thinks that target is unrealistic, revealing his own Bitcoin price predictions and the crypto investments he's most bullish on. In this exclusive Cointelegraph interview, Qureshi breaks down how the AI stock selloff is dragging Bitcoin lower, whether BTC can recover to $100K by December, and why Trump's crypto dealings could create fresh volatility for the industry. He also discusses the Clarity Act's failure, the long-term battle between Bitcoin and gold, the risks AI poses to cryp…

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  • Is Ethereum Gold? Seppuku Suit + Nvidia Honeypot - The Chopping Block

    November 11, 2026 · 📺 Unchained

    Haseeb, Tom, and Tarun debate Vitalik's case that ETH should be valued as a store of value, whether Bitcoin survives the quantum timeline, and whether Zcash has the better claim. Then the lawsuit over the EF's seppuku license, the report tying Jensen Huang to an alleged Chinese spy and who in crypto would get honeypotted, Trump on World Liberty Financial, and Patrick McHenry blaming Coinbase for CLARITY. 👉 https://unchainedcrypto.com/the-chopp... 👈 Show highlights 🔹 Vitalik says ETH is a store of value, not a fee chain. ETH fell about 4% the day he said it. 🔹 Tarun says a store of value pitc…

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  • Midterm Tsunami, Equity Perps + Uncensored Ai - The Chopping Block

    November 06, 2026 · 📺 Unchained

    Haseeb is back after two weeks away. The hosts break down the midterm blue tsunami and how prediction markets called it, what a 2:1 pro-crypto Congress means with Trump corruption on the agenda, the CFTC clearing single-stock perps and Cboe and Citadel suing within hours, Anthropic's S-1 update and the data center backlash, and a think tank's push to regulate abliterated AI models. 👉 https://unchainedcrypto.com/the-chopp... 👈 Show highlights 🔹 Haseeb is back after two weeks of Rob Hadick in his seat. 🔹 a16z Crypto is now a16z Frontier. Robert says when Paradigm tried the same thing in 2023,…

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  • Did Hong Kong Lose Its Crypto Crown to Singapore?

    October 31, 2026 · 📺 Bitcoincom News

    Hong Kong helped build Asia's crypto industry. Then exchanges, companies and talent moved on. Has the city won back its crown? Bitcoin.com’s David Sencil explores Hong Kong’s crypto scene and speaks with founders, investors and industry leaders about why companies left and what could draw businesses to the city. They discuss Singapore, mainland China and the role Hong Kong’s capital markets could play in crypto’s future. They also remember a few wild parties, including one with actual parachutes. Featuring Haseeb Qureshi, Johnny Ng, Gary Liu, Michael Lau and Allen Ng, with an opening contrib…

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  • The Design Space for Winning Trading Volume Draft

    October 26, 2026 · 📺 Monad

    Perpetual futures: Leaders from Hello.Trade, Perpl and Tiny discuss what attracts traders, what keeps them, and how new exchanges can compete with Hyperliquid. 0:00 Lessons from Hyperliquid 2:39 Exchange performance and liquidity 4:37 Winning retail traders 9:44 Retaining traders beyond incentives 12:32 The everything exchange 15:29 Competing with centralized exchanges 17:15 Composable perpetuals on Monad 19:02 AI agents and smart contract controls 20:56 Trading intent and market data 21:57 AI tools and human traders 23:19 Trust in agentic trading The panel features Wyatt Raich, Co-Founder o…

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  • Haseeb Qureshi - Agents + Crypto: What's Real & What's Cope - TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026

    October 17, 2026 · 📺 TOKEN2049

    Speaker: Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner, Dragonfly Recorded on the OKX Main Stage at TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026, 7 October 2026. Learn more about TOKEN2049: https://token2049.com Follow us on X: https://x.com/token2049 #TOKEN2049 #AI #Web3

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  • Chopping Block Live with Balaji Srinivasan & Arthur Hayes - TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026

    October 16, 2026 · 📺 TOKEN2049

    Moderator: - Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner, Dragonfly Panelists: - Balaji Srinivasan, Founder, The Network State - Arthur ...

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  • Crypto: The End of the Beginning - TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026

    October 16, 2026 · 📺 TOKEN2049

    Moderator: Santiago Roel Santos, Founder and CEO, Inversion Panelists: Kyle Samani, Chairman, Forward Industries Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner, Dragonfly Recorded on the OKX Main Stage at TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026, 8 October 2026. Learn more about TOKEN2049: https://token2049.com Follow us on X: https://x.com/token2049 #TOKEN2049 #Investing #Web3

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  • Ledger Compromised, OpenAI Spy, & the Death of Moats - The Chopping Block

    October 15, 2026 · 📺 Unchained

    The boys regroup after TOKEN2049. Ledgers sold through CryptoBilis, an authorized reseller in Malaysia, came with an LTE implant that read seed phrases off the screen, an OpenAI engineer was caught with a listening device, Papertrade launches 1000x perps where losing money mints you tokens, and the hosts argue over Nikita Bier's claim that technical moats are dead. 👉 https://unchainedcrypto.com/podcast-c... 👈 Show highlights 🔹 TOKEN2049 felt more institutional this year: Marquee was a normal nightclub all week, Franklin Templeton and Nasdaq took the stage, and Tarun saw zero Lambos. 🔹 Tarun…

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  • Haseeb Qureshi：Agents 不需要 Crypto，人類才需要！

    October 12, 2026 · 📺 168X

    ⚡️ 168X Club：AI 半導體研究交流群 | 全球資金湧入 AI、半導體與數位資產，我們在 Telegram 群組持續分享值得關注的資產和前沿資訊，歡迎加入！ 👉 https://t.me/+jG1X_sdDMZo4YjI9 👉 追蹤 168X 推特：https://x.com/168X_Fortune AI agents don’t need crypto. You do. 本期 168X 再次請來 Dragonfly Managing Partner Haseeb Qureshi（@hosseeb），從 TOKEN2049 Singapore 開始，聊到他為什麼公開修正自己對 AI Agents + Crypto 的判斷：Agents 已經來了，但它們沒有把 Crypto 當成預設支付方式，Cards 反而先搶下大量 Consumer Payments。 Haseeb 認為，AI ＆ Crypto 真正的大機會不一定在支付，而是在 Agentic UX、Privacy 與 Financial Autonomy。未來 Agent 會成為你的「Crypto Guy」，替你找最佳 Yield、最低交易成本、做 Due Diligence，甚至開始消滅銀行與券商建立在「人類懶惰」上的商業模式。 我們也深入聊到 Venice AI、Local Agents、Robin…

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“The best investments are made at the bottom and the worst investments are made at the top. In February, this was the height of the most recent crypto winter. Bitcoin was treading, it was getting to be below $60,000. People said that it was the end of CryptoVC. And it was true actually that a lot of our peers, people who raised a lot of money in the previous cycle, a lot of them basically wound down. They the partners”

“I think we're about to enter into one of the most serious political battles over technology which is that everybody realizes how important AI is going to be. But the civil liberties around AI are yet to be adjudicated. If you go to China, China is probably the country that has the most robust legal regime about AI. In the US, we basically have no laws at all about AI. We have some executive orders which mostly have n”

“The first is betrayal of our core values. If I saw that basically crypto had given up trying to be what it is in terms of being an escape and a respite from the existing systems, then I think that would make me more bearish on crypto. I don't believe in that at all. I think that's an overly simplistic understanding of what makes Bitcoin a sanctuary technology. If BlackRock makes a Bitcoin ETF or for that matter, we j”

“I think that is clearly true. Yes, that is clearly true in that crypto would not be polarized in the way that it is now, were it not for the Trump family and the association with, uh, Trump, with worldly financial and the Trump and Melania, let's not forget using crypto to enrich themselves and to enrich the the first family. So I think if you draw the line forward, the reality is that clarity didn't really move the ”

“So on the day of the midterms, so yesterday, markets were actually quite green. And there seemed to be some exuberance about the idea that maybe Trump's worst instincts are going to be checked by this new incoming Congress. And usually political gridlock is perceived to be a good thing by the markets because it means that nothing happens. And if nothing happens, then capitalism can kind of do its thing. And companies”

“I think in part it's definitely true that if Ethereum was making tons of fee revenue, they would not be changing the story because it'd be like, 'Yeah, great. I mean, why even bother repositioning the asset?' At the same time, I do think it's also true that there's a lot of existential stuff that is now up for play again in a way that it wasn't before in that, for example, if you think about quantum like Bitcoin coul”

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