{"id":"robbie-nakarmi","title":"Robbie Nakarmi","content":"**Robbie Nakarmi** is a venture capital investor and corporate lawyer specializing in [digital assets](https://iq.wiki/wiki/digital-assets), [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain), and technology investments. His career has combined legal, investment, and venture capital roles across law firms, [cryptocurrency](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) companies, and financial institutions. He has advised on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital transactions, and [digital asset](https://iq.wiki/wiki/digital-assets) investments, and has held leadership positions at [Binance](https://iq.wiki/wiki/binance), Standard Chartered, and other organizations focused on emerging technologies. [\\[4\\]](#cite-id-8q3IWBVSCJu5LCEt) \n\n## Education\n\nNakarmi graduated from the University of Auckland with a BCom in International Business and Management in 2006. He later earned his LLB from the University of Sydney in 2010. [\\[3\\]](#cite-id-TZ9hSDA7tdrLrseX)  \n\n## Career\n\nNakarmi began his career with internships at Samsung Electronics in South Korea and Booz & Company, where he worked on projects related to digital marketing and corporate strategy. He joined MinterEllison in 2008 as a summer articled clerk before entering the firm's graduate lawyer program, rotating through banking and finance, private equity and capital markets, and mergers and acquisitions. After qualifying as a lawyer in 2011, he practiced in the firm's mergers and acquisitions team until 2013.\n\nIn 2014, Nakarmi joined White & Case as an Associate, advising clients on corporate and mergers and acquisitions transactions across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, including a secondment to the Government of Dubai's tourism department. He moved to Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in 2016, where he focused on venture capital, private equity, and mergers and acquisitions across the EMEA region, before joining Hogan Lovells in 2018 to continue advising technology companies on corporate and venture capital transactions.\n\nNakarmi entered the [digital asset](https://iq.wiki/wiki/digital-assets) industry in 2021 when he joined [Binance](https://iq.wiki/wiki/binance) as Senior Counsel for mergers and acquisitions and investments, while also serving as legal counsel for [Binance Labs](https://iq.wiki/wiki/binance-labs), the company's venture capital arm. His work included advising on seed- and Series A-stage investments involving equity, tokens, convertible notes, SAFEs, SAFTs, and token warrants, as well as supporting portfolio companies and contributing to the fundraising of Binance Labs Fund II. In 2023, he briefly served as Managing Associate at Simmons & Simmons, advising [digital asset](https://iq.wiki/wiki/digital-assets) and [cryptocurrency](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) clients on venture capital investments, while also working as an independent angel investor focused on [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain), [decentralized finance (DeFi)](https://iq.wiki/wiki/defi), and artificial intelligence startups.\n\nIn 2024, Nakarmi joined Standard Chartered as Investment Director and Fund Manager for its Digital Asset Fund, a venture capital investment vehicle established in collaboration with SBI Digital Assets, SBI Holdings, and SBI Venture Capital Asia. In this role, he oversaw venture capital investments in [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) and [digital asset](https://iq.wiki/wiki/digital-assets) companies through the fund's investment activities. [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-05u8HyOQ1BZIaej4)  [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-30XcpFGactRsLMge) \n\n## Panel\n\n### Banking with Stablecoins\n\nIn a July 2025 panel at the Tokenized Capital Summit alongside Shubham Bhandari of [Manta](https://iq.wiki/wiki/manta-network), David Shengart of Not Alone Ventures, Lee Pickavance of MV Global, Alberto Olarte of Wise3, and Jemma Xu of Fork Ventures, Nakarmi discussed the role of [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) infrastructure, [stablecoins](https://iq.wiki/wiki/stablecoin), and [tokenization](https://iq.wiki/wiki/tokenization) in the evolution of financial markets. Nakarmi highlighted [blockchain’s](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) ability to improve payment systems through faster, cheaper, and more efficient transactions, describing [stablecoins](https://iq.wiki/wiki/stablecoin) such as [USDT](https://iq.wiki/wiki/tether) and [USDC](https://iq.wiki/wiki/usdc) as critical infrastructure connecting traditional finance with [crypto](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) markets and enabling activities such as trading, [DeFi](https://iq.wiki/wiki/defi), and on- and off-ramp services. He noted that [stablecoins](https://iq.wiki/wiki/stablecoin) backed by assets such as U.S. Treasuries could play a broader role in financial markets by supporting government debt markets and serving as settlement infrastructure for tokenized [real-world assets](https://iq.wiki/wiki/real-world-assets-rwas) including bonds and private credit. Nakarmi also discussed growing institutional interest in [digital assets](https://iq.wiki/wiki/digital-assets), including Standard Chartered’s exploration of [tokenization](https://iq.wiki/wiki/tokenization) and [stablecoin](https://iq.wiki/wiki/stablecoin)-related initiatives, and emphasized that banks increasingly recognize [blockchain’s](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) potential to improve settlement speed and operational efficiency. He noted that while some institutions have explored proprietary [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) networks, the industry continues to evaluate the benefits of open, public [blockchains](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) and their permissionless design. [\\[5\\]](#cite-id-7YuNQX12QjSuw7Sb) \n\n[YOUTUBE@VID](Lp-CaS2C4qY)","summary":"Robbie Nakarmi is an influential venture capital investor and seasoned corporate lawyer specializing in digital assets and emerging technologies. 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