Stablecoin issuer Agora hires former Robinhood Crypto COO Tanya Denisova as head of operations

Tanya Denisova, the former chief operating officer of Robinhood Crypto, has joined stablecoin issuer Agora as head of operations, according to a Tuesday blog post by Agora’s CEO and co-founder Nick van Eck.

She will also serve as COO of Agora’s proposed National Trust Bank, subject to approval of the company’s national trust charter application with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the firm said.

Denisova spent the last six years at Robinhood, where she served as COO of Robinhood Crypto. CoinDesk first reported her departure from the brokerage’s cryptocurrency unit in May.

She led Robinhood Crypto’s day-to-day operations across its regulated U.S. and European entities, overseeing settlement, liquidity, trading, execution quality, custody and wallet operations.

Agora is a stablecoin infrastructure company that issues AUSD, a dollar-pegged stablecoin backed by reserves managed by institutional asset managers. The company aims to provide businesses with a way to move dollars globally, earn yield on idle balances and access programmable payments infrastructure through blockchain networks.

Founded by Nick van Eck and Drake Evans, the firm is focused on building regulated stablecoin products for fintechs, exchanges and other financial institutions.