A longtime feature of stock exchanges, circuit breakers throw sand in the gears of a plummeting market like last week’s. Should crypto adopt them?
Demand for DeFi lending services built on ethereum shows a pattern of inverse relationship to the price of ETH. When ether prices are falling, the amount of ETH locked in DeFi tends to rise. Most recent data indicate the relationship operates the other way, too.
In December, we invited two fund managers, both long bitcoin and other crypto assets, for a CoinDesk Research webinar on lending and staking. Jordan Clifford of Scalar Capital and Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital joined us to discuss how they evaluate risk and returns in crypto lending and staking, what crypto assets' risk-free rate might look like, and what DeFi needs to do to attract investors and new users.
Mable Jiang, formerly of Nirvana Capital, will spearhead the venture firm's hunt for new deals in Asia.
Arweave, a startup building a decentralized storage protocol for the world's knowledge, raises $5 million via token sale from a16z, USV and Multicoin.
Multicoin Capital, ConsenSys Labs, Hashed and others are providing fresh funding for the mainnet launch of ethereum's SKALE Network.
Claiming it can handle many more transactions per second than existing blockchains, Solana has raised capital to ramp up development.
The investment in Textile is aimed to help developers build tools that give web users control of their own data.
Private key management startup Torus has raised $2 million from some heavy hitters, including Coinbase Ventures, Binance Labs and Multicoin Capital.
Multicoin Capital and Intel Capital have led a $3.5 million seed round for blockchain API startup dfuse.
Helium, an internet-of-things startup founded in 2013, is adding crypto tokens to its business model with the backing of two major funders.
Multicoin's investment in The Graph addresses an underserved layer of the web3 stack: querying data from public blockchains.
Skale Labs has raised $10 million to launch a layer 2-focused scalable blockchain for ethereum dapps.
Crypto investment fund Multicoin Capital has announced that investors including Marc Andreessen are taking part in its $250 million flagship fund.