Multicoin Capital

Coinbase

Does Crypto Need Circuit Breakers? Last Week’s Price Crash Ignites a Debate

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?

Markets  ·  16 March 2020
MakerDAO

Mind the Gap: Why ETH Price and DeFi Adoption Aren’t in Sync

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.

Markets  ·  16 February 2020
Bitcoin

How Fund Managers View Lending and Staking: 3 Takeaways From a CoinDesk Research Webinar

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.

Markets  ·  31 January 2020
China

Multicoin Capital Hires Principal in Asia as Crypto VCs Look East

Mable Jiang, formerly of Nirvana Capital, will spearhead the venture firm's hunt for new deals in Asia.

People  ·  6 December 2019
Data Storage

Filecoin, But Forever: Arweave Raises $5 Million to Build Out ‘Permaweb’

Arweave, a startup building a decentralized storage protocol for the world's knowledge, raises $5 million via token sale from a16z, USV and Multicoin.

Markets  ·  5 November 2019
Funding

Ethereum Scaling Project SKALE Raises $17.1 Million for Mainnet Launch

Multicoin Capital, ConsenSys Labs, Hashed and others are providing fresh funding for the mainnet launch of ethereum's SKALE Network.

Business  ·  1 October 2019
Funding Rounds

Multicoin Leads $20 Million Round for Speed-Focused Solana Blockchain

Claiming it can handle many more transactions per second than existing blockchains, Solana has raised capital to ramp up development.

Business  ·  30 July 2019
News

Multicoin, Coinbase Ventures Invest $1.5 Million in ‘Decentralized Flickr’

The investment in Textile is aimed to help developers build tools that give web users control of their own data.

Markets  ·  11 July 2019
Investments

Multicoin, Binance, Coinbase Invest in Startup Keeping Private Keys Secure

Private key management startup Torus has raised $2 million from some heavy hitters, including Coinbase Ventures, Binance Labs and Multicoin Capital.

Business  ·  9 July 2019
Venture Capital

Multicoin, Intel Capital Invest $3.5 Million in Startup Demystifying Blockchain Data

Multicoin Capital and Intel Capital have led a $3.5 million seed round for blockchain API startup dfuse.

Markets  ·  26 June 2019
News

Napster Founder’s IoT Startup to Go Crypto With $15 Million Series C

Helium, an internet-of-things startup founded in 2013, is adding crypto tokens to its business model with the backing of two major funders.

Markets  ·  12 June 2019
Ethereum

Multicoin Capital Leads $2.5 Million Seed Round for Blockchain Data Index

Multicoin's investment in The Graph addresses an underserved layer of the web3 stack: querying data from public blockchains.

Markets  ·  28 January 2019
Investments

Multicoin Leads $10 Million SAFT Sale for Ethereum Scaling Startup Skale

Skale Labs has raised $10 million to launch a layer 2-focused scalable blockchain for ethereum dapps.

Markets  ·  4 October 2018
Investments

Marc Andreessen, Craft Ventures Back Crypto Hedge Fund Multicoin

Crypto investment fund Multicoin Capital has announced that investors including Marc Andreessen are taking part in its $250 million flagship fund.

Business  ·  9 March 2018