Collecting is big business. Today, over one-third of Americans self-identify as collectors, and, as of 2024, the market size for collectibles is now nearly $500 billion dollars. Collectibles are a booming industry—and blockchains are coming for them.

Multicoin Capital

07.06.2024

The Endgame for Stablecoins - Multicoin Capital

Today, we’re proud to announce our investment in Mountain Protocol, the issuer of USDM, a permissionless, yield-bearing stablecoin backed entirely by US Treasuries. We led the Series A round.

Multicoin Capital

18.05.2024

Multicoin Capital: Trade-offs in the Decentralized DEX Space - Multicoin Capital

One of the greatest innovations of modern financial markets is that traders can gain financial exposure to an asset without having to physically settle that asset—aka synthetic exposure.

Multicoin Capital

10.05.2024

The Dawn of Bitcoin Programmability - Multicoin Capital

Today, we are proud to announce our investment in Arch, a Bitcoin-native application platform that unlocks bridgeless decentralized finance (DeFi) on the world's most valuable blockchain.

Multicoin Capital

04.05.2024

Unbundling Sotheby’s - Multicoin Capital

DeFi’s arch of innovation, historically speaking, has been focused on introducing new financial primitives, like AMMs and perpetuals, that give users new ways to trade cryptoassets.

Multicoin Capital

04.04.2024

Enter The Wormhole - Multicoin Capital

Crypto is going multichain and needs a secure but flexible interoperability platform to connect the industry. Wormhole is one of the leading solutions in the market with a full-stack interoperability platform.

Multicoin Capital

13.03.2024

Publisher-Exchanges: Consumer Applications and the Attention Theory of Value - Multicoin Capital

“The price is the news” is an often used adage in crypto circles any time there is heightened engagement and awareness around a network following fast price action.

Multicoin Capital

08.03.2024

The Holy Grail of Cryptography - Multicoin Capital

Today, I’m excited to announce that Multicoin Capital has co-led a $73M investment in Zama, alongside Protocol Labs

Multicoin Capital

06.03.2024

Building The Internet of GPUs - Multicoin Capital

We are excited to announce our investment in io.net, the leading distributed compute marketplace for AI workloads. We led the seed and participated in the Series A Round. In total, io.net has raised $30M from Multicoin and others.

Multicoin Capital

07.02.2024

The Foundational DeFi Primitive of Filecoin - Multicoin Capital

The Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) launched on March 14, 2023 (pi day). There is nothing else in crypto quite like the FVM. It allows developers to bind payments and DeFi to real world primitives on the Filecoin network, starting with storage.

Multicoin Capital

17.01.2024

What Multicoin is Excited about for 2024 - Multicoin Capital

At the end of every year we come together and discuss some of the biggest changes we’re expecting in the year ahead. For the first time, we’re publishing these ideas. Please feel free to reach out to any of us to discuss these ideas further.

Multicoin Capital

15.12.2023

Oracles and the New Frontier for Application-Owned Orderflow Auctions - Multicoin Capital

Today, we are excited to announce our investment in Pyth Network, the leading first-party oracle in crypto.

Multicoin Capital

18.10.2023

Multicoin Capital: Build With Squads - Multicoin Capital

Today, we are proud to announce our investment in Squads Labs, a core contributor to the Squads Protocol, the leading multisig solution on Solana. Their latest $5.7M round brings Squad’s total funding to date to $12.5M.

Multicoin Capital

13.10.2023

Discussions from the 2023 Multicoin Summit - Multicoin Capital

On September 27-28, we held our annual summit in Austin, Texas, which brings together some of the brightest and most influential minds in crypto to explore the latest trends and issues shaping the industry.

Multicoin Capital

13.10.2023

The Dawn of On-Chain FHE - Multicoin Capital

The two most challenging technical problems in crypto have been clear for a decade: scaling and confidentiality. Most of the discourse in the industry is around scaling; meanwhile, a handful of teams continue to quietly build.

Multicoin Capital

21.09.2023

Exploring The Design Space Of DePIN Networks - Multicoin Capital

In April 2022, we published our thesis on Proof of Physical Work (PoPW) networks (now, more colloquially referred to as “Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks,” or “DePIN” for short).

Multicoin Capital

24.08.2023

Exploring Long-Term Staking in PoS Networks - Multicoin Capital

Today, nearly every proof-of-stake (PoS) network offers rewards through protocol staking and inflation; however, none have yet to offer a killer feature: long-term staking.

Multicoin Capital

15.08.2023

The Hidden Costs of Modular Systems - Multicoin Capital

Over the past two years, the scaling debate has narrowed and fixated on the central question of modularity vs integration.

Multicoin Capital

02.06.2023

The Convergence of Crypto and AI: Four Key Intersections - Multicoin Capital

The worlds of cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence (AI) have been evolving in parallel, with each domain pushing the boundaries of technology and innovation.

Multicoin Capital

11.05.2023

From UGC to UGP: Consumer Brands & Co-Creation - Multicoin Capital

Many have argued how co-creation will ultimately lead to the democratization of the creator class, re-imagine fandom, and turn fans into creators.

Multicoin Capital

20.04.2023

Multicoin Capital: Web3-Native SQL - Multicoin Capital

In the first wave of crypto innovation after Bitcoin, many developers forked the Bitcoin codebase to try to build other decentralized infrastructure and applications beyond digital gold.

Multicoin Capital

06.04.2023

Multiplayer Mode - Multicoin Capital

Today, we are proud to announce our investment in Lore, the first co-ownership platform for web3 collectives.

Multicoin Capital

21.03.2023

Multicoin Capital: Our Investment in Seed Club Ventures, a Venture DAO - Multicoin Capital

Today, we are proud to announce our investment in Seed Club Ventures (SCV), a $25M venture DAO that invests in internet-native organizations, alongside Delphi Digital, Dragonfly Capital, Collab+Currency, SV Angel, Distributed Global, and others.

Multicoin Capital

09.03.2023

New Investment Partners at Multicoin - Multicoin Capital

Today I’d like to announce that two of our longest standing members of our investment team, Spencer Applebaum (LinkedIn, Twitter) and Shayon Sengupta (LinkedIn, Twitter), have been promoted to Investment Partner.

Multicoin Capital

21.02.2023

Multicoin Capital

Today, we’re announcing we co-led TipLink’s $6M seed round with Sequoia. Our colleagues from Circle Ventures, Solana Ventures, Paxos, Asymmetric, Big Brain Ventures, Karatage and Monke Ventures also participated in the round.

Multicoin Capital

31.01.2023

Full Stack, Decentralized Security - Multicoin Capital

Today I’m excited to share that Multicoin Capital led a $10M round in sec3, joined by Sanctor Capital, Essence VC, as well as several notable angels, including Santiago R. Santos and Anatoly Yakovenko, a Solana cofounder.

Multicoin Capital

11.01.2023

Multicoin Capital: The Web3 Growth Stack - Multicoin Capital

We’ve become increasingly interested in a category of innovation that we’re internally calling the Web3 Growth Stack—i.e., the tools that product managers and marketers use to acquire, engage and retain customers using web3 technologies.

Multicoin Capital

12.12.2022

Multicoin Capital: Unlocking Payments Over Crypto Rails - Multicoin Capital

Since the advent of Bitcoin, people have been talking about the inevitability of crypto-based payments. And yet, 13 years since the launch of Bitcoin, payments over crypto rails have not yet entered mainstream consciousness.

Multicoin Capital

08.12.2022

Watch Videos From The 2022 Multicoin Summit - Multicoin Capital

This year we celebrated our fifth anniversary as a firm. Over that time, we’ve watched carefully as the industry has evolved and built step-function improvements to scaling, indexing, data modeling, wallets, and more.

Multicoin Capital

30.11.2022

Our Investment in The Graph - Multicoin Capital

I’m proud to announce that Multicoin has led a $2.5M seed round in The Graph. We believe that The Graph is going to be one of the most important protocols in the Web3 stack.

Multicoin Capital

30.11.2022

A new Model for Token Distribution - Multicoin Capital

Crypto networks are supposed to be decentralized. As Balaji Srinivasan, CTO of Coinbase, has written, decentralization can be measured in a number of dimensions.

Multicoin Capital

30.11.2022

Multicoin Capital: Our Investment in dfuse - Multicoin Capital

I’m excited to announce that Multicoin Capital has co-led a $3.5M investment in dfuse with Intel Capital, including participation from Diagram Ventures.

Multicoin Capital

30.11.2022

Multicoin Summit Panels: Fall 2018 - Multicoin Capital

Our Fall 2018 Summit brought together some of the brightest minds and biggest thinkers in crypto at New York City’s Dream Hotel.

Multicoin Capital

30.11.2022

What P2P Markets are Better Decentralized? - Multicoin Capital

Over the last 20 years, a lot of companies have built large online marketplaces to connect buyers and sellers. Amazon, eBay, Uber, and AirBnb typically come to mind as the most obvious examples. But there are many more.

Multicoin Capital

30.11.2022

$100 Trillion - Multicoin Capital

Last Friday, Yale, the iconic long-term investor that other endowments look to for guidance, made a historic investment in two funds dedicated to crypto, signaling to many that institutional floodgates are officially open.

Multicoin Capital

30.11.2022

The Evolving Role of Crypto Investors - Multicoin Capital

The best way to capture alpha as an investor is to create it. Private equity firms have practiced this for decades: groups like TPG acquire businesses and devote significant management resources to improving the business prior to selling.

Multicoin Capital

30.11.2022

Questions From the Crypto Idea Maze - Multicoin Capital

As 2018 comes to a close, we’ve been thinking about some of the big questions that crypto still needs to answer.

Multicoin Capital

30.11.2022

Our Investment in Skale - Multicoin Capital

Today I’m extremely excited to announce that we led a $9.65M investment round in SKALE.

Multicoin Capital

30.11.2022

Announcing Aurora EOS - Multicoin Capital

Today I’m very excited to unveil a secret project that some people inside of Multicoin have been working on for a few months: Aurora EOS.

Multicoin Capital

30.11.2022

Our Investment in Starkware - Multicoin Capital

Today we’d like to announce Multicoin Capital’s investment in StarkWare’s $30M Series A financing alongside a cast of other great investors, including: Paradigm, Sequoia, Intel Capital, DCVC, Wing, Consensys, Atomico, Coinbase Ventures, Collaborative Fund

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All Markets Are Not Created Equal: 7 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Blockchain-Enabled Collectibles Marketplaces (BECMs) - Multicoin Capital

The Endgame for Stablecoins - Multicoin Capital

Multicoin Capital: Trade-offs in the Decentralized DEX Space - Multicoin Capital

The Dawn of Bitcoin Programmability - Multicoin Capital

Unbundling Sotheby’s - Multicoin Capital

Enter The Wormhole - Multicoin Capital

Publisher-Exchanges: Consumer Applications and the Attention Theory of Value - Multicoin Capital

The Holy Grail of Cryptography - Multicoin Capital

Building The Internet of GPUs - Multicoin Capital

The Foundational DeFi Primitive of Filecoin - Multicoin Capital

What Multicoin is Excited about for 2024 - Multicoin Capital

Oracles and the New Frontier for Application-Owned Orderflow Auctions - Multicoin Capital

Multicoin Capital: Build With Squads - Multicoin Capital

Discussions from the 2023 Multicoin Summit - Multicoin Capital

The Dawn of On-Chain FHE - Multicoin Capital

Exploring The Design Space Of DePIN Networks - Multicoin Capital

Exploring Long-Term Staking in PoS Networks - Multicoin Capital

The Hidden Costs of Modular Systems - Multicoin Capital

The Convergence of Crypto and AI: Four Key Intersections - Multicoin Capital

From UGC to UGP: Consumer Brands & Co-Creation - Multicoin Capital

Multicoin Capital: Web3-Native SQL - Multicoin Capital

Multiplayer Mode - Multicoin Capital

Multicoin Capital: Our Investment in Seed Club Ventures, a Venture DAO - Multicoin Capital

New Investment Partners at Multicoin - Multicoin Capital

Multicoin Capital

Full Stack, Decentralized Security - Multicoin Capital

Multicoin Capital: The Web3 Growth Stack - Multicoin Capital

Multicoin Capital: Unlocking Payments Over Crypto Rails - Multicoin Capital

Watch Videos From The 2022 Multicoin Summit - Multicoin Capital

Our Investment in The Graph - Multicoin Capital

A new Model for Token Distribution - Multicoin Capital

Multicoin Capital: Our Investment in dfuse - Multicoin Capital

Multicoin Summit Panels: Fall 2018 - Multicoin Capital

What P2P Markets are Better Decentralized? - Multicoin Capital

$100 Trillion - Multicoin Capital

The Evolving Role of Crypto Investors - Multicoin Capital

Questions From the Crypto Idea Maze - Multicoin Capital

Our Investment in Skale - Multicoin Capital

Announcing Aurora EOS - Multicoin Capital

Our Investment in Starkware - Multicoin Capital

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