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Multicoin Capital

We’re thesis driven investors that make long-term, high-conviction investments in category defining crypto companies and protocols across public and private markets.

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

Shayon Sengupta
March 12, 2024 | 12 minute read

“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. It has become clear to me that the inverse of this statement is perhaps more profoundly true: “The news is the price.” In my contribution to What Multicoin is Excited About For 2024, I described a marked shift in how markets price assets that I labeled the “Attention Theory of Value.”

The Holy Grail of Cryptography

Kyle Samani
March 7, 2024 | 4 minute read

In some sense, every server-side security vulnerability or exploit over the last 30 years shares the same root cause: some sensitive piece of data was left unencrypted (or an attacker gained access to a decryption key). When presented in this frame, the solution is fairly obvious: don’t ever decrypt data, and ensure no decryption key is ever stored on any server.

Building The Internet of GPUs

Shayon Sengupta
March 5, 2024 | 5 minute read

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, Hack VC, 6th Man Ventures, Modular Capital, and a syndicate of deeply connected angel investors to make on-demand, production-ready compute markets a reality.

The Foundational DeFi Primitive of Filecoin

Kyle Samani
February 6, 2024 | 3 minute read

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. Over time, we expect the FVM to also allow for direct programmability of bandwidth and compute resources as well.

What Multicoin Is Excited About For 2024

Multicoin Capital
By Multicoin Capital
January 16, 2024 | 12 minute read

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.

Oracles and the New Frontier for Application-Owned Orderflow Auctions

Shayon Sengupta
December 14, 2023 | 7 minute read

Today, we are excited to announce our investment in Pyth Network, the leading first-party oracle in crypto. The implicit premise behind legacy oracles in crypto has been that all data—including financial data—is freely available and accessible to on-chain contracts. Accordingly, oracles simply need to incentivize supply-side network contributors to scrape and aggregate this data, come to consensus on it, and bring it on-chain.

Build With Squads

Vishal Kankani
October 16, 2023 | 6 minute read

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. We first invested in Squads in late 2021, and since then they have grown to become a powerhouse in the Solana ecosystem and, we believe, a best-in-class multisig solution on Solana for institutional traders, crypto-prosumers, and builders.

Discussions from the 2023 Multicoin Summit

John Robert Reed
October 6, 2023 | 7 minute read

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. This event is primarily for our Limited Partners, so thank you, again, to all of you who came down to see us this year. We appreciate your continued support.

The Dawn of On-Chain FHE

Kyle Samani
September 26, 2023 | 7 minute read

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 a variety of advanced cryptographic techniques to enable confidentiality. Today, I’m excited to announce that Multicoin has led a $7.5M investment into Fhenix, which is pioneering a fundamentally new approach to on-chain confidentiality.

Exploring The Design Space Of DePIN Networks

Shayon Sengupta
Tushar Jain
September 21, 2023 | 17 minute read

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). In that essay, we wrote: “[PoPW networks] incentivize people to do verifiable work that builds real-world infrastructure. Relative to traditional forms of capital formation for building physical infrastructure, these permissionless and credibly-neutral protocols:"

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