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Welcoming Tony Sheng and The Next Steps For Multicoin Capital

By Kyle Samani

October 1, 2019 | 2 minute read

Today I’m excited to announce that Tony Sheng has joined Multicoin Capital as a Principal on the investment team. With deep experience as a product leader at companies like Google, AltspaceVR (acquired by Microsoft), and Decentraland, he brings a unique, user-focused perspective to the firm and the ecosystem as a whole. He’ll be based in Los Angeles, and will be working on new deals and helping our existing portfolio companies.

Privacy Is a Feature Not a Product

By Ryan Gentry

September 24, 2019 | 18 minute read

Privacy is a feature of valuable cryptocurrencies, not a product offering in and of itself. Users should not have to take balance sheet risk (e.g. by selling some BTC or ETH for ZEC) on less valuable and less secure cryptocurrencies in order to achieve financial privacy. This essay will argue that general platforms like Bitcoin and Ethereum already offer sufficient privacy guarantees for most users to never need niche privacy-focused blockchains.

The World Computer Should Be Logically Centralized

By Kyle Samani

July 30, 2019 | 12 Minute Read

Vitalik conceived Ethereum as the world computer: a single, composable, open, permissionless state machine that could run trust-minimized code. And while Ethereum was a breakthrough on many fronts—P2P layer, deterministic state machines, composable smart contracts and more—it was lacking in many others.

Unbundling Vectors of Centralization in Web3

By Kyle Samani

July 25, 2019 | 7 Minute Read

A year ago I illustrated the Web3 stack as I understood it at the time. More recently, I published Multicoin’s crypto mega theses, detailing the investment thesis for Web3. As I highlighted, one of the key implications of Web3 is that data ownership and application logic will be unbundled.

The Separation of Time and State

By Ryan Gentry

July 16, 2019 | 18 minute read

Numerous smart contract platforms (e.g. Ethereum 2.0, Polkadot, Dfinity, Near Protocol, Algorand, Kadena, Spacemesh, and Solana) are launching in the next year or two. Each team is pursuing a unique scaling strategy. Most of these approaches, however, do not address one of the fundamental problems with distributed computing systems in Byzantine environments: the clock problem.

Our Investment in Torus

By Kyle Samani

July 9, 2019 | 5 minute read

Today I’m excited to announce that Multicoin Capital has led a $2M seed round in Torus with, including participation from Binance Labs, Coinbase Ventures, Accomplice, Sixth Horizon, and Terminal.

Our Investment in dfuse

By Kyle Samani

June 26, 2019 | 3 minute read

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.

Our Investment in Helium

By Tushar Jain

June 12, 2019 | 7 minute read

I’m extremely excited to announce that Multicoin Capital co-led a $15M financing in Helium with our friends at Union Square Ventures. The Helium vision is the most ambitious we have seen in the blockchain space since the advent of smart contracts on Ethereum: Helium represents a fundamentally new approach—one with a radically reduced cost structure—to deploying and managing wireless networks at scale.

The Unbundling Of Ethereum

By Kyle Samani

May 24, 2019 | 10 minute read

Today, Ethereum is the leading smart contract platform. While the trust-minimization properties of Ethereum are compelling, many developers are realizing that Ethereum simply cannot support the applications they want to build. Because of this, developers are choosing to build on other chains at an increasing pace. What applications are being unbundled from Ethereum, what applications are increasingly bundling around Ethereum, and what are the long-term implications for ETH’s monetary premium?

Inside the Room at the Spring 2019 Multicoin Summit (Videos)

By John Robert Reed

May 14, 2019 | 5 Minute Read

The Multicoin Summit is an invite-only event that brings together some of the brightest minds in crypto to discuss the most important trends and topics shaping the industry. Though our events are primarily for our LPs and industry partners, we strive to make the ideas discussed as accessible as possible to you, our readers.

Welcoming Tony Sheng and The Next Steps For Multicoin Capital

By Kyle Samani

October 1, 2019 | 2 minute read

Today I’m excited to announce that Tony Sheng has joined Multicoin Capital as a Principal on the investment team. With deep experience as a product leader at companies like Google, AltspaceVR (acquired by Microsoft), and Decentraland, he brings a unique, user-focused perspective to the firm and the ecosystem as a whole. He’ll be based in Los Angeles, and will be working on new deals and helping our existing portfolio companies.

Privacy Is a Feature Not a Product

By Ryan Gentry

September 24, 2019 | 18 minute read

Privacy is a feature of valuable cryptocurrencies, not a product offering in and of itself. Users should not have to take balance sheet risk (e.g. by selling some BTC or ETH for ZEC) on less valuable and less secure cryptocurrencies in order to achieve financial privacy. This essay will argue that general platforms like Bitcoin and Ethereum already offer sufficient privacy guarantees for most users to never need niche privacy-focused blockchains.

The World Computer Should Be Logically Centralized

By Kyle Samani

July 30, 2019 | 12 Minute Read

Vitalik conceived Ethereum as the world computer: a single, composable, open, permissionless state machine that could run trust-minimized code. And while Ethereum was a breakthrough on many fronts—P2P layer, deterministic state machines, composable smart contracts and more—it was lacking in many others.

Unbundling Vectors of Centralization in Web3

By Kyle Samani

July 25, 2019 | 7 Minute Read

A year ago I illustrated the Web3 stack as I understood it at the time. More recently, I published Multicoin’s crypto mega theses, detailing the investment thesis for Web3. As I highlighted, one of the key implications of Web3 is that data ownership and application logic will be unbundled.

The Separation of Time and State

By Ryan Gentry

July 16, 2019 | 18 minute read

Numerous smart contract platforms (e.g. Ethereum 2.0, Polkadot, Dfinity, Near Protocol, Algorand, Kadena, Spacemesh, and Solana) are launching in the next year or two. Each team is pursuing a unique scaling strategy. Most of these approaches, however, do not address one of the fundamental problems with distributed computing systems in Byzantine environments: the clock problem.

Our Investment in Torus

By Kyle Samani

July 9, 2019 | 5 minute read

Today I’m excited to announce that Multicoin Capital has led a $2M seed round in Torus with, including participation from Binance Labs, Coinbase Ventures, Accomplice, Sixth Horizon, and Terminal.

Our Investment in dfuse

By Kyle Samani

June 26, 2019 | 3 minute read

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.

Our Investment in Helium

By Tushar Jain

June 12, 2019 | 7 minute read

I’m extremely excited to announce that Multicoin Capital co-led a $15M financing in Helium with our friends at Union Square Ventures. The Helium vision is the most ambitious we have seen in the blockchain space since the advent of smart contracts on Ethereum: Helium represents a fundamentally new approach—one with a radically reduced cost structure—to deploying and managing wireless networks at scale.

The Unbundling Of Ethereum

By Kyle Samani

May 24, 2019 | 10 minute read

Today, Ethereum is the leading smart contract platform. While the trust-minimization properties of Ethereum are compelling, many developers are realizing that Ethereum simply cannot support the applications they want to build. Because of this, developers are choosing to build on other chains at an increasing pace. What applications are being unbundled from Ethereum, what applications are increasingly bundling around Ethereum, and what are the long-term implications for ETH’s monetary premium?

Inside the Room at the Spring 2019 Multicoin Summit (Videos)

By John Robert Reed

May 14, 2019 | 5 Minute Read

The Multicoin Summit is an invite-only event that brings together some of the brightest minds in crypto to discuss the most important trends and topics shaping the industry. Though our events are primarily for our LPs and industry partners, we strive to make the ideas discussed as accessible as possible to you, our readers.

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