Digital Asset Strategy Summit (DASS): How does COVID-19 impact Bitcoin and the digital gold thesis?
Kyle Samani and Don Friedman, founder of the Joint Venture Group, discuss COVID-19 and impact Bitcoin and the digital gold thesis at the Digital Asset Strategy Summit (DASS). What kind of businesses are doing well in this time of crisis, and what kinds of new distressed opportunities are there in the crypto space?
Lightning 2020: A Toolkit for Heretical Web3 Developers
Many developers and investors interested in building Web3 gave up on building on top of Bitcoin years ago, assuming that its limited throughput, high latency, and conservative programmability made such development impossible. Indeed, this is precisely what led to the birth of Ethereum, and a plethora of Web3 platforms (e.g. Arweave, Cosmos, Polkadot, Solana, Near) that developers are leveraging today.
The Stacks Podcast with Kyle Samani & Muneeb Ali (Blockstack PBC)
Kyle Samani, the Managing Partner of Multicoin, and Muneeb Ali, the Co-Founder of Blockstack, join the The Stacks Podcast to discuss research, investment theses, and debate the biggest trends in the industry.
On Forking DeFi Protocols
As a suite of new layer 1 blockchains are launching, I’ve been thinking about Ethereum’s network effects, and the defensibility of the DeFi protocols built on top of Ethereum. A couple of years ago, I wrote about the network effects of non-sovereign layer 1 monies like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Our Investment in dForce: The DeFi Super-Network
Today I’m excited to announce that Multicoin Capital led a $1.5M round in dForce, the world’s first unified network for open finance protocols. Coinvestors include our friends at China Merchant Bank International (CMBI) and Huobi Capital.
Unchained Podcast Audio Essay: The Most Forkable DeFi Protocols on Ethereum
As a suite of new layer 1 blockchains are launching, I’ve been thinking about Ethereum’s network effects, and the defensibility of the DeFi protocols built on top of Ethereum.
SXSW 2020 Session | Cryptoassets: Venturing into the Unknown
Believers in the crypto space often parallel it to the early days of the internet. Both started within small technology circles and moved on to a more mainstream audience with their first “killer app”; email in the case of the internet and bitcoin in the case of crypto. While the internet transformed the way we create and receive information, the crypto space is promising to transform the way we create and receive value.
Kyle Samani and Aantoly Yakovenko discuss "Black Thursday" on the Solana Podcast
In this episode, Kyle and Anatoly talk about the effects of COVID-19 on the cryptocurrency market, Black Thursday, and how they each see the next few months playing out in both the crypto and traditional markets.
Trust Spectrum
Most people talk about financial services in crypto—trading, saving, lending, etc.—as either “decentralized” or “centralized.” Crypto advocates tend to characterize the former as less risky because users don’t have to trust a counterparty to custody their assets, removing the risks of losing their funds through a hack, impropriety, seizure from governments, and other forms of human error or malice.
Unchained Podcast: Teetering on the Edge: How Black Thursday Exposed the Flaws in the Crypto Markets - Ep.164
Laura Shin and Kyle Samani dissects Black Thursday, March 12, the day the crypto markets plunged twice amid the wider sell-off in the markets due to the coronavirus on the Unchained Podcast.
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