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

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.

John Robert Reed
May 14, 2019 | 5 Minute Read

/Crypto Mega Theses

Kyle Samani
Multicoin Capital
by Kyle Samani & Multicoin Capital
April 24, 2019 | 16 minute read

Open, distributed ledgers and permissionless, censorship-resistant, trust-minimized computation are going to reshape massive sectors of the global economy. This belief led us to found Multicoin Capital in 2017, and after spending two years with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors in this space, we’ve developed more conviction in this thesis than ever before.

Kyle Samani
Multicoin Capital
by Kyle Samani & Multicoin Capital
April 24, 2019 | 16 minute read

/On Value Capture at Layers 1 and 2

Kyle Samani
March 14, 2019 | 8 Minute Read

Among the crypto development and investor communities, the most popular term is “protocol,” and for good reason. Everyone is building a protocol (and presumably these protocols offer investors and employees some way to generate returns).

Kyle Samani
March 14, 2019 | 8 Minute Read

/Binance Coin ($BNB) Analysis and Valuation

Kyle Samani
Spencer Applebaum
February 19, 2019 | 5 Minute Read

Binance is the crypto exchange that best exemplifies Bezos’s famous quote. The industry leading exchange charges the lowest fees in the industry as a strategy and competitive advantage.

Kyle Samani
Spencer Applebaum
February 19, 2019 | 5 Minute Read

/Our Investment in The Graph

Kyle Samani
January 28, 2019 | 3 Minute Read

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.

Kyle Samani
January 28, 2019 | 3 Minute Read

/What P2P Markets are Better Decentralized?

Kyle Samani
January 8, 2019 | 10 Minute Read

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.

Kyle Samani
January 8, 2019 | 10 Minute Read

/Questions From the Crypto Idea Maze

Kyle Samani
December 20, 2018 | 10 Minute Read

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

Kyle Samani
December 20, 2018 | 10 Minute Read

/Multicoin Summit Panels: Fall 2018

John Robert Reed
December 18, 2018 | 7 Minute Read

Our Fall 2018 Summit brought together some of the brightest minds and biggest thinkers in crypto at New York City’s Dream Hotel. We were very fortunate to have some of our speakers travel from halfway around the world to be with us for this meeting of the minds.

John Robert Reed
December 18, 2018 | 7 Minute Read

/A New Model for Token Distribution

Kyle Samani
November 9, 2018 | 9 Minute Read

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

Kyle Samani
November 9, 2018 | 9 Minute Read

/Our Investment in Starkware

Kyle Samani
October 30, 2018 | 4 Minute Read

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, Scalar Capital, Semantic Ventures, Pantera, and Floodgate.

Kyle Samani
October 30, 2018 | 4 Minute Read
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