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/Watch Fireside Chats with Solana, Helium, Ribbit Capital from the Fall 2020 Multicoin Summit
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With another successful summit in the books, I’m delighted to share three of our most popular fireside chats from our fall summit. This year, we held our first virtual event, the first of hopefully many more to come. It was a great format that afforded us the opportunity to reach more people around the world and go deeper than we ever have before.
/Kyle Samani Joins Howard Lindzon On Panic With Friends to Talk the Past, Present and Future of Crypto
Listen to Howard Lindzon, a prolific blogger, investor, and entrepreneur, chat with Kyle Samani on his new show, Panic with Friends, about the past and present of crypto, decentralization, Web3, blockchains and thier predictions for the future of crypto.
/Epicenter #361: Kyle Samani, Sebastien Couture & Brian Fabian Crain
Epicenter originally had Multicoin on the show in February of 2018 when we were still reasonably new and we were in the height of the ICO bubble. Kyle Samani, Co-founder and Managing Partner, joins them back on the show to share not only how Multicoin has changed since then, but also the cryptoasset industry as a whole.
/Kyle Samani featured On The Brink hosted by Castle Island
Kyle Samani, cofounder and managing partner at Multicoin, joins the Nic Carter and the team at Castle Island to talk his current views on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and to give an update on web3 and how Multicoin is approaching the opportunity.
/Trade-offs in the Derivatives DEX Space
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. This dramatically expands the universe of traders who can trade in a given market, especially for harder to deliver assets. This is desirable because increasing traders and capital in a given market can help reduce volatility and increase liquidity.
/Listen to Tushar Jain & Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi on The Hotspot
Tushar Jain and Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi, the host of The Hotspot, a new podcast series that discusses the fast-growing Helium network, explore the state of the network, the Decentralized Wireless Alliance, and future applications for Helium as it continues to expand world wide.
/Exploring The Design Space of Liquidity Mining
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has recently seen an explosion of activity and public interest. The primary driving factor has been the discovery of “liquidity mining” as a mechanism to bootstrap liquidity. Broadly defined, liquidity mining occurs when users of a DeFi protocol are compensated in that protocol’s native token for interacting with the protocol.
The first Internet-enabled application I can remember enjoying was Napster. It was 1999, and I was downloading songs at a blazing fast 2.96 KB / second. On good days, it would tick up to 3.13 KB / second. Music has been—by far—the most censored content on the Western internet over the last 20 years. The waves of censorship have played out time and time again across venues.
/Huobi Token ($HT) Analysis and Valuation
Exchange tokens are currently the most interesting sector in crypto because they sit at the intersection of where there is demand today and where there will be opportunities tomorrow. We have previously expressed a [thesis](https://multicoin.capital/2019/10/29/exchanges-are-open-finance/ "Exchanges are Open Finance") that exchange tokens are the best way to get exposure to open finance and that there is tremendous growth potential.
With the growth of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem over the last 24 months, I’ve been thinking about protocol-level defensibility and market size. I wrote about the former recently. This essay focuses on the latter. My biggest concern for Ethereum’s current DeFi economy is that it is subject to one or possibly a few invisible asymptotes, as I’ll explain below.