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/Creating The World’s Leading Solana Treasury Company
Today I’m excited to announce that Multicoin Capital, Jump Crypto (the largest trading firm in crypto), and Galaxy (the largest financial conglomerate in crypto) have successfully led a $1.65B PIPE into Forward Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: FORD), which will use the net proceeds to initiate a Solana treasury company strategy. Each sponsor committed over $100M in USD.
Over the past three years, Multicoin Capital has acquired a significant position in JTO, the native token of the Jito Network, across our hedge fund and venture funds. An executive summary of our 45 page asset report is presented below. You may download the complete report and analysis, including our valuation model and price target, by clicking the "Read Full Report" button.
Multicoin Capital has been investing in Solana’s native asset, SOL, and the broader Solana ecosystem since Solana’s seed round in May 2018. We have previously published four theses about Solana in that time. The first two were published about nine months before mainnet produced its first block in March 2020. As the Solana network has evolved, so has our frame of reference on how to think about the Solana network, and SOL the asset.
/Drift ($DRIFT) Analysis and Valuation
Multicoin has accumulated a large position across our funds—both liquid and venture—in DRIFT, the native token of Drift, a derivatives decentralized exchange (derivatives DEX) on Solana. We built the position over the last few years via private and public markets. An executive summary of our 25 page report is presented below.
/What Multicoin Is Excited About For 2024
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
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.
Over the past two years, the scaling debate has narrowed and fixated on the central question of modularity vs integration. (Note that discourse in crypto often conflates “monolithic” and “integrated” systems. There is a rich history of debate in technology over the last 40 years about integrated vs. modular systems at every layer of the stack. The crypto incarnation of this dialogue should be framed through the same lens; this is far from a new debate).
Today I’d like to announce that two of our longest standing members of our investment team, Spencer Applebaum (LinkedIn, Twitter) and Shayon Sengupta (LinkedIn, Twitter), have been promoted to Investment Partner. Both of them have done great work in finding lucrative trades in public markets, and in sourcing and winning competitive deals in private markets. But most importantly, both have also worked closely with many of our founders over the past several years to help them succeed.
Today we are excited to announce our latest venture fund, Venture Fund III, a $430M fund that invests $500K-$25M in early-stage opportunities all the way up to $100M+ for later-stage projects when combined with our evergreen liquid fund.
One of the most powerful features of crypto-economic protocols is their ability to create incentive structures that allow anyone in the world to permissionlessly contribute to a set of shared objectives. These incentive structures can be finely tuned to facilitate large-scale coordination to achieve specific goals. This represents a step-function improvement in capital formation.