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Today I’m excited to announce that Multicoin Capital has co-led a $35M investment in Fractal with Paradigm, with participation from a16z crypto, Solana Ventures, Animoca, Coinbase, Play Ventures, Position Ventures, Do Kwon, and Tim Ferriss.
18 months ago, Ethereum was the only Layer 1 asset ledger that mattered. Today, there are over a dozen major asset ledgers across Layer 1— Ethereum, Solana, Luna, Polygon, Celo, Flow, Avalanche, Near, Fantom, BNB Chain—and Layer 2—Optimism, Arbitrum, StarkEx, StarkNet. We live in a multi-polar world. We will never go back to a uni-polar world. And that means that bridging is going to be extremely important.
Broadly speaking, there are two ways to think about scaling blockchains: break them into smaller pieces and try to connect them, or optimize and scale a single shard. Rollups and sharding are the prime examples of breaking blockchains into smaller pieces. These approaches create several second-order problems:
Today I’m excited to announce that we are co-leading a $4.1M seed investment into Dialect with our friends at Jump Crypto, with participation from Solana Ventures, Tiger Global, Joe McCann and several other prominent angels.
Until the advent of Napster, the record label bundle consisted of three things: Risk-sharing — Record labels were VCs that invested in artists. The substantial majority of those investments were not profitable. A small minority were profitable, and produced the vast majority of returns. Record labels actually funded the development of the vast majority of music, even though the vast majority of music was unprofitable. Artists traded most of their economic upside for near term income certainty.
A few months ago at the 2021 Multicoin Summit, I gave a keynote presentation highlighting composability as the most important development in crypto in 2022. Although that presentation specifically focused on composability of financial assets on the Solana blockchain, financial composability is not the only form of composability. There’s an even larger opportunity for composability: data composability.
Today we are excited to announce our latest investment in the compute category: Fluence, in which we recently led a $9 million round alongside Alameda Ventures, Tiger Global, Protocol Labs, Arweave Capital, Polymorphic Capital, OP Crypto, Signum Capital and UOB Venture Management.
Today I’m excited to announce that we are co-leading a $10M strategic round in Project Galaxy with Dragonfly Capital. This is our second investment in the project. We are extremely excited to back the team, and to support their vision of creating a universal Web3 credentialing network across many public chains.
Today we’re excited to announce that Multicoin Capital has co-led a $43M strategic investment in Metaplex alongside our friends at Jump Crypto, with participation from Solana Ventures, Alameda Research, Samsung Next, Sino Global Capital, Animoca, Cultur3 Capital, Blue Pool—in addition to 90 other supporters.
Today, I am excited to announce that Multicoin Capital has co-led a $4M seed round with Electric Capital in Solscan alongside our friends at Jump Capital, Sequoia Capital, Alameda Research, Solana Ventures,, Signum Capital, and CoinGecko.