Multicoin Capital
/ Introduction
Somos inversores basados en tesis que realizan inversiones a largo plazo y de alta convicción en empresas de cripto y protocolos que definen categorías en mercados públicos y privados.
/Our Funds
01/ Master Fund
Founded in 2017, our master fund is a thematic, long-oriented hedge fund that delivers strong absolute returns over a long time horizon through asset selection across market cycles. This multi-billion dollar fund invests predominantly in tokens and is active in public markets, direct investments, and strategic sales.
02/ Venture Fund
We partner with crypto entrepreneurs to reshape trillion-dollar markets. We’re currently deploying out of our third venture fund, a $422 million vehicle raised in January 2022. This fund backs early-stage companies and founders with investments ranging from $1M-$50M.
/ Insights
/DeFi moats in an AI world and the implications for value capture
Five years ago, building a DEX or borrow/lend protocol meant raising $3 million, hiring five engineers, and spending six months on an MVP. Now, a founder can spin up most of that in a weekend with Claude Code. Ask a frontier AI model to build a perps exchange, and you can get a matching engine, risk engine, trading interface, APIs, and most of what you need out of the box.
Today, we are announcing that Multicoin led a $4 million seed round in Birch Hill, a vertically integrated onchain credit platform that connects institutional credit supply and stablecoin-denominated demand. Credit is the oldest method of capital formation in history, and it is inherently a trust and coordination problem. For much of its existence, credit has been an integrated process: banks would originate, fund, and service loans end-to-end.
Compute es la clase de activos de más rápido crecimiento en el mundo. En los últimos años, se ha escrito mucho sobre la construcción de los centros de datos, el gasto de capital necesario para financiar fábricas de tokens de todos los tamaños y los acuerdos de descarga, cada vez más creativos, que los laboratorios de IA y los hiperescaladores están firmando para asegurar la capacidad.
El equipo de Multicoin está creciendo. Hoy me complace anunciar que Mason Nystrom se ha unido a Multicoin Capital como socio de inversión. Mason ha pasado casi una década trabajando en todos los asientos de criptomonedas que son importantes para un inversor de riesgo: operador, analista y asignador.
/La capa de lectura para la inteligencia de máquinas
Hoy anunciamos una inversión en Grass, la capa de lectura para la inteligencia de las máquinas, de nuestro fondo de cobertura y nuestro fondo de riesgo. Andrej Radonjic publicó recientemente su plan para que la red Grass genere inteligencia abundante. Creemos que Grass se ha ganado el derecho a perseguir esa ambición y que es uno de los ejemplos más claros de un DePIN que funciona a escala comercial.
Los primeros activos en las cadenas de bloques fueron criptoactivos nativos como BTC, ETH, SOL y ahora HYPE. Y por lo tanto, en general, todas las primeras primitivas DeFi fueron construidas para estos activos.
/Análisis y valoración de Hyperliquid (HYPE)
Hoy publicamos nuestro análisis y valoración completos de Hyperliquid (HYPE). Hemos estado siguiendo a Hyperliquid desde su creación y hemos seguido impresionados por el éxito del equipo y la tasa de crecimiento. Iniciamos una posición grande a principios de este año y hemos estado acumulando desde entonces. HYPE hoy en día representa una de las posiciones más grandes en nuestro fondo líquido.
Three years ago, we announced that Spencer Applebaum and Shayon Sengupta had been promoted to Investment Partner. At the time, we noted that both had already become core members of our investment team through their work sourcing and winning competitive deals, identifying new opportunities across the crypto ecosystem, and supporting our founders. 
For most of DeFi’s history, activity remained mostly self-referential and endogenous to the crypto ecosystem. People traded crypto for crypto, borrowed crypto using other crypto as collateral, and built derivatives based on crypto prices. Even the biggest onchain markets, like spot DEXs, lending platforms, and perpetuals, all focused on a small group of native tokens. This wasn’t a deliberate design, but rather a limitation because early DeFi could only use assets that were already onchain.
There are only two ways to onboard to crypto: you buy in or you earn in. A buyer explicitly swaps fiat/traditional assets into crypto assets or onto crypto rails. An earner gets paid for work, receiving cryptoassets. Over the past decade, people largely followed the first route. In the next decade, we believe that the majority will be through the second.