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DeFi moats in an AI world and the implications for value capture

/DeFi moats in an AI world and the implications for value capture

Spencer Applebaum
November 10, 2026 | 20 minute read

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.

Spencer Applebaum
November 10, 2026 | 20 minute read
Rebundling Credit

/Rebundling Credit

Shayon Sengupta
October 28, 2026 | 5 minute read

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.

Shayon Sengupta
October 28, 2026 | 5 minute read
資本市場を計算

/資本市場を計算

Shayon Sengupta
October 8, 2026 | 17 minute read

コンピューティングは、世界で最も急成長している資産クラスです。 ここ数年間、データセンターの構築、あらゆる規模のトークンファクトリーの資金調達に必要な資本支出、AIラボやハイパースケーラーが容量を確保するために署名する、ますます創造的なオフテイク契約などについて、驚くほど多くの記事が執筆されました。

Shayon Sengupta
October 8, 2026 | 17 minute read
Mason Nystrom氏を歓迎します。

/Mason Nystrom氏を歓迎します。

Tushar Jain
Multicoin Capital
by Tushar Jain & Multicoin Capital
October 6, 2026 | 5 minute read

Multicoinのチームは成長しています。 本日、Mason Nystromが投資パートナーとしてMulticoin Capitalに加わったことを発表します。 Masonは、オペレーター、アナリスト、アロケーターなど、ベンチャー投資家にとって重要な暗号資産分野のあらゆる分野で働いてきました。

Tushar Jain
Multicoin Capital
by Tushar Jain & Multicoin Capital
October 6, 2026 | 5 minute read
The Read Layer

/The Read Layer

Shayon Sengupta
September 29, 2026 | 7 minute read

本日、当社は、当社のヘッジファンドおよびベンチャーファンドから、マシンインテリジェンスのリードレイヤーであるGrassへの投資を発表します。 Andrej Radonjicは最近、Abundant Intelligenceを生成するためのGrass Networkの計画を発表しました。 Grassは、その野心を追求する権利を獲得しており、DePINが商業規模で機能する最も明確な例の1つであると信じています。

Shayon Sengupta
September 29, 2026 | 7 minute read
DeFi 2.0

/DeFi 2.0

Spencer Applebaum
Shayon Sengupta
September 24, 2026 | 15 minute read

ブロックチェーン上の最も初期の資産は、BTC、ETH、SOL、そして現在ではHYPEなどのネイティブな暗号資産でした。 そのため、一般的に、初期のDeFiプリミティブはすべて、これらの資産向けに構築されました。

Spencer Applebaum
Shayon Sengupta
September 24, 2026 | 15 minute read
Hyperliquid(HYPE)の分析と評価

/Hyperliquid(HYPE)の分析と評価

Spencer Applebaum
Shayon Sengupta
Tushar Jain
June 25, 2026 | 25 minute read

本日、Hyperliquid(HYPE)の分析と評価結果全文を公開します。 当社は、Hyperliquidの設立以来、追跡しており、チームの成功と成長率に引き続き感銘を受けています。 当社は今年初めに大規模なポジションを開始し、それ以来、累積してきました。 HYPEは、現在、当社の流動性ファンドにおける最大のポジションの1つです。 当社は、すべての価値単位が分散型台帳上で相互運用性、プログラム可能、構成可能であるべきであるという仮説であるオープンファイナンスを長年信じています。

Spencer Applebaum
Shayon Sengupta
Tushar Jain
June 25, 2026 | 25 minute read
Investing for the Long Haul

/Investing for the Long Haul

Tushar Jain
Multicoin Capital
by Tushar Jain & Multicoin Capital
March 24, 2026 | 5 minute read

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. 

Tushar Jain
Multicoin Capital
by Tushar Jain & Multicoin Capital
March 24, 2026 | 5 minute read
RWAs Are Just Built Different

/RWAs Are Just Built Different

Shayon Sengupta
Spencer Applebaum
March 19, 2026 | 18 minute read

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.

Shayon Sengupta
Spencer Applebaum
March 19, 2026 | 18 minute read
Internet Labor Markets

/Internet Labor Markets

Shayon Sengupta
March 10, 2026 | 15 minute read

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.

Shayon Sengupta
March 10, 2026 | 15 minute read
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