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/Adverse Selection Rules Everything Around Me
Onchain liquidity has mostly evolved by focusing on one thing at a time. Early on, the main goal was simply to have a counterparty for takers without (a) having to post bids in a central limit order book (CLOB) on Ethereum (where that's not feasible), and (b) relying on an offchain matching engine (e.g., 0x). Uniswap’s big breakthrough in 2018 was making onchain liquidity open to everyone via automated market maker (AMM) liquidity pools.
/ACE Is The Place With The Helpful Value Capture
When Anatoly first pitched us Solana (originally called Loom), his deck was called “Blockchain at NASDAQ Speed.” Public blockchains have evolved a lot since then, but at their core, they’re still ledgers for the world’s financial assets. In traditional finance, trading is fragmented because assets are kept on separate systems. Stocks, options, futures, FX, commodities, payments, and credit each have their own ledgers and ways of clearing, holding, and settling.
/Multicoin Capital’s Investment Thesis
Multicoin Capital launched on October 1, 2017. We started the firm with the view that crypto would eventually reshape global markets. Our logo, a phoenix, represents a new financial system rising from the ashes of the old one. When we began, permissionless finance was hardly a known concept. Eight years later, it’s becoming a reality.
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When we look back in a not-so-distant future, I believe we’ll remember 2025 as one of the most consequential years in the history of crypto. The sheer number and magnitude of de-risking events this year have been truly unprecedented. From the passage of the historic GENIUS Act—arguably the most important piece of financial legislation since Dodd-Frank—to the definitive end of Chokepoint 2.0, this year has marked a decisive turning point.
Over the last two decades, fintech has changed how people access financial products, but not how money actually moves. Innovation focused on cleaner interfaces, smoother onboarding, and better distribution, while the core financial infrastructure remained largely unchanged. For most of this period, the stack was being resold, but not rebuilt.
/Ethena: Synthetic Dollars Challenge Stablecoin Duopoly
Today, we’re proud to announce that our liquid fund invested in ENA, the native token for Ethena Protocol, the issuer of USDe, the leading synthetic dollar. In our blogpost, The Endgame for Stablecoins, we stated how stablecoins are the largest addressable markets in crypto and how yield is the final frontier. While we were directionally right on yield-bearing stablecoins, we underestimated the market size for synthetic dollars.
/Building The Attention Economy
At the risk of being overly succinct, there are broadly two types of assets: 1) Cash Flow Assets — primarily equities and bonds. These assets generate cash flows that investors assign value to. 2) Supply & Demand Assets — mostly applies to commodities and forex. Prices fluctuate based on supply and demand. Recently, crypto has instigated a new type of asset—one valued on attention. Today, “Attention Assets” are primarily user-generated assets (UGAs), like NFTs, creator coins, and memecoins.
Today, DoubleZero (DZ) launched onto mainnet-beta. Multicoin Capital co-led a $28M investment round in DoubleZero earlier this year. Blockchains are globally distributed systems. The core L1 teams have collectively invested $1B+ over the last decade optimizing networking protocols, consensus, execution, and storage.
/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.
Today, we are thrilled to welcome Brian Strugats to Multicoin Capital as our new Head Trader. Brian will be responsible for providing best execution for the fund, managing our counterparty relationships, providing actionable market context to the investment team, and enhancing our trading capabilities.