on the blockchain

Multicoin Capital’s hedge fund lost 91.4% last year.

Before you go shedding any tears: “Despite the massive drawdown, Multicoin’s hedge fund remains up 1,376% net of fees from its inception through 2022. As the broader crypto market rebounded from last year’s lows, Multicoin reported the fund gained 100.9% […]

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Unlocking payments over crypto rails.

Kyle Samani from Multicoin Capital: “Why have crypto payments struggled? And why is that changing now? … If payments over crypto rails are going to be a thing, then the natural question is: what verticals are being materially underserved by […]

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The Ball Multicoin Bitwise metaverse Index.

Multicoin Capital teamed up with “Matthew Ball (who has established himself as the defining voice on the metaverse on the web), and Bitwise (the most prominent crypto-native asset management firm focused on passive investments) to create the Ball Multicoin Bitwise […]

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On value capture at layers 1 and 2

This recent blog post by Kyle Samani at Multicoin Capital discusses how protocols can capture some of the value they create. “Given that all of the code that powers crypto networks is open-source, the only source of defensibility is network […]

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The web 3 stack. 

Multicoin Capital has put together a chart of what the software stack for Web 3 (decentralized internet) looks like. This link is to a version on Fred Wilson’s blog, which is shorter. | learn more

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Models for scaling trustless computation. 

Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital wrote this long essay outlining his views on the scaling trade-offs for trustless computing. I learned a lot from it, and I’m sure I ended up missing even more. I find that I need to […]

on the blockchain

Models for scaling trustless computation. 

Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital wrote this long essay outlining his views on the scaling trade-offs for trustless computing. I learned a lot from it, and I’m sure I ended up missing even more. I find that I need to […]