Multicoin Capital
How Fund Managers View Lending and Staking: 3 Takeaways From a CoinDesk Research Webinar
In December, we invited two fund managers, both long bitcoin and other crypto assets, for a CoinDesk Research webinar on lending and staking. Jordan Clifford of Scalar Capital and Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital joined us to discuss how they evaluate risk and returns in crypto lending and staking, what crypto assets' risk-free rate might look like, and what DeFi needs to do to attract investors and new users.

Multicoin Capital Hires Principal in Asia as Crypto VCs Look East
Mable Jiang, formerly of Nirvana Capital, will spearhead the venture firm's hunt for new deals in Asia.

Filecoin, But Forever: Arweave Raises $5 Million to Build Out 'Permaweb'
Arweave, a startup building a decentralized storage protocol for the world's knowledge, raises $5 million via token sale from a16z, USV and Multicoin.

Ethereum Scaling Project SKALE Raises $17.1 Million for Mainnet Launch
Multicoin Capital, ConsenSys Labs, Hashed and others are providing fresh funding for the mainnet launch of ethereum's SKALE Network.

Multicoin Leads $20 Million Round for Speed-Focused Solana Blockchain
Claiming it can handle many more transactions per second than existing blockchains, Solana has raised capital to ramp up development.

Multicoin, Coinbase Ventures Invest $1.5 Million in 'Decentralized Flickr'
The investment in Textile is aimed to help developers build tools that give web users control of their own data.

Multicoin, Binance, Coinbase Invest in Startup Keeping Private Keys Secure
Private key management startup Torus has raised $2 million from some heavy hitters, including Coinbase Ventures, Binance Labs and Multicoin Capital.

Multicoin, Intel Capital Invest $3.5 Million in Startup Demystifying Blockchain Data
Multicoin Capital and Intel Capital have led a $3.5 million seed round for blockchain API startup dfuse.

Napster Founder's IoT Startup to Go Crypto With $15 Million Series C
Helium, an internet-of-things startup founded in 2013, is adding crypto tokens to its business model with the backing of two major funders.

Multicoin Capital Leads $2.5 Million Seed Round for Blockchain Data Index
Multicoin's investment in The Graph addresses an underserved layer of the web3 stack: querying data from public blockchains.
