Multicoin Capital: Nuestra inversión en Delphia

Multicoin has its critics, but founders are extremely positive. In the partisan world of crypto, Multicoin’s strident support of its investments can anger dissenters. Loathed by some as a result, the firm is loved by its entrepreneurs. Portfolio founders are exceptionally positive about Multicoin’s contributions. 

-Cryptonetworks and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) as the future of internet-native co-ops: Such networks address two major issues that have prevented traditional cooperative businesses from becoming pervasive: access to capital and complexity of governance. With the issuance of a token, cryptonetworks can benefit from market specula... See more

A corporation making central planning decisions and compensating its stakeholders at its discretion will never be as effective as a properly designed permissionless network that scales and compensates its most productive actors using the free market’s conceptions of supply and demand.

A crypto investor active at the time summarized Multicoin’s appeal well: “They were pretty much as smart as everyone else, but their portfolio looked totally different.”

Multicoin may be the highest-returning venture fund of all-time. Firms like Union Square Ventures and Lowercase Capital are legendary for funds with 14x and 76x returns, respectively. Multicoin’s first-ever venture vehicle appears to have them beat.

One of the most powerful features of crypto-economic protocols is their ability to create incentive structures that allow anyone in the world to permissionlessly contribute to a set of shared objectives. These incentive structures can be finely tuned to facilitate large-scale coordination to achieve specific goals. This represents a step-function i... See more

The org structure of DAOs looks like modern day cooperatives, but over the next decade I believe their scale and impact will rival some of the world’s largest public companies.