Carefully consider the risk factors, investment objectives, fees, expenses, and other information associated with each of the following: Bitwise 10 Crypto Index Fund, Bitwise 10 ex Bitcoin Crypto Inde
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Rebundling The Audio Value Chain
BY KYLE SAMANI
February 25, 2022 | 7 minute read
Until the advent of Napster, the record label bundle consisted of three things: Risk-sharing — Record labels were VCs that invested in artists. The substantial majority of those investments were not…
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Composable Web3 Compute
BY KYLE SAMANI
February 16, 2022 | 5 minute read
Today we are excited to announce our latest investment in the compute category: Fluence, in which we recently led a $9 million round alongside Alameda Ventures, Tiger Global, Protocol Labs, Arweave Capital,…
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The Composable Web3 Data Network
BY KYLE SAMANI
February 16, 2022 | 8 minute read
A few months ago at the 2021 Multicoin Summit, I gave a keynote presentation highlighting composability as the most important development in crypto in 2022. Although that presentation specifically focused on…
Trading volumes are still trending down, and derivatives traders remain cautiously positioned. We cover the state of the market, in this fifth edition of our new market report, “Ahead of the curve”. The report is free for now, replacing The Weekly Update, but will soon become a paid report. Enjoy…
Dark Mode Toggle 2022 Nov 19 See all posts Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond Special thanks to Balaji Srinivasan, and Coinbase, Kraken and Binance staff for discussion. Every time a majo
Dramane Meite, CFA, International Head of Product at crypto firm Hashdex, writes that portfolio managers have one core mission: find ways to generate returns that are repeatable and consistent with th
Published in Official BitGo Blog · 8 min read · Jul 21, 2022 -- In late 2017, along with some colleagues at BitGo, I made a presentation on the market structure of Bitcoin to a group of executives at
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Yes … I Read the Whitepaper 16 min read · Apr 15, 2021 -- ( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be
(5 min read) This case study will explore the background, methodology, and use case for Value-at-Risk. Written by Conor Ryder, methodology and data by Anne-Claire Maurice and the Kaiko Analytics team.
The Network State in One Thousand Words Technology has allowed us to start new companies, new communities, andnew currencies. But can we use it to create new cities, or even newcountries? A key concep
Published in Entrepreneur's Handbook · 31 min read · Sep 7, 2022 -- ( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decision
Background - ETHPoW and ETH2: The story of miners vs. social consensus Last week we gave a brief on the Merge: the switch from Proof-of-work (PoW) to Proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus on the Ethereum blo
New Aussie crypto ETP investors join a sector that’s well established and fast-growing, with leading funds rooted in best practice on price integrity and reliability The first two Aussie crypto ETPs l
Building on the success of our first venture fund, we’re proud to announce that Multicoin Capital has raised a new $100M venture fund to back entrepreneurs building companies (equity), and protocols (
An Introduction by Amentum Advisor, Kevin Zhou Published in Amentum · 23 min read · Feb 26, 2019 -- This article was originally written by Amentum Advisor, Kevin Zhou ( Twitter ) on their blog . In th
9,178 reads A Guide to Market Making for Crypto Startups July 24th 2019 6m by 9,178 reads Too Long; Didn't Read Market Makers enable financial markets to become more efficient because they reduce pric
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An old science fiction novel features a device that surrounds its bearer with an impenetrable bubble of force. The inventor rapidly discovers that every government and political faction on the planet
A Social Transition Last week, I wrote a blog post emphasizing the distinction between the social internet and social media . The former describes the internet’s ability to enable connection, learning
Veronica Wu has been in on the ground floor for many of the dramatic technology shifts that have defined the past 20 years. Beijing-born and US-educated, Wu has worked in top strategy roles at a strin
One of the biggest objections we get from new readers around here goes something like this: “Yeah, I guess Mr. Money Mustache has a point. Spending less than you earn really is a good idea. Too bad he
15 min read · Mar 2, 2018 -- I often refer to him as Yoda. Naval Ravikant has long been one of my favorite thinkers, and has helped to shape the way that I percieve my surroundings on a daily basis. I
In the four or so years since it launched, end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal has become the security community's gold standard for surveillance-resistant communications. Its creators have buil
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