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Does Crypto Need Circuit Breakers? Last Week’s Price Crash Ignites a Debate

A longtime feature of stock exchanges, circuit breakers throw sand in the gears of a plummeting market like last week’s. Should crypto adopt them?

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Mind the Gap: Why ETH Price and DeFi Adoption Aren't in Sync

Demand for DeFi lending services built on ethereum shows a pattern of inverse relationship to the price of ETH. When ether prices are falling, the amount of ETH locked in DeFi tends to rise. Most recent data indicate the relationship operates the other way, too.

Eth deposits in DeFi lending & price, 2019-2020 (chart)

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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.

Chart of ETH locked in DeFi lending platforms vs time

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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.

Multicoin Capital principal Mable Jiang. (Credit: BlockBeats/Odaily)

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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.

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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.

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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.

Kyle Samani of Multicoin (CoinDesk)

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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.

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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.

Torus CEO Zhen Yu Yong. (Photo courtesy of Torus)

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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.

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