The recent TON and Telegram discourse has overlooked the ecosystem’s activation mechanism, a crucial aspect to convert 900M users into revenue and a growth flywheel. CoinFund’s conviction has been driven by Telegram’s elegant, somewhat retro approach to ushering real users to web3, combined with a more powerful business model for developers and content creators, writes Alex Felix. More on CoinFund Insights: https://lnkd.in/gS6K9D_G
CoinFund
Investment Management
Brooklyn, New York 8,535 followers
Disruptive technology requires disruptive investors.
About us
Disruptive technology requires disruptive investors. CoinFund is a cryptoasset-focused investment firm founded in 2015 and based in Brooklyn, New York. Our mission is to help advance the blockchain ecosystem by strategically investing in the decentralized stack and key financial infrastructure using an approach informed by our extensive blockchain technology expertise and experience in the industry. Our team brings together multidisciplinary backgrounds in technology, computer science, math, law, economics, finance, quantitative research, and psychology. As a valuable strategic investor we seek to define the space by supporting project teams in the early stages, directly participating in decentralized networks as validators and resource providers, and assisting entrepreneurs with technology architecture specification and cryptoeconomic design. If you are a blockchain project founder or are interested in exploring these technologies for your product, please get in touch with us at [email protected] or join us in the CoinFund Slack.
- Website
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http://coinfund.io
External link for CoinFund
- Industry
- Investment Management
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Brooklyn, New York
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2015
- Specialties
- blockchain, research, advisory, and investments
Locations
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Brooklyn, New York, US
Employees at CoinFund
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David Pakman
Early stage crypto venture investor
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Wendy Diamond
CEO | Board Member | Investor | Founder LDP Ventures, Women's Entrepreneurship Day Organization (WEDO) & Chief Pet Officer Animal Fair Media, Inc.
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Asher Qureshi
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Julie Mossler
Web3 CMO | Paying it forward and playing it loud.
Updates
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“We believe the industry needs more players taking risks and incorporating the best of web2 game design with the open economy of the web3 world. As part of this strategy, we’re committed that 50% of net profit is being reinvested into competitive prize pools.” Earn Alliance founder Joseph Cooper The games are coming to the chains. Earn Alliance, Off the Grid + Gunzilla Games, and Dapper Labs are among CoinFund’s best-in-class gaming companies featured in Forbes’ web3 gaming review. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gmaqD5xJ
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In Cryptographic Firsts: Worldcoin and TACEO announced the application of recent advances in secure multi-party computation for machine learning to their iris codes. The protocol no longer needs to store legacy iris codes and continues to improve its already state-of-the-art security. Learn more about the news here https://lnkd.in/da4z9dQ5 Or get the technical download from the devs themselves: https://lnkd.in/gwCw2WYQ
Worldcoin Foundation unveils new SMPC system, deletes old iris codes
worldcoin.org
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“In order for the crypto economy to thrive, well-functioning liquidity is key. Exchanges have been one of the earliest and most successful categories in crypto, with good reason. To that end, STON.fi is the premier exchange and liquidity layer on TON, enabling the future economic activity for all Telegram users.” Einar Braathen, Investor at CoinFund, shared his investment thesis for STON.fi, the premier dex on TON Blockchain and Telegram Messenger. https://lnkd.in/eQD76YAj
STON.fi -- AMM DEX for the TON blockchain
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“So a lot of those factors have definitely started to draw more investor dollars towards crypto…that stat, I think last year was around 7.5% percent of all VC dollars went to crypto, prior years was above 10. I think it bounces back, quickly above 10 if not more as, crypto is the most interesting thing with…I forget where I saw it the other day… alien-like returns for some of the success stories and, we certainly have seen some of that.” CIO at CoinFund, Alex Felix was in a new Talking Tokens episode with Jacquelyn Melinek chatting about the state of the crypto VC market, where capital is flowing, and more.
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Congratulations to our portco Giza on adding Starknet Foundation as a mission-aligned Agents Launch Partner. ML results will now be transformed into autonomous onchain strategies for Starknet users, such as optimizing yield and re-allocating portfolios. https://lnkd.in/dy4Bp3dz
Starknet to bring on AI agents that can carry out on-chain activity
cointelegraph.com
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Managing Partner & Head of Venture Investments at CoinFund, David Pakman will be chatting with TenSquared Capital's Polina Bermisheva on investing in the crypto & AI space at #Consensus2024, hosted by CoinDesk. https://lnkd.in/gwt-C8-2
Beyond the Bubble: How VCs Are Investing in Crypto and AI | Event | Consensus 2024
consensus2024.coindesk.com
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Are you passionate about digital assets & investing? Are you invested in the long game of crypto? You just might be the perfect fit for our new role. We’ve opened up a Venture Analyst/Associate role – it’s a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of crypto investing, gain hands-on venture training, and contribute to identifying and nurturing the next wave of web3 innovators. https://lnkd.in/gWvvscGA
CoinFund Job Board
jobs.coinfund.io
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“ETFs created a new avenue for engagement that has been wildly popular, much more popular than anyone’s expectations…[that] led to Bitcoin moving up very quickly, much further than what has been anticipated.” Seth Ginns, CoinFund Managing Partner & Head of Liquid Investments, was recently quoted in a Bloomberg article on the future of bitcoin ETFs. https://lnkd.in/exBZFfme
Bitcoin Faces Worst Month Since FTX Crash With ETF Demand Cooling
bloomberg.com
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“This is the first all-time high where we’ve had regulatory clarity and institutionalization around crypto’s main asset and its first blockchain which is bitcoin…There’s so much innovation going on atop blockchain rails that this is really the first asset that people own and they are likely to look for higher growth, higher potential…to serve other use cases.” CIO at CoinFund, Alex Felix was recently on Yahoo Finance chatting about the bitcoin halving and the crypto markets today. https://lnkd.in/eMpv7TpZ
Bitcoin halving could be pretty significant for long-term gains: BitGo analyst
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