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CoinFund

CoinFund

Investment Management

Brooklyn, New York 12,455 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 info@coinfund.io or join us in the CoinFund Slack.

Website
http://coinfund.io
Industry
Investment Management
Company size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Brooklyn, New York
Type
Privately Held
Founded
2015
Specialties
blockchain, research, advisory, and investments

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  • Big day for Superstate 🙌

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    Today, Superstate is launching FundOS: the operating system for the next generation of funds. FundOS gives asset managers a turnkey way to bring private funds, mutual funds, and ETFs onchain using the same infrastructure behind USTB, USCC, and Superstate’s platform. The opportunity is big: $300B+ of capital is already circulating onchain. The challenge is that traditional funds were never built to reach it. FundOS gives asset managers a direct path into that capital, expanding distribution to a new base of onchain investors, without changing how their funds already operate. Managers choose the fund, blockchains, supported DeFi venues, and whether to enable stablecoin subscriptions and redemptions. FundOS handles the operational lift, connecting into existing fund admins, custodians, and service providers through Superstate’s portal, APIs, and workflows. FundOS is built not just to bring funds onchain, but to make onchain funds better: ➕ Real-time settlement ➕ 24/7 subscriptions and redemptions ➕ Real-time shareholder recordkeeping ➕ Compliant transfers ➕ Integrations with supported DeFi ➕ Access to new onchain utility FundOS already powers USTB and USCC, with $1B+ in combined AUM, and it is the same infrastructure Invesco is adopting. For asset managers, that means bringing funds onchain using infrastructure already operating at scale, with a direct path to new investor demand. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gabBbQzX #finance #funds #capitalmarkets #blockchain #tokenization

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  • CoinFund reposted this

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    CoinFund7K followers

    The argument for adding alternative assets to 401k's is that workers deserve access to better returns. But the question we should be asking is why so many workers feel like they need better returns in the first place? Home ownership, the traditional cornerstone of middle class wealth building, now costs Gen Z around 7.5x their annual salary. For Boomers and Gen X it was closer to 4.5x. Only 13% of 25-year-olds own homes today. When the traditional path to wealth is structurally out of reach, people look for alternatives. That is not recklessness, that is rational. The old playbook is broken and for a generation that grew up watching every traditional institution fail them, crypto is the first financial system that does not require them to already have wealth to get started. Via Peter Coy at the The New York Times. https://lnkd.in/eWqCiQB8

  • Congrats LI.FI! 💫

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    8,889 followers

    Every company with a digital asset strategy is exploring onchain yield. Introducing LI.FI Earn – the fastest way to launch and monetise an Earn feature. Access strategies from 20+ vault protocols, with built-in cross-chain execution across 60+ chains, via a single integration. Launching an Earn feature? Everything you need: • discovery across 20+ vault protocols • one-click deposits from any chain • seamless cross-chain execution  • built-in monetisation from day one All in one place: https://li.fi/earn/

  • CoinFund reposted this

    View profile for David Pakman

    CoinFund7K followers

    You cannot legislate away a better product. Crypto has survived every attempt to do exactly that, and stablecoin yield will too. The banking lobby has been arguing that stablecoin yield would cost community banks $1.3 trillion in deposits. The White House just published data showing the real impact would be a 0.02% boost to traditional lending, most of which goes to large banks anyway, not the community banks they claim to be protecting. Kraken already offers up to 8% APY on USDC through Veda, one of our portfolio companies, using their vault infrastructure. That is a product consumers want and are actively using without the need for a bank account or minimum balance. Banning it would not save community banks. It would just make crypto-native alternatives more attractive by comparison. The banking lobby picked the wrong hill to die on. This was never about community banks. It was about keeping competition out. Time to move the Clarity Act forward. Thanks to Emily Mason Bloomberg for writing this up: https://lnkd.in/eyJ-Wphn

  • Stablecoins, agentic payments, and four sharp minds in one conversation. George Christopher recently sat down with Ryan Bozarth (Dakota), Rok Kopp (ether.fi), and Philipp Zentner (LI.FI) to discuss their insights and where they converge in this emerging space. Full video coming soon!

    Fun little moment with AI this morning. I recently did a 1 hr interview with CoinFund, Rok Kopp, and Philipp Zentner Normally that footage just sits on my laptop, because the effort to turn it into anything useful is... a lot. This time, I used Descript. AI transcribed everything, identified clips, and did video edits – cut filler words, added captions, trimmed dead space. I was learning as I went and still got the first clip done in in < 20 minutes. No video editor, no back-and-forth. A lot of focus, rightfully so, is on AI writing code. And that's powerful. (We're building a software factory at Dakota that we’ll share soon.) But it's easy to overlook the unlock across the rest of the org (content, sales prep, ops workflows) it's all getting an upgrade. Not perfect, but here it is –

  • View organization page for CoinFund

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    Congrats to Seth Ginns, Christopher Perkins, and the entire liquid team on their next chapter. CoinFund remains an independent venture firm with a 10+ year track record of backing the best founders building on decentralized networks. We are grateful to everyone who has contributed to driving our mission forward. https://lnkd.in/gUHgPY4w

  • Congratulations to Veda on partnering with Whop to bring onchain yield to its 21M+ users. Consumer DeFi is still early.

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    1,298 followers

    NEWS: Whop, the fastest growing internet market recently valued at $1.6 billion, has integrated Veda’s vault infrastructure to let users earn on existing account balances with Whop Treasury and Whop Finance. Instead of moving revenue off-platform to earn, users can now keep funds on Whop to generate passive income. On the backend, Veda’s vault tech acts as a core safeguard between the user and DeFi. Key features: → The Whop Veda vault deploys user funds to lending protocol Aave Labs on the Plasma Layer-1 blockchain to generate yield for users → Veda vaults are always non-custodial, meaning only depositors have the ability to withdraw or transfer their own assets → Vault autocompounds yield and enables instant withdrawals With Veda, Whop is able to power earning for users that can outperform a high-yield savings account, with the ability to earn up to 6% APY.

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