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Multicoin Capital

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven crypto investment firm founded in 2017 by Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain, investing in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies and protocols believed to be reshaping trillion-dollar markets. The firm runs a hybrid structure of a hedge fund (its multi-billion dollar Master Fund, investing in public markets, direct positions, and strategic sales) alongside several venture funds that back early-stage companies, with venture checks ranging from roughly $1M to $50M. Its Venture Fund III closed at $422 million in January 2022. Multicoin invests across open and decentralized finance (DeFi), blockchain infrastructure and Layer 1/Layer 2 protocols, decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN), stablecoins and payments, real-world asset tokenization, wallets, identity, gaming, and crypto-native consumer applications, with a well-known concentration around the Solana ecosystem. The firm's phoenix logo symbolizes a new financial system rising from the ashes of the old one, reflecting its long-term, high-conviction approach to absolute returns across market cycles. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Multicoin manages capital on behalf of family offices, foundations, endowments, and institutional investors. In February 2026 co-founder Kyle Samani stepped back from day-to-day management, with operations continuing under co-founder Tushar Jain and partner Brian Smith.

134 portfolio companies 134 publish APIs here 11 properties
Venture CapitalSeedSeries ACryptoBlockchainWeb3DeFiInfrastructureDePINSolanaUnited States
Portfolio Strength across 133 profiled portfolio companies on the network
3 top-rated API companies 1 exemplar · 2 strong
17 agent-ready companies 3 agent-native · 14 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite emerging 23.5
Agent-Readiness human-only 11.0

Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.

Multicoin Capital has 134 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 134 (100%) publish APIs indexed here.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Solana, Aptos Labs, LI.FI, Inference, Livepeer.

Portfolio on the Network

Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 21 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 34 Limited public surface area
Emerging 38 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 37 Almost no public developer surface
Unrated 1 Not yet scored

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Team

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Cohort brief

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The 133 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by Multicoin Capital, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
133
of 134 on the roster
Mean Kin Score
23.5
+2.8 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
10.8
+1.1 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
1.2–65.8
median 19.5 · σ 15.6
How the 133 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 6Developing 19Thin 29Emerging 42Minimal 37
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 33 17.9 +15.1 133
Discoverability 65.4 60.4 +5 133
Operational Transparency 14 11.3 +2.7 133
Contract Quality 19.2 17.5 +1.7 133
Contract Governance 6.1 6.4 -0.3 133
Access Clarity 16.1 22.3 -6.2 133

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 29% 16% +13
MCP server (first-party) 10% 7% +3
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 4% 9% -5
Security 94% 88% +6
Arazzo workflows 2% 2% 0
Governance rules 7% 13% -6

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Solana 65.8
  2. 2 LI.FI 59.2
  3. 3 Aptos 57
  4. 4 Mithril 55.9
  5. 5 Livepeer 54.6
  6. 6 Paxos 54.4
  7. 7 Inference 53.9
  8. 8 Pyth 50.6
  9. 9 Algorand 50.3
  10. 10 Dialect 50.1
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Paxos 48
  2. 2 Pyth 46.7
  3. 3 Blackbird 40.4
  4. 4 LI.FI 40.1
  5. 5 DFlow 36.3
  6. 6 Bakkt 35.7
  7. 7 Nervos 34.9
  8. 8 Dialect 34.2
  9. 9 Audius 33.1
  10. 10 Mithril 32.2
This roster declares 134 members; 133 resolve to a provider in the catalog and 133 carry a score (100%). The figures above describe the scored members only.Generated from the catalog build of 25 August 2026, across 26891 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: multicoin-capital
name: Multicoin Capital
description: >-
  Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven crypto investment firm founded in 2017 by
  Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain, investing in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and
  blockchain companies and protocols believed to be reshaping trillion-dollar
  markets. The firm runs a hybrid structure of a hedge fund (its multi-billion
  dollar Master Fund, investing in public markets, direct positions, and
  strategic sales) alongside several venture funds that back early-stage
  companies, with venture checks ranging from roughly $1M to $50M. Its Venture
  Fund III closed at $422 million in January 2022. Multicoin invests across open
  and decentralized finance (DeFi), blockchain infrastructure and Layer 1/Layer 2
  protocols, decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN), stablecoins
  and payments, real-world asset tokenization, wallets, identity, gaming, and
  crypto-native consumer applications, with a well-known concentration around the
  Solana ecosystem. The firm's phoenix logo symbolizes a new financial system
  rising from the ashes of the old one, reflecting its long-term, high-conviction
  approach to absolute returns across market cycles. Headquartered in Austin,
  Texas, Multicoin manages capital on behalf of family offices, foundations,
  endowments, and institutional investors. In February 2026 co-founder Kyle
  Samani stepped back from day-to-day management, with operations continuing under
  co-founder Tushar Jain and partner Brian Smith.
deliveryModel:
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  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
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  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://multicoin.capital/favicon.ico
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Seed
  - Series A
  - Crypto
  - Blockchain
  - Web3
  - DeFi
  - Infrastructure
  - DePIN
  - Solana
  - United States
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://multicoin.capital/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://multicoin.capital/portfolio/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/multicoin-capital-portfolio.yml
  - type: Team
    url: https://multicoin.capital/about/
  - type: Team
    url: team/multicoin-capital-team.yml
  - type: Blog
    url: https://multicoin.capital/blog/
  - type: Jobs
    url: https://multicoin.capital/careers/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/multicoincap
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/multicoincapital
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/multicoin-capital
  - type: Contact
    url: mailto:hello@multicoin.capital
  - type: Features
    data:
      - 'Stage: Early-stage venture plus public/liquid token positions (hedge fund)'
      - 'Typical check: $1M-$50M (Venture Fund III)'
      - 'Sectors: DeFi, blockchain infrastructure, Layer 1/Layer 2 protocols, DePIN, stablecoins, payments, real-world assets, wallets, identity, gaming, crypto consumer'
      - 'Geography: United States (Austin, TX) with global crypto reach'
      - 'AUM: multi-billion dollar Master Fund (self-reported); AUM not publicly disclosed'
      - 'Funds: Master Fund (hedge fund) + Venture Funds; Venture Fund III $422M (closed January 2022)'
      - 'Founded: 2017'
      - 'Founders: Kyle Samani, Tushar Jain'
      - 'HQ: Austin, TX'
    sources:
      - https://multicoin.capital/
      - https://multicoin.capital/about/
    updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com
  - FN: APIs.json
    url: http://apisjson.org
  - FN: Multicoin Capital
    url: https://multicoin.capital/

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