Pantera Capital
Pantera Capital is a U.S.-based investment firm founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead (former Tiger Management head of macro trading and CFO) that pivoted in 2013 to become the first U.S. institutional asset manager focused exclusively on blockchain technology and digital assets. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in New York and San Juan, Puerto Rico, the firm launched the first cryptocurrency fund in the United States in 2013 and now manages roughly $3.5B-$3.8B across multiple fund strategies: a Bitcoin Fund for pure BTC exposure, an Early-Stage Token Fund, a Liquid Token Fund, a Blockchain Fund, and a series of Venture Funds for equity investments. Pantera backs token projects, exchanges, DeFi and infrastructure teams, wallets, custodians, and ecosystem builders from pre-launch token stage through growth-stage equity, writing checks from roughly $500K to $50M+ and having led about half of its 200+ investments since 2013. Notable investments include Coinbase, Circle, Ripple, Uniswap, Bitstamp, Polkadot, Near, Filecoin, StarkWare, and Ondo Finance.
Pantera Capital has 190 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 97 (51%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 93 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Ankr, Ripio, Coinbase, Ripple, B3.
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.
Developing 26 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 40 Limited public surface area
Emerging 23 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 3 Almost no public developer surface
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Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 174 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by Pantera Capital, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer Ergonomics | 32.5 | 23.8 | +8.7 | 174 |
| Discoverability | 60 | 58 | +2 | 174 |
| Contract Quality | 19.3 | 17.7 | +1.6 | 174 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.4 | 13.2 | +0.2 | 174 |
| Contract Governance | 4.9 | 7 | -2.1 | 174 |
| Access Clarity | 15 | 26.5 | -11.5 | 174 |
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.
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 13% | 15% | -2 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 13% | 13% | 0 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 4% | 12% | -8 |
| Security | 99% | 98% | +1 |
| Arazzo workflows | 3% | 2% | +1 |
| Governance rules | 8% | 18% | -10 |
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.
- 1 Ankr
- 2 Ripio
- 3 Coinbase
- 4 Ripple Labs
- 5 B3
- 6 Coinflow
- 7 Fordefi
- 8 Civic
- 9 Orthogonal
- 10 Coinme
- 1 Coinbase {"score" => 51.5, "band" => "agent-native"}
- 2 Ripple Labs {"score" => 48.9, "band" => "agent-native"}
- 3 Anchorage Digital {"score" => 48.7, "band" => "agent-native"}
- 4 Flashbots {"score" => 47.8, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 5 Circle {"score" => 47.7, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 6 Ankr {"score" => 44.6, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 7 Orthogonal {"score" => 43.8, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 8 Coinflow {"score" => 42.2, "band" => "agent-native"}
- 9 Kyber Network {"score" => 39.9, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 10 BCB Group {"score" => 39.9, "band" => "agent-native"}
Coverage caveat. 167 of 174 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 2 November 2026, across 37080 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.
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