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Where Is Venture Capital Flowing
So far in 2023, VCs have put $4.2B of Venture Capital into crypto-related projects – putting crypto on...Venture capital flowing into crypto projects in 2023 is more in line with 2017, 2019, and 2020....Regarding where VCs are putting capital, there were a few surprises.
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Other
Aug 2023
Crypto Venture Capital Series Hosted by Tommy Shaughnessy
Delphi’s Co-Founder and co-lead for Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with various venture capital...Arthur Cheong of DeFiance Capital Jul 14, 2021 2....Andrew Kang of Mechanism Capital Jul 17, 2021 5....Santiago Santos of Parafi Capital Jul 18, 2021 6.
Inside Delphi
Nov 2022
Crypto Venture Capital Series Ep. 3: Michael Jordan of Galaxy Digital
They generally don’t take outside capital....A lot of LPs, the investors in the venture fund, looked at Bitcoin as a venture bet....The capital has gotten so big and the rounds don’t need that much capital....there’s so much capital being managed....a venture fund.
Asset Management
Jul 2021
Crypto Venture Capital Series Ep. 1: Arthur Cheong of DeFiance Capital
I’m your host, Tom Shaughnessy and I help lead Delphi ventures....Arthur of DeFiance Capital. Arthur how’s it going? Arthur (00:00:17): I’m great....Arthur (00:00:31): I’m Arthur, the founder of DeFiance Capital....DeFiance Capital is DeFi focus crypto fund that combines fundamental research and an active involvement...
Asset Management
Jul 2021
Crypto Venture Capital Series Ep. 6: Ryan Zurrer of Dialectic AG
On a capital allocation basis, our fund looks more like a traditional venture fund of highly concentrated...I understand that it’s not the typical venture design, but we’re not a venture capital fund....At a certain capital base, it requires professionalism....We strike a NAV like a venture fund does.
Asset Management
May 2022
Crypto Venture Capital Series Ep. 5: Santiago Santos of Parafi Capital
I’m your host, Tom Shaughnessy, I help lead Delphi Ventures. I’m one of the podcast hosts here....Santiago (00:00:21): I’m a partner ParaFI Capital. We’re a DeFi-focused fund....freely, human capital flows freely and ultimately everything is forkable....I was at JPMorgan at the time and I was interviewing at this like venture shop, VC shop.
Asset Management
Jul 2021
Crypto Venture Capital Series Ep. 4: Andrew Kang of Mechanism Capital
I help lead Delphi Ventures and the podcast. Today, I have on Andrew from Mechanism Capital....And while we do focus mostly on venture, we do a good bit of trading as well....So we’re in a bit of a unique situation, we don’t have LP capital, so Mechanism capital is essentially...our prop capital....A play to unlock capital in different regions?
Asset Management
Jul 2021
Crypto Venture Capital Series Ep. 2: Jason Choi of Spartan Group
I helped lead Delphi Ventures and one of the hosts for the pod....And most of that is because there’s a lot more capital chasing projects than there are good founders....So I guess this is more on the venture side, right? Yeah....If you’re managing outside capital oftentimes you can’t put more than X percent of off the fund in a...
Asset Management
Jul 2021
CSOs & The Evolution of Capital
For the uninitiated, continuous securities offerings enable companies to raise capital by selling claims...Rather than selling shares, CSOs allow companies or startups to raise non-dilutive capital from a wider...stakeholders who believe in a company’s growth prospects, and on the other, it increases the amount of capital...
7 Min
Structured Products
Oct 2020
Delphi Ventures Portfolio Showcase: May 2021
The ETF, launched in April, has already attracted C$245 million in capital....The fund is led by Terraform Labs, Delphi Digital and IDEO CoLab Ventures. ...Capital IDEO, Kleiner Perkins and Stacks Accelerator....Over the past month, Upshot raised a Series A led by Framework Ventures, CoinFund and Blockchain Capital...
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Infrastructure
Jun 2021
Radiant Capital Finds Initial Traction, But Will It Sustain?
In the money market arena, Radiant Capital is shaping up to become a dominant player on Arbitrum, leading...Radiant Capital aims to be a one-stop money market where users can deposit and borrow across multiple...Radiant Capital hopes to solve these pain points....That means the user is, in effect, being paid 6% to borrow capital.
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Money Markets
Mar 2023
Aptos: The Stablecoin Capital’s Yield Playbook
Aptos: The Stablecoin Capital’s Yield Playbook Aptos is home to over $1.3 billion in stablecoins....But infrastructure and applications alone don’t drive adoption, capital seeking returns does....sub-second finality, and negligible transaction costs created the perfect environment for yield-focused capital...
24 Min
Infrastructure
Aug 2025
Polygon Shines, Perpetual Protocol's Growth, and Uniswap Capital Efficiency
Data Digest Polygon continues to grow as BSC stagnates DeFi coins led relief rally Uniswap v2 vs v3 capital...efficiency Perpetual Protocol’s massive growth Key Takeaways Binance Smart Chain is experiencing capital...Price performance for both tokens is tracking capital flows, with BNB experiencing a downturn and MATIC...
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DeFi
May 2021
Towards Aave as a Credit Protocol: Tranching Risk To Enable Greater Capital Efficiency, Innovation and Robustness
As part of this, we’ve proposed a new token architecture we believe will enable greater capital efficiency...months, in this post we propose a new token architecture for Aave that we believe will lead to greater capital...
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DeFi
Nov 2020
Towards Aave as a Credit Protocol: Tranching Risk To Enable Greater Capital Efficiency, Innovation and Robustness
As part of this, we’ve proposed a new token architecture we believe will enable greater capital efficiency...months, in this post we propose a new token architecture for Aave that we believe will lead to greater capital...
1 Min
DeFi
Nov 2020
PayFi: Unlocking Efficient Capital Markets
Solana Foundation, Lily Liu, PayFi is the idea that stablecoins can meaningfully lower the cost of capital...As a business looking for a counterparty to provide financing, it is inherently difficult to source capital...This is primarily due to the fact that there is no single marketplace to source capital from.
8 Min
Stablecoins
Dec 2024
Coinbase, Echo, Internet Capital Markets, and Noice
Coinbase appears to be leaning heavily into the Internet Capital markets (ICM) narrative....Upon hearing about Noice’s venture into ICM, I wasn’t overly excited....Nothing yet revealed about Noice earn, syndicate, ecosystem fund, or capital alignment....Dubbed “the front page of internet capital markets,” Oracle removes research overhead, allowing users...
6 Min
DeFi
Oct 2025
Where will the Capital Flow in SUI Ecosystem?
As someone who’s been tracking L1 ecosystems for a while, I’ve noticed a pattern of how capital flows...With such low token dilution in the ecosystem, when that capital finally starts flowing from L1 profits...These could be the ones to watch when the capital starts moving downstream: DEEP – Surprisingly Highly...
5 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Jan 2025
Yapster: Sleeping Giant of the Internet Capital Markets Meta?
Internet capital markets (ICM) is the new narrative taking CT by storm....The ICM tagline is something along the lines of “fluid and permissionless capital formation for decentralized...“internet capital markets” bro they are literally just memecoins pic.twitter.com/tnm7j4OIzv — Steve (...TL;DR: Internet capital markets appears to be a hollow narrative.
5 Min
DeFi
May 2025
Radiant Capital and the Decline of DeFi’s Pasta Corridor
Radiant Capital, an Aave fork on Arbitrum, was recently hacked for 1,900 ETH (~$4.5M) and has since paused...the entirety of the supply pool, the lending APR is only 7%, leaving a 3% rate spread due to the idle capital...These projects take up developer mindshare and resources, along with retail’s capital, attention, and...
5 Min
Money Markets
Jan 2024