How Hyperliquid Becomes the Backend for ALL of Finance | Tushar Jain
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Hyperliquid is already one of crypto’s biggest perp stories, but Multicoin’s Tushar Jain thinks the market may still be looking at it too narrowly. In this episode, David sits down with Tushar to unpack the deeper thesis: portfolio margining as the hidden unlock, HIP3 and builder codes as the path to platformization, real traction versus farmed volume, and why HYPE’s value-capture model is unusually direct for crypto.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
1:50 Perps Get TradFi’s Attention
3:17 More Than a Perp DEX
6:29 Why Portfolio Margining Matters
11:13 HIP3 and Permissionless Market Creation
13:47 Hyperliquid Becomes a Platform
19:54 The On-Ramp Question
21:36 Perps Are Not the Whole Thesis
28:04 Cash Flow as the Credibility Signal
33:05 Valuation Multiples and Lighter
34:36 Multicoin’s HYPE Framework
42:05 Token Value Capture
43:34 Unlocks, Wealth, and Team Motivation
48:30 The US Perps Question
52:27 Does Hyperliquid Need to Come Onshore?
54:32 The Final Bull Case
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RESOURCES
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Multicoin's Hype Analysis and Valuation report can be found here:
https://multicoin.capital/2026/06/25/hyperliquid-hype-analysis-and-valuation/
The report includes important disclosures concerning the data and assumptions by Multicoin discussed today.
Multicoin may have interests in companies mentioned during the episode.
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"Crypto Without Privacy Isn't Crypto" - The Zcash Bull Case | Tushar Jain & Mert Mumtaz
Zcash is having its first real narrative moment in years. David sits down with Multicoin Capital co-founder Tushar Jain and Mert Mumtaz to unpack why privacy may be crypto’s missing store-of-value primitive, why Zcash is being framed as “private Bitcoin,” how institutional adoption could normalize shielded money, what AI and onchain surveillance change about the privacy debate, and why quantum risk could become a real catalyst.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Why Multicoin Got Interested in Zcash
5:22 Mert’s Path from Solana to Zcash
9:57 Why Zcash, Why Now?
17:01 The Institutional Path for Private Money
22:03 Zcash as a Private Store of Value
25:27 Fungibility, Tainted Coins, and Financial History
27:26 The Bear Case: Does Anyone Really Care About Privacy?
34:43 Onchain Surveillance and Government Power
39:13 Zcash Tokenomics and the Forgotten Coin Thesis
44:58 The Last PVE in Crypto
50:17 Zcash and the Quantum Threat
59:14 Shielded Pool Growth and Upcoming Catalysts
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Building The Perfect Portfolio In 2026 | Tushar Jain & Pranav Kanade
This week, Tushar Jain & Pranav Kanade join the show to discuss the current state of markets. We deep dive into where are we in the cycle, where to allocate in 2026, how to value tokens, stablecoin chains & more. Enjoy!
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(01:20) Where Are We In The Market Cycle?
(06:35) Allocating In Crypto
(16:12) Coinbase Ad
(16:57) DAS Plug
(17:22) How To Value Crypto Tokens
(32:28) Investing In Apps vs L1s
(38:10) Crypto Social & Stablecoin Chains
(53:00) Investing In AI
(59:40) Positioning In 2026
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Disclaimer: Nothing said on Empire is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Santiago, Jason, Rob and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.
Can Solana Edge Out Ethereum to Win the AI Agent & RWA Race?
Tushar Jain and Mike Ippolito make the bull case for Solana as competition heats up.
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With Ethereum refocusing on L1 and Hyperliquid adoption growing, Solana is arguably facing stronger competition than ever. Can it thrive still?
Multicoin co-founder Tushar Jain and Blockworks co-founder Mike Ippolito share several reasons to be excited about Solana, including Alpenglow and anticipated market microstructure design flexibility.
Find out why Tushar and Mike say Firedancer has not been a flop despite seemingly low adoption, why they don't see block building issues stopping Solana from challenging Hyperliquid, and why they say the network doesn't have to do anything to specifically attract AI agents. Plus, why they both believe that the RWA race is too early to call despite Ethereum's dominance.
Meanwhile, with Alpenglow still months away, Mike says the wait doesn’t matter — for the next 12 to 18 months BD and marketing matter more than tech for adoption.
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Guest:
Tushar Jain, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital
Previous appearances on Unchained:
Solana Rejected Inflation Reduction-Here's Why
CoinFund's Jake Brukhman and Multicoin's Tushar Jain on Generalized Mining
Binance Hack: Should the Threat of Reorgs Be Used to Deter Hackers?
Multicoin on the 1 Thing Crypto Teams Miss in Their Quests for Success
Mike Ippolito, Co-Founder at Blockworks
Links:
Unchained:
Ethereum Lets Go of the Rollup Story. Here Are the 6 Tokens That Benefit
Jump Crypto’s Firedancer Goes Live on Solana Mainnet
BlackRock Just Chose Uniswap. The Market Didn’t Care. Here’s Why.
When AI Agents Take Over, What Does a Post-Human Economy Look Like?
Uneasy Money: How the Increasingly Better AI Agents Are Being Used Onchain
Pump.fun Cashed Out $436M Since Mid-October: Lookonchain
Zora Shocks Base Community With Solana Pivot
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Setting Docker Hardened Images free (Interview)
In May of 2025, Docker launched Hardened Images, a secure, minimal, production-ready set of images. In December, they made DHI freely available and open source to everyone who builds software. On this episode, we’re joined by Tushar Jain, EVP of Engineering at Docker to learn all about it.
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Show Notes:
Hardened images for everyone
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Solana Insiders Wanted to Reduce Inflation, but It Failed. Here’s What the Proposal’s Author Thinks - Ep. 800
The Solana ecosystem just completed a critical governance vote. SIMD-228, a proposal to tie Solana’s inflation rate to its staking participation rate, was put forward by Multicoin Capital and Anza, but despite a majority voting in favor, it failed to meet the required supermajority to pass.
Tushar Jain, co-founder and managing partner at Multicoin Capital, who co-authored the proposal, joins the show to discuss:
Why he believes the proposal was necessary
Whether inflation is too high for Solana’s long-term health
If some validators voted against their own interests
The silver lining of the governance process
Why a smaller proposal focused on fee sharing did pass
Whether Multicoin Capital will resubmit a revised proposal
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Guest
Tushar Jain, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital
Links
Unchained: Proposal to Cut SOL Inflation by 80% Fails After ‘Close Call’
SIMD Vote Status
Kayuza’s tweet
Timestamps:
🤝 0:00 Intro
🗳️ 3:09 Why Solana’s inflation rate was initially an afterthought
💰5:20 Why inflation became untenable
⚙️ 6:23 What does it take to right-size inflation for Solana
⚙️ 7:18 How SIMD-228 would have worked
🤯 11:00 Why Tushar “does not want to bet on people being dumb”
💰 15:48 How this could have strengthened DeFi on Solana
😕 17:49 Why Tushar was disappointed with the outcome but sees a silver lining
📚 19:49 Could the vote have been fairer?
⚖️ 22:06 Whether smaller validators would be unfairly hurt by SIMD-228
🔐 27:37 Does Solana pay too much for security?
📈 27:55 Would this have boosted the price of SOL?
✔️28:19 Whether validators should ask stakers how to vote
✅ 30:13 What the passing of SIMD-123 means for the network
🔄 32:40 Will Multicoin resubmit the proposal?
📰 34:50 News Recap
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Death of Crypto Venture? Rethinking Crypto Fund Strategies | Tushar Jain & Ray Hindi
In this episode, Ray Hindi of L1D and Tushar Jain of MultiCoin Capital share their thoughts on the evolving landscape of crypto fund management. They discuss the shift from venture to liquid investments, the challenges of timing market cycles, and the importance of maintaining a clear investment edge. The conversation delves into the changing dynamics of token launches, the potential impact of political outcomes on the crypto industry, and valuable advice for emerging fund managers. This episode provides a comprehensive look at the current state and future prospects of crypto fund
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Timestamps
(00:00) Introduction
(02:14) State of Raising Ecosystem
(16:54) Crypto Venture Evolution
(29:18) Liquid Market Edge
(37:45) Staller Ad
(38:35) MyPrize Ad
(39:11) Ava labs ad
(40:09) Harpie Ad
(41:02) Liquid vs Venture Difference
(54:37) Token Launch Meta Shift
(59:22) Fund Specialization
(01:05:21) Liquid Investment Timing
(01:12:54) The Rise of Apps
(01:18:12) Where are we in this Cycle?
(01:23:27) Impact of Trump or Biden Victory
(01:28:45) Advice to Fund Managers
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Disclaimer: Nothing said on Empire is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Santiago, Jason, and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.
L2s Won’t Scale Ethereum | Multicoin
Although our guests this week are managing partners of a registered investment adviser, nothing in this podcast is investment, tax, legal or other financial advice.
In this episode of Empire, Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain of Multicoin join us in their first public discussion since the fall of FTX and Solana's crash. We start with a detailed discussion about Multicoin's relationship with SBF and FTX: how they met, their views on SBF, watching the blow-up and the implications for Multicoin's fund.
Kyle and Tushar then explain why they are still betting big on Solana, why most funds don't earn excess returns, how L2s offer false security, why defi isn't ready yet, prioritizing speed of security and more! Prediction: This will be the best episode of 2023.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(01:37) SBF and FTX Backstory
(15:48) Multicoin’s Solana Bet
(23:04) Quicknode
(24:51) Synthetix
(26:34) Conviction, Sizing and Earning Excess Returns
(33:43) The Intersection of AI and Crypto
(42:15) Why DeFi Isn’t Ready
(45:50) Decentralized Sequencers and the EVM
(52:51) Poritizing Speed and L2 [False] Security
(01:01:33) Multicoin’s Bet on Filecoin
(01:08:47) BTC and the SoV Use Case
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Resources
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Multicoin's Investment Theses on the Future of Crypto | Tushar Jain & Kyle Samani
On this episode of Empire, Jason Yanowitz and Santiago Santos sit down with Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain of Multicoin Capital. As one of the top performing crypto funds of all time, Kyle and Tushar have insight not only discuss their former and current contrarian opinions on the space but discuss what they've learned, how they're thinking, and what they're seeing when it comes to the crypto industry in 2022.
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How Binance Could Become the First Decentralized Autonomous Corporation - Ep.110
Tushar Jain and Kyle Samani, managing partners of Multicoin Capital, discuss Binance, Binance Chain and BNB token, and why they believe Binance will become the first centralized company to successfully decentralize itself and migrate the value in itself to its token. We cover what Binance, the centralized company has so far achieved in terms of trading volume, fiat on-ramps, and regulatory arbitrage, and whether the company has any more regulatory risk than any other exchange. We also look at the features of Binance Chain, how they compare to other decentralized exchanges such as 0x, and why Multicoin believes that it will have more liquidity than previous dexes. We then explore BNB token — how it works now, the regulatory risk for BNB token, and how it will function on the dex. Finally, we touch on Binance's decentralization strategy overall and how it could fail.
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Episode links:
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Multicoin Capital BNB report: https://multicoin.capital/2019/02/19/binance-coin-analysis-and-valuation/
Unchained episode with CZ: https://unchainedpodcast.com/how-binance-became-the-most-popular-crypto-exchange-in-5-months-ep-84/
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CoinFund's Jake Brukhman and Multicoin's Tushar Jain on Generalized Mining - Ep.92
Jake Brukhman of CoinFund and Tushar Jain of Multicoin Capital discuss a new trend among crypto funds: generalized mining, also called mining 2.0, in which investors participate in the networks in order to seed activity on them. For instance, an investor might offer disk space on a file storage network or provide capital on a decentralized lending network. They explain why it makes more sense to do this in the early days of a network than when it's matured, whether this will lead away from a peer-to-peer vision for crypto toward more professionalization and how this affects the basic premise of the fat protocols thesis. We also discuss how this impacts how crypto funds hire, do their accounting and reporting and structure their LP agreements.
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Episode links:
Jake Brukhman: https://twitter.com/jbrukh?lang=en
CoinFund: https://coinfund.io
Tushar Jain: https://twitter.com/TusharJain_
Multicoin Capital: https://multicoin.capital
Jake's post on crypto borrowing: https://blog.coinfund.io/crypto-borrowing-and-staking-networks-e7d2d64a81a4
Tushar's post on generalized mining: https://multicoin.capital/2018/10/23/the-evolving-role-of-crypto-investors/
Jake on LivePeer as a case study: https://blog.coinfund.io/livepeer-cryptoeconomics-as-a-case-study-of-active-participation-in-decentralized-networks-19a932415e0e
Unchained episode with MakerDAO: http://unchainedpodcast.co/why-its-so-hard-to-keep-stablecoins-stable
Unconfirmed episode with Rune Christensen of MakerDAO: http://unconfirmed.libsyn.com/rune-christensen-of-makerdao-on-its-15-million-from-andreessen-horowitz-ep039
Initial witness offerings, by Jake's partner Alexsandr Bulkin: https://blog.coinfund.io/iwos-with-adapt-a-creative-technological-solution-to-a-regulatory-problem-513b0bc811ff
Jake's post on fat protocols not being an investment thesis: https://blog.coinfund.io/fat-protocols-are-not-an-investment-thesis-17c8837c2734
Unchained interview with Joel Monegro, the author of the fat protocols thesis: http://unchainedpodcast.co/placeholders-joel-monegro-on-the-fat-protocols-thesis-today-ep65
Videos that Jake mentions at the end of the show:
Generalized Mining, An Introduction & Primer by Jake Brukhman, CEO of CoinFund: https://youtu.be/ceex9CN2YZU
Panel #1: Supply Side Services | Generalized Mining and The Third-Party Economy: https://youtu.be/Cr6H2FcidjY
Panel # 2: New Role of Crypto Investors | Generalized Mining and The Third-Party Economy: https://youtu.be/zakQc07GRXA
Panel #3: Staking Economic Design | Generalized Mining and The Third-Party Economy: https://youtu.be/ydViUpTZens
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New Angles on Crypto - Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain - [Invest Like the Best, EP.92]
My guests this week are Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain, both managing partners at Multicoin Capital. I’ve taken a bit of a break from crypto because I hadn’t sensed many new angles to explore in this forum, from an investor’s point of view. I felt that while things keep evolving, the major investment theses have been established and explored. Kyle and Tushar are interesting because of their often divergent views. For example, Kyle has been an outspoken supporter of Ethereum relative to bitcoin. This conversation, which is meant for those still curious about crypto, offers lots of new food for thought. We discuss smart contract platforms, network effects, the coming platform wars, and why blockchains may not matter in ten years. Please enjoy my conversation with the partners of Multicoin Capital.
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Links Referenced
Paths to Tens of Trillions
An (Institutional) Investor’s Take on Cryptoassets
On the Network Effects of Store Value
If SaaS Products Sell Themselves, Why Do We Need Sales?
Money, blockchains, and social scalability
Nakamoto Institute
Token Economy
Multicoin.capital
Crypto Cannon
Show Notes
2:11 - (First Question) – What would get the entire cryptocurrencies ecosphere to 5-10 trillion dollars
2:53 – Paths to Tens of Trillions
4:37 – What will be the effective uses for crypto currencies, store value vs utility value
4:38 – An (Institutional) Investor’s Take on Cryptoassets
8:48 – Why they are negative on bitcoin and more positive on Ethereum
10:07 – Where will start to see widespread adaption of the utility value of cryptocurrencies
14:44 – What is the major breakthrough that cryptocurrencies create
21:21 – How do we gain confidence that a utility token will become a sound investment
25:16 – The different type of network effects
25:47 – On the Network Effects of Store Value
31:18 – How do you convince institutional investors to consider the crypto space
34:21 – Factors that they care about when first evaluating a crypto currency
39:21 – How does technological development and marketing factor into their decision when picking a crypto currency
40:31 – If SaaS Products Sell Themselves, Why Do We Need Sales?
41:42 – Where these two men disagree the most right now
44:07 – Why there’s a chance blockchain technology as we know it today could be irrelevant
44:25 – Money, blockchains, and social scalability
47:56 – Most compelling trends in this world today
51:51 – A favorite resource or person people can look into if they want to learn more
52:22 – Nakamoto Institute
52:57 – Token Economy
53:24 – Multicoin.capital
53:30 – Crypto Cannon
54:14 – Kindest thing anyone has done for them
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Multicoin on the 1 Thing Crypto Teams Miss in Their Quests for Success
Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain, cofounders of Multicoin Capital, dive deeply into their sometimes controversial and unpopular opinions on how the crypto revolution will play out. They describe why they don't think the technology that a team develops early on will play nearly as big a role as some think, why there will be a spectrum of blockchains offering different features with different tradeoffs, and why they're bearish on stablecoins. They discuss why they disagree on whether or not the Lightning Network is revolutionary (and therefore why they disagree on whether Bitcoin is failing). Samani and Jain also explain how they decide whether or not to invest in a token, their strategies for trading and why they don't have to be invested in a project to help out.
Multicoin: https://multicoin.capital/
Kyle Samani: @KyleSamani
Tushar Jain: @TusharJain_
A blog post that came out after we recorded in which Kyle expands on his contention that technical features will matter less in the long-term success of a network than people think: https://multicoin.capital/2018/04/25/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/
Kyle's post on the outlook for coins for store of value, utility tokens and stablecoins: https://multicoin.capital/2018/03/15/paths-to-tens-of-trillions/
More Multicoin thinking around stablecoins: https://multicoin.capital/2018/01/17/an-overview-of-stablecoins/
Previous Unchained episode: Why It's So Hard to Keep Stablecoins Stable: http://unchainedpodcast.co/why-its-so-hard-to-keep-stablecoins-stable
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