Pantera Capital

Pantera Capital is a Menlo Park-based investment firm that specializes in Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and related companies. Founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who previously served as chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management, the firm initially focused on global macro hedge fund investments until transitioning in 2014 to concentrate solely on the digital currency sector. Pantera Capital believes that Bitcoin has the potential to revolutionize financial transactions, similar to how the Internet transformed communication and commerce. The firm has garnered support from notable shareholders, including Benchmark and Fortress Investment Group, as it navigates the evolving landscape of blockchain technology.

Ryan Barney

Associate

Franklin Bi

Director, Portfolio Development

Paul Brodsky

Partner

Ryan Davis

CFO

Florence Hadi Eid-Oakden

Partner and Head of Middle East and North Africa

Gorham C.F.A., Matthew Joseph

COO

Dan Morehead

Investor

Lauren Stephanian

Principal

Past deals in ASEAN

Ancient8

Seed Round in 2022
Ancient8 is building a DAO that develops the infrastructure layer for GameFi, with a focus on community and software. As Vietnam’s largest blockchain gaming guild, Ancient8 enables everyone to build the Metaverse through scholarship, blockchain education, institutional-grade research, community, and blockchain software products. Ancient8’s vision is to democratize social and financial access in the Metaverse, and is on a mission to reach, educate, and empower the next 100 million Metaverse citizens through the blockchain.

Summoners Arena

Venture Round in 2022
Summoners Arena is an idle-RPG blockchain-based game that integrates traditional and blockchain gaming to provide countless opportunities for players to take part in immersive gameplay, experience true ownership over gaming assets whilst earning crypto assets.

Ancient8

Seed Round in 2022
Ancient8 is building a DAO that develops the infrastructure layer for GameFi, with a focus on community and software. As Vietnam’s largest blockchain gaming guild, Ancient8 enables everyone to build the Metaverse through scholarship, blockchain education, institutional-grade research, community, and blockchain software products. Ancient8’s vision is to democratize social and financial access in the Metaverse, and is on a mission to reach, educate, and empower the next 100 million Metaverse citizens through the blockchain.

GuildFi

Seed Round in 2021
GuildFi is a gaming platform that empowers all gamer communities and creates interoperability across the Metaverse.

Vauld

Series A in 2021
Hi there! if you’re reading this, you’re probably like us – have pretty much all your wealth stored in digitized (or soon to be digitized) assets like money in your bank, mutual funds, stocks or real estate. You probably have a financial advisor guiding you through your investments, a manager from your bank who helps you stay on top of your mortgage payments and a government that prints money responsibly to not de-value your lifetime of savings. But how do you know that the bank manager or your financial advisor has your best interests at heart instead of their own fee and commissions? Your contract explicitly states that they are not responsible for your loss even as they verbally assure you otherwise. How do you know that the digital assets won’t be hacked (traditional bank websites get hacked all the time)? Or that your physical assets won’t be stolen(bank robberies) or taken by fraud (enough examples in real estate)? Governments fall all the time, or change their monetary policies - and your currency today can literally have no value tomorrow (Indian demonetization, Argentina, Venezuela). How do you know it won’t happen to your country? Do you ask these questions? Well, we do all the time. To answer these questions and why we created the Bank of Hodlers, we have to dive into the details of how banking evolved. As early as the 2nd century BC, people who could save money started lending them out to people who could borrow and pay back with interest. Banking as an industry thrived in Italy and grew with the expansion of the Roman Empire. During the 20th century, developments in telecommunications and computing caused major changes to banks' operations and let banks dramatically increase in size and geographic spread. This consolidated the industry and gave the power to a few firms. Fast forward to 2007: their recklessness caused the financial crisis of 2007–2008 forcing failure of many banks, including some of the world's largest banks. The government let the banks live by infusing 1.2 trillion dollars of the taxpayer’s money into a handful of banks and in turn, created the need, wave of innovation and a community for blockchain and the concept of decentralization to thrive. Here’s Alan Greenspan (Chairman – Federal Reserve: 1987-2006), the guy who decided how much money to print in America, admitting that his model was flawed in 2008. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5lZPWNFizQ In 2009, something magical happened, Satoshi Nakamoto released his white paper which removed the need for a centralized authority to facilitate transactions in a purely peer to peer and decentralized fashion and making truly beneficial for every user holding the currency. Some governments, after looking at the threat that bitcoin poses, have decided to take an anti-crypto stance. This ensures the network effect doesn’t happen at a scale where it replaces their national currency. This is where we come in. At the Bank of Hodlers, we intend to treat your cryptocurrencies as a separate asset class and offer services to ensure technologies based on blockchain are usable as of today, negating the need for the network effects and government acceptance to come in. We give every HODLer the ability to completely bank on blockchain today. Every once in a while, there’s a technology jump so large that completely leapfrogs every existing solution out there. Blockchain is this technology jump and the banks know this.

SynFutures

Series A in 2021
SynFutures is a next generation synthetic assets derivatives exchange focused on creating an open and trustless derivatives market by enabling trading on anything with a price feed. By cultivating a free market and maximizing the variety of tradable assets, SynFutures is lowering the barrier to entry in the derivatives market, creating a more equitable digital assets exchange market.

Rangers Protocol

Private Equity Round in 2021
Rangers Protocol is a future virtual world blockchain infrastructure, fully compatible with Ethereum, professionally supports NFT and complex applications, and integrates and expands cross-chain, NFT, EVM, and distributed network protocols.

Rangers Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Rangers Protocol is a future virtual world blockchain infrastructure, fully compatible with Ethereum, professionally supports NFT and complex applications, and integrates and expands cross-chain, NFT, EVM, and distributed network protocols.

Vauld

Seed Round in 2020
Hi there! if you’re reading this, you’re probably like us – have pretty much all your wealth stored in digitized (or soon to be digitized) assets like money in your bank, mutual funds, stocks or real estate. You probably have a financial advisor guiding you through your investments, a manager from your bank who helps you stay on top of your mortgage payments and a government that prints money responsibly to not de-value your lifetime of savings. But how do you know that the bank manager or your financial advisor has your best interests at heart instead of their own fee and commissions? Your contract explicitly states that they are not responsible for your loss even as they verbally assure you otherwise. How do you know that the digital assets won’t be hacked (traditional bank websites get hacked all the time)? Or that your physical assets won’t be stolen(bank robberies) or taken by fraud (enough examples in real estate)? Governments fall all the time, or change their monetary policies - and your currency today can literally have no value tomorrow (Indian demonetization, Argentina, Venezuela). How do you know it won’t happen to your country? Do you ask these questions? Well, we do all the time. To answer these questions and why we created the Bank of Hodlers, we have to dive into the details of how banking evolved. As early as the 2nd century BC, people who could save money started lending them out to people who could borrow and pay back with interest. Banking as an industry thrived in Italy and grew with the expansion of the Roman Empire. During the 20th century, developments in telecommunications and computing caused major changes to banks' operations and let banks dramatically increase in size and geographic spread. This consolidated the industry and gave the power to a few firms. Fast forward to 2007: their recklessness caused the financial crisis of 2007–2008 forcing failure of many banks, including some of the world's largest banks. The government let the banks live by infusing 1.2 trillion dollars of the taxpayer’s money into a handful of banks and in turn, created the need, wave of innovation and a community for blockchain and the concept of decentralization to thrive. Here’s Alan Greenspan (Chairman – Federal Reserve: 1987-2006), the guy who decided how much money to print in America, admitting that his model was flawed in 2008. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5lZPWNFizQ In 2009, something magical happened, Satoshi Nakamoto released his white paper which removed the need for a centralized authority to facilitate transactions in a purely peer to peer and decentralized fashion and making truly beneficial for every user holding the currency. Some governments, after looking at the threat that bitcoin poses, have decided to take an anti-crypto stance. This ensures the network effect doesn’t happen at a scale where it replaces their national currency. This is where we come in. At the Bank of Hodlers, we intend to treat your cryptocurrencies as a separate asset class and offer services to ensure technologies based on blockchain are usable as of today, negating the need for the network effects and government acceptance to come in. We give every HODLer the ability to completely bank on blockchain today. Every once in a while, there’s a technology jump so large that completely leapfrogs every existing solution out there. Blockchain is this technology jump and the banks know this.

Acala Network

Series A in 2020
Acala Network is a decentralized finance hub and stablecoin platform powering cross-blockchain liquidity and applications. It offers a suite of financial primitives: a multi-collateralized stablecoin backed by cross-chain assets such as Bitcoin, a trustless staking derivative, and a decentralized exchange to unleash liquidity to power more financial innovations.

Buxx

Initial Coin Offering in 2018
Buxx is digital cash and can be used to make payments through their exchange or at thousands of partners across the globe. Buxx's mission is to make digital cash accessible for all users across the world. They provide a simple payment method for businesses where they can access payments as fast as they can accept cash face-to-face. BUXX also provides an exchange where you can exchange your buxx for any of the major cryptocurrencies globally.

ODX Pte. Ltd

Seed Round in 2018
ODX is a data marketplace where publishers and internet service providers transact to deliver free internet access to consumers. It leverages blockchain technology and creates a network of trust, generating a truly open ecosystem. Through its data marketplace, ODX unites internet service providers and publishers to offer consumers free internet access via sponsored data packages. Its parent company is a consumer technology company, Xurpas Inc. In 2018, Nix Nolledo established the company in Makati, Manila.

UnikoinGold

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
The Unikrn team is made up of long time gamers, esports nuts, punters, and cryptocurrency maniacs. They live eat breathe sleep esports, gaming, and betting, and they are literally spread out all over the world. Their culture is amazing, and the team dynamic is sometimes hilarious as they have people in Berlin, Croatia, Dehli, Las Vegas, Seattle, Singapore, and Sydney. You'll sometimes find them playing games late into the night or coding in the wee hours of the morning working on the most beautiful products for their community. they're online all the time, and you can learn more about them on the Unikrn website.

Coins.ph

Series A in 2016
Coins.ph Pte. Ltd. is a financial technology company based in Pasig City, Philippines, founded in 2014. It offers a mobile wallet that enables consumers and small businesses to access a range of financial services, including money transfers, bill payments, phone loading, and buying or selling cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. The platform also facilitates local and international remittances, game credits, and online shopping, leveraging blockchain technology to enhance accessibility and streamline transactions. Additionally, Coins.ph provides services such as ATM cash pickup and merchant solutions, making financial services more convenient and user-friendly through mobile devices. The company operates as a subsidiary of PT Go-Jek Indonesia.