Maelstrom

Managed by the family office of Arthur Hayes (co-founder, BitMEX), Maelstrom is building a long-term portfolio across Venture, Liquid, Private Equity, and Public Markets, focused on infrastructure companies and assets that will form the foundation of the next wave of trustless decentralization. We back high-conviction opportunities ranging from early-stage equity and token investments to private and public market positions, bringing to each cap table the experience, relationships, and resources of having built one of the industry’s first profitable unicorns from the ground up.
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Elizabeth A. Kuhns

Founder, COO and Owner

31 past transactions

Gata

Seed Round in 2025
Gata is a technology company that specializes in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. Its primary product is a decentralized data platform that leverages token-based incentives to reward data contributors. This platform facilitates conversations with AI models like ChatGPT and utilizes decentralized storage networks to monetize these interactions. The company's core mission is to enable users to conduct research and produce frontier data, thereby translating AI research into large-scale data production.

Mahojin

Seed Round in 2025
Mahojin operates a Web3 AI platform that facilitates image generation and sharing. It offers users access to a vast, growing library of images, with features like IP tracking, revenue sharing, and remix functionality, enabling creators to monetize their work and users to generate high-quality images easily.

Primus Labs

Seed Round in 2025
Primus connects Web2 data to Web3, offering verified information to AI models while ensuring user privacy.

Primus

Seed Round in 2025
Primus provides AI-powered intelligence in the Web3. It connects Web2 data to Web3, providing AI models with verified inputs while protecting user privacy. It enables DeFi, decentralized healthcare, and Web3 social applications to harness the predictive potential of AI while maintaining data integrity.

Perena

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Perena is a startup focused on building fundamental infrastructure to tackle key challenges in the stablecoin sector. Its platform, designed for decentralized finance (DeFi) purposes, facilitates seamless stablecoin exchange, supports multi-token stable swaps, and offers automated position management. This enables users to optimize yield generation, enhance liquidity, and improve the overall usability of stablecoins within the DeFi ecosystem.

Neptune Protocol

Seed Round in 2024
Neptune Protocol operates a decentralized borrowing platform, facilitating secure and efficient liquidity access for users. It achieves this by allowing customers to deposit multiple cryptocurrencies as collateral, offering low lending rates and issuing loans in its native stablecoin. This enables users to unlock liquidity from their collateral without selling their underlying assets.

Nillion

Venture Round in 2024
Nillion is a computer and network security company that operates a decentralized public network based on a cryptographic primitive called Nil Message Compute (NMC). It develops a decentralized computing platform for secure processing and storage of high-value data, employing privacy technologies to enable confidential computations on masked data. The platform is designed to help healthcare and finance industries manage sensitive information while maintaining robust security standards and operational efficiency.

Magma

Seed Round in 2024
Magma is a decentralized liquid staking protocol built on the Monad Network, an Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 blockchain.

Fluid Protocol

Seed Round in 2024
Fluid Protocol is a decentralized, over-collateralized lending mechanism designed especially for Fuel Network. In order to maximize capital efficiency, Fluid offers users a safe and effective method of releasing liquidity from their collateral without having to liquidate their underlying assets.

Echo Protocol

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Echo Protocol is a technology company that develops decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure. It specializes in creating bridges for seamless asset transfers, liquid staking and restaking solutions, and yield optimization strategies. The company's platform prioritizes transparency, security, and user empowerment, enabling users to access rewards and participate in DeFi without selling or locking up their assets, such as Bitcoin.

Agents World

Seed Round in 2024
Agents World operates as an web3 AI firm.

Drift

Series B in 2024
Drift Protocol is a developer of a decentralized derivatives exchange that focuses on providing on-chain, cross-margined perpetual futures trading on the Solana blockchain. The platform aims to enhance the efficiency of trading futures through an upgraded decentralized system that features a new pegging mechanism. This innovation allows users to adjust liquidity based on market demand and open interest, thereby improving the overall trading experience. Drift Protocol's approach positions its exchange as a competitive option for margin trading within the decentralized finance space.

Infinit

Venture Round in 2024
Infinit is the DeFi Abstraction Layer that removes the enormous friction associated with creating and scaling DeFi ecosystems.

Solayer Labs

Seed Round in 2024
Solayer Labs operates a re-staking network that builds upon the Solana blockchain, extending its capabilities to secure additional systems and enable horizontal scaling. By leveraging the economic security of SOL tokens and sharing Solana's validator network, Solayer allows application developers to achieve a higher degree of consensus and customize block space, enhancing the efficiency and versatility of decentralized cloud infrastructure.

Nectar AI

Seed Round in 2024
Nectar AI specializes in developing AI-powered virtual companions. Their platform enables users to create and interact with personalized digital entities, offering advanced machine learning models and multimodal interaction capabilities for realistic social engagement and entertainment.

BSX

Seed Round in 2024
BSX develops a decentralized trading platform specializing in high-speed options and perpetual futures trading for digital assets. Its platform offers on-chain order execution, support for derivatives, real-time settlement, and non-custodial asset management.

Term Labs

Venture Round in 2024
Term Labs specializes in blockchain research and development, focusing on creating scalable and transparent fixed-rate lending platforms for institutional-scale borrowers and lenders within the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.

Intensity Labs

Seed Round in 2024
Intensity Labs pioneers Shogun, a breakthrough DeFi protocol based on purpose. Shogun enables users to traverse decentralized finance with purpose-driven interactions, resulting in a dynamic financial ecosystem.

Elixir

Series B in 2024
Elixir is a decentralized protocol that facilitates algorithmic market-making across both centralized and decentralized exchanges. It is designed to enhance composability for integrations, allowing retail users to engage in market-making activities and potentially earn profits. Additionally, Elixir provides projects and trading venues with access to active market-making services for their trading pairs, thus promoting liquidity and efficiency in the market. The protocol emphasizes computational security, ensuring that transactions and market activities are conducted safely and reliably.

INIT Capital

Seed Round in 2024
INIT Capital operates a liquidity hook money market platform designed to simplify and streamline DeFi activities such as lending, borrowing, and yield strategies. It aims to serve as the liquidity layer, enabling users to access and manage these services seamlessly through decentralized applications (dApps).

Ethena

Seed Round in 2024
Ethena provides derivative infrastructure in order to transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing stablecoin.

Squid

Series A in 2024
Squid is a developer of financial software that facilitates seamless connectivity between users and developers in the cryptocurrency market. The company's platform enables the swapping of any token across different blockchains, providing a streamlined approach to accessing decentralized applications with a single click. Squid's solution includes an application programming interface and software development kit that allows for native token swaps and messaging between users and applications across various chains. This functionality empowers investors with composable, cross-chain financial logic, enhancing their ability to navigate the complex landscape of cryptocurrency liquidity and applications.

Hyperline

Seed Round in 2024
Hyperline is a platform designed as a data lakehouse for Web3 technologies. It integrates data storage and analytics to support various applications such as data analysis, data science, and machine learning.

Stan

Seed Round in 2024
Stan has established a fan engagement platform designed for esports enthusiasts, enabling them to collect, play, and trade digital collectibles, including non-fungible tokens (NFTs) representing their favorite players and content creators. The platform not only facilitates interaction among gamers but also offers opportunities for fans to earn physical and virtual rewards, such as signed merchandise and exclusive experiences like meeting their favorite players or visiting streamers' boot camps. This approach fosters a deeper connection between fans and the esports community, enhancing overall engagement and participation.

XD Academy

Seed Round in 2023
XD Academy is a e-learning platform specializing in crypto, trading, and blockchain education. It offers interactive video courses and a comprehensive educational database, taught by renowned crypto experts, to help students enhance their understanding of Web3 technology.

Rated Labs

Series A in 2023
Rated Labs is a Web3 infrastructure company that provides granular data on validators and node operators to help users compare performance and understand the health of digital currency networks. Through an API-based data utility platform, Rated Labs offers independent third-party ratings for nodes and operators, robust data pipelines, and a comprehensive infrastructure dataset, enabling developers to analyze the crypto base layer and extract actionable insights about network reliability, security, and performance.

D3

Seed Round in 2023
D3 its goal is to transform the domain name industry by effortlessly connecting Web 1-3.

Aethir

Seed Round in 2023
Aethir develops decentralized cloud infrastructure that aggregates global computing resources, intelligently reallocating idle GPUs from enterprises and consumers. This enables real-time rendering networks at lower costs than centralized alternatives, making complex cloud resources more accessible.

Ethena

Seed Round in 2023
Ethena provides derivative infrastructure in order to transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing stablecoin.

ether.fi

Seed Round in 2023
ether.fi develops decentralized, non-custodial Ethereum staking software that lets users control their private keys while delegating staking operations to node operators to earn rewards. The platform distributes staking rewards to participants and emphasizes user sovereignty by ensuring keys are stored in a secure location not controlled by the node operators. The company also offers a non-custodial credit card that provides early access to membership rewards, further aligning staking with user-owned assets. Overall, ether.fi focuses on secure, software-driven Ethereum staking that minimizes custodial risk while enabling participation in proof-of-stake rewards.

Rover

Rover is a liquid staking protocol on Botanix that exchanges Bitcoin for rovBTC.
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