Multicoin Capital, an Austin-based crypto hedge fund backed by Andreessen Horowitz’s Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon, Union Square Ventures and other VCs, is long on EOS (EOS) and Ethereum (ETH) — but bearish on Litecoin (LTC) and Ripple (XRP).
EOS LAUNCH ‘HASN’T GONE AS BADLY AS I THINK PEOPLE SAY’
Multicoin cofounder Kyle Samani told Fortune‘s “Balancing the Ledger” that his company is sticking with EOS, despite the negativity surrounding its mainnet launch. He explained:
For now we are holding our position, we haven’t sold any. The EOS launch did not go as smoothly as we were hoping it would. All things considered, actually it hasn’t gone as badly as I think people say. […] I concur that it wasn’t as good as it should have been given the resources they had, so they made some mistakes, and slipped up. But on a long-term time horizon those are rounding errors, they don’t really matter.
Of course, many in the cryptocurrency space would disagree with Samani’s sentiment, following the slew of negative news which followed EOS’ launch on a near-daily basis.
It’s also worth noting that Samani’s Multicoin Capital reportedly has a very large stake in EOS.