Richard Malone
@crypto_malone
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Investor, builder, and advisor to crypto startups and other fun businesses 🇺🇸🇵🇹🇹🇭
Comporta, PT
Joined April 2015
@pagrin_ is stepping into the @Polygon RWA & Payments cohort to supercharge the future of stablecoin adoption, turning crypto payments into real-world rewards and elite perks. Hats off to the legends at @Hadronfc
10 founders. 1 city. Building where Payments meet RWA - the twin engines of the next on-chain economy. Meet the ones rewriting the system ↓ @kem_app — the molecular engineer of payments. @Suno_finance — the solar economist. @0xspiralstake — the yield ecologist. @AtharFinance —
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MAINNET IS ALIVE. DROSERA IS REALITY. Join the Early Supporters initiative: https://t.co/rXEg00DLQj
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We’re launching Catalysis Coverage on @symbioticfi, a modular and fully onchain risk coverage network built for institutional DeFi. - Programmable payouts - Transparent pricing - Risk-specific CoverPools - Compliance-first design
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Catalysis Coverage Unlocking Restaked Capital Into Programmable Risk Coverage 1/ We are releasing our final piece on @0xcatalysis: a deep-dive on Coverage, a novel on-chain insurance mechanism, leveraging restaked capital and slashing.
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9/ Catalysis is backed by industry-leading investors and advisors like: @HashedEM
@FunFairVentures
@CosmostationVD
@Presto_Labs
@SpaceshipDAO
@CryptoTimes_io
@StakeCapital
@bneiluj
@MEVCapital
@0xjim
@nodeinfra
@crypto_malone
@eash0x
@dhi_g0
@zeroknowledgeGC
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Working in crypto investment banking throughout the OG DeFi summer in 2020, one of the top 3 deterrents for institutions joining the party was: “Web3 has no legitimate insurance Protocol - nothing remotely close to sufficient for us to go onchain” Fast forward 5+ years, I
Today, we announce Catalysis’ NEW focus: Onchain Risk Coverage purpose-built for INSTITUTIONAL scale. > $20B+ in protection from @symbioticfi and others > Transparent pricing & programmable payouts > Institution-first design > Supported by @SpiceProtocol, @BimaBTC and
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To my fellow Americans - we're at a critical juncture. Together we heal, or together we decay. Hate and radicalization are not the answers. Embodying the American ethos of optimism, I have faith we will learn and grow from this. 🇺🇸❤️
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Ethena: $500,000,000,000 Target Valuation Ethena was the fastest-growing dollar asset to reach $10B value locked - we believe it’ll also be the first to hit $10T. By 2028 Ethena may generate $25B interest income Model by @CryptoHayes. NFA
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Etherfi: $36,000,000,000 Target Valuation As stablecoins upgrade the financial system Etherfi is set to be the world’s leading neobank. By 2028 it could reach $2B annualized revenue. 34x upside from current $1.06B FDV. Model by @CryptoHayes. NFA
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The best investors know this. Team > product. Market > product. I think sometimes new VCs or herd followers dive wayyy too deep into product, and it's cost them fund-returners as a result.
The biggest fumbles and the biggest wins in my entire 8 years in crypto (jesus christ i’m old) have one thing in common Betting on founders and team vs. the idea I fumbled the seed rounds for Ethena, EtherFi & Babylon because I deemed the original ideas to be not interesting,
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The biggest fumbles and the biggest wins in my entire 8 years in crypto (jesus christ i’m old) have one thing in common Betting on founders and team vs. the idea I fumbled the seed rounds for Ethena, EtherFi & Babylon because I deemed the original ideas to be not interesting,
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A unified gateway to $20B+ in economic security. Catalysis Core v0 is NOW LIVE — The first Security Abstraction Layer that unleashes unified restaked security across Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana.
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Who’s building tokenized real estate investment platform that allows an investor to go long or short on specific real estate markets? Like long Lisbon/short Porto for example. Not individual properties, but entire regions (or some large basket of assets in specific markets) I
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The Alpha release of Symbiotic Relay is now available. Developers can now build verifiable, multichain apps in minutes. Contracts, node software, and examples are now live on GitHub. Stake once, verify anywhere, on any chain.
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TIME MACHINE IS LIVE What is it? Think options or Polymarket but dead simple, with asymmetric payouts and zero manipulation. For the next two weeks, step into the Time Machine campaign. Encrypt your price prediction, earn points, and win big. Free for a limited time.
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