Mined with CoinFund
There’s so much noise across the echo chamber of crypto culture. What’s something people aren’t talking enough about?
Mined with CoinFund is a weekly show that explores the unearthed narratives within the crypto space. As a team of early stage investors and operators, our business is built on idea-spotting: catching a glimmer of one intriguing idea that could become a market-shaping opportunity.
Mining is a cryptographic process, but in the physical world, it is digging through boulders to find gems. We aim to uncover unpopular truths and unspoken perspectives that deserve to be debated.
Episodes
27 episodes
The Journey To Yield
Staking is a critical unlock for blockchains. While it’s a great incentive to kickstart activity in an ecosystem, over time, locked assets can have adverse effects such as high inflation and little activity. That’s what Drop Co-Foun...
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Episode 27
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44:15
Why Now Is the Time for Zero Knowledge Adoption ft. Matter Labs, Icebreaker and Sindri
Crypto and zero knowledge (ZK) both share an ethos of privacy and verifiability. With the rapid acceleration of AI, there has never been a more important year to prioritize proofs. While ZK has flourished within web3, what needs to ...
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Episode 26
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43:27
CoinFund Bites Vol. 1 | Li.Fi & Rhinestone
Ethereum interoperability and chain abstraction are some of the hottest topics in web3. Dig in with founders in our portfolio in CoinFund Bites, our founder fireside series. Catch interviews with: LiFi Founder Phili...
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Episode 25
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13:32
The Most Nonconsensus Approach to Training Models
The rapid rise of DeepSeek earlier this year provided many developers the tremendous validation that open source AI could overtake centralized machine learning. Still, there’s one nonconsensus approach to training models that is hotly debated i...
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Episode 24
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52:11
Without Blockchain, IP Can’t Fuel AI
As large companies race to build the next best AI models, the competition for data becomes increasingly fierce. Without a real business model for obtaining differentiated IP, how will these AI organizations be able to scale their models? <...
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Episode 23
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50:55
What the $LIBRA Pump & Dump Teaches Us About Memecoins
Last week’s $LIBRA launch was not like other pump and dump schemes. Between Argentina’s President Javier Milei tweeting about the coin, creator Hayden Davis’ role in launching $MELANIA, insider trading and sniping accusations and it...
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Episode 22
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22:20
The Need for Token Standards in 2025
Thousands of tokens launch everyday in crypto.While many of these tokens share similar traits, Superstate CEO and Co-Founder Robert Leshner argues that there are few standards for complex assets like security tokens, but once established...
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Episode 21
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52:26
Scaling Niche Labor Works Best with DePINs
The gig economy has taught us that strong incentives help coordinate human behavior on a large scale. With the rise of Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePINs), Raad Labs Co-Founder TJ Ragsdale believes the most effec...
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Episode 20
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46:07
DeepSeek and the Dominance of Open Source AI
The explosion of DeepSeek sent shockwaves through markets this week, and AI companies and consumers are scrambling to make sense of its rapid success. But according to Akash Network Founder Greg Osuri, the answer is simple: open sou...
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Episode 19
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51:08
Memecoins Drive Culture, Whether You Like $TRUMP or Not
President Trump’s inauguration has kicked off a new era of crypto’s regulatory acceptance in the US. But after launching his $TRUMP memecoin over the weekend and raking in billions, many are left with mixed feelings about what the next four yea...
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Episode 18
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48:13
Forget the Chain: Just Start Transacting
The competition between blockchain networks is fierce. Will monolithic or modular blockchains take the lead? Which L1 will come out on top? Which L2? Instead of asking these questions, ether.fi Co-Founder and CEO Mike Silagadze argu...
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Episode 17
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42:49
Web3 Gamers Value Experience Over Technology
Web3 is comprised of some of the most advanced technological innovation to date. But gamers don’t care to interact with it, at least today. According to Gunzilla Games’ Director of Web3 Theodore Agranat, in order to onboard the next...
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Episode 16
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44:44
Only ZK Can Automate Trust
What’s one thing in crypto that no one is talking about, but should be paying attention to? According to Alex Gluchowski, Co-Founder and CEO of Matter Labs – the company behind zkSync – it’s that ZK is the only technology that enabl...
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Episode 15
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48:57
Around the Block: Decentralized Training
One of the most non-consensus narratives in AI today is decentralized training. While some claim it will never work, others believe that open-source innovation is the key to democratizing AI. CoinFund CEO and Founder Jak...
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Episode 14
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1:31:18
Pudgy Penguins’ Physical and Digital Approach to Web3 IP
In 2021, hundreds of creators launched NFT collections, with plans to build robust brands around digitally-native IP. Today, only a handful of projects have been able to do so, and one colony of penguins has taken the lead in bringi...
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Episode 13
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40:28
The New World Needs Proof of Personhood
Since 2020, CoinFund’s investment thesis in World – formerly Worldcoin – has been driven by the idea that biometric proof of personhood is critical for identity verification. While World was met with criticism in the summer of 2023 ...
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Episode 12
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46:57
Building Without Buzzwords Is Harder Than It Looks
Web3 has attracted some of the most technical developers across the world, finding innovative ways to leverage blockchain framework. But often, builders tend to forget that crypto’s nomenclature problem can alienate consumers from seeing the tr...
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Episode 11
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44:49
Only Humans Can Scale Web3 Cybersecurity
It’s commonly known in crypto that if you’re launching a Layer 1 blockchain, you should ensure it has absolutely zero bugs. To accomplish this, you need a thorough security audit that carefully combs through your code and pinpoints all vulnerab...
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Episode 10
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40:35
The Fight to Decentralize AI Model Training
While crypto may be considered insular, AI is already a global phenomenon demonstrating Web 2.0-sized scale and implications. As large machine learning companies rapidly release new applications, their valuations have soared, partnering with le...
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Episode 9
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33:27
Crypto is Too Insular To Be Considered Global…Yet
One of the core narratives around decentralization is that anyone in the world can create, contribute to, or interact with a protocol. But when looking at regional and vertical adoption, it’s clear that crypto is still too insular to truly be a...
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Episode 8
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42:47
Circle's CEO Thinks Crypto Adoption Is Driven From the Bottom-up
Institutional adoption is regarded as one of the most important milestones for crypto. Between ETF approvals, big banks being bullish, and wall street traders making bets on digital currency, it seems like those at the helm of the global financ...
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Episode 7
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42:59
Takers Need Profits, And So Do Makers
In order to have a sustainable economy onchain, you need takers – and makers – to be profitable over time. In the world of DeFi, Logan Jastremski, co-founder and Managing Partner of Frictionless Capital, thinks that long-term market maker profi...
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Episode 6
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34:06
Win Consumers With Trust, Not Tokens
It’s our most controversial episode yet. The tokens are broken and have destroyed the consumer playbook too, according to Icebreaker co-founders Dan Stone and Jack Dillé. What if we put less things onchain and leveraged crypto to build trust an...
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Episode 5
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41:43
NFTs Aren’t Dead – But The Word ‘NFT’ Should Be
Crypto is plagued by incomprehensible buzzwords. Does anyone really know what ‘non-fungible’ means in the context of NFTs? Ridhima Kahn, VP at Dapper Labs, argues that the crypto industry must cater to the audience it's try...
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Episode 4
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41:31
ZK is a Developer Nightmare – We Need to Break Out of The Black Box
It’s no secret that zero knowledge is a highly technical realm of the web3 space. How do you deliver novel value while working to onboard the masses? That’s the biggest issue in ZK right now, according to Stasia Carson (@etainos), c...
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Episode 3
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44:45