Kyle Samani
Kyle Samani is the co-founder of Multicoin Capital, the thesis-driven crypto investment firm he started in 2017 that became known for leading Solana's seed round in 2018 and for early bets on projects like The Graph and Helium. A former engineer who founded and sold the health IT company Pristine before crypto, he popularized frameworks such as "internet capital markets" and Solana's IBRL (Increase Bandwidth, Reduce Latency) performance thesis. In 2025 he led the $1.65 billion PIPE that turned Forward Industries into the world's largest Solana treasury company and became its chairman, and in 2026 he stepped back from Multicoin's day-to-day operations while remaining Forward's chairman and a vocal Solana advocate. He holds degrees in finance and management from NYU.
28 talks by Kyle Samani
- Crypto: The End of the Beginning
- The Future of Real World Assets
- Building The Largest Solana Treasury Company | Kyle Samani
- Building The Largest Solana Treasury Company | Kyle Samani
- Lightspeed Cross-Post: The State of Solana DeFi With Kyle Samani & Chris Heaney
- Are L2s Extensions of Ethereum?
- Investors Roundtable: Navigating Crypto's Changing Landscape
- Why is ETH Down so bad?
- How to Value L1s, L2s, and Crypto Assets | Kyle Samani
- Network Effects and Value Accrual in Crypto | Kyle Samani
- Network Effects and Value Accrual in Crypto | S7 E7 | Kyle Samani
- Debating the DePIN Flywheel: Token Incentives and Business Models | Kyle Samani & Dmitriy Berenzon
- Ending the Modular vs Monolithic Debate | Kyle Samani
- Ending the Modular vs Monolithic Debate | Kyle Samani
- L2s Wont Scale Ethereum | Multicoin
- The Chopping Block: Is Coinbase’s Base ‘the Binance Smart Chain for White People’? - Ep. 463
- The Chopping Block: Why Solana’s Frequent Downtime Doesn't Bother Kyle Samani- Ep. 362
- Kyle Samani & Tushar Jain: Multicoin Capital – An Update From the Thesis-Driven Investment Firm #441
- SOL Is Up 3,800% YTD. Could It Eventually Displace Ethereum? - Ep. 191
- Intro to Solana - with Kyle Samani, Su Zhu, and Hasu
- How Solana and Binance Smart Chain Could Take Ethereum's Lead - Ep.240
- Kyle Samani: Multicoin Capital – The Thesis-Driven Cryptoasset Investment Firm #361
- The Most Forkable DeFi Protocols on Ethereum - Ep.166
- Teetering on the Edge: How Black Thursday Exposed the Flaws in the Crypto Markets - Ep.164