‘We’re still in early days overall,’ says CoinFund CIO.

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Episode 102 Season 5 of The Scoop was recorded as follows: Frank Chaparro of The Block and Alex Felix, Chief Investment Officer of CoinFund.

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Alex Felix is Chief Investment Officer at CoinFund.

Last July, CoinFund announced that it had raised $158 million for a new early-stage cryptocurrency startup investment fund.

In this episode, Felix explains how his company is thinking about capital allocation and analyzes institutional interest in early-stage cryptocurrency investing.

According to Felix, the market is still discounting the full potential of web’3.

“Almost everyone has underestimated the size of the web3 market opportunity. It is open source and open competition. If you switch to web3 rails it will be very difficult to compete with web2 or any other business model.”

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Davis Quinton is the Director of Podcasts at The Block and has a flagship podcast called The Scoop, hosted by Frank Chaparro. Since joining The Block as an ‘intern’ in early 2022, he has worked closely with leaders across the department to translate The Block’s written content into engaging multimedia formats. He is a graduate of the Department of Social Studies & Public Policy at New York University, Abu Dhabi, and is based in Sydney, Australia.

Frank Chaparro is the editor of The Block. Chaparro began his career at Business Insider, specializing in the intersection of digital assets and Wall Street, market structure, and financial technology. Shortly after joining Business Insider from Fordham University, Chaparro interviewed top financial and technology executives, including billionaire Mark Cuban, “Flash Boys” star Brad Katsuyama, Cboe Global Markets CEO Ed Tilly and New York Stock Exchange President Tom Farley. In 2018, he became a sought-after reporter in the cryptocurrency world, interviewing high-profile figures such as Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire, and Fundstrat CEO Tom Lee. He runs his own podcast, The Scoop, and writes a biweekly newsletter of the same name. He leads special projects, including The Block’s flagship podcast, The Scoop. Before The Block, she worked at Business Insider, NPR, and Nasdaq. If you have any questions or need any tips, please email me (email protected).

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