跑步入场的传统风投,机构要吃下整个加密行业新头部?

白话区块链Опубліковано о 2022-03-28Востаннє оновлено о 2022-03-28

Анотація

3月22日,总资产管理规模1500亿美元的桥水基金(BridgewaterAssociates)计划支持一家外部加密投资基金,从而开始涉及加密领域,此前其总裁RayDalio更是公开表示自己持有比特币。

3月22日,总资产管理规模1500亿美元的桥水基金(BridgewaterAssociates)计划支持一家外部加密投资基金,从而开始涉及加密领域,此前其总裁RayDalio更是公开表示自己持有比特币。

而3月23日,据TheBlock报道,由a16z前合伙人KatieHaun领导的风投机构HaunVentures也已为其两个专注于加密资产的风投基金筹集了15亿美元,其中5亿美元用于早期投资,10亿美元用于“加速器”基金。

01

大手笔“AllinCrypto”的红杉资本

大风起于青萍之末,近段时间尤其是迈入2022年以来,传统互联网时代大放异彩的风投巨头们,开始明显地越来越多出现在加密世界的投融资事件中,甚至直接成立加密领域的相关投资基金(有的直接投资加密资产),开始大手笔的布局。

其中动作最为明显地,无疑就是红杉资本了,它从去年就开始频频发出高调AllinCrypto和Web3的信号:

2021年12月8日,红杉资本将推特简介变更为“Mainnetfaucet.WehelpthedaringbuidllegendaryDAOsfromideatotokenairdrops.LFG”(我们帮助有胆识的人缔造传奇DAO,从创意到token空投)——虽然现在又改回来了。

而到了今年2月18日,红杉资本则直接推出规模5至6亿美元加密资产投资基金,这也是红杉资本自1972年成立以来的首个特定行业基金。

除了加密资产子基金,红杉资本还将继续通过其主要的种子基金、风险基金、成长基金和扩张基金投资加密资产初创公司,这些基金的总资本承诺超过75亿美元。

红杉资本主要投资于流动性代币,包括在加密资产交易平台上市和尚未上市的代币,单个项目投资规模在10万至5000万美元之间,并计划参与从质押到提供流动性再到治理等流程。

自2014年以来,红杉资本一直在股权和代币交易中投资加密的赛道,去年其在美国和欧洲的新投资中有20%是加密项目,投资组合包括Filecoin、FTX、Fireblocks、StarkWare、BitClout、IronFish、ParallelFinance等等。

此外,红杉资本对跨链互操作性和GameFi项目特别感兴趣,并认为多链是未来,红杉正在监控跨网络的开发人员活动,包括Terra、Avalanche、NEAR、Polkadot和Cosmos。

02

跑步入场的风投基金们

其实在2021年之前,整个加密行业只有灰度充当合格投资者与机构介入Crypto市场的一个中间管道,实现了投资者与加密资产之间的弱连接状态,打通增量场外资金直接入场的渠道。

而如今伴随着加密资产相关ETF的接续推出,以及在不断创新(DeFi、Web3)及体量增长下市场对加密资产认知和态度的急速转变,整个加密行业的“机构”属性正在明显加码。

其中最直接的一个表现无疑就是动辄上亿美元资金规模的以加密资产为重点的大型风投基金正在形成。

今年2月,ArkInvest就申请启动风险基金ARKVenture,该基金将投资于涉及颠覆性创新的公司,包括开发、使用或依赖区块链技术的公司,还可能通过投资灰度比特币信托(GBTC)间接投资比特币等加密资产。

随即进入三月份后,传统机构和资本入局的速度开始让人眼花缭乱:

3月7日,大型交易公司DRWHoldings开始提供加密资产的场外双边期权交易服务,其目标用户为比特币矿工以及需要对冲风险或产生收益的加密资产投资者,该产品允许交易者自定义每笔交易的到期日、执行价格和基础代币;

3月8日,美国私募股权投资公司BainCapital旗下投资公司贝恩资本风险投资公司BainCapitalVentures推出5.6亿美元加密基金,会在未来几年内投资大约30家公司,目前已经投资了约1亿美元资金;

3月10日,软银集团子公司ZHoldings首席执行官透露,ZHoldings计划于今年春季在全球180个国家推出NFT市场,并将斥巨资将其支付应用PayPay的用户量增长一倍至9000万;

3月11日,风险投资公司BessemerVenturePartners已承诺从现有基金中投资2.5亿美元,用于投资三个核心领域的Web3项目:消费者去中心化金融(DeFi)、基础设施和其他“支持技术”;

3月16日,日本社交巨头LINE与Visa、Crypto.com等26家公司在游戏、漫画、娱乐、元宇宙、艺术等领域展开合作,计划建立全球NFT价值链;

3月21日,高盛宣布与GalaxyDigital进行首次场外加密资产交易,本次交易通过比特币的无本金交割外汇期权进行,代表了银行向其客户提供直接、可定制的加密资产风险敞口的第一步;

大部分风投机构都是在去年年中开始投资加密赛道,并且以CeFi类与基础设施类项目为主,并且时常以领投的身份出现。

加密世界与传统金融世界,通过彼此的VC投资,似乎开始逐渐深度交织了起来。

03

传统风投的心头好有哪些?

机构投资人不断进入加密资产市场,或加密资产市场的“机构化”(Institutionalization)将是一个不可阻挡的趋势。

那对这些传统风投而言,在加密世界里进行掘金,哪些加密投资主题最能吸引它们的目光?

从具体项目上来看,传统机构的投资类型几乎覆盖大部分主流赛道,包括Layer1、Layer2、NFT、CeFi、DeFi、隐私、Web3、SocialFi等等,且几乎是各有偏爱:

像高盛似乎钟情于加密数据赛道,在其目前为数不多的Crypto布局中相继投资了区块链基础设施服务商Blockdaemon、加密数据公司CoinMetrics;

软银则喜欢各赛道的龙头或明星项目,像交易平台FTX、灰度母公司DCG、沙盒游戏TheSandbox、公链Polygon等;

光速创投则更偏爱底层基础设施,譬如Terra开发商TerraformLabs、加密资产做市商Wintermute、Web3开发平台Alchemy、Web3基础设施开发商MystenLabs、Layer2解决方案Arbitrum等等;

此外NFT则可谓最受广大机构的一致青睐,就在前几天,BoredApeYachtClub发行方YugaLabs再以40亿美元估值完成新一轮4.5亿美元融资,也是截至目前NFT行业最大一笔融资,本轮融资由a16z领投,参投方中除了加密行业常见风投之外,不乏Samsung、GoogleVentures、TigerGlobal等“传统势力”。

04

小结

总的来说,加密交易体系的合规化奠定了机构投资者入场的基础,因此从某种程度上讲,如今跑步大手笔进场的传统机构和资本们,从侧面显示了加密市场正在加速合规化和向主流迈近(即便是以“另类资产”的形式得到认可)。

“加密资产将成为未来20-30年最大的趋势”,面对传统机构和资本的愈发笃定和跑步入场,加密世界,正在迎来自己的关键时刻。

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