Maelstrom
Maelstrom is a founder-led, early-stage investment fund run by the family office of Arthur Hayes, co-founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform BitMEX. The fund is building a long-term portfolio of infrastructure companies that will serve as the foundation of the next wave of trustless decentralization. The fund typically targets venture-stage investments between $100K – $250K and brings differentiated value to cap tables.
ABOUT MAELSTROM
Maelstrom is a cryptocurrency-focused, early-stage investment fund that invests in trustless decentralization to monetize the internet.
They build on a 10/20/50-year horizon, focusing their investments on infrastructure start-ups powering the next wave of decentralization.
The fund is managed by the family office of Arthur Hayes, who co-founded BitMEX, a successful cryptocurrency derivatives exchange.
Obol. Decentralizing single points of failure in proof-of-stake networks.
Hyperline. Lowering cost barriers to producing next-generation, data-powered products for Web3.
Aethir. Breaking the real-time rendering bottleneck facing streamed gaming content in hardware constrained – but high-growth – markets.
Auki. Solving limitations of existing geospatial positioning and AR technologies.
Nillion. Breaking the speed-barrier of legacy ‘secure multi-party computation’ technology.
Ether.fi. Pioneering genuinely trustless delegated node operation.
Quasar. Breaking down digital asset liquidity silos with noncustodial, interchain decentralized finance.
Noxx. Unleashing the future of work with zkp-based payroll/compliance infrastructure.
Term. Bringing institutional-grade scalability and usability to DeFi fixed-rate lending.
Rated. Underpinning a generation of new staking business models with mission-critical observability for node operations.
Ion Protocol. Dramatically expanding use cases, liquidity and capital efficiency of non fungible staked/restaked ETH assets.
Pendle. Unleashing the potential of the interest rate derivative market in cryptocurrency.