It’s hard to find a more controversial cryptocurrency than EOS, whose initial coin offering (or ICO) raised a record $4 billion early this month—and whose price has since fallen 40%.
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Even HBO comedian John Oliver ridiculed the project, which seeks to develop a blockchain software platform to power software harnessing the technology that underpins Bitcoin.
Yet that hasn’t deterred Multicoin Capital, an Austin-based crypto hedge fund backed by Andreessen Horowitz’s Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon, Union Square Ventures and other VCs, from sticking with EOS, one of the largest positions in the $75 million fund.
“For now we are holding our position, we haven’t sold any,” Kyle Samani, cofounder of Multicoin, told Fortune’s “Balancing the Ledger,” a weekly show about blockchain and fintech. “The EOS launch did not go as smoothly as we were hoping it would. All things considered, actually it hasn’t gone as badly as I think people say.”