Ep. 693 How Coinbase Ventures Invest in Crypto Projects and Their 2026 Outlook

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Bryce Paul & Brendan Viehman

Business, Tech News, News, Investing, Business News

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🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Crypto 101 podcast, hosts Bryce and Brendan engage with Hoolie Tejwani, head of Coinbase Ventures, to discuss the current state of the crypto market, investment strategies, and emerging trends. They explore the importance of a long-term perspective in crypto investing, the impact of regulation, and the growing significance of IPOs in the crypto space. Hoolie shares insights on the Coinbase Mafia, startup culture, and the lessons learned from making over 500 investments in the crypto ecosystem.

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Chapters

00:00 Navigating the Crypto Winter

02:58 Understanding Coinbase Ventures

05:58 Investment Strategies and Underwriting in Crypto

09:02 Long-Term Perspectives on Crypto Investments

11:57 Market Trends and Future Opportunities

14:52 Emerging Technologies and Investment Focus

17:54 The Investment Process and Market Dynamics

22:45 Market Optimism and Growth in Crypto

24:24 Understanding the Clarity Act and Its Implications

28:19 Innovations in Capital Formation: Echo and Sonar

30:41 The Impact of Crypto IPOs on Venture Capital

35:42 The Coinbase Mafia: Building a Network of Innovators

38:44 Key Traits of Successful Founders

41:34 Looking Ahead: Optimism for 2026

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Crypto 101 podcast presented by Gemini, your bridge to the future of money.
0:10.4	All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Crypto 101 podcast.
0:19.6	I'm your co-host, Bryce, super jazzed for today.
0:23.5	We've got a great guest. Brendan, how are you doing? I'm doing good too, man. We're hanging
0:29.1	in there through this last little season of the crypto market. A little colder than expected,
0:34.0	but we're all good. It's like a freaking winter, both, you know, in, uh, in the seasons,
0:40.5	but also in the market. I don't know. I'm starting to get, you know, behind this idea that we've
0:45.9	been in a bear market, uh, this whole year, you know, Bitcoin, you know, Ethereum, things are
0:50.4	negative on the year. I was looking at some of these small cap crypto indexes that are down
0:55.0	60, 70% on the year. And so definitely not a bull market, although there have been pockets of optimism.
1:02.3	There's been a lot of good fundamentals that have developed, but prices haven't caught up.
1:08.1	So yeah, so a lot of questions in our mind and our audience mind. And while we won't be
1:13.2	focusing so much on prices in this episode, we're going to be talking about what the builders
1:18.5	are excited about and what the long-term venture investors are doing. And what they think really
1:26.1	this whole long-term view of crypto really is
1:30.6	um give us a little bit of optimism amidst some of the the pessimism and the price charts but
1:35.9	uh with that little preamble out of the way we are so excited to welcome the head of coinbase ventures
1:40.9	huli tajwani uh thank you for joining us. How are you doing? Doing great.
1:45.7	Thanks, Bryce, Brennan. And don't worry about the price charts. It's all about time rising.
1:52.0	Yeah. No, it's it's hard, you know, crypto's trading 24-7. And so, you know, you get off work and it's like,
1:58.3	oh, well, might as well check the prices. Oh, bad price. Why did I do that?
2:02.3	But we want to zoom out a little bit, get acquainted with who you are, Huli.
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