8 VCs and 45 funds investing in Staking
Head of Franklin Crypto
Franklin Templeton
Check: Franklin Crypto offers actively managed cryptocurrency strategies to institutional investors; it does not publish a personal venture check range for Chris. His current remit spans liquid digital-asset portfolio management rather than a disclosed startup check mandate, so past CoinFund round sizes are not used as a proxy.
Chris bridges crypto-native markets and traditional institutional finance. As Head of Franklin Crypto, he leads active digital-asset strategies across tokens, protocols, and fintech opportunities. His published work concentrates on financial convergence: creating institution-ready rates, derivatives, custody, clearing, stablecoin, tokenization, and regulatory infrastructure that gives digital markets familiar risk-management tools while preserving their open, programmable advantages.
Chief Investment Officer
Hashdex
Check: Samir is a public/liquid-markets asset manager rather than a disclosed venture check writer. Hashdex publishes fund and index methodologies, not a personal startup check range; pitches should concern investable assets, indexes, products, research, or institutional partnerships rather than assume venture capital authority.
Samir views crypto as a long-horizon technology and asset-class allocation rather than a short-term trade. His framework has two complementary pillars: bitcoin maturing as a scarce store of value and macro asset, and smart-contract networks becoming financial infrastructure for stablecoins, tokenization, payments, DeFi, and staking. He favors diversified, transparent, rules-based access to mature liquid assets and evaluates adoption through economic utility, network effects, market infrastructure, regulatory progress, and portfolio contribution.
Investment Director
HashKey Capital
Check: No verified personal check-size range is published. HashKey Capital operates multiple venture, liquid, and multi-strategy vehicles; fund size and disclosed portfolio rounds should not be converted into Yerui's individual authority.
Yerui is a HashKey investment director with documented fund-committee responsibility and a contributor to the firm's technical sector research. The research evaluates infrastructure and applications across ZK, MEV, intents, account abstraction, data availability, Bitcoin, AI x crypto, DePIN, staking, and related Web3 layers. The consistent lens is whether technical design improves transaction flow, verifiability, capital efficiency, decentralization, and real demand.
General Partner
ether.fi Ventures
Check: $500K–$1M, from a current public ether.fi Ventures fundraising statement. The live site positions Fund I at pre-seed through Series A and publishes ventures@ether.fi. Confirm allocation, instrument, ownership target and whether the fund will lead; the current site says $20M committed capital while the April 2025 launch post described $40M, so fund-size headlines should not be used to infer check capacity.
David backs technical, early-stage teams at the intersection of finance, AI and crypto that pair crypto-native properties with real adoption. His clearest current thesis is a two-layer build: first achieve web2-grade safety, recourse, fraud prevention and consumer experience; then use composability, programmable money, non-custodial ownership, transparency and global 24/7 access to deliver step-change utility. He favors strategic partnerships where ether.fi's users, liquidity, validator capacity and distribution materially improve a company's odds—not passive capital alone.
Principal
Greenfield Capital
Check: Not publicly disclosed. Greenfield has led and joined pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds, but public round sizes are not personal or firm check sizes.
Gleb leads Greenfield's DeFi work, combining protocol research, infrastructure operating experience, and deal execution. His current research emphasizes capital-efficient and safer liquidity architecture, intent-based execution, MEV and sequencing, and go-to-market systems that convert speculative launch capital into durable protocol use. Greenfield's broader mandate is to back early developer teams building an open, decentralized, and robust web across private, public, and liquid opportunities.
Partner
NGC Ventures
Check: No personal or firm ticket is disclosed on NGC's site. Zi's partner title, accelerator mentorship and infrastructure responsibilities show meaningful technical involvement but do not prove a standard range or unilateral decision authority.
Zi focuses on blockchain infrastructure from research through live network operation. He evaluates execution bottlenecks, layer-2 and appchain architecture, EVM compatibility and parallel processing, while StakeX exposes him to validator operations across networks such as NYM, Algorand, SKALE and Avalanche. The result is a practical lens on whether protocol performance claims survive testnets, incentives and production operations.
Founder & CEO
Rockaway Blockchain Fund
Rockaway Blockchain Fund invests in DeFi and infrastructure from Prague. One of Central Europe's most active crypto investors with positions in Solana, Lido, and other major protocols.
Investment & Portfolio Manager
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