MARKET BUBBLE

Markets & Culture • Banks & Blknoiz06
Ep 14 — Thursday, August 6, 2026 2026-08-06

Multicoin's Jain Says Zcash Is Now 'Mathematically Proven' — and Privacy Is the Next Big Trade (no chart)

Tushar Jain breaks down the Ironwood upgrade, a Solana seed round held through FTX, and a ~$20 Hyperliquid entry; WSOP champion Rasmr joins the second half.

Multicoin Capital founder Tushar Jain told the Market Bubble audience Thursday that Zcash's new Ironwood pool is formally verified — a mathematical proof it cannot carry the minting bug patched in June — and quantum recoverable, and that the firm bought more ZEC after the vulnerability news because no exploitation was ever found. Jain also walked through Multicoin's Solana seed round, by far the fund's biggest position and held through the FTX collapse, plus a Hyperliquid position built near $20 in February. WSOP Solana Invitational champion Rasmr rounded out the episode with his Mars coin trade and his public 'aura farming' playbook.

Ironwood Makes Zcash 'Mathematically Proven' After June Vulnerability Scare (no chart)

Jain pushed back on calling it a hack, noting Zcash core developers patched a critical vulnerability in early June that had sat in the code base since 2022 and could have allowed infinite minting inside the Orchard pool had it been exploited. With no evidence of exploitation, Multicoin actually bought more ZEC after the news, he said, and the new Ironwood pool is formally verified, meaning its correctness is mathematically proven rather than merely audited. Jain added the chain is now quantum recoverable, so even quantum computers that could crack Satoshi's Bitcoin keys could not take a user's Zcash.

From Seed Round to FTX Rubble: The $50 Billion Solana Trade (no chart)

Jain recounted how Multicoin led Solana's seed round, made it by far the biggest position in the fund for a long time, held through the FTX collapse, and even bought additional tokens off the FTX estate as it was being liquidated. He framed Solana as 'the big public internet' versus private networks like Canton, predicting spot issuance of tokenized securities, bonds and equities lands on Solana, while Hyperliquid remains a specialized, vertically integrated derivatives venue. The hosts, who put Solana's market cap at $50 billion, called the chain the blue-chip of this market.

Hyperliquid at $20, EOS at $4 Billion: The Wins and the Wounds (no chart)

Multicoin skipped Hyperliquid's venture round and waited through a hot listing to confirm users and volume were sustainable, then put on a big position in February of this year at roughly $20, Jain said. He also owned up to EOS — the fund's biggest position in early 2018 in a project that raised $4 billion and then stopped building, where Multicoin lost almost all of its money — and to selling BNB too early at about $20 after buying near $6 in late 2018. Helium, the 2019 DePIN bet where Multicoin was the first investor, has not worked out yet but the thesis is not invalidated, he added.

Zama Is Multicoin's Biggest Bet on Privacy for Tokenized Securities (no chart)

Jain named Zama, a privacy network using fully homomorphic encryption that allows private transactions on Ethereum and is coming to Solana soon, as the fund's biggest bet on the privacy piece of the tokenized securities thesis. 'If you want to trade size, you need privacy,' he argued, saying institutions will never bring equities and bonds on chain if every wallet is public and every trade can be front-run.

'AI Has Replaced IQ': Jain Tells Young Traders the Edge Is Agency (no chart)

Jain argued intelligence is no longer an economically important input for humans, comparing the AI shift to the industrial revolution erasing physical strength as the path to wealth, and said what matters now is agency — making up your own mind and being relentless. He outlined the four possible sources of edge — access or informational, analytical, psychological and structural — and admitted he hates being wrong more than he hates losing money.

WSOP Champion Rasmr: 'I Don't Trade for Money, I Trade for Aura' (no chart)

Rasmr, fresh off his Solana-sponsored WSOP win and a cancellation on July 5th that he says he answered with pure focus on trading, detailed his Mars coin position: $20,000 in at a $3 million market cap, betting on a Binance catalyst with '10, 20, 50 X' upside. He said he trades publicly for the aura farm rather than the money, and that his kimchi-style order dump post drew 30 million views and a mimic from Tristan Thompson.

Kimchi Trend Goes Gigaviral: 20 Million Views and Counting (no chart)

Banks and Blknoiz06 recapped the kimchi clip-farming masterclass from the prior show, a clip that surpassed 20 million views across platforms and grew into a global TikTok trend worth hundreds of millions of impressions, with Stable Ronaldo, TJR and Lacey hopping on. The WSOP itself made headlines when a 22-year-old won the $10 million main event, while the Solana Invitational poker production drew an overwhelmingly negative CT response that the hosts used to argue crypto needs a rebrand and trading needs culture.

Stock Broker and Cash Cat: The Tokenized Stock Memes Heating Up the Trenches (no chart)

Rasmr broke down Stock Broker, a half-NFT, half-meme project where 70% of swap fees buy tokenized stocks on Robinhood chain, with roughly 17% of total supply burned and circulating supply around 35%. On Cash Cat, he flagged the tell: the token was still at a $45 million market cap when it appeared in the search bar of the earnings call, and a public wallet running '25 for 25' trades was circulating through the chats before the listing.