PANTERA
INVESTING IN BLOCKCHAIN
CONFERENCE CALL
SEP 2021Firm Introduction
Pantera Thesis
The Opportunity
Agenda Why Now
Investing Perspectives
Market Assessment
Pantera Funds Overview
Why Pantera
SPEAKERS
Dan Morehead 2 Joey Krug
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PANTERA
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Pantera Capital was founded by former Tiger Management Head of
Macro Trading and CFO Dan Morohead. Pantera’s global macro strategy
invested over $1 billion of institutional allocations.
In 2013, Pantera created the first blockchain hedge and venture funds in
the United States. The firm now manages $51 billion’ in blockchain
assels,
Pantera funds provide investors with the full spectrum of exposure to
the space, ranging from illiquid venture capital assets (including earty-
stago tokens and multi-stage venture equity) to more liquid assets like
biteoin and other eryptocurrencies.Pantera at
a Glance
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. Pantera launched the first cryptocurrency fund in the U.S.
of Firsts
2013
Pantera launched the first blockchain venture fund
2015
Pantera Co-ClO Joey Krug co-founded Augur, the first dApp to have a token offering on Ethereum
2017
Pantera launched the first exclusively early-stage token fundPantera Blockchain Fund
A new wrapper for the entire spectrum of blockchain assets.
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Cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies are the underpinnings of a new
financial infrastructure, similar to how the internet was the underpinning of a new
information infrastructure.Protocol Evolution
Blockchain protocols have evolved over the past decade.
Protocol
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® Ethereum
® Polkadot
Enables Breakthrough
Global transactions & store- | Decentralized, trustless value transfer. Solved the double
of-value spend problem
Smart contracts, token Self-enforcing contracts that allow for programmatic,
issuance control over financial transactions
Blockchain interoperability & | Cross-blockchain transfers of any type of asset.
enhanced scalability Scalability enhancementsDecentralized Finance
Similar to how the internet was the underpinning of 2 new information infrastructure, blockchain tech and cryptocurrency
are the underpinnings of a new financial infrastructure. There are five basic primitives to any financial system:
UNIT OF LENDING &
ACCOUNT EXCHANGE ISSUANCE MARGIN LEVERAGE
Stable currencies Decentralized Globally-accessible Borrow Smart contracts can
can be used for ‘exchanges allow for lending products cryptocurrencies on be structured to
trade and trading of assets enabled through margin using other _allow for leverage.
commerce. with no programmable cryptocurrencies as
intermediary. tokenized debt. collateral.Aggregators/Wallets
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DeFi Decentralized Derivatives Exchange .
Ecosystem [ VEGA Onset }
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{ Porat — Obitcoin —NINEAR —raisanmcwEMOSDeFi Growth
The amount of value locked up in DeFi protocols is now over $165 billion and decentralized exchanges transact around
$80 billion in monthly trading volume.
Value Locked in DeFi Protocols DEX Trading Volume”NFTs
Non-Fungible Tokens,
‘A unit of data on a blockchain, whore
each NFT can represent a unique digital
sm, and thus they are not
interchangeable. Tokens can represent
virally anything, including assets like
music, art, video, game items.
Marketplaces like MakersPlace and
OpenSea allow users to buy, sell, and
create NFTS.
Sold for 39k ETH or $69mm
(CryptoPunk #7823 Sold for St17mmAdditional Areas of Focus
Infrastructure
Blockchain toch and traditional infastructue fora robust ecosystom
‘Alchemy provides doveloprs with the fundamental
bling bocks they need to create decentralized
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Payments
Enabing consumers and businesses to send payments in crypto
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the way businesses send and receive funds.
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The United States printed more rN Ne ete aig
money in June 2020 than in the first
two centuries after its founding,The Price of Paper Money
It seems like the price of everything is
surging up. A bottor porspectivo is that
the value of most things is relatively
stable - it's just the value of paper money
that is moving.
To help visualize what Quantitative Easing
is doing to the price of the US dollar
‘we've plotted the value of the US dollar ~
as quoted in terms of things that cannot
be quantitatively eased:
WEY Segarra cane eedLegendary Investors in Bitcoin
The list of big name investors in cryptocurrency is expanding.
Paul Tudor —_ Investing in bitcoin is “like Stanley “I'm a bit of a dinosaur, but | have
Jones investing with Steve Jobs and Druckenmiller warmed up to the fact that bitcoin
esteararanie Apple or investing in Google Choiman ard Presiore COUIO be an asset class that has
InvesmentCoporton @arl.n"l think we are in the first {fo close) a lot of attraction as a store of
inning of bitcoin and its got a Duaueene Cantal value," (Nov 2020)
Management
long way to go.” (Oct 2020)
BIG-NAME CRYPTO SUPPORTERS.
Abigail Johnson sim Cramer Mark Cuban Kevin OLeary
Cathie Wood Chamath Palihapitiya Tim Draper Jack Dorsey Naval RavikantCorporations, Institutions Buying
In what has been an unprecedented year of macroecono!
policy, corporations and i
uncertainty and monetary and fiscal
tions are turning to bitcoin as an inflation hedge.
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MassMutual Bsquare
MicroStrategy invested $1.5 billion MassMutual, founded in 1851,
into bitcoin in a long-term play on invested $100 million in bitcoin out
it as a store-of-value
Square invested 1% of total assets
into bitcoin totaling $50mm or
of its general account 4,709 bitcoins
ENDOWMENTS IN CRYPTO
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$100 trillion
Asymmetric
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‘$9 trillion
We're sil in tho eary stages of adoption
Cryptocurency may servo as a glbal eee onal
reaorve cumency ofa viable stomative t pairs
fixed-supply assets like gold. $65 trillion
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Cryptocurrency Market Size $2 trillion
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polkadot, etc.233% Compound Annual Growth Rate
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erage, Bitcoin has tripled every year
inception,Non-Correlated Asset
One of our principal arguments for bitcoin
in a portfolio is that it has had a 233% 11-
year compound annual growth rate with
essentially zero correlation to stocks,
bbonds, oil, and other asset classes.Bitcoin Supply & Demand
The most basic framework for analyzing Bitcoin’s price is simple Econ 10%: Supply and Demand
Bitcoin Supply & Demand (Stylized)
Demand for bitcoin is rising sharply as new
companies begin offering crypto trading
such as PayPal
The bitcoin block reward halved in May
2020, further limiting the supply available
for purchase.Five Orders of Magnitude
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the all-time highs. Equally important aro
the yearly lows.
Looking back at the low-point of the
market for each year, bitcoin has shown
consistent positive growth ~ there's only
fone year with a lower low than the
previous year's.
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2012
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$28,723Market AssessmentMarket Volatility
{A convergence of things caused the Weewemkce that cma
blockchain markets to go down sharply.
China “bans* bitcoin (tor the third time)
Tax Day
* Elon Musk's 180
The volatility has presented a very
compelling opportunityE.S.G.
TL:DR: Blockchain is wonderful for E.S.G.
Tho recent ESG uproar has spent an
inordinate amount of enorgy discussing
the E in ESG.
But the conversation shouldn't end there
= it's important to dig deeper into
bblockchain’s relationship with the other
two-thirds of the acronym. In our view,
the total effect is unequivocally positive.
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Bitcoin is currently trading 40% below its
‘ti-yoar exponential trend (at $43,800),
‘At the recent peak, it went just a touch
‘over trend value. As you can see, past
peaks were many multiples of trend value.
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Pantera funds provide investors with the full spectrum of exposure to the space,
ranging from illiquid venture capital assets (including early-stage tokens and multi-
stage venture equity) to more liquid assets like bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.Pantera Hedge Funds
Pantera hedge funds accept new investments at the end of each month and Pantera Bitcoin Fund accepts new investors on
any US. banking day. All Pantera funds are open to US. and non-U.S. investors.
Liquidity: Quarterly
EARLY-STAGE TOKENFUND Assets: Private investments in
token projects prior to launch
Liquidity: Quarterly
ST Assets: Publicly traded tokens
Liquidity: Daily
PANTERA BITCOIN FUND. Auch ehocee
Exposure to early-stage blockchain protocols,
following a venture-style model
Actively managed exposure to publicly traded digital
assets with a risk management overlay
Passive exposure to bitcoin with daly liquidity, no
lockups, low fees, and no premium to NAVPerformance Highlights
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‘A now fund offering exposure to all facets of the
ceryptocurrency and blockchain markets. $600mm Simm
Target raise Minimum investment
The Fund will invest in illiquid venture capital assets (venture capital equity & early-stage tokens)
and liquid tokens like bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
Venture equity Early-stage tokens Liquid tokens
Equity in companies building Tokens, or rights to future tokens, Liquid digital assets spanning
products and services in the underpinning new protocols. Similar various functions like store-o!-
developing blockchain ecosystem. to a venture-style model. value, decentralized finance and
adjacent assets.Summary of Terms
Target/Commiumonts
Organization
Investment Perod/Torm
Capital Calis Schedule
{$600 maton
Delawaco Lied Partnership
‘5-year invstmont pero 1-year orm ¢ approved extonsion
40% at closing: mairng 60% of LP commitments in quarter capil cals at fiscal quater ends
Unltd recycing of laud pototo asets, including post Ksted tokens 20% recycling of VC Haut evens
(Ona pro rata pari passu bass, sutoc to Ltod Parner Advisory Commitee approval
2% of commited capital annually
20% up to 40% net IRR, and 90% thereafter
European - 100% atu of called capital prior o paying cariod interst
Fund LPs wih capital coretments of Sm or more wil have the option to cllectvlyco-vest at a minimum of 19%
‘ofeach VC oF liquid ton dca subject 10 Tk maragoment and 1D performance fees
‘Any remuneration ceived by management company wil reduce management foe
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Tho lesser of 2% of he Fund or $10 milion
US. Counsel - Schute Roth Regulatory Counsel - Cooley: Deal Counsel - Latham & Watkins
‘Admiisuatot - MG Stow Autor -Cohon & CoWhy PanteraPantera Edge
TECHNICAL TALENT
Co-CIO Jooy Krug co-founded Augur, the frst
major project on Ethereum,
Investment team includes senior professionals
with engineering degrees from Columbia,
Caltech, and Princeton.
NETWORK
Pantora community includes over 100
biockchain projects with best-in-class
‘dovelopers and entroprencuss.
Active deal management provides counsel,
funding, cross-polination, reterals, M&A
‘guidance.
\VALUE-ADD INVESTING
Pantora provides porttolio companies with
‘uidance and tools for success,
Resources range from technical feedback,
team building, egal guidance, MBA strategy,
‘and more.
LEADERSHIP
The toam has decades of experionce at top:
tior financial fms
Talent from Goldman Sachs, Tiger
Management, Bridgewater, and JP Morgan
INFRASTRUCTURE
Bestin-class trading infrastructure and tools
for tade execution
Strong relationships with prime brokerages,
exchanges, and custodians.Alpha Generation
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BertUpcoming Travel
Please reach out to panteracapiial.com if you are interested in meeting with us.
New York City, Soptember 21-24 & November 14
‘Soptomber 23, Blockchain Lunch at 2pm
Geneva, September 21
London, Septombor 22 & 23
September 2, Blockchain Lunch at t2pm
Zurich, September 24 | including @ Blockchain Lunch at t2pm
Boston, Soptomber 27 | including a Blockchain Lunch at f2pm
Palo Alto, October 18, Blockchain Lunch at Y2pm
Chicago, November 4 | including a Blockchain Lunch at t2pm
Detroit, November 5
Portugal, November 8-10PANTERA
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