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Kyle Samani

Former Managing Partner, Multicoin Capital

Search every verified Kyle Samani interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Kyle Samani, formerly a managing partner at Multicoin Capital and now chairman of Forward Industries, has recently discussed topics including Solana, Hyperliquid, tokenized real-world assets, and the broader crypto market. In an October 2026 interview, he attributed Hyperliquid's success to Solana's earlier technical shortcomings in supporting perpetual futures, but argued that Hyperliquid's market dominance is unlikely to persist, comparing it to past exchange leaders that eventually declined. He also stated that he believes Solana will ultimately win on perps fees and that Solana is well-positioned to benefit from the CLARITY Act, citing its decentralized validator set as meeting the legislation's criteria. Speaking at TOKEN2049 Singapore in October 2026, Samani discussed the growth of real-world assets on Solana, noting that the value of such assets excluding stablecoins rose from about $200 million to $4.3 billion over roughly 21 months. He highlighted the role of companies like Backpack Securities and Sunrise in enabling tokenized equities and derivatives, emphasizing the importance of allowing anyone to create and redeem tokens to keep on-chain prices aligned with traditional venues. In a September 2026 interview, Samani said he believes the crypto market bottom is in, citing structural tailwinds such as the GENIUS Act and stablecoin growth, and predicted an "explosion" of social trading. He also expressed concern that the industry risks losing sight of crypto's original ethos, stating that he wants global finance to remain global rather than concentrated in a single data center.

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“Probably the simple litmus test for that would be when the general public doesn't think it's a scam. Like that that's the simple litmus test. I think that point's probably 5 years away. Somewhere between 5 and 10. What needs to happen for that to [change]? Oh, I mean there's like this morning, right? Samsung announced they're building Solana wallets in the 82 million phones if the software update goes live in a week.”

“Look, Hyperliquid is unlikely to become irrelevant within any reasonable time horizon. And I think that's a pretty silly argument. Probably the right thing to look at here is just look at market share of exchanges in crypto over the last 10 years, both CEFI and DeFi. And the only common thread you'll notice is no one really lasts in a dominant position for more than a few years. Binance has been the most dominant for”

“It's pretty clear why Hyperliquid got where it is. I think there's probably like two standout variables. One is the Solana folks quite frankly just didn't get the technical infrastructure right to get perps 2 years ago, even one year ago on Solana, perps couldn't work. There was attempts at it certainly, but it just wasn't good enough. And that's a whole bunch of very subtle technical decisions in the virtual machine”

“Solana is like unequivocally the best positioned asset to benefit from the Clarity Act. The Clarity Act specifically has an eight pronged decentralization test written into it. And today, the only two networks that actually check those boxes are Solana and Ethereum mainnet. One of those criteria is that you have to have an open source network that's permissionless with a globally distributed validator set. So by defi”

“I think the bottom is in and, you know, again, like the tokenization cycle does continue. Obviously the genius act passed and stablecoins are growing. All of the structural tailwinds are there. And I think you're going to see an explosion of social trading and just new, more sophisticated ways to trade, all built on top of crypto rails. So I don't really see that slowing down. And I'd say at this point, it's pretty c”

“Just as software has eaten the world over the last 20 years, internet capital markets are going to absorb every function of capital formation, trading, settlement, and risk. The legacy system is not going to adapt. It's going to be consumed.”

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