---
type: entity
entity_type: company
name: "Pantera Capital"
domain: internet-finance
status: active
tracked_by: rio
created: 2026-03-11
---

# Pantera Capital

## Overview
Pantera Capital is a blockchain-focused investment firm with extensive portfolio exposure across the crypto ecosystem. The firm has expressed strategic interest in Solana ecosystem projects and futarchy governance mechanisms as potential improvements to decentralized governance.

## Timeline
- **2024-02-18** — Proposed $50,000 OTC purchase of META tokens from MetaDAO ([[metadao-otc-trade-pantera-capital]]), which failed futarchy vote

## Relationship to KB
- [[metadao]] - attempted OTC investment
- [[futarchy-based fundraising creates regulatory separation because there are no beneficial owners and investment decisions emerge from market forces not centralized control]] - tested as institutional counterparty