NovaBlock Capital

The firm sources through a combination of Andre Serrano's deep protocol-level relationships — particularly from his time at Electric Coin Company building Zcash's strategic partnerships — and Leeor Shimron's visibility as a Forbes digital asset contributor. The joint research on security tokens with Ownera also provides early visibility into institutional tokenization projects.

The firm deploys across three distinct return streams: early-stage equity in blockchain companies, liquid positions in major protocol tokens like bitcoin and ether, and a physical mining operation in San Jose. This structure behaves more like a hybrid than a traditional fund in either category. The mining facility provides an operational yield component uncommon in either venture or liquid crypto fund structures.

The firm has publicly staked a thesis on the institutional adoption of tokenized securities, co-authoring a report titled The State of Smart Securities with Ownera. This suggests active or planned deployment into regulated, on-chain financial instruments — a position that distinguishes it from crypto-native funds focused solely on unregulated protocol tokens.

The pool mining platform provides a physical infrastructure yield stream that operates independently of token price appreciation. In practice, this means a portion of the firm's returns are generated by computational power sold to proof-of-work networks, creating a hedge against the volatility of liquid token holdings and illiquid venture equity.

Serrano's work on strategic partnerships at Electric Coin Company — the entity behind the privacy-preserving Zcash protocol — gives NovaBlock direct technical fluency in zero-knowledge proofs and privacy infrastructure. This likely shapes the firm's ability to diligence and access deals in the cryptographic privacy and compliance-tooling sectors that most generalist crypto investors lack.