RockawayX

In June 2020 the Czech investment group Rockaway Capital launched the Rockaway Blockchain Fund, led by Viktor Fischer, a Slovak; the Rockaway group is headed by Jakub Havrlant. The fund aimed to raise $100 million within about two years, which it said would make it the largest blockchain fund in Europe. By December 2020 it had raised about $10 million, mainly from high-net-worth individuals in the Czech Republic, Switzerland and the United Kingdom; TechCrunchTechCrunchTechCrunch is an American technology news outlet founded in 2005 by Michael Arrington and Keith Teare and headquartered in San Francisco; it mainly covers technology companies, startups, and venture capital, and hosts events such as TechCrunch Disrupt. Its ownership passed successively through AOL, Verizon, and Yahoo, and in 2025 Regent announced its acquisition.Open the full entry founder Michael ArringtonMichael ArringtonMichael Arrington is an American entrepreneur and investor who founded the technology publication TechCrunch in 2005, created Crunchbase in 2007, sold TechCrunch to AOL in 2010, and went on to found CrunchFund and the crypto-asset investment firm Arrington Capital.Open the full entry was among the first investors.⁠[1]

The fund planned to put about 30% of its capital into blockchain-focused venture funds and 70% directly into startups, with a thesis centered on the digitalization of financial services. As of December 2020 its portfolio comprised nine startups and five venture funds, including Polychain CapitalPolychain CapitalPolychain Capital is a digital asset investment firm founded in 2016 by Olaf Carlson-Wee and headquartered in San Francisco. Its business covers actively managed blockchain asset portfolios and investments in related companies, with public investments spanning base networks, cryptography, on-chain finance, payments, data and artificial intelligence.Open the full entry, Pantera CapitalPantera CapitalPantera Capital is an investment management firm focused on digital assets and the blockchain industry, founded by Dan Morehead in 2003. Its investments span corporate equity, early-stage tokens and liquid digital assets, and it manages a bitcoin fund, venture funds and multi-strategy blockchain funds.Open the full entry, Terra.money, Solana and Bitcoin Suisse.⁠[1]

Rockaway Capital’s fund page states that RockawayX’s first venture fund, RockawayX VC I, was launched in 2021, with portfolio companies including SolanaSolanaSolana is a proof-of-stake (PoS) public blockchain designed for high throughput and low latency, with SOL as its native token; it was developed by Solana Labs and launched Mainnet Beta in March 2020. It is known for design choices such as its Proof of History clock and parallel execution, suffered several network-wide outages in its early years, and became one of the crypto industry’s focal points in events including the FTX collapse, U.S. SEC lawsuits, and the listing of Solana ETFs.Open the full entry, Wintermute and Morpho Labs.⁠[2]

RockawayX’s market-neutral Credit Fund has operated since April 2022, providing secured liquidity and market-making services to DeFi protocols.⁠[2]

In November 2022 the Rockaway Blockchain Fund began operating under the RockawayX brand, with Viktor Fischer as founder and head and Dušan Kovačič as investment director. Over the preceding four years or so it had deployed about CZK 2.5 billion into 38 projects and 27 investment funds; investors had committed $123 million to its first fund, more than 80% of which had been allocated, roughly two-thirds into tokens and one-third into direct equity.⁠[3]

At the time RockawayX said it managed about $500 million, including roughly $150 million in staking and about $50 million in a credit fund supplying liquidity to market makers, exchanges and DeFi protocols; its team of more than 30 provided engineering, liquidity and research support in addition to venture investing. It also invested in venture funds including Polychain Capital, Multicoin CapitalMulticoin CapitalMulticoin Capital began operations on October 1, 2017, and invests mainly in crypto companies and protocols across public and private markets. It runs a Master Fund that invests mainly in tokens, as well as venture funds that back early-stage companies.Open the full entry, Dragonfly Capital, Pantera Capital and Fabric VenturesFabric VenturesFabric Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Luxembourg and London that has invested in early- to growth-stage companies in Web3 and other fields since 2012, and in recent years has adopted the “machine economy” as its investment theme, covering robotics, AI, fintech, distributed computing, and other areas. In 2022, its venture fund closed at $140 million.Open the full entry.⁠[3]

On April 24, 2025, RockawayX announced that its second early-stage venture fund had closed in the first quarter of 2025 at $125 million after being oversubscribed. The fund focuses mainly on the Solana ecosystem, where RockawayX was a seed backer, and on projects that can draw on its liquidity and infrastructure capabilities. RockawayX attributed the raise to cash returned to investors from its 2021 fund (VC I), which it said had reached 2.1x DPI and 5.4x MOIC. Founder and CEO Viktor Fischer said: “We’ve been focused on the Solana ecosystem since meeting Anatoly and Raj.”⁠[4]

The announcement said RockawayX had partnered with more than 15 Solana projects, including Kamino Finance, Squads, Fragmetric, Switchboard and DoubleZero, and planned to open the Solana City accelerator hub in Dubai with the Solana Foundation and Helius Labs. Its solver division powered intent-based applications such as Wormhole, 1inch, Mayan and deBridge, and as a European core contributor to DoubleZero it would connect more than 10 European data center locations, with the first line, Frankfurt to Prague, physically installed. The team then numbered more than 45 investment staff, researchers and engineers, many in the infrastructure division running bare-metal servers in data centers it operates in Europe.⁠[4]

On August 25, 2026, RockawayX announced that it was acquiring Relayer Capital, a digital asset hedge fund firm founded by Austin Barack, on undisclosed terms. Relayer became the RockawayX Liquid Opportunities Fund, with Barack as its chief investment officer continuing to lead the strategy; the fund, open to external investors, runs a directional long/short strategy focused on undervalued liquid tokens and crypto-related equities. The deal also expanded RockawayX’s presence in the United States.⁠[5]

The announcement put the strategy’s estimated net return for 2026 through August 21 at about 70%, outperforming an equal-weighted basket of Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana by 86 percentage points, and labeled the figures as estimated and unaudited. CEO Fischer said: “This is the right moment for the strategy.” The accompanying company description said RockawayX had about $2 billion in assets under management and about 60 team members worldwide.⁠[5]

On September 24, 2026, RockawayX introduced Catapult, an evergreen accelerator that writes first checks into founders tokenizing uncorrelated, high-yield real-world assets (RWAs). It combines the firm’s venture, liquidity, market-making and vault-curation businesses, backed by what it described as a dedicated DeFi vehicle of more than $150 million for liquidity. The post cited the tokenized reinsurance company OnRe as an example: RockawayX invested in March 2025, seeded $4 million in an AMM pool, added $10 million of LP liquidity and provided $2 million to bootstrap ONyc on Kamino, and OnRe passed $300 million in total value locked within a year.⁠[6]

As of November 2026, the RockawayX website listed its businesses as investments, infrastructure (running validators in its own data centers and developing protocol-ready hardware, supporting the Solana network since 2020), on-chain liquidity (including acting as a solver for intent-based protocols), vault curation and the Catapult accelerator, with offices in London, Prague and Dubai; the site is operated by Blockad s.r.o.⁠[7]

Rockaway Capital’s fund page lists RockawayX personnel including investment partner and managing partner Viktor Fischer, partner and chief growth officer Samantha Bohbot, chief financial officer Radek Horak, credit fund head Adam Bilko, partner Marek Sandrik and head of IT infrastructure Tomas Eminger.⁠[2]

RockawayX: Official website: https://rockawayx.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[7]

Rockaway Capital: Official website: https://www.rockawaycapital.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[2]

X: Public account: https://x.com/RockawayX (opens in a new window).⁠[7]

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