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Bank of Russia Expects Significant Growth in Digital Assets Market

[May 20, 2023 4:30 AM] The Central Bank of Russia predicts an increase in the issuance of digital assets, citing some of their advantages. The monetary authority has published a report presenting the progress made by the growing industry and assessing the prospects for…

Marathon and Brink Join Forces to Raise $1 Million for Bitcoin Core Developers

[May 19, 2023 4:00 PM] Bitcoin mining company Marathon Digital Holdings and Brink, a nonprofit striving to support open-source Bitcoin development, recently revealed their collaboration to generate up to $1 million in funding for Bitcoin Core developers. Marathon pledged…

Red Beard Ventures Closes $25M Funding Round With Animoca Brands, Others

[May 16, 2023 7:00 AM] The Web3 venture capital firm hopes to support early-stage DeFi and Web3 gaming projects and is also launching a tokenomics accelerator.

Polygon Co-Founder Launches Web3 Fellowship Program

[May 15, 2023 9:31 AM] Sandeep Nailwal and his venture capital arm Symbolic Capital will invest $50,000 on a new cohort each year.

How are Bitcoin options traders positioning for the US banking crisis?

[May 4, 2023 7:51 AM] The total crypto market cap has been ranging sideways, but Bitcoin derivatives markets indicate pro traders don't expect any major price corrections.

Crypto Wallet Giddy Raises $6.9M in Funding to Further Self-Custody Adoption

[Apr 27, 2023 9:00 AM] Fortnite co-creator Geremy Mustard took part as a strategic investor in the round.

Banks bullish on crypto: Standard Chartered’s Zodia raises $36M

[Apr 27, 2023 5:45 AM] After leading Zodia’s series A funding round, the Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings became its second-largest shareholder.

Cata Labs Raises $4.2M to Develop 'Bridging' Software

[Apr 26, 2023 10:00 AM] The round was led by Spartan Group and included participation from Robot Ventures, Maven11, Alchemy Ventures, HashKey Capital, Circle Ventures and Superscrypt.

DeFi Protocol iZUMi Finance Raises $22M

[Apr 26, 2023 5:39 AM] The fundraise involved issuing semi-fungible tokens (SFTs) to investors.

DeFi Protocol DFlow Raises $5.5M to Bring Payment for Order Flow to Crypto

[Apr 25, 2023 7:07 AM] Decentralized Finance protocol DFlow would bring a controversial practice in the equities market into the world of decentralized finance.

Alchemy’s Venture Arm Wants to Align With 'Web3 Missionaries, Not Mercenaries’

[Apr 25, 2023 6:59 AM] The investment arm of the Web3 infrastructure giant, last valued at $10 billion, continues to find new ways to back early-stage founders.

DeFi Protocol Thetanuts Finance Raises $17M for Expansion, New Partnerships

[Apr 24, 2023 7:00 AM] The startup offers multi-chain structured financial products with plans for a buy-side altcoin options market.

Web3 Security Startup Shield Raises $2.1M in Pre-Seed Funding

[Apr 20, 2023 11:00 AM] The company, a member of a16z’s Crypto Startup School, aims to create a security standard across Web3 projects through its API, Discord Bot and certification program.

Unchained raises $60M to offer collaborative custody Bitcoin services

[Apr 18, 2023 9:00 AM] Texas-based Unchained Capital hopes to undermine single points of failure and mitigate counterparty risk with its substantial $60 million raise, led by Valor Equity Partners.

African blockchain ventures outpace global funding growth: Report

[Apr 18, 2023 7:52 AM] Africa witnessed a 429% YoY increase in venture funding in 2022, with the majority of funding coming from Seychelles and South Africa.

Aleph Zero launches $50M ecosystem funding program

[Apr 18, 2023 6:00 AM] The Funding Program for the ecosystem involves grants, incubation, and acceleration for all phases of product development, with approved applicants receiving up to $500,000 per project.

IMF Says Sub-Saharan Africa Already Feeling Effects of the ‘Big Funding Squeeze’

[Apr 17, 2023 8:40 PM] Countries from the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region face a “big funding squeeze” which is forcing some of them to cut spending on health, education, and infrastructure. According to Abebe Aemro Selassie, people from the region are…

AI-Focused Cryptogpt Raises $10 Million in Series A Funding to Expand Into Asian Markets

[Apr 11, 2023 5:30 AM] A Layer two (L2) project, called Cryptogpt, which leverages ZK-rollup technology and artificial intelligence (AI), has announced that its team has raised $10 million in capital from a Series A funding round. The crypto and AI firm disclosed that…

Modular Blockchain Astria Raises $5.5M for Shared Sequencer Network

[Apr 4, 2023 10:35 AM] Astria's aim is to enable anyone to deploy their own censorship resistant rollup without having to rely on a centralized sequencer.

Delphi Labs Raises $13.5M for Web3 Accelerator

[Apr 4, 2023 8:24 AM] P2P led and Jump Crypto joined the incubator’s first external funding round.

Crypto Hardware Wallet Maker Ledger Raises $100M Amid Growing Demand for Secure Storage Solutions 

[Mar 30, 2023 11:30 PM] The cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger has raised €100 million ($109 million) in funding, according to the company’s disclosure on Thursday. Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier says there has been significant demand for hardware…

SEC's Gensler seeks $2.4B in funding to chase down crypto 'misconduct'

[Mar 29, 2023 10:25 PM] SEC Chair Gary Gensler says the regulator is spread thin and needs additional funding to keep up with the “increased complexity in the capital markets.”

Animoca Brands cuts metaverse fund target to $800M: Report

[Mar 24, 2023 3:30 PM] The company announced in November 2022 that it was working on a new Animoca Capital fund with a target of $2 billion but then halved that target in January 2023.

Immersion Cooling Firm LiquidStack Secures Series B Funding to Build Manufacturing in U.S.

[Mar 22, 2023 7:00 AM] The company can reduce the carbon footprint, land and water use of bitcoin miners through its technology.

KuCoin leads $10M funding for Chinese yuan stablecoin issuer

[Mar 15, 2023 4:00 AM] Circle’s investment arm has joined a funding round for CNHC, the issuer of the eponymous stablecoin pegged to the offshore yuan.

Moody’s Downgrades US Banking Sector to Negative After Collapse of Three Major Banks

[Mar 14, 2023 3:30 PM] After the failure of three major U.S. banks last week, with two of them being the second and third largest banking failures in the country, Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded the rating of the U.S. banking system from…

South Korea launches ‘Metaverse Fund’ to expedite domestic initiatives

[Mar 12, 2023 4:50 AM] With the help of the Metaverse Fund, South Korea will support the mergers and acquisitions of various firms from the metaverse ecosystem.

Crypto funding shifts from CeFi to DeFi after major collapses: Finance Redefined

[Mar 10, 2023 3:30 PM] The majority of the DeFi tokens in the top 100 traded in the red on the weekly charts due to a downturn in the broader financial market.

Transform Ventures launches holding company for blockchain with $100M AUM

[Mar 8, 2023 7:00 AM] Transform Ventures was founded by Michael Terpin, a crypto investor who previously sued a New York teenager for $71.4 million in damages for allegedly snatching cryptocurrency from his phone.

Web3 app Kresus raises $25M to bridge consumers to blockchain

[Mar 7, 2023 1:30 PM] Kresus’ SuperApp aims to bridge more everyday consumers to digital goods, NFTs and other Web3 products and services.