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Borderless Capital Raises $10M for HNT Staking and Mining

HNT.Fund is the first non-Algorand fund that Borderless Capital has been involved in.

By Jamie Crawley
AccessTimeIconJul 7, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Updated Sep 14, 2021 at 1:22 p.m. UTC
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Investment firm Borderless Capital has closed a $10 million fund for mining and staking HNT, the native token of The People's Network, which is built on the Helium blockchain.

  • HNT.Fund's wants to create a "Wrapped HNT" on the Algorand blockchain to enable HNT use in decentralized finance (DeFi) and centralized finance (CeFi) applications, according to an emailed announcement Wednesday.
  • Helium uses blockchains and tokens to incentivize consumers and businesses to run commercial telecommunications hubs that support the ecosystem in what is called a "proof-of-coverage" model.
  • It announced the launch of a 5G version of its network in April.
  • HNT.Fund is the first non-Algorand fund that Borderless Capital has been involved in.
  • Participants in the fund included Adam Bain, the former chief operating officer of Twitter, and Sandeep Nailwal, the co-founder of the Polygon protocol.

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