Crypto Startup Velar Plans Perpetual Swaps Exchange for Bitcoin DeFi After Raising $3.5M
"Bitcoin DeFi is just too nascent right now," CEO Mithil Thakore said. But that's beginning to change.
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Dinari Raises $7.5M for Decentralized Stock Trading Platform
Backers for the dShare platform, which will be available ex-U.S, included a Susquehanna subsidiary.
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Binance's VC Arm Dominated Funding Rounds Last Week Even as Regulators Scrutinized the Crypto Exchange
Binance Labs announced investments in four incubator projects and participated in a round for privacy infrastructure startup zkPass.
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Aug 7, 2023 at 2:59 p.m. UTC
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Crypto Firms Raised $129M Last Week, Led by Flashbots
The startup, focused on maximal extractable value (MEV) in blockchain transactions, raised $60 million in funding.
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Jul 31, 2023 at 12:49 p.m. UTC
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Crypto Firm Flashbots Raises $60M in Paradigm-Led Round
The new capital will help develop the SUAVE decentralized platform for maximal extractable value (MEV).
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Jul 25, 2023 at 4:53 p.m. UTC
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Polychain Capital Co-Leads $25M Fundraise for Manta Network Developer
The cryptographic development project, p0x, received a valuation of $500 million.
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Jul 19, 2023 at 1:36 p.m. UTC
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Blockchain Capital Leads $40M Round for Crypto Firm RISC Zero
The startup creates developer tooling that helps build zero-knowledge proof software for improved security and computational power.
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Jul 19, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
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Indian Crypto Exchange CoinDCX Raises Over $135M in New Funding Round
The raise brings CoinDCX's valuation to more than $2 billion, said co-founder and Chief Executive Sumit Gupta.
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Zero Hash Eyes Expansion in DeFi, NFTs After Raising $35M
The funding round was led by the venture arm of Point72, the firm helmed by billionaire investor, and New York Mets team owner, Steven Cohen.
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Crypto Gains Ground in Latin America Amid Venture Capital Boom
Venture capital funds invested more than $6 billion in Latin America in the first half of 2021, versus $4 billion in all of 2020.
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Sep 29, 2021 at 6:23 p.m. UTC
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