MoonPay, a crypto payments infrastructure provider, today announced it has closed a $555 million Series A financing round led by Tiger Global Management and Coatue with participation from Blossom Capital, Thrive Capital, Paradigm, and NEA. The company’s fiat-to-crypto on-ramp powers more than 250 wallets,...
Kibo Finance, a startup DeFi options trading platform, today announced the closing of a $1.5 million seed round. Participating investors in the round include Republic, Huobi, Gate.io, Fenbushi, AU21, Genblock, Kenetic, MGNR, GSR, DFG, Bitcoin.com, David Garcia of Borderless Capital, Sandeep Nailwal (Co-founder of Polygon), and Mirza Uddin (Co-founder of Injective Protocol). The Kibo Finance protocol allows buying and selling of options on...
Cypher, an expiratory futures protocol built on Solana, today announced it has raised $2.1 million in a seed round co-led by Sino Global Capital, SkyVision Capital, and Blockwall Capital. With this new capital, the company will launch a protocol designed to offer synthetic derivatives products. Cypher’s focus on futures-like products with a defined settlement date is an anomaly in the crypto world. The...
BetaBlocks, a Miami-based blockchain-asset infrastructure company, announced it has received $1.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by E3 Negócios, Ocean Azul Partners, and SaaS Ventures. Founded in 2018, BetaBlocks has helped companies such as Magic Leap, Ohm Health, and Blackdove navigate the world of crypto-assets and privacy. After concluding the Endeavor ScaleUp program, BetaBlocks decided to launch a white-label asset...
Kibo Finance, a startup DeFi options trading platform, has announced the closing of a $1.5M seed round. Participating investors in the round include Republic, Huobi, Gate.io, Fenbushi, AU21, Genblock, Kenetic, MGNR, GSR, DFG, Bitcoin.com, David Garcia of Borderless Capital, Sandeep Nailwal (Co-founder of Polygon), and Mirza Uddin (Co-founder of Injective Protocol). The Kibo Finance protocol allows buying and selling of options on more...
Meow, a platform offering a compliant bridge for institutional and corporate investors to participate in cryptocurrency investment opportunities, today announced that the company has raised USD $5 million in a seed round of funding. Coinbase Ventures, Gemini Frontier Fund, Lux Capital, and others including Jump Capital, Slow Ventures, Shine Capital, Castle Island Ventures, Acrylic, participated in the...
Matter Labs, the company behind zkSync, an Ethereum layer-2 scaling protocol, announced today it received USD $50 million in new funding (in addition to a USD $6M Series A in February of this year). These new funds will be used to expand Matter Labs' engineering teams and finance business growth. zkSync uses...
AscendEX, a cryptocurrency exchange platform, has announced the close of a $50 million Series B raise led by Polychain Capital and Hack VC, with participation from Jump Capital and Alameda Research, as well as Uncorrelated Ventures, Eterna Capital, Acheron Trading, Nothing Research, and Palm Drive Capital. Imperii Partners...
Immunefi, a bug bounty and security services platform for DeFi protecting over $50 billion in users' funds, today announced it has raised $5.5 million in funding. Its investors include Blueprint Forest, Electric Capital, Framework Ventures, Bitscale Capital, P2P Capital, IDEO Colab, The LAO,...
BitOasis, the Middle East and North Africa-based crypto exchange, announced today it has wrapped up its Series B round, the company has closed $30 million in funding from new and existing investors. This round was co-led by...
Hex Trust, an Asia-based licensed and insured provider of custody for crypto- assets, announced it has raised USD $10 million in an investment round led by Animoca Brands, a company specializing in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification. Other investors include Ripple Labs, Algorand...
Blockdaemon, the leading independent blockchain infrastructure platform, has announced that it has closed a Series B funding round of USD $155 million with a valuation of $1.255 billion, making it the world’s largest blockchain infrastructure company for node management and staking. The round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with participation from Matrix Capital Management, Sapphire Ventures, and Morgan Creek Digital. This...
Fuel Labs, which is building permissionless and trustless layer-2 protocols for Ethereum, today announced $1.5M USD of support led by blockchain-focused investment firm CoinFund. Other participants include Fenbushi Capital and Origin Capital. The Fuel Labs' team is building Fuel for optimistic...
Komodo, an open-source technology provider that offers all-in-one blockchain solutions and pioneer behind AtomicDEX which enables safe and instant swapping and transfer of assets between trader wallets without requiring AMMs, announced today it has successfully completed a peer-to-peer, cross-chain fundraise with Tokel, a...
Abra, a cryptocurrency management platform, today announced it has raised $55 million in Series C funding. The round was led by IGNIA and Blockchain Capital, with new investors including Kingsway Capital, Tiga Investments, and the Stellar Development Foundation. Added investments from...
Octopus Network, a third-generation multi-chain crypto network for bootstrapping and running Web 3.0 application-specific blockchains, aka appchains, announced the completion of its Series A private sale. Interoperable Web 3.0 crypto networks like Octopus Network, Polkadot, and Cosmos, and are often referred to as the "internet of blockchains" in the same way that today's Web 2.0 internet TCP/IP standards define the internet as a...
OP Crypto Capital Management, a new crypto venture capital firm has officially announced its formation. The venture firm is backed by Huobi Ventures, Galaxy Digital’s Vision Hill FoF Platform, Digital Currency Group, Mirana Ventures (Bybit), and The Brooker Group. The firm will focus on bridging the gap between CeFi, DeFi, and the Metaverse through investing in projects looking to shape the future of...
Zipmex, an Asia-Pacific-based cryptocurrency exchange with offices in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, and Australia, today announced that it has secured over USD $41 million in its Series B funding. This marks a milestone for Zipmex, which has seen multiple companies taking an interest in this round. The Zipmex team welcomes new investors including the Bank of Ayudhya’s corporate venture capital arm, Krungsi Finnovate, who...
Blockchain infrastructure provider InfStones has announced a $10 million Series A funding round led by Qiming Venture Partners, with participation from DHVC, HashKey Capital, Plug and Play, SNZ Holdings, and the family office of Xinjun Liang, co-founder and former vice-chairman/CEO of Fosun...
Blockstream, a provider of bitcoin-based infrastructure services, today announced that it has raised $210 million as part of its Series B financing on a valuation...
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