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Talent flocks to AI but ‘frothy’ market turns off VCs: Dragonfly Capital
19.9.2024
Dragonfly Capital general partner Tom Schmidt urged crypto projects to consider whether they need venture capital funding.
Dragonfly Capital Aims to Raise $500M Fund: Bloomberg
18.9.2024
Dragonfly closed its third fund, worth $650 million, in April 2022, shortly before the onset of the crypto bear market
Dragonfly Capital eyes $500M for fourth crypto fund
17.9.2024
Dragonfly’s new crypto fund will target early-stage projects in the crypto space. Over 100 digital-asset startups are part of the firm’s portfolio
MegaLabs, Behind the 'Real-Time' Blockchain, Raises $20M, Led By Dragonfly
27.6.2024
The fresh round of capital will go towards building out the MegaETH protocol, with the aim of having a testnet go live in the next few months
Crypto Principal Trader Arbelos Markets Raises $28M Led by Dragonfly Capital
8.5.2024
Before starting Arbelos Markets last year, Tang served as chief investment officer at quantitative digital asset investment firm LedgerPrime while Lim was head of trading strategy at Galaxy and head of derivatives at now-defunct crypto lender Genesis
'DePIN' Is Venture Capitalists' Latest Crypto Obsession. Can It Match the Hype?
16.4.2024
Already a multi-billion-dollar sector of the crypto industry, the DePIN narrative is a promising one, according to experts
Morph EVM Raises $20M Funding Led by DragonFly Capital
21.3.2024
Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) Layer 2 firm Morph, has raised $19 million in a seed funding led by DragonFly Capital.
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Ether-Based Crypto Dollar Issuer Ethena Raises $14M, Opens Access to Public
16.2.2024
Ethena's USDe "synthetic dollar" is independent from the traditional financial system and aims to offer a dollar-denominated, yield-bearing savings vehicle for investors outside of the U.S
Dragonfly Capital Leads $3.75 Million Round for NFT Pioneer FirstMate – Crypto Funding Back?
29.8.2023
Non-fungible token (NFT) startup FirstMate has successfully raised $3.75 million for further development of a new NFT storefront builder platform.
Led by crypto-focused venture capital firm Dragonfly Capital and with participation from notable investors such as Coinbase Ventures and NextView,...
Ethena Raises $6.5 Million to Develop an Ethereum-Based, Banking System Independent Stablecoin
21.7.2023
Ethena, a protocol that seeks to build a banking system independent stablecoin, has announced that it has raised $6.5 million in its seed round. The round, led by Dragonfly, aims to help issue Ethena’s decentralized stablecoin product in Q3 2023, which was inspired by an article written...
DeFi Needs More Than ‘Synthetic High-Yield Products’: Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi
28.4.2023
The venture capitalist discusses non-ZIRP monetary policy, rebooting crypto’s market structure and why Ponzi bubbles always burst
Dragonfly Capital invests $10M in Bitget amid industry recovery
4.4.2023
The exchange currently facilitates cryptocurrency derivatives trading with an open interest of $2.4 billion and has plans to expand its spot trading, launchpad and Bitget Earn products
Multichain Wallet Bitkeep Raises $30 Million From Bitget to Strengthen Links Between Defi and Cefi
23.3.2023
On Wednesday, the multichain wallet Bitkeep announced it raised $30 million from the crypto derivatives platform Bitget. Bitkeep now has an overall valuation of $300 million, with goals aimed at strengthening the links between decentralized finance (defi) and centralized finance (cefi). Bitget...
Liquid Staking Platform Lido Sees Largest Daily Stake Inflow, Receives 150,000 ETH Reportedly From Tron Founder
26.2.2023
On Saturday, the liquid staking protocol Lido tweeted about the largest daily stake inflow to date as 150,000 ethereum was staked. Reports indicate that the ethereum, worth more than $240 million, belongs to Justin Sun, founder of Tron. Liquid Staking Protocol Lido Records 150,000 Ether Inflow...
Brevan Howard Hires Dragonfly Capital Veteran as Digital Portfolio Manager
26.1.2023
The traditional finance giant's pick up of Kevin Hu adds to a wave of senior hires for its digital assets arm
Cameroonian Fintech Ejara Raises $8 Million in Series A Investment Round
30.11.2022
Just over 12 months after raising $2 million, the Cameroonian fintech whose app allows users to buy and store crypto assets recently said it had received $8 million in its Series A investment round. According to Ruth Foxe Blader, partner at Anthemis, Ejara aims to become the one-stop platform where...
Web3 and Crypto Checking Account Startup Juno Raises $18M, Airdrops Reward Token JCOIN
2.10.2022
Juno, the Singapore-based Web3 crypto firm that offers customers checking accounts tied to crypto assets, has raised $18 million in a Series A financing round led by Parafi Capital. The fresh capital follows the startup’s seed round in 2019 when Juno raised $3 million from investors. Juno...
Report Shows Crypto Startups Raised $30.3 Billion in H1 2022, Exceeding Total Raised in 2021
7.8.2022
While cryptocurrency markets have seen poor performances during the first two quarters of 2022, a recently published fundraising report authored by Messari researchers notes that $30.3 billion was raised by crypto projects and startups during the first half of 2022. The $30.3 billion raised across...
'Let's Try This Again': Lido DAO Relaunches Proposal for Selling LDO 10M to Dragonfly Capital with 'Better Terms'
28.7.2022
Lido DAO, the governance forum for the Lido Finance project, has put forward a new proposal for selling LDO 10m tokens to crypto investment firm Dragonfly Capital, apparently with better terms.
"Ok, lets try this again," states the new proposal, which was submitted by Lido's head of business Jacob...
Lido DAO Votes Against Selling LDO 10M Tokens to Dragonfly Capital
26.7.2022
The community members of Lido Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol and third-party staking pool operator for Ethereum (ETH) 2.0, have voted against a proposal to sell LDO 10m tokens to crypto investment firm Dragonfly Capital for DAI 14.5m.
The vote, which concluded on Monday after...