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DeFi Risk Management Startup Cozy Finance Debuts With $2M Funding Round

3.9.2020
Announced Thursday, Cozy Finance has raised a $2 million seed round, led by Electric Capital and including Variant Fund, Dragonfly Capital, Robot Ventures, Slow Ventures, Volt Capital, Spencer Noon, Moncada and others

Sichuan’s Blockchain Park: Chengdu Government Officials Welcome Bitcoin Miners

2.9.2020
In mid-August officials from the Chinese province of Sichuan approved a number of enterprises that mine bitcoin for legal hydropower consumption in the region. Following the local government of Ya’an city deciding to foster mining, officials from Chengdu recently spoke about welcoming crypto...

Exchange Outages Are Going Mainstream: What Robinhood Can Learn From Crypto

1.9.2020
With popular online trading platforms hit by more outages amid high volumes, companies like Robinhood may learn something from crypto exchanges

Chainlink Doomsday Predictions: Zeus Capital Warns Investors Not To ‘Get Fooled’

31.8.2020
Zeus Capital has doubled down on its doomsday predictions on Chainlink (Link). It is now warning investors: “don’t get fooled… exit your positions before its too late.” The asset management firm’s involved assessment follows a sharp decline in the price of Link in...

Nigerian Crypto Startup Yellow Card Raises $1.5 Million For Expansion in Africa

31.8.2020
Yellow Card has raised $1.5 million in a seed round. The Nigerian crypto startup said it will use the money to expand its operations in Africa while making it easier for people on the continent to buy and sell digital assets. Investors in the new round include Polychain, venture capital firm...

Digital Currency Group Pledges $100 Million to Bolster Bitcoin Mining Industry

28.8.2020
The firm Digital Currency Group (DCG) is entering the mining industry, as the firm has pledged $100 million into a cryptocurrency mining firm called Foundry. The mining company Foundry was noiselessly founded in 2019 and it aims to offer capital, consulting, and intelligence to digital assets...

DeFi Studio Framework Labs Leaves Stealth Mode With $8M in Seed Funding

28.8.2020
Framework Labs says it's already playing a key role in projects including Uniswap and Chainlink

Prosecutors Reveal ‘Shadow Bank’ Accounts in Fowler Crypto Case

27.8.2020
U.S. prosecutors have unveiled 56 bank accounts under scrutiny in Reginald Fowler's legal travails

Polkadot-Based Acala Raises $7M as DeFi Grabs Land on Another Blockchain

27.8.2020
Acala, a DeFi startup building on the Polkadot blockchain, has closed a $7 million simple agreement for future tokens (SAFT) led by Pantera Capital

Bitcoin Capital hopes to foster mass crypto adoption via its exchange-traded product

26.8.2020
Bitcoin Capital allocates 83% to BTC, but only 1% to ETH

DeFi surpasses $7B in locked funds, but just six projects hold 90% of capital

26.8.2020
Despite DeFi’s meteoric growth, only half a dozen projects represent more than 90% of the capital locked in the sector

Crypto and Fintech Investor Ribbit Capital Files to Raise $350M for ‘Blank Check’ IPO

26.8.2020
JPMorgan is the sole bookrunner. Full story to come

DeFi Aggregator Bella Protocol Announces $4M Seed Round

25.8.2020
Beijing-based decentralized finance (DeFi) aggregator Bella Protocol announced Monday a $4 million seed round led by Arrington XRP Capital

First Mover: Anything-Goes Token Market Repudiates Rich-Only Venture Capital Club

24.8.2020
Venture capital is no longer just for the rich, as crypto markets let traders bet on early-stage digital-asset startups, risks included

$50 Billion in Cryptocurrency Left China Amid Escalating Trade Wars

24.8.2020
Over $50 billion in cryptocurrency flowed out of China over the past 12 months amid trade wars, a new study finds. East Asia is the world’s largest cryptocurrency market; its crypto trading volume is driven by “a robust professional market” as well as an “extremely...

Polychain Capital’s Original Crypto Fund Raises an Additional $19.5M

21.8.2020
The fund has raised $307 million in its four year history of investing in crypto and SAFTs

USD 50B in Crypto from Asia Hints at Chinese Capital Flight – Report

21.8.2020
With more than USD 50 billion in crypto leaving wallet addresses tied to East Asia and headed to other regions around the world over the past 12 months, signs point to crypto increasingly being used to evade strict Chinese capital controls, a new report from on-chain analysis firm Chainalysis...