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Rakuten Points To BTC, Crypto.com & Visa, a16z Dives Into NFT Sea + More News
18.3.2021
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The Japanese e-commerce giant, e-pay and crypto exchange operator Rakuten has taken another step into the crypto sphere, launching...
Coinbase public listing filing details 2020 revenue, major a16z stake
25.2.2021
The company has benefited a lot from the 2020 market, but had lost money in 2019
Andreessen Horowitz leads $25m round for Optimism's L2 scaling solution
25.2.2021
Optimism has been on a hiring spree and plans to expedite its mainnet launch after securing backing from Andreessen Horowitz
Payments Startup Celo Raises $20M From a16z, Electric Capital
10.2.2021
Celo offers a blockchain payments platform using customers' cellphone numbers to secure their public keys
Decentralized Finance’s UNI Token Jumps 92% in One Week, Passes $15
27.1.2021
Uniswap's UNI token has nearly doubled its price in 7 days. The decentralized exchange is seeing volumes higher than last summer, too
Big Guns Back $10M Investment in DeFi’s dYdX
26.1.2021
The funding round, led by Three Arrows and DeFiance Capital, was also joined by Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain Capital and Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam
Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin Miners’ Slim Margins, ConsenSys’ Latest CBDC Pilot, a16z’ Power Hire
28.10.2020
JPMorgan unveiled a revamped blockchain network that could challenge SWIFT while BlockFi has taken a 5% stake in Grayscale's GBTC
Former BitLicense Chief to Manage Andreessen Horowitz’s Cryptocurrency Efforts
28.10.2020
Anthony Albanese will become chief regulatory officer for the tech ventures giant in November
This a16z Alum Is Launching a VC Fund Focused on Platforms You Can ‘Own’
14.7.2020
An Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) alum is launching a new venture firm focused on building a crypto-powered "ownership economy."
A16z Expects More Libra-Like Projects While Money Goes Digital in 10 Years
2.6.2020
The future is digital and bank-free, said Andreessen Horowitz general partner Katie Haun in a recent interview
Crypto Long & Short: Innovation Cycles, Crypto Venture Funds and Institutional Investors
25.5.2020
With so much attention on institutional involvement in crypto asset markets, we overlook that they are already here through VC investments – less fast-paced, perhaps, but important to keep an eye on for what they reveal about cycles
Blockchain Bites: a16z’s Cyclic Crypto Thinking and Grin’s Grim Outlook
18.5.2020
FalconX brought in an equivalent to Facebook's 2005 Series A while Grin flounders and a16z asks if crypto's on the cusp of a boom period
NEAR Protocol Launches Following $21M Token Sale Led by Andreessen Horowitz
4.5.2020
NEAR announced Monday the closing of a $21.6 million token sale involving a16z, Pantera and others. It also revealed the stealth-mode launch of the NEAR mainnet on April 22
While the Global Economy Shudders, Andreessen Horowitz ‘Excited’ to Invest $500M Into the Crypto Industry
1.5.2020
The private venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has announced the company is investing $515 million into the cryptocurrency industry. The firm says its “excited” to bolster crypto networks and businesses. Further, the company hopes to strengthen ideas like next-generation...
Andreessen Horowitz Doubles Down on Crypto Investments With New $515M Fund
30.4.2020
Andressen Horowitz pointed to next-generation payments, decentralized finance, new monetization models and Web3 as use cases it would look into for its new $515 million fund
Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s Boom Roils Markets and a16z Makes a Long-term Play
30.4.2020
While FOMO drives up bitcoin's price and derivatives market, Telegram announces another delay and Andreessen Horowitz raises a $515 million fund
Arweave 2.0 Gets File Storage Project One Step Closer to Its ‘Library of Alexandria’ Dreams
29.4.2020
Arweave operates on the same idea as other blockchain-based file storage services such as Filecoin or Storj, but with far larger ambitions backed by new technical developments unveiled Wednesday as Arweave 2.0
Blockchain Bites: DLT’s Great Leap Forward, Bitcoin Horders and a16z’s New Fund
15.4.2020
China is taking charge in the digitization of the world economy, while Maker faces a $28M class action lawsuit. Get the latest bite-sized news
VC Firm Andreessen Horowitz Targets $450M for Second Crypto Fund: Report
14.4.2020
Sources told the Financial Times that Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is raising another crypto fund, reportedly targeted at $450 million
Andreessen Horowitz now has a free crypto school
23.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 12 December, 2019 “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” - Aristotle In today's newsletter, we will be covering: VC firm Andreesson Horowitz (a16z)'s free 7-week crypto school A French-regulated […]
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