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Yield Guild Games doubles down on play-to-earn model with $4M funding round

16.6.2021
The Series A funding round was led by BITKRAFT Ventures, an esports-focused venture capital firm. A.Capital Ventures, IDEO, CoLab, Mechanism Capital and ParaFi Capital also participated in the raise, as did several angel investors

Bybit-backed BitDAO Announces USD 230M Funding Round to Fuel R&D

16.6.2021
The recently created decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) BitDAO says it has raised over USD 230m from a private sale funding round. In a press release shared with Cryptonews.com, the DeFi group stated that it had received support from the likes of Peter Thiel, the Founders Fund, Pantera...

Bitwise secures $70M in Series B funding from major Wall Street investors

16.6.2021
Bitwise has attracted significant investment from major American institutional investors to the tune of $70 million

New DAO launches after $230M funding round including Peter Thiel, Alan Howard

16.6.2021
A new decentralized autonomous organization, BitDAO, announced its launch with a $230 million private sale and major contributions from Singapore-based Bybit

Defi Derivatives Exchange Dydx Raises $65 Million – Project Plans to ‘Launch a Mobile Application’

16.6.2021
The decentralized exchange (dex) Dydx announced the organization has raised $65 million in a Series C funding round led by Paradigm. The Dydx announcement notes that the additional capital will be leveraged to “significantly improve liquidity” on the dex platform “through...

DeFi exchange dYdX raises $65M in Series C fundraiser

15.6.2021
The dYdX platform allows users to trade perpetual contracts with exposure to various crypto markets. It claims to have built the fastest decentralized exchange through layer-two solutions

Hedge fund manager Alan Howard invests in two crypto startups

11.6.2021
A long-running backer of the crypto industry, billionaire hedge fund manager Alan Howard recently invested in two digital asset startups

Funding Roundup: Innovative Projects Attract Bigger Sums from Global VCs and Angel Investors

10.6.2021
Amidst the stratospheric rise of defi and heightened demand for unique and innovative solutions, the global community of angel investors and VC firms is continuously engaging in private funding rounds and token sales. The resulting flood of capital demonstrates that entrepreneurs and startups play...

Bitcoin miner Luxor eyes North American expansion with $5M funding round

10.6.2021
Luxor and NYDIG have teamed up to foster growth for the North American crypto mining industry

Goldman Sachs backs $28M funding round for Blockdaemon

9.6.2021
Goldman Sachs has backed a Series A $28 million funding round for Blockdaemon, and invested $5 million in the blockchain infrastructure firm

Bitcoin Futures Market in Capitulation Mode as Traders Turn Bearish

8.6.2021
The declining futures premium indicates uncertainty about bitcoin following a 35% correction in May and another 12% drop already this month

Solana Aims to Raise $450 Million to Battle Ethereum Supremacy

8.6.2021
Solana, a proof-of-stake, smart contracts-enabled currency, is aiming to raise $450 million in a funding round that was extended last March. The Solana ecosystem, which is backed by Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of derivatives exchange FTX, would use these funds to take on Ethereum supremacy...

Homeworld 3's Weird Crowd-Funding Scheme Has Been Cancelled

8.6.2021
It was very exciting to hear back in 2019 that Homeworld 3 was in development. The news was tempered a little at the time, though, by a very strange crowd-funding scheme that was attached to the project, despite the fact the game was being bankrolled by Gearbox, a major publisher.Read more

African Fintech Start-up Chipper Cash Raises $100 Million — CEO Says No Crypto Services for Nigeria

6.6.2021
Chipper Cash, an African fintech firm that specializes in facilitating cross-border payments, recently closed a $100 million Series C funding round. Taking the lead in what is now Chipper Cash‘s third fundraising round in the past twelve months is the venture capital (VC) firm, SVB Capital....