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FTX Latest - Crypto Prices Slip as Contagion Hits BlockFi, Genesis and Gemini, Hacker ID Known, Auditors and VCs Fail, Class Action Lawsuit Filed
16.11.2022
BlockFi, Genesis and Gemini are the latest crypto victims of FTX contagion.
The Wall Street Journal reports that crypto lender BlockFi is preparing for bankruptcy while today Genesis announced that it was halting redemptions on its lending product and would stop making new loans.
It is claimed...
Aptos Price Dump Incoming – 3 Low Cap Altcoin Alternatives Not Pumped by VCs
26.10.2022
Disclaimer: The Industry Talk section features insights by crypto industry players and is not a part of the editorial content of Cryptonews.com. The price of Aptos (APT) has fallen by 1% in the past 24 hours, dipping to $9.11. This represents a 33% decline for the new altcoin in the past week, at...
Aptos Price Prediction - Retail Investors Dumped on by Crypto VCs?
19.10.2022
The Aptos (APT) price crashed on its listing day, as predicted by many of the best crypto traders on Twitter.
Aptos token, dubbed a 'Solana killer' capable of a higher tps, is one of the most trending cryptocurrency assets and airdrops this week, on 15,170 watchlists on CoinMarketCap already...
VCs pour $14.2B into crypto in H1 2022, but investments now slowing
7.9.2022
KPMG noted that despite the expected downfall, investment figures remained well-positioned in comparison to pre-2021 figures, which highlights the growing maturity of the market
US Venture Capital Firm Leads New Investment in Nigerian Startup Teamapt
14.8.2022
The United States-based venture capital (VC) firm, QED Investors, recently led an investment round that raised more than $50 million for the Nigerian fintech Teamapt. The investment, as well as the VC firm’s hiring of personnel tasked with spearheading its investments in Africa, seem...
Wealth managers and VCs are helping drive institutional crypto adoption — Wave Financial execs
10.8.2022
“Things are much more encouraging, even though this is clearly a time of pain," said Wave Financial’s head of business development Mike Jones
Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Criticizes Corporate Metaverse Attempts — ‘Anything Facebook Creates Now Will Misfire’
1.8.2022
On Saturday, the co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, took to Twitter and gave his perspective on the “existing corporate attempts to create the metaverse.” Buterin noted that a metaverse will happen, but he doesnt believe the current corporate metaverse attempts are going...
Terra's Collapse Is a Hard Lesson for Sloppy Crypto VCs and Gullible Retail Investors
31.7.2022
It’s not the greatest time to be a venture capitalist (VC) in crypto. Many of them have seen both the value of their investments and reputation plummet, as projects they were actively promoting, such as Terra, failed spectacularly, hitting the whole crypto industry. ...
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Jason Calacanis Is Right About ‘Grifting’ Crypto VCs (but Confused)
21.7.2022
The famed podcaster and angel investor draws the line at naming his friends
The risks and benefits of VCs for crypto communities
8.7.2022
OP Crypto launches $100M fund to back early-stage crypto VCs
30.6.2022
Targeting a hard cap of $100 million, the OP FoF I fund is expected to close by the end of Q3, OP Crypto’s COO Lucas He said
Can DAOs Replace VCs as an Investment Method?
17.6.2022
Kate Kurbanova, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Apostro, a crypto-focused risk management platform.______
The rise of the crypto industry, blockchain technology, and Web3 have brought about new financial markets that have sparked an interest in a diverse array of parties. Furthermore...
First Mover Asia: Terra's Difficult Post-Collapse Path: VCs Backing Away, Regulators Jumping on Stablecoins
23.5.2022
Some investors see salvageable pieces while others are bemoaning their involvement and want to forget the protocol ever existed; bitcoin gains
How to incorporate a DAO and issue tokens to be ready to raise money from VCs
21.5.2022
While DAOs can't precisely replace traditional VCs, they can potentially disrupt the crypto industry
After Terra's Collapse, Cryptoverse Reflects on ‘Ponzi-like Assets’, Role of VCs, and 'Ignorant' Crypto People
13.5.2022
It’s time for some self-reflection in the crypto community after the spectacular collapse of the terraUSD (UST) stablecoin and the entire Terra (LUNA) ecosystem.
A debate about what crypto investing should be like, how crypto projects are promoted and whether ‘bitcoin-only’ is the best strategy...
Nigerian Fintech Founder: ‘African Fintechs Have a Greater Scale Potential Than Other Tech Startups’
9.5.2022
The African fintech industry has grown rapidly over the past few years and this has caught the attention of some well-resourced venture capital (VC) firms. As one would expect, Nigerian fintech startups have dominated the continent in terms of funds raised or the number of transactions performed....
SEC vs. NVIDIA, Sanctioned Bitcoin Mixer, Bluesky Code, VCs Target NFTs + More News
6.5.2022
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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Sequoia Capital Partner Believes Lots of VCs Will Pull Back From Crypto
2.5.2022
Shaun Maguire, a crypto partner of Sequoia Capital, one of the venture capital firms most active when it comes to investments in the cryptocurrency space, issued its opinion on the future of many VCs investing in crypto. To him, many of the companies that are now experimenting with crypto...
Game Space: One of the First GaaS “GameFi as a Service” Platform
23.4.2022
On April 22nd Michael Cameron the CEO and Co-founder of Game Space announced that it has released one of the first GaaS “GameFi as a Service” Platform. Game Space also announced that it had received more than US $7 million in financing. This round of financing is jointly led...
Cosmos Builder Ignite, 11 VCs Put Up $150M to Invest in Multichain Crypto Teams
12.4.2022
The accelerator includes backing from Sam Bankman Fried’s Alameda Research, KuCoin Ventures and others