Brandy Betz

Brandy covered crypto-related venture capital deals for CoinDesk. She previously served as the Technology News Editor at Seeking Alpha and covered healthcare stocks for The Motley Fool. She doesn't currently own any substantial amount of crypto.

Brandy Betz

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Finance

BlackRock to Offer Crypto for Institutional Investors Through Coinbase Prime

The asset management giant and the crypto exchange have partnered to broaden access to crypto among institutional investors.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Binance Taps Co-Founder Yi He to Head $7.5B Venture Arm

Binance Labs announced a new $500 million fund in June to invest in Web3 and blockchain projects.

Binance has appointed Yi He to oversee Binance Labs (Binance)

Finance

Web3 Development Remains Strong Despite Crypto Downturn: Report

Venture capital firm Telstra Ventures measured developer activity across the Ethereum, Solana and Bitcoin blockchains.

Desarrolladores contribuyen a la Web3 a pesar del bear market. (nosheep/Pixabay)

Finance

Crypto Intelligence Firm Messari Acquires Web3’s Version of Crunchbase

Dove Metrics, a provider of crypto-fundraising data, was purchased for undisclosed financial terms.

Messari CEO Ryan Selkis during a CDTV interview in October (CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Brokerage River Financial Drops Fees for Recurring Trades

Crypto-exchange Binance also recently announced zero-fee bitcoin trades on its platform.

River Financial CEO Alex Leishman at BTC 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Crypto Bridge Nomad Drained of Nearly $200M in Exploit

The exploit calls the security of cross-chain token bridges into question once again.

Nomad fue drenado por completo el lunes después de presentarse como una alternativa "segura" a otros puente cross-chain. (Source: DefiLlama).

Finance

OneOf NFT Platform Adds American Express as Backer in $8.4M Round

Amex will give exclusive OneOf tokens to cardholders attending a pop-up event in Turkey.

(CardMapr.nl/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Fund Variant Commits $450M to Backing Web3, DeFi Projects

A $150 million seed fund will focus on Web3 and a separate $300 million opportunities fund will double down on portfolio projects.

Venture capital firm Variant commits $450 million to its third crypto-focused fund. (Horst Schwalm/Pixabay)

Finance

Cross-Chain Bridge Nomad Reveals Crypto Heavyweight Backers for $22.4M Funding Round

Coinbase Ventures and OpenSea were among the additional backers named for the April funding round.

Photo of bundles of dollars

Finance

Decentralized Data Platform Space and Time Raises $10M

Crypto investment firm Framework Ventures led the seed funding round.

Los cofundadores de Space and Time, Scott Dykstra (izquierda) y Nate Holiday. (Space and Time)