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NFT Music Platform Royal Closes $55M Funding Round Led by A16z

Electronic music performers The Chainsmokers and the rapper Nas also provided funding, which comes less than three months after the Justin “3LAU” Blau venture closed a $16 million round.

Justin Blau is launching Royal Markets with some high-profile backers. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for Billboard Magazine)

Finance

A16z Leads $3.1M Funding Round for Mem’s Social Media Protocol

Mem is building Web 3 tools to give individuals more control over their personal data.

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Finance

Big Money Apes Into Blockchain Gaming With $725M Fundraising for Forte

Forte will use the funding, which brings its total capital raised this year to more than $900 million, to expand its products and services.

Game Developer Mythical Games CEO on Its $75M Raise for Playable NFTs

Finance

Andreessen Horowitz Leads $50M Funding Round for Matter Labs

Matter Labs will use the funding to expand its scientific and engineering teams and finance its business growth.

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Finance

A16z Leads $150M Round for NFT Game Platform Mythical Games at $1.25B Valuation

The startup has launched its own play-to-earn game and plans to license the technology to other developers.

Andreessen Horowitz co-founder and General Partner Marc Andreessen (Fortune Live Media via Flickr)

Videos

a16z Exec Explains Firm's Vision on Web 3 as Facebook Renames Itself 'Meta'

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)'s Tomicah Tillemann shares insights into the firm's Web 3 policy framework titled "We Deserve a Better Internet" and the challenges of getting U.S. lawmakers to embrace Web 3. ​This comes as Facebook has renamed itself "Meta," raising the potential threat of big centralized companies controlling the decentralized internet of the future. Plus, his views on CBDCs and stablecoins.

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Finance

‘Crypto AWS’ Alchemy Hits $3.5B Valuation in $250M Round Led by A16z

The venture giant invests in the kinds of companies Alchemy has called clients for years.

Alchemy CEO Nikil Viswanathan

Policy

Why US Policymakers Should Embrace Web 3

Three words: progress, opportunity and inclusion.

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Videos

Worldcoin, Now Valued at $1B, Has Grand Plans to Get You to Gaze Into the Orb

Former Y Combinator President Sam Altman’s Worldcoin has raised $25 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Coinbase Ventures. Valued at $1 billion, the project bets billions of people will line up to gaze into “The Orb” in exchange for crypto, which over 130,000 users already have.

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Finance

Andreessen Horowitz Invests in New Meta4 NFT Fund

A16z is the lead investor in Meta4′s new fund, which will invest in rare digital art and collectibles such as the Bored Ape Yacht Club.

Arianna Simpson, now a partner on the a16z crypto investment team, speaks a CoinDesk's Consensus: Invest 2017.