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SEC Advisory Group Supports Gensler’s Crypto Efforts but Requests Industry Guidance

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler got further reinforcement for his quest to force crypto firms to conform with existing securities laws when his agency’s Investor Advisory Committee backed him up on almost every aspect of his campaign except one. The committee requested that the SEC provide formal industry guidance. This comes as Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) says the U.S. is losing its edge in crypto. "The Hash" panel discusses the latest in crypto regulation.

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Finance

A16z Highlights Web3 Strength in Its Second ‘State of Crypto’ Report

The venture capital giant sees bear markets as a time for builders, particularly blockchain infrastructure projects.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California (Haotian Zheng/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Protocol LayerZero Raises $120M at $3B Valuation

The valuation is triple the level of the firm's previous funding round in March 2022.

LayerZero co-founders CTO Ryan Zarick and CEO Bryan Pellegrino (Chung Chow, BIV)

Finance

A16z Leads $40M Funding Round for CCP Games

The studio behind Eve Online is planning to release a blockchain-based game.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California (Haotian Zheng/Unsplash)

Finance

A16z Leads $25M Round for Web3 Startup Building Online Towns

Here Not There also received backing from Benchmark and Framework Ventures.

Here Not There Labs is looking to duplicate town squares online. (Vladimir Jesko/Pixabay)

Finance

Coinbase Product Head Departs for a16z Crypto

Surojit Chatterjee tweeted his new role as executive in residence at Andreessen Horowitz.

A16z's flagship crypto fund loses 40% in the first half of 2022. (Haotian Zheng/Unsplash)

Tech

Uniswap Vote on BNB Deployment Ends With Silicon Valley’s A16Z on Losing Side

Uniswap’s community wants to bring the exchange to BNB Chain before copycats can launch identical competitors.

Uniswap unicorn balloon (Getty Images)

Tech

Contentious Uniswap Vote Highlights the Opaqueness of Decentralized Governance

A16z didn’t quash a proposal to launch Uniswap onto Binance’s BNB Chain, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t have.

(Sanja Baljkas/Getty Images)

Web3

Mythical Games Sues Former Executives for Secretly Raising $150M for New Firm

The Web3 gaming studio alleges that the former executives, who departed the firm in November, used knowledge gained from raising funds for Mythical to acquire capital for their new firm, Fenix Games.

(mythicalgames.com)

Consensus Magazine

Keeping the Crypto Industry Bankrolled

A16z partner Chris Dixon spent the first half of the year boldly amassing a $4.5 billion fund. But when the crypto industry went upside down, he pivoted to quietly support promising ventures. That’s why he is one of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022.

Chris Dixon (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)