Data


Markets

Measuring the Value of Digital Ownership via a Web3 Benchmark

CoinDesk Industry Group Select Equal Weight Index (DIGS)

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Finance

Blockchain Analytics Firm Kaiko Raises $53M Series B Led by Eight Roads Amid Bear Market

The investment will enable Kaiko to further strengthen its institutional data products and infrastructure, it said.

Paris, France (allewollenalex/Unsplash)

Finance

Kaiko to Provide Deutsche Boerse With Crypto Market Data

The integration is expected to be completed by the fourth quarter.

Frankfurt, Germany

Finance

Institutional DeFi Enabler? Data Firm Kaiko Probes DEX Liquidity With New Product

The data feed unpacks what’s what in Uniswap, SushiSwap, Curve Finance and Balancer asset pools.

Kaiko CEO Ambre Soubiran (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

DeFi Data Shop Nansen Makes First VC Investment in Gaming Analytics Firm ZeroDrop

Following a $75 million funding round of its own, it’s the first time Nansen has invested in an outside firm.

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Policy

Does the Metaverse Need a Free Trade Agreement?

It’s seeking to be the centerpiece of Web 3, but a successful metaverse could run headfirst into some old-style protectionist barriers like work permits and data blocks, trade policy expert Sam Lowe tells us.

Starrynift plans to launch its Starryverse multiverse later in May. (japatino/Getty Images)

Tech

Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Drops for Second Time in March

The decrease is likely a result of miners unplugging their machines due to high energy costs, said Compass Mining CEO Whitt Gibbs.

Bitcoin mining rigs at Kryptovault's facility in Hønefoss, Norway. (Image credit: Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Mining Data Center Provider Compute North Raises $385M

The company raised $85 million in an equity round and $300 million in debt financing.

Bitcoin miners are attractive partners to build AI data centers: Bernstein. (Shutterstock)

Layer 2

Meet the Man Behind Associated Press' Crypto Strategy

Dwayne Desaulniers is running the news agency's increasingly ambitious blockchain experiments – from NFTs to Chainlink nodes.

(Dwayne Desaulniers/CoinDesk TV)

Finance

Decentralized Data Sharing Network ‘Project Galaxy’ Raises $10M

Project Galaxy, which is live and in use, manages the largest credential data network in Web 3.

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