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Finance

Multicoin Capital’s Hedge Fund Lost 91.4% Last Year, Investor Letter Reveals

The fund’s performance was severely impacted by direct exposure to now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX and holdings in FTT and Solana-based tokens.

Multicoin's Kyle Samani (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Flashbots Makes Privacy-Enhanced Block Builder Open Source on Ethereum Testnet Sepolia

Research shared by the team details that block builders will be able to build blocks without accessing private data of users' transactions.

bots robots (Shutterstock)

Policy

US SEC Plans to Keep Growing Crypto Unit as Enforcement Ramps Up

The securities regulator has almost filled the 20 slots previously added to its crypto squad and is looking to increase that number even further, a spokesperson said.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Tech

Ethereum Says ERC-4337 Deployed, Tested, Beginning Era of Smart Accounts

The news of the deployment of ERC-4337 will be shared at an ETHDenver-related event, known as WalletCon.

Yoav Weiss, a security fellow at the Ethereum Foundation, announces the launch of account abstraction on Ethereum at WalletCon 2023 (Sam Kessler/CoinDesk)

Finance

Blockchain Protocol Algorand Hires Its First CFO

The new finance chief has several years of crypto and TradFi experience.

Algorand CFO Matthew Commons (Algorand Inc.)

Tech

Former Accounting Team of FTX US Auditor Armanino Sets Up Shop as The Network Firm

The episode highlights yet another chokepoint for the blockchain industry: It's become harder for crypto startups to enlist big accounting firms to do audits and asset attestations.

(Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

DeFi Trading Platform Aurox Seeking Funding at $75M Valuation

The DeFi-focused software developer firm is seeking to raise up to $1 million in a crowdfunding campaign on tZERO.

The price of ether has risen 16% in the past week. (Getty Images)

Finance

Entertainment NFT Firm Orange Comet Raises $7M in Equity Round

The company, which has created digital collectibles for athlete Scottie Pippen and “The Walking Dead," plans to raise more capital later this year.

Beldex raises $25 million with a new DWF Labs partnership (Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Hedge Fund Arca VP of Portfolio Management Leaves

Hassan Bassiri’s exit comes months after the firm shuttered its Digital Yield Fund, citing market volatility.

Hassan Bassiri (CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Conglomerate Digital Currency Group Reports Loss of $1.1B in ‘Challenging’ 2022

DCG held cash and cash equivalents of just $262 million at the end of 2022, while investment assets amounted to $670 million.

Barry Silbert. CEO & Founder Digital Currency Group (DCG)