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Finance

Crypto Venture Capital Investment Slowed Further in October: JPMorgan

As the bear market persists, the current pace of capital flows has slowed to less than one-third of 2021 levels.

Frax Ether promises above-average ether staking yields. (ClaudiaWollesen/Pixabay)

Finance

Troubled Crypto Exchange Zipmex Is in Advanced Takeover Talks

A deal to sell a majority stake is on track to be completed this week.

(Michal Jarmoluk/Pixabay)

Finance

Crypto VC Firm CoinFund Looks to Raise $250M Seed Fund

SEC filings show the firm is raising money for a new fund less than three months after launching a $300 million VC fund.

CoinFund Managing Partner David Pakman (CoinDesk TV screenshot)

Finance

Pantera Capital Leads $10M Funding Round for Crypto Wallet Firm Braavos

The startup aims to offer self-custody with the easier user interface of custodial wallets

Pantera Capital founder and CEO Dan Morehead (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Blockchain Venture Firms to Invest $100M in Busan for Ecosystem Development

EOS Network Foundation, OKX Blockdream Ventures, AlphaNonce and others agreed to invest in blockchain companies in South Korea's second-largest city.

Busan City, South Korea (Getty Images)

Finance

Bain Capital Crypto Leads $3.3M Round for Privacy-Focused Identity Protocol

Notebook Labs aims to accelerate DeFi adoption with its crypto identity protocol.

Notebook Labs co-founders Nathaniel Masfen-Yan, Dhruv Mangtani and Solal Afota. (Notebook Labs)

Opinion

How Crypto Traders Are Reinventing Venture Capital

The digital asset ecosystem democratizes startup investing by granting everyday investors wider access to potentially outsized returns of liquid venture markets.

(regularguy.eth/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Bloomberg Beta Leads $6.2M Funding for DAO Framework Origami

Origami and backer Orange DAO also announced a $20,000 funding program for pre-launch decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs)

Origami team members Johnny Chin, Matt Voska, Ben Huh and Stephen Caudill (Origami)

Finance

A16z's Largest Crypto Fund Loses 40% in First Half of 2022: Report

Andreessen Horowitz has slowed down its crypto investments, making just nine in the third quarter, compared with 26 in the fourth quarter of last year.

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