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Finance

Libra Creator David Marcus Begins New Lightning Network Venture, Lightspark

Details are vague, but Lightspark has raised an undisclosed funding round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Paradigm.

David Marcus (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto Risk Monitoring Firm Solidus Labs Raises $45M

Liberty City Ventures led the round for the market surveillance and risk monitoring startup, which has several ex-regulators as backers or advisors.

Solidus Labs CTO Praveen Kumar (left), COO Chen Arad (top) and CEO Asaf Meir (right).

Finance

6th Man Ventures Raises $145M for Crypto Fund: Report

It’s the second fund for the venture capital firm led by The Block founder Mike Dudas.

A venture capitalist and an entrepreneur talk business. (Maskot/Getty images)

Finance

Chainalysis Raises $170M at $8.6B Valuation

The crypto sleuthing firm says its tools monitor $1 trillion worth of transactions every month.

Chainalysis co-founder Jonathan Levin speaks at Crypto Bahamas 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Coinbase Ventures Backs Moralis' $40M Funding Round

The firm provides a development platform for building and launching Web 3 games, apps and NFTs.

Moralis co-founders Filip Martinsson and Ivan Liljeqvist (Moralis)

Finance

Katie Haun’s VC Firm Leads $11M Round for Web 3 Community Platform Highlight

Highlight offers a no-code toolkit for creators to easily build NFT-based Web 3 communities.

Venture capitalist Katie Haun appears on stage at the 2022 FTX/SALT Crypto Bahamas conference. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Paradigm Enters Africa With $30M Round for ‘Super App’ Jambo

The Congo-based startup is building a platform for Web 3 user acquisition.

Africa holds great potential in the ongoing evolution of cryptocurrency technology. (Moussa Kalapo/Getty Images)

Finance

SPiCE VC Launches $250M Blockchain Fund Targeting Institutional Investors

The firm previously raised $50 million for a tokenized fund focused on financial verticals, but its second fund will invest more broadly.

Venture chief Tal Elyashiv thinks his tokenized VC fund can find a foothold on Asian exchanges. (SPiCE)

Finance

‘Tamagotchi on Crack’: Irreverent Labs Raises $40M for NFT Cockfighting Game

Investors are backing a gaming studio whose “MechaFightClub” title is predicated on 6,969 robot chicken NFTs, according to government filings.

(Al Bello/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)