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Finance

Zora Gets In on NFT Funding Craze With $8M Raise, SEC Documents Show

It’s the latest NFT marketplace investors are betting on as the mainstream gateway to crypto.

The homepage of the Zora NFT marketplace on March 31, 2021.

Finance

Ember Fund Raises $5.3M to Build Out Trading App

Ember’s AI and machine-learning algos look to protect retail investors from getting rekt.

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Finance

Michael Jordan Joins $305M Investment in Firm Behind NBA Top Shot

Dapper Labs' buzzy NFT platform has generated over $500 million in sales since launch.

NBA legend Michael Jordan

Finance

Cuban, Palihapitiya Back NFT Marketplace SuperRare's $9M Series A

The NFT marketplace plans to build out its social features and experiment with presenting works in virtual reality.

Fire Castle, an AI-generated landscape available on SuperRare.

Markets

PureStake Raises $6M From Binance Labs, Coinbase Ventures

PureStake's Moonbeam parachain launched its testnet in September as part of the Polkadot ecosystem.

PureStake is building the Moonbeam network for release later this year.

Finance

Chainalysis Raises $100M, Underscoring Surging Demand for Blockchain Surveillance

The compliance-minded crypto data firm, is now valued at $2 billion after a Series D raise from Paradigm, Ribbit and others.

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Finance

Caitlin Long’s Avanti Raises $37M Ahead of Crypto Bank Launch

The digital bank will put the extra cash toward meeting Wyoming regulators’ pre-launch capital requirements.

Avanti CEO Caitlin Long

Finance

Serena Williams Backs $5M Round in Bitcoin Rewards Startup Lolli

Williams leads a pack of notable investors in the e-commerce firm, including her husband, Alexis Ohanian, and a handful of prominent YouTubers.

Serena Williams

Markets

Blockchain.com Raises $300M at $5.2B Valuation: Report

The news comes a month after the raising of $120 million in a round led by Google Ventures. In that round the company was valued at $3 billion.

Blockchain.com CEO Peter Smith

Tech

Tally Raises $1.5M to Boost On-Chain Governance in Compound’s DeFi Ecosystem

Notation Capital, Castle Island Ventures, 1kx and others invested in the governance dashboard.

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