Venture Capital


Opinion

Rehypothecation May Be Common in Traditional Finance, but It Will Never Work With Bitcoin

Several crypto lenders, exchanges and funds that used customer assets to grow rapidly had a crash course in the limits of digital scarcity in 2022.

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Finance

Zero-Knowledge Privacy Startup Webb Protocol Raises $7M

Polychain Capital and Lemniscap co-led the seed round for the bridge protocol.

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Finance

Alchemy Ventures Backs $4M Round for NFT Platform Vibe

The no-code NFT-to-product toolset allows creatives to add utility and value to their tokens.

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Finance

OpenTrade Raises Over $1.5M for Building Crypto Structured Financial Products

The platform will offer liquidity pools for U.S. Treasury bills, later this year.

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Finance

New Crypto VC Firm Credibly Neutral Raises $5.5M

The firm received funds from the co-founders of Ethereum, Polygon and Solana.

Credibly Neutral founders Viktor Bunin and Lisa Cuesta Bunin (Credibly Neutral)

Finance

Crypto Firm FARE Protocol Raises $6.2M Ahead of Token Launch

The fundraise was led by C Squared Ventures and Goat Capital, the firm co-founded by Twitch founder Justin Kan.

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Finance

Ex-a16z Engineering and Security Heavyweights to Start Crypto Custody Firm: Source

A16z’s former CTO, Riyaz Faizullabhoy, and former CISO Nassim Eddequiouaq have the blessing and seed backing of the venture-capital giant, a person familiar with the plans said.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California (Haotian Zheng/Unsplash)

Finance

Cata Labs Raises $4.2M to Develop 'Bridging' Software

The round was led by Spartan Group and included participation from Robot Ventures, Maven 11, Alchemy Ventures, HashKey Capital, Circle Ventures and Superscrypt.

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Finance

Alchemy’s Venture Arm Wants to Align With 'Web3 Missionaries, Not Mercenaries’

The investment arm of the Web3 infrastructure giant, last valued at $10 billion, continues to find new ways to back early-stage founders.

Paul Almasi, head of Alchemy Ventures (Alchemy Ventures)

Finance

DeFi Protocol Thetanuts Finance Raises $17M for Expansion, New Partnerships

The startup offers multi-chain structured financial products with plans for a buy-side altcoin options market.

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