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Paradigm Bets on a Cross-Chain Future With $21M Round for Cosmos' Osmosis DEX
Osmosis, a decentralized exchange in the Cosmos ecosystem, today announced a $21M sale of tokens from the Osmosis Foundation treasury, in a round led by Paradigm. Other investors included Robert Leshner's scout fund, Robot Ventures, Nascent, Ethereal, Figment and Terraform…
FTX Breaks Crypto Funding Round Record with $900M Series B
Bucking a bearish crypto market, FTX, the two-year-old cryptocurrency exchange, announced a $900M Series B funding round at a valuation of $18B, the company said in a statement released yesterday. The deal is a clear sign that for all the…
Venture Round Led by a16z Makes OpenSea Latest NFT Unicorn
The NFT marketplace OpenSea has reached a $1.5B valuation after a $100M Series B funding round led by a16z. This makes OpenSea the newest NFT-based unicorn, or a privately held startup company valued over $1B. A16z also led OpenSea’s $23M…
DeFi Fixed-Lending Protocol Notional Finance Closes $10M Round Led by Pantera
Notional Finance, a decentralized fixed-rate lending protocol built on Ethereum, closed a $10M Series A funding round led by Pantera with participation from ParaFi, 1confirmation, Spartan Group, Nascent, Nima Capital, and others. “Notional’s mission is to bring fixed-rate borrowing and…
Step Finance Raises $2M in Round Led by Alameda Research
Step Finance, a Solana app which aggregates users’ DeFi activities across the blockchain’s open finance ecosystem has raised $2M in a round led by Alameda Research, Three Comma Capital and others. “The biggest problem in the Solana ecosystem is how…
Element Finance Raises $4.4M to Boost Fixed Rate DeFi Markets
Element Finance raised $4.4M in a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Placeholder accompanied by SV Angel, A.Capital, Scalar Capital, and Robot Ventures. Angels included Joseph Lubin, Fernando Martinelli, Stani Kulechov, Mariano Conti, Robert Leshner and Tarun Chitra. The…
InsurAce Raises $3M in Round Led by Alameda & HashKey
InsurAce, the Singapore-based insurance protocol, raised $3M in a token-based funding round led by Alameda Research and HashKey Capital. Investors from the project’s $1M seed round, DeFiance Capital, ParaFi Capital, Hashed and Signum Capital, also participated. The round was completed…
dYdX Closes Series B with $10M Investment
dYdX closed its Series B round with an investment of $10M led by Three Arrows Capital and DeFiance Capital. Other investors include Wintermute, Hashed, GSR, SCP, Scalar Capital, Spartan Group, and RockTree Capital. The dYdX exchange, which focuses on derivatives…
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