The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Decentralized gaming infrastructure platform Beamable has raised $13.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Bitkraft Ventures.
It follows integrations with Skyscanner and KAYAK, making Travala discoverable alongside leading travel agencies such as Expedia.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Former TON Foundation President Steve Yun launched the fund to focus on investing in TON-based DeFi and PayFi startups.
Bitcoin transaction fees have plummeted as reduced activity on the network led miners to nearly clear out Bitcoin's pool of unconfirmed transactions.
Spindl, founded in 2022 by Antonio Garcia-Martinez, will operate under the Ethereum Layer 2 incubated by Coinbase called Base.
The investment could be a “sign of things to come” for AI diversifying Bitcoin miners, according to analysts at JPMorgan.
Irreducible provides zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) generation services powered by FPGA chips.
CME Group, the world's largest operator of financial derivatives exchanges, announced it will introduce options on Bitcoin Friday Futures.
The venture fund will exclusively invest in DeSci startups building natively on the Sei blockchain, Justin Barlow told The Block.
On Jan. 21, Riot Platforms said it is looking to the artificial intelligence and high-performance computing boom.
The funding will be used for "continued product development, chain expansion, and strategic partnerships with DeFi protocols."
D3 plans to launch the decentralized network called Doma Protocol using its Series A financing.
We can say with some optimism: those three famous words—we’re so back, as the winds of change appear to be shifting in a favorable direction.
The firm plans to use the funds to integrate with other web3 platforms and build out its Proof of Humanity and Human ID infrastructure.
Pod aims for transaction speeds as fast as a Google search. Investors in the seed round include a16z CSX, 1kx and Flashbots.
Following completion, HIVE plans to increase its global Bitcoin hashrate by 400% from 6 EH/s to 25 EH/s by September.
Analog is set to launch its token on Feb. 6, following its recent mainnet debut, co-founder Victor Young, told The Block.
Here's how crypto VCs view Trump's memecoin and executive order — and their implications for the industry.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Radius is developing a decentralized network called Lighthouse which aims to turn MEV into a revenue source so that rollups don't need to rely on transaction fees.
The venture firm is doubling down on the U.S. market as the Trump administration signals favorable regulations for digital asset firms.
The Fogo Chain is being developed on the Firedancer client, developed by Jump Crypto — where Fogo's co-founder used to work.
The chain-abstracted token marketplace Printr raised $2.5 million in the firm’s first financing round, according to a release shared with The Block. Sfermion, Draper Dragon, Bitscale, Hermeneutic, Sui Foundation, Axelar Foundation and Flow Foundation participated in the funding, which comprises the firm’s total funding to date. Printr allows users to launch memecoins across numerous chains, […]
The series B funding round was led by AppWorks and OKX Ventures, with participation from Avenir Group and HashKey.
Crypto VC funding is expected to rise in 2025 but likely won't reach the highs of 2021-2022, according to JPMorgan analysts.
Months after his release from U.S. prison, Zhao will take an "active role" in Binance's rebranded venture capital wing, YZi Labs.
Corn, an Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to use tokenized bitcoin in DeFi, raised $8.3 million in a community funding round.
Keplr, a crypto wallet provider, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round after four years of operating as a bootstrapped company.