The crypto-friendly lender has completed its $70 million Series B round with participation from a16z.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Tempo is already working with tech firms Anthropic, Deutsche Bank, DoorDash, Nubank, OpenAI, Revolut, and Shopify.
BlockSpaceForce and Mainnet Capital have launched a new crypto hedge fund to invest in public companies, including DATs.
Nasdaq is increasing oversight of companies seeking to raise money to buy cryptocurrencies as over firms eye more than $98 billion for DATs.
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Aria has raised $15 million in combined seed and strategic funding rounds to bring intellectual property onchain.
Etherealize is an institution-focused advocacy and development group led by former EF developer Danny Ryan and Wall Street trader Vivek Raman.
Treasury B.V. launched with 1,000 bitcoins and a plan to list in Amsterdam via a reverse takeover to become Europe’s top BTC treasury.
The crypto infrastructure provider focused on stablecoins said it's nearly tripled its valuation in six months.
Figure and Gemini join a list of other companies with interests in crypto aiming to launch IPOs, including Grayscale and BitGo.
The treasury company targets 1% of the cryptocurrency's supply by the end of the year, equivalent to approximately 1.4 million BNB.
The 150,000 ETH investment from longtime Ethereum proponent Jeffrey Berns will hit the firm's wallet later this week.
Following the launch, fans will be able to trade on sports outcomes across major leagues like the NFL, NBA, MLB, and college football.
The Sonic Labs community voted to approve a governance proposal that would support a Nasdaq PIPE and a crypto ETF launch.
Bitfinex-backed Plasma announced a strategic partnership with EtherFi on Aug. 29, positioning the stablecoin-focused neobank as a day-one launch partner for the blockchain’s mainnet beta. EtherFi will transfer over $500 million from its Ethereum (ETH) staking vault to Plasma’s platform, providing liquidity for stablecoin-backed yield strategies. The collaboration integrates EtherFi across Plasma’s DeFi ecosystem, providing […]
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Solana treasury firm DeFi Development Corp. is launching an extension of its crypto treasury firm into the UK.
Shareholders in Gryphon, the firm that will merge with a Hut 8 subsidiary to form American Bitcoin company, approved the plan.
American Bitcoin, the mining company partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, is preparing to go public on the Nasdaq in September, Reuters reported on Aug. 28. The firm, launched in March, is 80% owned by Toronto-based Hut 8, one of North America’s largest crypto miners. The Trump brothers collectively own the remaining […]
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The latest $20 million strategic round comes from HashKey Capital, Pantera Capital, and Primitive Ventures, among others.
The Series B funding round was led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from Samsung Next, Dragonfly, Galaxy Ventures and Norwest.
Union Square Ventures led the $15-million seed round in The Clearing Company, which will compete with Polymarket and Kalshi.
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Avail, a modular blockchain infrastructure project backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and other notable investors, has acquired Arcana, a chain abstraction protocol, in a deal aimed at boosting multichain scalability. The acquisition is Avail’s first and will see Arcana’s chain abstraction and developer tools folded into the Avail tech stack. As part of the […]
Japan’s Metaplanet intends to raise about $880 million in an international share offering and spend almost all of it on bitcoin over the next two months.
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Hedge fund Numerai LLC says it has secured $500 million from JPMorgan Asset Management, significantly bolstering its funds.
Trump Media also signed a separate deal with Crypto.com to integrate CRO into its Truth Social and Truth+ platforms.
Hemi raised $15 million in fresh funding ahead of a planned token generation event, bringing total funding to $30 million.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.