Paradigm led Across Protocol's token round, with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Coinbase Ventures and others.
Framework Ventures led Infrared's Series A round, with participation from NGC Ventures, Selini Capital and others.
One of ZKNox's goals is to make post-quantum cryptographic operations more efficient on Ethereum, securing the chain for a quantum computing future.
SimpleHash marks crypto wallet Phantom's third acquisition in recent months, following Blowfish and Bitski.
Ligero builds tools to simplify zero-knowledge proof development, deployment and scaling without compromising security or compliance.
Byzantine's permissionless aggregation layer aims to solve the fragmentation in the burgeoning restaking ecosystem.
"YZi Labs is the sole investor. There are no other investors in this round," Vana co-founder Anna Kazlauskas told The Block.
Robinhood announced that the SEC has closed its investigation into the company's crypto division without pursuing enforcement action.
The exploit involved an attacker using compromised admin privileges on a smart contract, according to security analysts.
Acre, a spin-out from Thesis, enables users to "compound" their bitcoin holdings through various methods, including staking rewards.
Yield Basis aims to initially help tokenized bitcoin and ether holders earn yield from market making by mitigating impermanent loss.
Monad's testnet, in development for two years, functions as a platform for developers and users to test features before the mainnet launch.
DeFi.app also launches its public beta with a points-based trading tournament. Its HOME token is expected to launch in "early Q2."
The firm plans to use its funding to continue developing the Plasma blockchain, which is an EVM-compatible Bitcoin sidechain to facilitate USDT transfers with no fees.
MoonPay, the exclusive onramp to Moonshot, said it onboarded 750,000 new customers following the memecoin launch.
Mirai Labs plans to bolster its team of engineers, specializing in AI, machine learning and programming language Rust, with its fresh financing.
Drosera builds out "traps," or smart contracts that can detect and cancel out threats on the Ethereum network.
Berachain’s BERA launch sparks fresh debate — are “VC coins” built for communities or early investor exits?
Union Square Ventures led the round, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Archetype, 1kx and others.
Investors deposit the USDC stablecoin and receive GPRIME pool tokens, representing their proportional stake in the pool.
Former TON Foundation President Steve Yun launched the fund to focus on investing in TON-based DeFi and PayFi startups.
D3 plans to launch the decentralized network called Doma Protocol using its Series A financing.
The firm plans to use the funds to integrate with other web3 platforms and build out its Proof of Humanity and Human ID infrastructure.
Symbiotic is launching on Ethereum, marking the first fully permissionless restaking protocol to go live in a production environment.
Pod aims for transaction speeds as fast as a Google search. Investors in the seed round include a16z CSX, 1kx and Flashbots.
Analog is set to launch its token on Feb. 6, following its recent mainnet debut, co-founder Victor Young, told The Block.
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, […]
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.