| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.09.2024 | The Celestia Foundation Raises $100 Million | The Celestia Foundation announced it has raised $100 million in support led by Bain Capital Crypto, with participation from Syncracy Capital, 1kx, Robot Ventures, Placeholder, etc. And this brings the project’s total amount raised to $155 m... |
| 24.09.2024 | Celestia Foundation Secures $100 Million to Revolutionize Blockchain Scalability | In the fast-paced world of blockchain technology, innovation is the lifeblood. The Celestia Foundation has just injected a fresh wave of energy into this ecosystem by securing $100 million in funding. This substantial investment, led by Bai... |
| 24.09.2024 | Celestia Foundation nabs $100M for modular blockchain network
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One click below supports our mission to provide free, deep,... | Celestia Foundation, the team behind the modular blockchain network Celestia, has raised $100 million in new funding.
The investment, announced Monday, was led by Bain Capital Crypto, with additional contributions from Syncracy Capital, 1kx... |
| 23.09.2024 | Blockchain Data-Availability Project Celestia's Foundation Raises $100M | Celestia Foundation, the team behind the Celestia blockchain network, said Monday that it has raised $100 million in a fundraising round led by Bain Capital Crypto.
The news comes as as Celestia's native token, TIA, is down 54% since the be... |
| 09.08.2024 | The Rise of Yield-Generating Stablecoins: A New Era in DeFi | In the ever-evolving landscape of decentralized finance (DeFi), a new player has emerged, promising to shake up the stablecoin market. Gyroscope has unveiled its yield-bearing stablecoin, Savings GYD (sGYD), aiming to deliver an impressive ... |
| 08.08.2024 | Gyroscope Rolls Out Yield-Bearing Version of Stablecoin Targeting Over 10% Yield
What Wall Street's Pivot to Small-Cap Stocks Means for Crypto; Hong Kong Plans for Stablecoin Legislation | Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Gyroscope said Thursday it roll out a new yield-generating version of its stablecoin.
"Savings GYD," or sGYD, will aim to pay out 12%-15% annualized yield to token holders, variable to market ... |
| 28.02.2024 | Backpack Raises $17 Million Strategic Series A Round Led by Placeholder VC | Dubai, UAE, February 28th, 2024, FinanceWire
Dubai, UAE, February 28th The Backpack ecosystem of companies, creators of the Backpack wallet, the Mad Lads NFT collection, and Backpack Exchange, today announced the first joint closing of the... |
| 28.02.2024 | Backpack Raises $17 Million Strategic Series A Round Led by Placeholder VC | Dubai, UAE, February 28th, 2024, FinanceWire
Dubai, UAE, February 28th The Backpack ecosystem of companies, creators of the Backpack wallet, the Mad Lads NFT collection, and Backpack Exchange, today announced the first joint closing of thei... |
| 20.11.2023 | Saga Announces Seed Extension Raise of $5M for Accelerated Growth | San Francisco, CA, November 20th, 2023, Chainwire
Latest Round Led by Placeholder to Fuel Layer-1 Protocol with Fastest Developer Growth this Cycle
Saga, a top Layer-1 protocol and developer ecosystem in web3, today announced the raise of... |
| 20.11.2023 | Saga Announces Seed Extension Raise of $5M for Accelerated Growth | San Francisco, CA, November 20th, 2023, Chainwire
Latest Round Led by Placeholder to Fuel Layer-1 Protocol with Fastest Developer Growth this Cycle
Saga, a top Layer-1 protocol and developer ecosystem in web3, today announced the raise of i... |
| 12.09.2022 | Greek-founded Rated Labs Raises $2.5M to Provide Better Transparency in Web3 Infrastructure Data | Greece, UK ~
• Greek-founded Web3 infrastructure project Rated Labs raised $2.5M in a seed round
• The round was led by crypto VC 1confirmation, UK-based VC Semantic and New York-based VC Placeholder, together with first-check fund Cherry C... |
| 24.02.2022 | Immune to irony, Nori puts a carbon market on the blockchain | The Ethereum blockchain isn’t exactly the first thing that springs to mind when you’re thinking of solutions to climate problems, but that’s what Nori has built as an engine to encourage farmers to use carbon-negative farming methods to pul... |
| 16.02.2022 | Ceramic | As my partner Brad noted in 2019, the first generation of the internet (aka “Web 1”) was built as a “stateless” system. In other words, data packets could be moved around the network, but the network itself couldn’t store them or create per... |
| 11.10.2021 | Market Wrap: Bitcoin All-Time High Expected, but Not Before a Pullback | Bullish sentiment continues to grow after bitcoin’s price broke above $57,000 on Monday. BTC is up about 3% over the past 24 hours, extending its outperformance compared to alternative cryptocurrencies.
Analysts see continued upside, with s... |
| 03.06.2021 | Scaling Ethereum with zkSync | Ethereum has grown into an incredibly rich ecosystem, demonstrating the network effects that are possible when you combine wallets, developers, assets, liquidity, and layered protocols. As a result, we are getting our first glimpses of what... |
| 20.01.2021 | 'Let's Not Be Bitcoin': Yearn Finance Considers Minting $200M in New YFI Tokens | Bitcoin may be the original cryptocurrency, but that doesn't mean leading decentralized finance (DeFi) projects aren't feeling self-confident enough to distinguish themselves from Satoshi's vision.
"Let’s not be Bitcoin. This idea of h... |
| 24.09.2020 | Nori is pitching carbon trading … on the blockchain! | Cryptocurrency meets carbon trading.
That’s the pitch from Nori, a new Seattle-based startup, that just raised $4 million in funding from cryptocurrency-focused investors including Placeholder, North Island Ventures, Tenacious Ventures, and... |
| 02.03.2019 | Audio Of The Week: Chris, Joel, Jesse, and Denis on Crypto | One of our first crypto investments maybe five years ago was Mediachain, founded by Denis Nazarov (@Iiterature), and Jesse Walden (@jessewldn). They sold that company to Spotify and eventually landed at A16Z crypto. One of the USV analysts ... |
| 03.02.2019 | Understanding Your Investors | To some extent, this blog has been about demystifying venture capital and in particular me and the firm I work at, USV.
There are many reasons why I think that is a useful exercise. When I got into the VC business in the mid 80s, it was a f... |
| 10.01.2019 | The Hinman Test | For most companies and projects in the crypto sector, a big issue has been how to design their token and how to get it in the hands of users, validators/miners, and investors. As Joel explained in this post, you need all three stakeholders ... |
| 06.01.2019 | Stakeholders In A Cryptonetwork | Joel Monegro, who is one of the Partners at Placeholder and a former USV analyst, has written an important post that outlines the relationships between the three primary stakeholders in a cryptonetwork; users, miners/validators, and investo... |
| 11.12.2018 | When Markets Overcorrect | When capital markets change direction, to the upside or to the downside, they often go too far before finding the right balance. When they overshoot to the downside, you can find some real values.
Back in the financial crisis of 2008, I was... |
| 20.09.2018 | One of Investors' Favorite Governance Blockchains Is Handing Over $20 Million | Governance is one of the hottest topics in crypto right now – and Decred developers' take is that the community should decide.
And, by way of the release of a communication tool called Politeia, they will soon be giving that community $20 m... |
| 20.06.2018 | Investing In Token Focused Funds | At USV, we have been active in the blockchain/crypto sector since 2011. At this time, we have direct investments in nine companies/projects in the crypto space and one exited investment. Companies in the blockchain/crypto sector make up abo... |
| 17.02.2018 | Investing in cryptocurrencies? Understand how to diversify your portfolio | Most investors will tell you about the importance of a well-diversified portfolio and how you should never go all in on any single asset. This is good advice for most of us and makes even more sense in the unregulated cryptocurrency market,... |
| 17.02.2018 | Investing in cryptocurrencies? Understand how to diversify your portfolio | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Most investors will tell you about the importance... |
| 08.08.2016 | Fat Protocols | Note: see the 2020 follow-up post here: Thin Applications
Here’s one way to think about the differences between the Internet and the Blockchain. The previous generation of shared protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, etc.) produced immeasurable a... |