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| 13.01.2025 | CoinList Announces OpenLedger Incentivized Testnet | Listen to this article
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OpenLedger, backed by Polychain Capital and Borderless Capital, is building a blockchain for (artificial intelligence) AI that provides a “decentralized” trust infrastructure for creating sp... |
| 09.01.2025 | Brno: The Rising Star of Europe’s Startup Ecosystem | Brno, the Czech Republic's second-largest city, is emerging as a vibrant hub for startups. Often overshadowed by Prague, Brno is carving its niche in the tech landscape. With a dynamic startup scene, it’s becoming a beacon for innovation an... |
| 08.01.2025 | Movement Labs layer 2 Ethereum blockchain reportedly seeks $100M raise at $3B valuation
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Citing multiple sou... |
| 03.12.2024 | Perennial Unveils a Novel Intent Layer for Perpetuals – Solving DeFi’s Fragmented Liquidity Problem | New York, United States, December 3rd, 2024, Chainwire
Perennial announced the launch of Perennial Intents, a unique intents layer for perpetual futures, designed to unify DeFi’s fragmented liquidity landscape and deliver a centralized exch... |
| 21.11.2024 | Monkey Tilt: A New Dawn in Online Gaming | In the bustling world of online gaming, a new player has emerged, shaking the foundations of traditional entertainment. Monkey Tilt, a Las Vegas-based company, recently secured $30 million in Series A funding. This marks a significant leap ... |
| 21.11.2024 | Monkey Tilt: Entertainment And Online Gaming Company Secures $30 Million (Series A) | Monkey Tilt, a platform pioneering a new era of entertainment and online gaming experiences, announced $30 million in Series A funding. Launched in March 2024, Monkey Tilt is creating the next frontier of gaming and bringing together the mo... |
| 20.11.2024 | Monkey Tilt Raises $30M in Series A Funding | Monkey Tilt, a Las Vegas, NV-based developer of a platform providing entertainment and online gaming experiences, raised $30M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Polychain Capital, PokerGo, Hac... |
| 24.10.2024 | Chainlink Expands to Bitcoin, Helping Original Blockchain With Its Layer-2 Shift
Uptober Forming Amid Rising Stablecoin Liquidity and Bitcoin Transactions | Chainlink has expanded to Bitcoin for the first time through an integration with layer-2 network Spiderchain.
Spiderchain's builder Botanix Labs has joined the Chainlink Scale program, which will give them access to Chainlink's oracle servi... |
| 17.10.2024 | Yellow Card Closes US$33M Series C Funding | Yellow Card, a Johannesburg, South Africa-based licensed Stablecoin on/off ramp on the African continent, raised US$33M in Series C funding.
The round was led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from Polychain Capital, Third Prime Ven... |
| 16.10.2024 | Bitlayer: Bitcoin Second-Layer Network Company Raises $9 Million (Series A) | Bitlayer, the first Bitcoin Layer 2 based on Bitcoin finality, announced it has recently closed a $9 million extension to its previously announced Series A funding round. The extended A round is led by Polychain Capital and co-led by Frankl... |
| 16.10.2024 | Unite Partners with EigenDA to Revolutionize Infrastructure for Scaling Web3 Mobile Gaming | Sinagpore, Singapore, October 16th, 2024, Chainwire
Unite, the pioneering Layer 3 blockchain solution built on Base, is excited to announce a strategic partnership with Eigen Labs to incorporate EigenDA, a leading data availability solution... |
| 14.10.2024 | Trump-Backed World Liberty Financial Whitelists 100K Accredited Investors Ahead of WLFi Launch | The Trump family-backed crypto project, World Liberty Financial, is set to launch its WLFI token presale on Tuesday, with over 100,000 accredited U.S. investors whitelisted.
The project aims to raise $300 million, valuing the venture at $1.... |
| 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... |
| 19.09.2024 | Vana Raises $5M in Funding | Vana, a San Francisco, California-based developer of a decentralized network for user owned data, raised $5M in strategic funding.
The round, led by with Coinbase Ventures, brought total funding to $25M to date. The total amount included a ... |
| 31.08.2024 | Blockchain Firm Peregrine Exploration Raises $3.6 Million To Advance Stablecoin Protocol Level | Peregrine Exploration, a blockchain development and research company, secured $3.6 million in funding co-led by Polychain Capital and Dragonfly to advance the development of Level, a pioneering stablecoin protocol.
This funding round also s... |
| 30.08.2024 | dappOS Launches Intent Assets to Unify Yield Generation and Usability in Crypto | SINGAPORE, Aug. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- dappOS has launched Intent Assets, aiming to unify yield generation and asset usability in the crypto space. Intent Assets allow users to earn yield while seamlessly using them like native tokens on-... |
| 30.08.2024 | Peregrine Exploration Raises $3.6M in Funding | Peregrine Exploration, a NYC-based blockchain development and research company, raised $3.6M in funding.
The round was led by Polychain Capital and Dragonfly. Robot Ventures, Pier Two, EIV and Global Coin Research and angels Balaji Srinivas... |
| 29.08.2024 | Peregrine Exploration: Level Developer Raises $3.6 Million To Launch First Stablecoin Protocol With Restaked Dollar Tokens | Peregrine Exploration, a blockchain development and research company, today announced $3.6 million in funding co-led by Polychain Capital and Dragonfly to develop Level (the first stablecoin protocol powered by restaked dollar tokens). The ... |
| 28.08.2024 | Solayer Labs Raises $12M in Seed Funding | Solayer Labs, a developer of a Solana restaking protocol, raised $12m in seed funding.
The round was led by Polychain Capital with participation from Big Brain Holdings, Hack VC, Nomad Capital, Race Capital, ABCDE, and Maelstrom.
The compan... |
| 26.08.2024 | Corn Raises $6.7M in Funding | Corn, a developer of an Ethereum (ETH) Layer-2 network that uses its hybrid tokenized Bitcoin (BTCN) as gas and redirects network yield back to users and protocols, raised $6.7M in funding.
The round was led by Polychain Capital with partic... |
| 21.08.2024 | IP-Focused Blockchain Startup Story Protocol Raises $80M | 7 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
With AI creating new issues regarding theft of intellectual property, San Francisco-based startup Story Protocol raised an $80 million Series B to try to solve the increasing problem.
The new round w... |
| 17.08.2024 | Sahara AI: Decentralized Blockchain Platform Company Raises $43 Million | Sahara AI is a company focused on making AI open, equitable, and beneficial for everyone across all stages of the development cycle. The company recently raised $43 million to scale its operations. This funding was co-led by Binance Labs, P... |
| 15.08.2024 | Sahara AI: A New Dawn for Copyright and Transparency in AI | In the bustling world of artificial intelligence, a new player has emerged, promising to reshape the landscape. Sahara AI Ltd. has recently secured $43 million in funding, a significant boost for its ambitious mission. This startup is not j... |
| 15.08.2024 | Decentralized AI network Sahara raises fresh capital in Samsung NEXT-backed round | Sahara AI, a startup integrating blockchain and artificial intelligence, said on Wednesday it raised $43 million in a funding round led by venture capital investors Pantera Capital, Binance Labs and Polychain Capital.
The series A funding a... |
| 14.08.2024 | Decentralized AI network Sahara raises $43M to tackle copyright and transparency in training data
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One click below support... | Sahara AI Ltd., a startup building a decentralized platform for artificial intelligence data using blockchain technology, today announced it has raised $43 million in early-stage funding co-led by Pantera Capital, Binance Labs and Polychain... |
| 14.08.2024 | Decentralized AI network Sahara raises fresh capital in Samsung NEXT-backed round | Sahara AI, a startup integrating the blockchain and artificial intelligence, said on Wednesday it raised $43 million in a funding round led by venture capital investors Pantera Capital, Binance Labs and Polychain Capital.
The series A fundi... |
| 14.08.2024 | Sahara AI, Blockchain Project Tackling Copyright and Privacy, Raises $43M
TON Gets $40M Venture Fund, What Could This Mean for the Ecosystem's Future? | Sahara's aim is to tackle concerns over copyright, privacy and resource access amid proliferation of AI tools.
Projects that combine blockchain and AI in order to introduce decentralization to artificial intelligence engines have been an em... |
| 08.08.2024 | HTX Ventures Invests in Nexio to Enhance The Bitcoin Ecosystem | SINGAPORE, Aug. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- HTX Ventures, the global investment arm of the cryptocurrency exchange HTX, has announced a strategic investment in Nexio. Nexio is an innovative Bitcoin scaling solution that employs parallelized ZK ... |
| 30.07.2024 | Polychain, Lightspeed Lead $7M Fundraise for Math Olympian's Blockchain-Based AI Platform | Hyperbolic, one of the newer contenders in the race to apply blockchain tech to artificial intelligence, has raised $7 million in a seed funding round led by Polychain Capital and Lightspeed Faction.
The AI boom has strained the global supp... |
| 09.07.2024 | Top Crypto VC Says Ex-General Partner Made Undisclosed Side Deal With Portfolio Company | Crypto venture capital giant Polychain has accused Niraj Pant, a former employee, of making a backroom deal with portfolio company Eclipse Labs that broke the fund's policies.
According to three sources close to the situation and internal E... |
| 03.07.2024 | CoinDCX acquires Dubai-based virtual assets trading platform BitOasis | Crypto exchange CoinDCX has announced the acquisition of BitOasis, a virtual assets trading platform in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. According to CoinDCX, BitOasis has the highest trading volume in Emirati dirhams. CoinDC... |
| 03.07.2024 | Protocol Village : accord Chainlink avec Fidelity International, Sygnum apporte NAV en chaîne
Transactional Freedom Is 'as Important as Freedom of Expression': Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | 3 juillet : Chainlink , le projet Oracle blockchain, prévoit une collaboration avec Fidelity International et Sygnum pour mettre en chaîne les données sur la valeur nette d'inventaire (NAV), sur la base d'une annonce faite mercredi au Point... |
| 01.05.2024 | The Protocol: EigenLayer's 'Intersubjective Forking' Is Objectively Not Done | EigenLayer, the Ethereum "restaking" project that quickly shot to the top ranks of the DeFi leaderboards thanks to so-called airdrop farmers, finally acknowledged plans to launch its own EIGEN token. The terms of the planned airdr... |
| 13.04.2024 | Vana plans to let users rent out their Reddit data to train AI | In the generative AI boom, data is the new oil. So why shouldn’t you be able to sell your own?
From big tech firms to startups, AI makers are licensing e-books, images, videos, audio and more from data brokers, all in the pursuit of trainin... |
| 19.07.2023 | Polychain Capital, Coinfund raise $350M for new crypto funds: Report | Over $350 million has been raised by crypto venture capital firms Polychain Capital and Coinfund, with respective reported raises of $200 million for a new investment fund and $152 million for a seed fund.
A July 18 Forbes report said Polyc... |
| 18.07.2023 | Crypto VC Giant Polychain Secures Whopping $200 Million in Funding | Polychain Capital, a leading venture capital firm in the cryptocurrency sector, has successfully raised approximately $200 million in its first funding round for its fourth fund, demonstrating a strong industry interest despite a recent dec... |
| 18.07.2023 | Crypto VC Firm Polychain Capital Raises $200M for Fourth Fund: Fortune | Blockchain-focused venture capital (VC) firm Polychain Capital has raised around $200 million in an initial close for its fourth crypto venture capital fund, Fortune reported citing a person familiar with the matter.
Fortune said that Polyc... |
| 19.12.2022 | Foundation raises $7M to return ‘sovereignty’ to a chaotic crypto world | Hot on the heels of Ledger announcing it’s working with iPod creator Tony Fadell to create its newest hardware wallet, competing hardware wallet startup Foundation Devices announced it has raised a $7 million seed round to double down on it... |
| 02.12.2022 | Fleek Announces $25 Million Series A Raise Led by Polychain | Funds will be allocated toward developing and launching Fleek Network, a decentralized content and application delivery network
Fleek, a Web3 developer platform, announced Thursday that it has raised $25 million in Series A funding. Fleek’s... |
| 19.09.2022 | Yellow Card announces $40 million Series B round to scale across Africa | Pan-African cryptocurrency exchange Yellow Card has announced the close of its $40M Series B funding led by Polychain Capital. Other investors participating in the round include Valar Ventures, Third Prime, Sozo Ventures, Castle Island Vent... |
| 18.04.2022 | Polychain leads $22M seed round for Nomad | Nomad has raised roughly $22.4 million in seed funding led by Polychain Capital. Based in the Bay Area, the company uses blockchain interoperability to operate a cross-chain messaging protocol.
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| 05.11.2021 | AscendEX Announces a $50 Million Series B Raise Led by Polychain Capital and Hack VC | AscendEX, a global cryptocurrency financial platform, has announced the close of a $50 million Series B raise led by Polychain Capital and Hack VC, with participation from Jump Capital and Alameda Research, as well as Uncorrelated Ventures,... |
| 17.09.2021 | Polychain and Three Arrows Capital Lead $230M Investment in the Avalanche Blockchain Ecosystem | Polychain and Three Arrows Capital have led a $230 million investment in the Avalanche public blockchain ecosystem.
They’ve been joined by R/Crypto Fund, Dragonfly, CMS Holdings, Collab+Currency, Lvna Capital and several angel investors and... |
| 16.09.2021 | Polychain Capital leads $230m investment round in Avalanche | Polychain and Three Arrows Capital have led a $230m investment round in the Avalanche network, buying up the company’s native crypto currency AVAX. |
| 16.09.2021 | Olaf Carlson-Wee’s Polychain Capital Co-Leads $230 Million Investment In Ethereum Challenger Capitalizing On DeFi | Ethereum challenger Avalanche has raised a $230 million investment led by Singapore-based hedge fund Three Arrows Capital and Olaf Carlson-Wee’s Polychain Capital (Carlson-Wee was the first employee at now the largest cryptocurrency exchang... |
| 16.09.2021 | Polychain Capital, Three Arrows Lead $230M Investment in Avalanche Ecosystem | Fresh on the heels of a $180 million incentive program, the Avalanche Foundation announced on Thursday a $230 million raise to jumpstart liquidity in the network’s burgeoning decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.
The Avalanche Foundation ... |
| 23.07.2021 | Nym next-generation privacy network gets USD 6.5M | The funding round was led by Polychain Capital, and included a host of European investors such as Eden Block, Greenfield One, Maven11, Tioga, and 1kx. Will Wolf of Polychain Capital says “We’re incredibly excited to partner with the Nym tea... |
| 17.06.2021 | Polychain, Pantera Back $14M Funding Round for DeFi Derivatives Platform SynFutures | Decentralized finance (DeFi) derivatives exchange SynFutures raised $14 million in a Series A funding round led by Polychain Capital, SynFutures announced Wednesday.
As DeFi continues to gain in popularity, investors look to capture niche m... |
| 10.06.2021 | Solana Labs complete a $314.15m private token sale | Solana Labs has announced it has completed a private token sale of $314,159,265 led by Andreessen Horowitz and Polychain Capital with participation from Alameda Research, Blockchange Ventures, CMS Holdings, Coinfund, CoinShares, Collab Curr... |
| 16.04.2021 | Enso Finance raises $5m to boost the launch of its social trading platform | Enso was created with the conviction that decentralized finance should not be constricted to whitelisted integrations. Enso platform enables the creation of an unlimited number of strategies that include all ERC-20 tokens available in the D... |
| 16.04.2021 | Enso Finance raises $5m to boost the launch of its social trading platform | |
| 18.03.2021 | Maple Finance Raises $1.4M for Its Reputation-Based DeFi Lending Platform | Reputation-based lending is coming to decentralized finance (DeFi) next month with the release of Maple Finance’s “Pool Delegates” lending suite.
The Australian-based startup is set to debut its first undercollateralized lending market with... |
| 02.10.2020 | New investors for blockchain startup Liquity | |
| 02.10.2020 | New investors for blockchain startup Liquity | Incorporated in 2020 in Baar (Zug), Liquity is building a borrowing protocol for Ethereum that will issue interest-free loans (called “troves”) in its USD-pegged stablecoin, LUSD, to borrowers. Due to the volatility of Ethereum, users have ... |
| 21.08.2020 | Polychain Capital's Original Crypto Fund Raises an Additional $19.5M | Polychain Capital's cryptocurrency hedge fund added $19.5 million in investments in the past year, pushing the flagship fund's lifetime raise past $307 million.
Polychain Fund I LP, which invests in cryptocurrencies and Simple Agreements fo... |
| 12.08.2020 | Merico raises $4.1M for its developer analytics platform | Merico, a startup that gives companies deeper insights into their developers’ productivity and code quality, today announced that it has raised a $4.1 million seed round led by GGV Capital, with participation from Legend Star and previous i... |
| 17.06.2020 | Polychain Capital, Square Crypto’s Steve Lee Invest in Bitcoin Broker’s $5.7M Seed Round | A slew of investors is backing bitcoin brokerage River Financial to the tune of $5.7 million.
Announced Wednesday, the San Francisco-based startup has closed a seed round joined by Polychain Capital, Slow Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, D... |
| 09.11.2019 | VC Powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz Presenting Free “Crypto Startup School” in February | Prolific Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is offering a free seven-week program starting in late February 2020 called the “a16z Crypto Startup School.”
Famous for being one of the early backers of Facebook and Instagram, Andreesse... |
| 16.10.2018 | The Crypto Protocol Trying to Unite Every Exchange Order Book | Imagine the liquidity of every crypto exchange, but in one giant pool – one all-seeing order book that listed every conceivable bid and ask for any asset.
That's the promise of a new startup announcing its equity seed round Tuesday exclusiv... |
| 15.08.2018 | Crypto firm Pantera Capital is looking to raise up to $175 million for a new venture fund | Pantera Capital, a San Francisco firm that has made its mark in recent years by investing early and often in a wide variety of digital assets, is looking to raise up to $175 million for its third venture fund — an enormous jump from the $25... |
| 07.07.2018 | Beyond Ethereum: The battle to own blockchain’s ‘layer two’ | Ethereum — as the current incumbent among general-purpose permissionless blockchains — has to date offered the best resources, tooling, and incentives for developers to build on top of its protocol. These “layer-two” projects combine off-ch... |
| 07.07.2018 | Beyond Ethereum: The battle to own blockchain’s ‘layer two’ | 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!
Ethereum — as the current incumbent among general... |
| 25.06.2018 | Andreessen Horowitz has a new crypto fund — and its first female general partner is running it with Chris Dixon | Silicon Valley powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has some big, and bigger, news today. First, it closed a dedicated crypto fund late last week from a subset of its limited partners, who’ve provided the firm with $300 million in capital ... |
| 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... |
| 20.02.2018 | A Dangerous Landscape: Market Fluctuations – By Kaila Krayewski | Guest Post By Kaila Krayewski
One of the things about digital currencies that makes it so appealing to investors is its highly volatile nature, comparable to the Wild West minus the good sheriff. Described as a “volatility swing,” investing... |
| 28.10.2017 | Video Of The Week: Polychain | Late last year, USV funded a new hedge fund called Polychain Capital, which invests only in crypto-assets.
I talked about the reasons for that investment in this blog post.
In the video of the week, Polychain founder Olaf Carlson-Wee talks ... |
| 19.07.2017 | Blockchain Investing with Olaf Carlson-Wee and Aaron Harris
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Transcript | Olaf Carlson-Wee is the founder and CEO of Polychain Capital, a blockchain investing hedge fund.
Aaron Harris is a Partner at YC. |
| 19.07.2017 | Blockchain Investing with Olaf Carlson-Wee and Aaron Harris | Olaf Carlson-Wee is the founder and CEO of Polychain Capital, a blockchain investing hedge fund.
Aaron Harris is a Partner at YC. |
| 17.04.2017 | Millions in Minutes: How Polychain Makes Sense of the ICO Wild West | Token fever is taking hold in Bitcoinland.
Call them 'token sales', 'initial coin offerings' or just plain 'ICOs', the idea that funding a new project can be as simple as creating cryptographically unique units of data, linking them to a bl... |
| 05.04.2017 | Polychain | We invested in a hedge fund that only invests in cryptotokens recently called Polychain. I wrote about that when we did it.
Here’s a conversation between Olaf Carlson-Wee, the founder of Polychain, and Chris Dixon where they talked all abou... |
| 08.01.2017 | The future is a decentralized internet | Olaf Carlson-Wee Contributor
Olaf Carlson-Wee is the founder of Polychain Capital, which manages a hedge fund that invests exclusively in blockchain-based assets.
Blockchain technology is quickly expanding beyond bitcoin. While many propone... |
| 26.12.2016 | Polychain Capital Raises £10M in VC Funding | Polychain Capital, a San Francisco, CA-based manager of a hedge fund which invests in a diversified portfolio of blockchain tokens, raised £10m in vc funding.
Backers included Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures.
The company is us... |
| 12.12.2016 | Term Sheet — Monday, December 12 | TWINKIE RETURN, LAYOFF WATCH, AND THE NEW AUSTERITY
The New York Times published a big feature on private equity over the weekend. It takes a slightly lighter touch than certain past magazine covers… A few takeaways:
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| - | Exclusive: Cross-chain protocol Nomad raises $22.4 million in a round led by crypto investing giant Polychain Capital | Pranay Mohan, co-founder and CEO of Nomad Nomad This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
US-based crypto protocol Nomad raised $22.4 million in a seed round led by Polychain Capita... |
| - | Here's an exclusive look at the 13-slide pitch deck that NFT authentication start-up ORIGYN used to raise $20 million from investors including Bill Ackman and Paris Hilton | ORIGYN chief executive Daniel Haudenschild. Venturelab This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
The NFT authentication non-profit ORIGYN just raised $20 million from investors incl... |
| - | Лучшие крипто-венчурные фонды и проекты в 2022 году | Инфраструктура Web3
И платформы смарт-контрактов, и экосистемы DeFi являются разновидностями инфраструктурных решений для Web3. Web3 — это открытый, не требующий разрешений, децентрализованный Интернет, где все пользователи могут создавать,... |