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April 18, 2024 @ 11:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Varys Capital has partnered with FundRock Investment Management Services (ME) Ltd, a fund management company, licensed by the FSRA, to manage a feeder fund, Varys Capital Ventures (CEIC) Limited in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). The feeder fund will invest its assets into a… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 7:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BitGo announced the launch of BitGo Ventures, BitGo’s investment arm dedicated to seeking out and fostering partnerships with FinTech infrastructure companies and blockchain projects around the world. BitGo Ventures will invest in startups “that are building secure, scalable, and digital-native financial infrastructure solutions while prioritizing… Read More

April 17, 2024 @ 11:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a global professional services firm, announced the successful completion of an innovative pilot for placing insurance using blockchain and smart contract technology. The pilot was conducted with Nayms SAC Ltd., “a crypto-compatible insurance marketplace, and Copper.co, a digital assets custodian.” Benefits… Read More

April 17, 2024 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Academy, the crypto learning hub of Binance, has partnered with European educational institutions to launch a series of paid university-accredited courses. Their curricula will cover key topics and disciplines of blockchain and Web3, “offering learners a deep understanding of the digital-asset space.” By offering… Read More

April 16, 2024 @ 8:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OKX has reportedly launched the public mainnet of their Layer-2 (L2), X LAYER, building with more than 200 dApps across the network. X LAYER is integrated with OKX Exchange (CEX) and the OKX Web3 Wallet. Users can bridge assets from the two platforms to LAYER… Read More

April 16, 2024 @ 11:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain firm Nansen has shared their quarterly updates including a range of new blockchain integrations and features to give clients a market edge. As the first quarter of 2024 comes to a close, Nansen says that they are pleased by the crypto market’s growth. Over… Read More

April 13, 2024 @ 8:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LeadBlock Bitpanda Ventures (LBV), a €50 million EU investment fund, and Mantle, a burgeoning on-chain ecosystem built around the high-performance modular Ethereum layer-2 (L2) scaling solution Mantle Network and Ether liquid staking protocol Mantle LSP, have announced a strategic collaboration for Europe. The partnership comes… Read More

April 11, 2024 @ 6:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kyriba has announced a partnership with Onyx, J.P. Morgan’s blockchain business unit, to improve cash management, payments and liquidity performance for CFOs and Treasurers. The collaboration is described as the first of its kind. Furthermore, a new partnership with Workday, Inc. “will fully embed bank… Read More

April 10, 2024 @ 3:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain Coinvestors Acquisition Corp. I (Nasdaq: BCSA), a special purpose acquisition company, and Linqto, Inc., a Delaware corporation, today announced they have entered into a definitive business combination agreement, pursuant to which Linqto will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of BCSA. From and after the closing… Read More

April 6, 2024 @ 2:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OKX Ventures, the investment arm of Web3 technology company OKX, is pleased to announce its participation in the seed funding round of UTXO Stack, a modular BTC Layer 2 blockchain launch platform. The seed funding round was reportedly co-led by ABCDE and SNZ, with OKX… Read More

April 5, 2024 @ 10:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis is marking its 10th year of operations this spring, and they’re reflecting on how far they’ve come with their clients and how the’re continuing to evolve with the rapidly changing ecosystem. Chainalysis notes in a blog post that the market revival we are experiencing… Read More

April 4, 2024 @ 9:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain LightLink has closed on a $6.2 million seed round, according to a note from the company. The funding came from MH Ventures and NxGen as well as several “high-profile individual crypto investors.” LightLink aims to provide dApps and enterprise users with… Read More

April 1, 2024 @ 9:12 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Blockchain Coinvestors, a blockchain venture fund-of-funds and coinvestment program, this week unveiled its bi-annual Institutional Digital Finance Adoption Report, which tracks digital finance adoption, by service offering, among the world’s 50 largest financial institutions ranked by assets under management (AUM). The company said, for the… Read More

March 29, 2024 @ 4:39 pm By Michael Wong  |  

MyShell, a Tokyo-based innovator in the field of artificial intelligence, announced that it has successfully raised $11 million in a Pre-Series A funding round. This recent injection of capital, led by Dragonfly Capital and supported by a consortium of investors including Delphi Ventures, Bankless Ventures,… Read More

March 26, 2024 @ 4:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Euroclear and IZNES announce that Euroclear will acquire a stake in IZNES, a pan-European funds marketplace based on blockchain technology. The transaction will be subject “to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. Financial terms will not be disclosed.” Established in 2017, IZNES is a regulated… Read More

March 25, 2024 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

XPLA, the blockchain mainnet and global Web3 gaming platform, and Matter Labs, a software development, engineering, and cryptography company developing software for zkSync, announced a collaboration designed “to advance the development and deployment of Web3 games through the newly created zkXPLA ecosystem.” The collaboration seeks… Read More

March 24, 2024 @ 12:16 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Blockchain project Espresso Systems has successfully closed a $28 million Series B funding round, with a16z crypto leading the investment. This latest financial boost brings the total funding to over $60 million, following a $30 million Series A round in 2022 and an initial $2… Read More

March 20, 2024 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technologies announces the launch of Figure Markets, the first step in a vision to create an “everything marketplace”– a single platform where investors can trade a range of blockchain-native assets from crypto to stocks to alternative investments. Figure Markets has secured over $60 million… Read More

March 19, 2024 @ 10:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BIGG Digital Assets, a digital assets firm and owner of Netcoins, Blockchain Intelligence Group, and TerraZero, has announced a new anti-fraud service The new initiative is aimed at aiding small capitalization companies in “safeguarding against investment fraud. BIGG reassures its stakeholders that it remains untouched… Read More

March 18, 2024 @ 7:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Marco Manoppo, the Research Director at Digital Asset Research, notes that deal flows remained strong this past week, as the sector saw $180M+ in deals. As noted in the update shared by Digital Asset Research, Eclipse Labs has reportedly raised a $50M Series A that… Read More