Brandy Betz

Brandy covered crypto-related venture capital deals for CoinDesk. She previously served as the Technology News Editor at Seeking Alpha and covered healthcare stocks for The Motley Fool. She doesn't currently own any substantial amount of crypto.

Brandy Betz

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Finance

Dinari Raises $7.5M for Decentralized Stock Trading Platform

Backers for the dShare platform, which will be available ex-U.S, included a Susquehanna subsidiary.

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Finance

Curve Token Climbs After Binance Labs Commits to $5M Investment

The decentralized exchange, which suffered a $70 million hack last month, will also consider deploying on the BNB Chain.

Binance has appointed Yi He to oversee Binance Labs (Binance)

Finance

Jump Crypto Backs $5M Round for Bitcoin Wallet Xverse

The Web3 app supports Ordinals, the technology that brought non-fungible tokens to the Bitcoin ecosystem.

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Finance

Brevan Howard Backs Crypto Infrastructure Startup Puffer in $5.5M Round

The seed round for the liquid staking startup was co-led by Lemniscap and Lightspeed Faction.

Brevan Howard Digital was among the backers for Puffer's $5.5 million round. (Pixabay)

Finance

Multicoin Backer L1 Digital Raises $152M for Second Crypto VC Fund

The Swiss advisor makes direct investments in crypto projects and also backs early-stage crypto investment firms.

The team of Swiss crypto investor L1 Digital (L1D)

Finance

Binance's VC Arm Dominated Funding Rounds Last Week Even as Regulators Scrutinized the Crypto Exchange

Binance Labs announced investments in four incubator projects and participated in a round for privacy infrastructure startup zkPass.

Brevan Howard Digital was among the backers for Puffer's $5.5 million round. (Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin Remains King While Crypto Hedge Funds Get Rekt

Even though crypto hedge funds managed positive returns during the first half of the year, bitcoin trounced them, according to a 21e6 Capital report.

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Finance

Crypto Investor HashKey Aims to Raise $100M for New Digital Assets Fund

The liquid digital assets fund, regulated by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, will open for investments on Sept. 1.

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Finance

Metaverse Project Futureverse's Co-Founders Start $50M Venture Fund

The Born Ready venture studio will invest in early-stage Web3 and metaverse projects.

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Policy

Bitcoin Won’t Back U.S. Dollar, Presidential Hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy Says

The Republican candidate’s comments stand in contrast to Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy, who supports using bitcoin to stabilize the dollar.

Vivek Ramaswamy co-founded Strive Asset Management (Frederick Munawa)