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.

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Finance

Crypto Hardware Wallet Maker Ledger Raises Most of $109M Round: Bloomberg

The company's valuation remains at about the same $1.4 billion it was valued at in its previous funding round in June 2021.

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

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Market Maker DWF Labs Emerges as Top Crypto Investor

DWF Labs Managing Partner Andrei Grachev discussed the firm’s investment strategy and continuing risks for the industry.

DWF Labs managing partner Andrei Grachev(LinkedIn)

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Dragonfly Leads $6.5M Round for Aptos Protocol Econia Labs

The startup offers an order book protocol for decentralized finance (DeFi) in the Aptos ecosystem.

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Staking Protocol EigenLayer Raises $50M Amid Crypto Winter

Blockchain Capital led the round for the system that allows Ethereum stakers to reuse the tokens.

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Paradigm Leads $7M Round for Optimism-Based Startup Conduit

The newly announced startup will help developers launch Optimism-based applications.

Conduit founder Andrew Huang raises $7 million in Paradigm-led round (Conduit)

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Franklin Templeton Sees Web3 Driving Next Wave of Tech Innovations

In a new report, the asset management giant outlines tech-driven megatrends – decentralization among them – that are shaping society.

Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson (Franklin Templeton)

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European Crypto Startups Raised Record $5.7B in VC Funding in 2022

A new report from crypto VC firm RockawayX and startup data provider DealRoom showed strength in the region despite the crypto winter.

European crypto firms raised a record amount of venture-capital funding in 2022. (RockawayX)

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Seed Club Ventures Emerges With $25M to Back DAOs

The investor collective, also organized as a DAO, includes noted crypto firms Multicoin Capital, Delphi Digital and Dragonfly.

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A16z Leads $40M Funding Round for CCP Games

The studio behind Eve Online is planning to release a blockchain-based game.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California (Haotian Zheng/Unsplash)

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21Shares Closes 6 Crypto Exchange-Traded Products

The firm, however, told CoinDesk it had its second-strongest January on record overall.

21.co co-founders Hany Rashwan and Ophelia Snyder (21.co)