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

Nomura Backs $6M Round for On-Chain Fund Platform Solv Protocol

The Singapore-based startup allows institutions and venture capitalists to create, use and sell financial products.

Nomura. (charnsitr/Shutterstock)

Finance

Crypto Firms Raised $129M Last Week, Led by Flashbots

The startup, focused on maximal extractable value (MEV) in blockchain transactions, raised $60 million in funding.

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Policy

Disgraced U.S. Congressman George Santos Involved Crypto in Nigerian Prince-Like Scheme: NYT

A campaign donor told The New York Times that Santos and two others appeared to be trying a crypto-centric version of the classic Nigerian scam on him.

U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-NY)(Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Finance

Amazon Expands Web3 Reach With Cloud Tools That Help Blockchain Developers

The tech giant moves deeper into Web3 infrastructure with AMB Access and Query services for developers.

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Finance

RFK Jr. Confirms Recent Bitcoin Purchases

The Democratic presidential candidate has previously been supportive of Bitcoin, promising to exempt the crypto from capital gains taxes.

US presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr.

Finance

DeFi Headed Toward a ‘Major Resurgence,’ Tribe Capital’s Boris Revsin Says

The managing partner of the $1.6 billion investment firm says infrastructure is the key to transforming crypto into a $10 trillion industry.

Boris Revsin, Managing Partner of Tribe Capital and manager of the fund (Tribe Capital)

Finance

Crypto Firm Flashbots Raises $60M in Paradigm-Led Round

The new capital will help develop the SUAVE decentralized platform for maximal extractable value (MEV).

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Finance

Crypto Startups Raised $201.4M in Venture Funding Last Week, Led by Infrastructure

The largest fundraises for the week belonged to metaverse startup Futureverse and RISC Zero, which creates developer tools for zero-knowledge proofs.

Venture Capital  (Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto Liquidity Network Paradigm Leans Into DeFi With StarkWare

The Paradex decentralized perpetuals platform is backed by StarkWare's new appchain technology.

StarkWare co-founders President Eli Ben-Sasson and CEO Uri Kolodny (StarkWare)

Finance

Binance Labs Invests $10M in DeFi Lender Radiant, RDNT Jumps 10%

The protocol was built on the architecture of LayerZero, which raised $120 million at a $3 billion valuation earlier this year.

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