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

AMD, Seagate and EY Join Protocol Labs-led Decentralized Storage Alliance

The industry organization is led by Filecoin creator Protocol Labs.

Evento de Filecoin Foundation en Singapur. (fil.org)

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Crypto Hedge Fund Arca Nearly Doubles Sales for Flagship Fund Despite LUNA Exposure

The Digital Assets Fund, which had Terra’s collapsed token as a core holding, now has $191.7 million in sales.

Arca CEO Rayne Steinberg (CoinDesk archives)

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Bain Capital Crypto Leads $3.3M Round for Privacy-Focused Identity Protocol

Notebook Labs aims to accelerate DeFi adoption with its crypto identity protocol.

Notebook Labs co-founders Nathaniel Masfen-Yan, Dhruv Mangtani and Solal Afota. (Notebook Labs)

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Crypto Investing Startup Started by Goldman Alum Changes Strategy

Domain Money, launched just before the start of the crypto bear market, is moving from actively managed investments to a robo-adviser model.

(Shutterstock)

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Bear Market Didn’t Slow Institutional Interest in Crypto, Says Fidelity Survey

The fourth annual study showed that 74% of institutional investors want to purchase crypto in the future

Fidelity Investments sign (Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock)

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Bloomberg Beta Leads $6.2M Funding for DAO Framework Origami

Origami and backer Orange DAO also announced a $20,000 funding program for pre-launch decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs)

Origami team members Johnny Chin, Matt Voska, Ben Huh and Stephen Caudill (Origami)

Finance

Bitcoin Technology Startup Synota Raises $3M in Seed Round

The new capital will be used toward the commercialization of Synota’s software, including plans for a bitcoin mining-related service.

Synota team at an active bitcoin mining site. (Synota)

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Pension Fund-Backed Parataxis Digital Yield Fund Targets $500M in Assets in 2023

The fund received investments from two Fairfax County, Virginia, pension funds earlier this year.

(Pixabay)

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Stealthy Crypto Hedge Fund Edge Capital Raises $66.8M for DeFi Bets

Founded in 2020, the firm uses market-neutral, macro-style strategies.

(Pixabay)

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New Bitcoin-Focused VC Firm Ego Death Capital Raising $30M

The fund had raised over $11 million of its target as of mid-September.

(Pixabay)