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

Crypto Exchange Uniswap Labs Raises $165M in Polychain Capital-Led Round

The funding will advance Uniswap’s web app, developer tools and NFT projects.

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Finance

Paradigm Leads $40M Series A for Blockchain Data Startup nxyz

The data infrastructure firm was spun out of private web browser Neeva.

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Finance

Celebrity-Backed Fintech for Teens, Step Receives $300M in Debt Funding

The app also launched a crypto trading feature, starting with bitcoin

TikTok star Charli D’Amelio promoting Step. (Step)

Finance

A16z Leads $14M Funding Round for New E-Commerce Platform From Twitch Co-Founder

Rye plans to become fully decentralized on the Solana blockchain

Rye co-founders Robin Chan, Justin Kan, Arjun Bhargava, Saurabh Sharma, Jamie Quint and Tikhon Bernstam (Rye)

Tech

River Financial Offers Payment Gateway for Bitcoin’s Multi-Asset Upgrade

The River Lightning Services solution wants to help developers utilize Taro, the Lightning Network upgrade bringing stablecoins and other assets to the Bitcoin network.

River Financial CEO Alex Leishman at BTC 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

New Metis Rollup Tech Addressees Ethereum Scalability for Businesses

The layer 2 platform’s team includes the mother of Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin.

Metis co-founders Yuan Su, Elena Sinelnikova and Kevin Liu (Metis)

Finance

Rich Investors’ Pathway to Crypto Just Got a Bit Easier This Week

A major software platform used by registered investment advisors just added more crypto functionality.

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Finance

Citi Ventures Backs Its First Digital Asset Manager, Co-Leading a $6M Round in Xalts

Accel co-led the round for the startup building institutional-grade digital asset products.

Citi Ventures has co-led a $6 million investment round in xalts. (Getty Images)

Finance

Restaurant Industry Veteran Ben Leventhal Raises $11M for Web3 Startup Blackbird

Blackbird will offer a Web3 hospitality platform connecting restaurants with guests through membership and loyalty programs.

Blackbird founder Ben Leventhal (Blackbird)

Finance

Hedge Fund Two Sigma to Provide Data to Blockchain Information Network Chainlink

The massive fund, which manages about $60 billion in assets, will provide derivatives-related data to Chainlink.

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