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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Nischal Shetty's Blockchain Startup Shardeum Raises $18M in Seed Funding

The co-founder of WazirX, India's largest crypto exchange, is now trying to expand a network that promises greater scalability, faster transaction times and lower fees.

Shardeum's team (Shardeum)

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OpenSea Ventures Among Backers for $7M Round for Crypto Security Startup

Web3 Builders also launched the free TrustCheck tool to verify the safety of smart contract and NFT transactions

Web3 Builders co-founder Nicholas Horelik, CEO Riccardo Pellegrini and Chief Technology Officer Henry Katz (Web3)

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ParaFi Capital Among Backers for Web3 Fashion and Lifestyle Platform YoloYolo

Yoloyolo, which connects NFT owners and brands to sell merchandise, raised $3.5 million in seed funding.

Social commerce platform YoloYolo (YoloYolo)

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Investing App Stash Raises $52.6M Weeks After Expanding Access to Cryptocurrencies

The convertible debt offering was revealed in a regulatory filing and confirmed by the company.

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BlockTower Putting $150M Crypto Fund to Work as Valuations Return ‘Down to Earth’

The company's new venture-capital head Thomas Klocanas talks DeFi, equity stakes and investing in a bear market.

BlockTower VC head Thomas Klocanas (BlockTower)

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Crypto Asset Manager BlockTower Launches $150M Venture-Capital Fund

BlockTower has also created a new venture-capital arm.

Crypto VC investments have declined in the first half of 2022. (Shutterstock)

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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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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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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)

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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)