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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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.

(Unsplash)

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.

(Chainlink)

Finance

Asset Management Giant Fidelity Adds to Crypto Offerings With Ethereum Index Fund

The fund has raised about $5 million since sales opened in late September

Fidelity Investments sign (Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock)

Finance

NFL Legend Steve Young's Firm Helps Take Metaverse-Related Company Movella Public

The company will list on the Nasdaq in a SPAC deal.

Former NFL star Steve Young (Wikimedia Commons)

Finance

A16z Leads $40M Funding for Web3 Data Protocol Golden

The protocol will use tokens to incentivize users to submit accurate information.

Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Marc Andreessen (Fortune Live Media via Flickr)

Finance

Crypto Venture-Capital Firm Paradigm Leads $14M Funding Round for DeFi Platform Exponential

The tool helps users assess risks in decentralized finance and compare investments.

The Exponential DeFi platform raised $14 million in Paradigm-led funding round. (Exponential)