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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Finanza

African Crypto Exchange Yellow Card Closes $40M Series B

Polychain Capital led the funding round, which comes less than a year after the Series A.

(James Wiseman/Unsplash)

Finanza

Two Sigma Ventures Raises $400M for Two Funds, Plans Crypto Investments

The firm invests about 15% of its capital to crypto and Web3 projects

U.S. Dollars (Shutterstock)

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Investors Add $74M to Crypto-Focused Valkyrie Trusts

New SEC filings showed additional sales for the investment firm’s Tron and Avalanche trusts.

Valkyrie CIO Steven McClurg speaks at Bitcoin Miami 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Fortnite Developer Epic Games’ Marketplace Lists First NFT Game

Mythical Games’ Blankos Block Party became the first blockchain-based game to become available on the Epic Games Store.

Mythical Games' Blankos Beach Party launches on Epic Games Store (Mythical Games)

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JPMorgan Backs $20M Round for Blockchain Infrastructure Startup Ownera

Ownera aims to connect the tokenized securities of institutional investors.

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Crypto Auditing Platform Sherlock Raises $4M in Funding

The protocol features an open auditor competition to help find smart contract vulnerabilities

Venture capital firm Variant commits $450 million to its third crypto-focused fund. (Horst Schwalm/Pixabay)

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Web3 Developer Platform Alchemy Is Raising $12M for New Venture Capital Fund

It’s unclear what the funds will be used for, as Alchemy has a history of making investments through its venture capital arm and a separate grants program.

Alchemy CEO Nikil Viswanathan (Danny Nelson)

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Twitter Shareholders Approve Musk Buyout Offer: Report

The Tesla CEO has repeatedly tried to back out of the $44 billion takeover deal.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Christian Marquardt - Pool/Getty Images)

Tecnologie

Linux Foundation Project Will Tackle Digital Wallet Interoperability

The OpenWallet Foundation will work with a consortium of companies and non-profits to build an open-source software engine for the creation of digital wallets.

(Guido Mieth/Getty Images)

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NFT Collection Doodles Raises $54M at $704M Valuation

The venture-capital firm of Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian led the funding round.

Doodles holders gather at NFT.NYC 2022. (Eli Tan/CoinDesk)