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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Blockchain Gaming Platform Xterio Raises $40M Led by Partner FunPlus

The round was co-led by Makers Fund, FTX Ventures and XPLA.

Blockchain gaming is on the increase. (Fredrick Tendong/Unsplash)

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Fintech Firm Lightnet Group Gets $50M From LDA Capital to Boost Velo Protocol's Technology

The firm has the option to raise the total commitment to up to $100 million over the next three years.

Photo of bundles of dollars

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FTX Ventures Denies Report That It's Merging With Alameda Research's Crypto VC Business

Bloomberg had reported that the two operations would merge their venture capital businesses.

Sam Bankman-Fried speaks at Crypto Bahamas 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Polygon Founder’s Crypto VC Firm Raises $50M Fund

Symbolic Capital plans to back early-stage Web3 projects

Sandeep Naliwal, co-founder Polygon (Polygon)

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Crypto Developer Platform Thirdweb Gets Katie Haun's Backing at $160M Valuation

Other investors in the $24 million Series A round included Coinbase Ventures and Shopify.

Venture capitalist Katie Haun appears on stage at the 2022 FTX/SALT Crypto Bahamas conference. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Ex-SEC Chair Jay Clayton Joins Crypto Investor Electric Capital as Adviser: Report

The news continues a trend of regulatory experts sliding over to jobs in the crypto industry.

Former SEC Chair Jay Clayton (John Lamparski/WireImage/Getty Images)

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Blockchain Company Mural, Founded by Palantir Alums, Raises $5.6M

The startup helps global brands manage the treasuries of their Web3 communities.

Mural co-founders, left to right, Kevin Alvarez Fung, Arthur Tam and Sinclair Toffa (Mural)

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Digital Currency Group and Node Capital Lead $5M Fundraise for Blockchain Security Firm dWallet Labs

The investment will help build projects on Odsy Network, a new layer 1 blockchain focused on decentralized wallet access.

The Odsy Network and dWallet Labs team (dWallet)

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Crypto Investing Giant Paradigm Leads $20M Round for Fractional NFT Protocol

Fractional, which allows for collective non-fungible token ownership, is rebranding as Tessera.

Bored Ape (Yuga Labs)

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Bill Ackman Among Investors as Venture Capital Crypto Firm Shima Capital Raises $200M Fund

The Web3-focused firm, founded by Wall Street veteran Yida Gao, is also backed by crypto heavyweights Dragonfly and Animoca.

Shima Capital founder and managing partner Yida Gao (Shima Capital)