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

Bain Capital Leads $12M Round for Scalable Blockchain Developer RISC Zero

The startup uses zero-knowledge proofs to create a developer-friendly blockchain.

RISC Zero is building a scalable blockchain using zk rollups (Andrew Haimerl/Unsplash)

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Greylock, Pantera Led $18M Round for NFT Infrastructure Provider Pinata

Silicon Valley investment giant Greylock also backed Pinata’s $3.5 million seed round last year.

Bored Ape (Yuga Labs)

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Andreessen Horowitz Leads $20M Funding Round for CreatorDAO

Paris Hilton and musicians The Chainsmokers also invested in the project.

Paris Hilton was among the investors in CreatorDAO's latest funding round. (RB/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

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Crypto Intelligence Platform Messari Plans to Raise $35M at $300M Valuation: Report

The company nabbed $21 million last year in a round led by Steve Cohen's Point72 Ventures.

Messari CEO Ryan Selkis during a CDTV interview in October (CoinDesk)

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Blockchain Analytics Platform Merkle Science Raises $19M to Take on Bridge Exploits

The threat detection company added funding to its Series A round, which now totals more than $24 million.

Merkle Science co-founder and CEO Mriganka Pattnaik (Melody Wang/CoinDesk)

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SoftBank Reports Record Quarterly Loss

The company, which has invested in crypto projects, cited a global tech sell-off and weaker yen.

(Lev Radin/Shutterstock)

Finance

Nomad, Slope Hacks Create New Annoyance for Their Shared Backer Circle Internet Financial

The venture-capital arm of the USDC stablecoin-issuer gave money to Nomad and Slope, which were both exploited this week.

Circle (Sandali Handagama/ CoinDesk)

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Lattice Capital Raises $60M for Second Crypto Fund

The early-stage focused fund is three times larger than the inaugural fund last year.

Lattice Capital has raised $60 million for its second crypto fund. (Getty Images)

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Coinbase Stock Soars on BlackRock Partnership News

Shares of the crypto exchange opened trading up 31% on Thursday.

(Chesnot/Getty Images)

Finance

Cosmos-Based Liquid Staking Protocol Stride Raises $6.7M

The funding round was co-led by North Island VC, Distributed Global and Pantera Capital.

(Zetong Li/Unsplash)