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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Finance

Crypto Wallet BitKeep Raises $15M at $100M Valuation

Dragonfly Capital led the round, which will fund a cross-chain DAO for wallet users.

(Archivo de CoinDesk)

Finance

A16z Launches First Gaming Fund With $600M Commitment

The venture capital giant will invest in game studios, apps and infrastructure.

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

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FTX, Liberty City Lead $20M Raise for Dev Platform DoraHacks

The hackathon startup will use the funds to launch an NFT-focused venture fund, among other things.

Scenes from Solana's Miami Hacker House in April 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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INX Taps Galaxy Digital Alum as Chief Financial Officer

Renata Szkoda previously served as finance director at the Mike Novogratz-led crypto financial services firm.

INX hired Galaxy Digital alum Renata Szkoda. (INX)

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Blockchain Investment Firm Fortis Digital Raising $100M Fund

The fund focuses on altcoins and requires potential investors to have a minimum $2.5 million net worth.

Crypto Firms Took 6% of Global Venture Capital Funding in First Half of 2021

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Certora Raises $36M for Smart Contract Security Tools

Jump Crypto led the funding round for the firm, which secures $50 billion of DeFi assets.

(Shutterstock)

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A16z Addresses Downturn in Inaugural State of Crypto Report

The report discussed Web 3 trends and why Ethereum remains the dominant blockchain.

A16z partner Chris Dixon (Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch))

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QuickNode Acquires NFT Analytics Platform Icy Tools

Financial details for the blockchain development platform’s first acquisition were not disclosed.

Ice cubes (Shutterstock)

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Libra Creator David Marcus Begins New Lightning Network Venture, Lightspark

Details are vague, but Lightspark has raised an undisclosed funding round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Paradigm.

David Marcus (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Crypto Risk Monitoring Firm Solidus Labs Raises $45M

Liberty City Ventures led the round for the market surveillance and risk monitoring startup, which has several ex-regulators as backers or advisors.

Solidus Labs CTO Praveen Kumar (left), COO Chen Arad (top) and CEO Asaf Meir (right).