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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Yieldstreet Partners With Osprey for Latest Crypto Fund

The Enhanced Crypto Fund will offer exposure to up to 10 of the largest digital assets by market capitalization.

Market data in a network (Yuichiro Chino/Getty images)

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Argent Raises $40M to Make Crypto Wallets Easier to Use

The company's non-custodial wallet lets users take control without needing to remember a complicated seed phrase.

Argent mobile app (Argent)

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Founders Fund, Pantera Invest in DeFi Investment Bank Ondo Finance

Ondo, founded by former Goldman Sachs traders, will use the $20 million round to expand its structured products offerings.

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Dragonfly Capital Raises $650M for Third Crypto Fund

The new fund will allow Dragonfly to lead rounds in later-stage companies, the firm said.

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DEX Protocol 0x Labs Raises $70M From Greylock, OpenSea and Jared Leto

0x was tapped last week to power Coinbase’s new NFT marketplace.

TOKEN CLARITY? Amir Bandeali, co-founder of 0x, speaks at the first 0xpo conference, one day after SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce dropped a proposed "safe harbor" for token projects. (Photo by Will Foxley for CoinDesk)

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NBA Top Shot Whale Launches NFT Lending Platform With $4.5M in Funding

Flowty is a peer-to-peer NFT lending platform built on the Flow blockchain.

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CertiK Closes $60M Round, Raises Total of $148M in 2 Weeks

SoftBank Vision Fund and Tiger Global led a new $60 million funding for the blockchain security firm.

CertiK CEO Ronghui Gu (CertiK)

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A16z Forms Crypto Research and Coding Unit to Help Web 3 Startups

The new team is staffed with academics aiming to provide deeper insights for the firm’s portfolio companies.

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

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Bird, Ring Veterans Raise $5M for GameFi Lending Protocol

The Pantera-backed MetaLend lets users borrow while still earning money in games.

MetaLend founders Sudjeev Singh (left) and Nikhil Bhardwaj (right) (MetaLend)

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Limitless Launches 'Metaverse as a Service,' Plans $60M Venture Fund

The company behind the Next Earth metaverse is ramping up plans for ecosystem development.

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