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

Binance.US Raises First Funding Round at $4.5B Valuation

The $200 million fundraise will be used to ramp up marketing ahead of a public listing in “the next two to three years,” a spokesperson said.

Binance.US CEO Brian Shroder (Binance.US)

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Near Protocol Raises $350M

It’s Near’s second nine-figure raise this year.

A Near sign in Lisbon, Portugal (Zack Seward/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bit Digital Partners With BitMine to Host 7K ASIC Miners

BitMine will store the machines in immersion coolers for greater efficiency.

Cryptocurrency mining machines

Finance

Parallel Finance Doubles Valuation in $5M Funding Round

The Polkadot-based lending platform is planning to raise up to another $60M this quarter.

Photo taken in Moscow, Russia

Finance

Bear Markets, Regulations and That Bain Crypto Photo: A Chat With Pantera Capital’s Chief of Staff

Emma Rose Bienvenu uses her legal background to help startups navigate crypto regulations.

(Pantera Capital modified by Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)

Finance

Electric Capital Leads $4.5M Investment in Near Exchange Trisolaris

Jump Crypto and Dragonfly Capital also invested in the decentralized exchange on the Near protocol.

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Finance

Staking Solution Chorus One Launches Up to $30M Proof-of-Stake Investment Fund

The company will invest the money in PoS networks, protocols and related products over the next three years.

POS

Finance

Blockchain Security Firm CertiK Just Raised $88M, SEC Docs Show

The equity sale opened on March 23 and 15 investors have chipped in funding.

(Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

A16z Leads $4.8M Round for P2E Gaming Startup Battlebound

Battlebound will use the capital for phased launches of its two newest game titles.

A scene from Evaverse, one of two new games Battlebound is developing. (Battlebound)

Finance

A16z, FTX and Sequoia Lead $135M Round for LayerZero at $1B Valuation

The blockchain interoperability protocol first emerged from stealth last September.

The Open Intents Framework is a new initiative created by Ethereum ecosystem leaders to simplify and standardize cross-chain token transfers.  (Akinori UEMURA/Unsplash)