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

Solana Payroll Protocol Zebec Raises $28M in Token Sales

Circle and Coinbase were among the purchasers in the private portion of the sale.

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Finance

Crypto Unicorns Closes $26M Token Sale Ahead of NFT Game Launch

The popular Polygon-based NFT collection will introduce its first play-to-earn game later this month.

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Finance

TravelX Raises $10M to Launch Multichain Distribution Protocol

The protocol for the travel industry tokenizes inventory for airlines and suppliers.

TravelX team (TravelX)

Finance

Pantera, Animoca Brands Co-Lead $10M Investment in Metaverse Game Studios

Solana Ventures and Everyrealm were also leaders of the financing round for the creator of blockchain game Angelic.

Angelic (Metaverse Game Studios)

Finance

Bessemer Commits $250M to Web 3, Launches DAO

The noted venture capital firm is interested in consumer DeFi, infrastructure and other enabling technologies.

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Finance

Okcoin, Stacks Launch $165M Pledge to Support Bitcoin-Related Projects

The Bitcoin Odyssey is a year-long pledge taken by VC firms to deploy money into solutions that accelerate the adoption of bitcoin.

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Finance

DAO Creation Platform Upstream Raises $12.5M and Launches Publicly

The funding round was led by existing investor Boldstart Ventures with participation from Ibex Investors, among many others.

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Policy

Final BitMEX Co-Founder Pleads Guilty to US Violations

Samuel Reed will pay a $10 million fine for violating anti-money laundering rules.

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Finance

Blockdaemon Acquires Crypto On-Ramp Company Gem

The blockchain infrastructure platform will integrate Gem’s on and offboarding solutions.

CEO Konstantin Richter (Blockdaemon)

Finance

Fintech Platform Cake DeFi Creates $100M Venture Capital Arm

The Singapore-based company will invest in Web 3, NFTs and fintech projects.

Cake DeFi CEO Julian Hosp and CTO U-Zyn Chua (Cake DeFi)