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

LabDAO Raises $3.6M to Decentralize Drug Discovery

The project also launched its new PLEX client that eases the burden of resource-intensive computations for scientific data.

(Pixabay)

Finance

Expect Ripple Deal to Set Off Crypto Custodian M&A, Says Advisory Firm

Ripple purchased custodian Metaco for $250 million, and regulatory and market conditions could lead to further deals, says Architect Partners.

Ethereum's Merge will slow demand for GPUs. (Bradley D. Saum/Shutterstock)

Web3

Airstack Raises Over $7M for AI-Backed Web3 Developer Platform

The pre-seed funding extension was led by Superscrypt; Polygon was a prior investor.

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Finance

Ripple Buys Crypto Custody Firm Metaco for $250M

Metaco will continue to operate as an independent business unit led by CEO and founder Adrien Treccani.

Metaco's leadership team (Metaco)

Finance

Peter Thiel Backs Bitcoin Startup River in $35M Round

The Series B funding for the Bitcoin financial services provider was led by Kingsway Capital.

River Financial CEO Alex Leishman at BTC 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon Digital-Linked Startup Auradine Raises $81M

Marathon's CEO, Fred Thiel, sits on the board of the web infrastructure startup.

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)

Tech

Polygon Co-Founder Launches Web3 Fellowship Program

Sandeep Nailwal will invest $500,000 of his personal capital on a new cohort each year.

Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Binance’s VC Arm, With Over 200 Investments, Focuses on 'Explosive' Potential for Web3

Binance Labs has grown its assets to $9 billion from $7.5 billion despite a bear market and the post-FTX collapse turbulence.

Yibo Ling, Chief Business Officer of Binance Labs (LinkedIn)

Finance

Crypto Media Outlet Blockworks Raises $12M at $135M Valuation

The round was led by private equity firm 10T Holdings.

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Finance

NFT Project Pudgy Penguins Raises $9M

The fundraise comes after a leadership change that led to an increased focus on utilizing the intellectual property.

Pudgy Penguins NFT are on a holiday rally. (Screenshot)