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

S&P Global, Coinbase Back $6M Fundraise for Crypto Firm Credora

The startup provides technological infrastructure for institutional credit across centralized and decentralized finance.

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Finance

Alchemy’s Venture Arm Wants to Align With 'Web3 Missionaries, Not Mercenaries’

The investment arm of the Web3 infrastructure giant, last valued at $10 billion, continues to find new ways to back early-stage founders.

Paul Almasi, head of Alchemy Ventures (Alchemy Ventures)

Finance

DeFi Protocol Thetanuts Finance Raises $17M for Expansion, New Partnerships

The startup offers multi-chain structured financial products with plans for a buy-side altcoin options market.

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Finance

Crypto Trading Legend’s Next Move Is Bringing U.S. Treasurys to Blockchains, With Plans for Corporate Bonds, Too

PV01, which launched last month, is using blockchain technology to target long-standing issues in debt capital markets.

Maxime Boonen, co-founder of B2C2 and PV01 (PV01)

Finance

CoinFund Leads $8M Round for Decentralized Database Firm Tableland

The fundraise comes ahead of the network’s mainnet launch early next year.

Tableland co-founders Carson Farmer, Sander Pick, Aaron Sutula and Andrew Hill (Tableland)

Tech

A16z Says It's Working on an Optimism-Based Rollup Client Called Magi

The news comes a day after the firm teased a potential blockchain announcement by tweeting an orange dot.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California (Haotian Zheng/Unsplash)

Finance

Microsoft Working With Space and Time to Add Real-Time Blockchain Data for Azure Cloud

The agreement comes seven months after the tech giant led a strategic funding round for the crypto firm.

Co-founders Scott Dykstra (left) and Nate Holiday (Space and Time)

Finance

A Mysterious A16z Tweet Sparked a Rally in Crypto Project Optimism's OP Token

The tweet spurred speculation that the notable venture capital firm could launch its own Optimism-based layer 2 blockchain. A16z crypto’s CTO tweeted: “not an L2.”

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California (Haotian Zheng/Unsplash)

Finance

Bitcoin Financial Services Firm Unchained Capital Raises $60M

The Series B funding comes about five months after the company cut 15% of its staff amid the pressures of the prolonged crypto bear market.

Unchained Capital co-founders Dhruv Bansal (left) and Joe Kelly (Unchained)

Finance

Pantera Alum Joey Krug Joins Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund

Krug departed Pantera earlier this year after the Liquid Token Fund which he helped manage declined 88% in 2022.

Joey Krug (LinkedIn)