Jamie Crawley

Jamie has been part of CoinDesk's news team since February 2021, focusing on breaking news, Bitcoin tech and protocols and crypto VC. He holds BTC, ETH and DOGE.

Jamie Crawley

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Finance

Crypto Asset Manager Bitwise Bolsters Balance Sheet With $70M Equity Raise

The raise was led by Electric Capital and included participation from MassMutual, Highland Capital, Haun Ventures and ParaFi Capital

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan (Suzanne Cordiero/CoinDesk/Shutterstock)

Finance

Mavryk Dynamics Secures $5.2M for Blockchain-Powered Real-World Asset Ownership

Mavryk Dynamics aims to simplify RWA tokenization and DeFi integration, making digital asset ownership more accessible.

Funding (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Finance

USDe Stablecoin Developer Ethena Raises $100M: Bloomberg

USDe's market cap has jumped to around $6 billion this month, becoming the third largest stablecoin behind Tether's USDT and Circle's USDC

Funding (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Tech

Blockchain Bridging Protocol LayerZero to Connect With Bitcoin Sidechain Rootstock

Rootstock's aim is to end Bitcoin's "isolation" from other chains due to its lack of native smart contracts.

Tree roots (StockSnap/Pixabay)

Markets

0G Foundation Unveils $88.8M Ecosystem Fund for Decentralized AI Applications

The fund is backed by a number of big-name investors in the blockchain venture capital sector including Hack VC, Delphi Ventures and OKX Ventures.

Funding (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Finance

Bitcoin OP_CAT Proposal Gets Boost From Taproot Wizards' $30M Fundraise

Taproot Wizards will use the funding to build an ecosystem of applications using the OP_CAT Bitcoin improvement proposal

TaprootWizards.com NFT (ordinals.com)

Finance

Trivago Adds Travala's Hotel Inventory, Gaining Crypto Payment Options

Travala, which is backed by the world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, is in talks with potential buyers after receiving a takeover approach late last year.

16:9 Hotel (ming dai/Pixabay)

Policy

Anthony Scaramucci Says U.S. Pro-Crypto Regulation Likely by November

Scaramucci also described Trump's official memecoin as "bad for the industry."

Anthony Scaramucci, founder and managing partner at SkyBridge Capital (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Markets

Solana Saw 112% Surge in Stablecoin Supply in January With TRUMP Memecoin Frenzy: CCData

This coincided with the launch of Donald Trump's memecoin $TRUMP which caused a wave of inflows to the network

A Solana booth at ethDenver (Danny Nelson)

Finance

Elastos Raises $20M to Build Native Bitcoin DeFi Protocol

Another project looking to turn Bitcoin into a more fruitful base for DeFi has raised $20 million in funding toward that goal

16:9 Elastic (evondue/Pixabay)