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A16z Leads $4.6M Investment in Yield Guild Games

The funding will be used to invest in virtual worlds in the play-to-earn space.

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Finance

A16z Leads $111M Token Sale for Helium's HNT

The token-powered decentralized telecommunications project is bringing on fresh capital.

Helium team, left to right: Pierre Defebvre, Andrew Allen, Rahul Garg, Brian Bussiere.

Finance

A16z Leads $20M Bet That Celo’s Valora Becomes a ‘Global Gateway to Crypto’

The digital wallet has been spun out of parent company cLabs with some fresh funding.

Mockups of Celo's Valora app

Finance

Crypto Fintech Eco Raises $60M for High-Yield USDC Savings App

The a16z-backed Eco, where users’ deposits are loaned out in USDC, says it’s keeping an eye on the BlockFi case.

Andy Bromberg speaks at Token Summit NYC 2018.

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NFT Marketplace OpenSea Valued at $1.5B in $100M Funding Round Led by A16z

Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea is the latest crypto unicorn with a total valuation of $1.5 billion after a $100 million Series B round that closed Tuesday, led by Silicon Valley’s best-known VC, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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Finance

NFT Marketplace OpenSea Valued at $1.5B in $100M Funding Round Led by A16z

The NFT venue has crossed into the rarefied air of crypto unicorns.

OpenSea's Devin Finzer speaking at NFT.NYC in 2019.

Finance

A16z Leads $9M Funding Round for Solana's Phantom Wallet to Go Multi-Chain

The funding will be used to expand the Phantom team, develop new features and expand to other blockchains, said the firm.

Phantom co-founders (left to right) Chris Kalani, Francesco Agosti and Brandon Millman.

Finance

A16z Leads $12M Investment in DeFi-Native Crypto Tracing Firm Nansen

“We’re not basing our company on some KYC’d version of DeFi coming out in the future,” said Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik.

Crypto analytics is about sorting a tangle of on-chain data.

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3 Key Things That Happened in Crypto This Week

CoinDesk’s Christie Harkin breaks down this past week’s stories making waves in the crypto markets, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) raising $2.2 billion for its third crypto venture fund, El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law in effect beginning in September, and John McAfee’s sudden death, controversial life and legacy.

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Andreessen Horowitz Triples Down on Crypto With New $2.2B Fund. What’s Next?

Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a major backer of Coinbase and countless other crypto firms in the digital asset space, rakes in $2.2 billion for its third crypto venture fund, the largest crypto-related fund in the venture capital space to date. ​What does the future holds for a16z, and what's the significance of this moment in crypto history?

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