Funding Rounds


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Peter Thiel's Founders Fund Leads $85M Seed Investment Into Open-Source AI Platform Sentient

The project aims to address concerns about the proliferation of AI whereby the underlying code is concentrated in the hands of a few superpowers like Google or Meta.

Rachel Sun/CoinDesk

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Web3 Cybersecurity Company GoPlus Raises $10M to Build Permissionless Security Layer

The round counts OKX Ventures, HashKey Capital and Animoca Brands among its backers

16:9 Security (LEEROY Agency/Pixabay)

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Bitcoin Staking Project Babylon Raises $70M Led by Paradigm

The funding round included contributions from Polychain Capital and the venture arm of crypto exchange and CoinDesk parent company Bullish

Scattered pile of $1 bills (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Technologie

Fantom Foundation Creates Sonic Foundation, Labs for New Sonic Chain

Alongside the new entities, Fantom raised $10 million in a funding round that will go towards Sonic’s ecosystem development.

Fantom Foundation CEO Michael Kong (Fantom)

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Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Vitalik Buterin Back $45M Investment in Polymarket

The series B funding round comes during a breakout year for the crypto-based prediction market platform, and brings its total funding well over $70 million.

Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan (Polymarket)

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Bitcoin Layer-2 Builder Botanix Labs Raises $8.5M From Polychain Capital, Others

The New York-based firm built Spiderchain to be compatible with Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) layers.

Scattered pile of $1 bills (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

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EigenLayer-Powered Aligned Layer Raises $20M to Make ZK Proofs Faster, Cheaper on Ethereum

The fundraise was led by Hack VC and included contributions from DAO5, L2Iterative, NomadCapital_io, FinalityCap, Symbolic VC and Theta Capital

Scattered pile of $1 bills (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Technologie

Liquid Restaking Protocol Puffer Raises $18M, Led by Brevan Howard, Electric Capital

The fresh round of capital will be used to help launch Puffer’s mainnet.

Puffer fish (Stelio Puccinelli/Unsplash)

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Crypto VC Firm Polychain Tops Up AI Platform Ritual's $25M Funding Round With 'Multimillion Dollar' Investment

Blockchain firms are attempting to address concerns that Big Tech giants like Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet will build an artificial-intelligence oligarchy

Polychain CEO Olaf Carlson-Wee (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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BOB, a 'Hybrid' Layer-2 Blockchain Mixing Bitcoin and Ethereum, Raises $10M

The fundraising round was led by Castle Island Ventures and included participation from Mechanism Ventures, Bankless Ventures, CMS Ventures and UTXO Management

BOB team (BOB)