Funding


Finance

Crypto Exchange FTX in Discussions for Up to $1B Capital Raise at $32B Valuation: Report

The exchange giant is raising the money as it considers acquisitions.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Craig Barritt/Getty Images)

Finance

'Sustainable' GRNGrid Blockchain Gets $50M From Investment Firm GEM Digital

GRNGrid is a more environmentally friendly layer 1 tailored to decentralized finance.

U.S. Dollars (Shutterstock)

Finance

African Crypto Exchange Yellow Card Closes $40M Series B

Polychain Capital led the funding round, which comes less than a year after the Series A.

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Finance

Investors Add $74M to Crypto-Focused Valkyrie Trusts

New SEC filings showed additional sales for the investment firm’s Tron and Avalanche trusts.

Valkyrie CIO Steven McClurg speaks at Bitcoin Miami 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

JPMorgan Backs $20M Round for Blockchain Infrastructure Startup Ownera

Ownera aims to connect the tokenized securities of institutional investors.

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Finance

Crypto Auditing Platform Sherlock Raises $4M in Funding

The protocol features an open auditor competition to help find smart contract vulnerabilities

Venture capital firm Variant commits $450 million to its third crypto-focused fund. (Horst Schwalm/Pixabay)

Finance

Blockchain Startup Diamond Standard Raises $30M to Fund Expansion

The Series A round is led by venture capital firm Left Lane and investment management firm Horizon Kinetics.

Diamond Standard's coins and bars (Diamond Standard)

Finance

NFT Collection Doodles Raises $54M at $704M Valuation

The venture-capital firm of Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian led the funding round.

Doodles holders gather at NFT.NYC 2022. (Eli Tan/CoinDesk)