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Finance

Andreessen Horowitz Establishes $4.5B Crypto Fund, Its Fourth

The Silicon Valley venture capital firm is doubling down on its crypto investments despite the market downturn.

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MetaKing Studios Raises $15M to Launch Web 3 Strategy Game Blocklords

The medieval strategy-based massively multiplayer online (MMO) game is expected to debut next year.

A scene from MetaKings' Blocklords (CoinDesk screenshot)

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DeFi Protocol iZUMi Finance Raises $30M, Launches Exchange

The funds were raised through the sale of bond vouchers and claims to back the new iZiSwap decentralized exchange.

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UnicornDAO Raises $4.5M to Empower Women and LGBTQ NFT Creators

The DAO is led by Nadya Tolokonnikova of the Russian art collective Pussy Riot and involves Beeple, Grimes and Gary Vaynerchuk.

The UnicornDAO panel at SXSW 2022. Left to right: Olive Allen, Charli Cohen, Latashá, Diana Sinclair, Maliha Abidi, Heather Russell, Nadya Tolokonnikova and Rebecca Lamis. (UnicornDAO)

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SingularityNET, SingularityDAO Receive $25M to Accelerate AI-Backed DeFi

Global investment group LDA Capital committed the funds and will provide strategic support.

Web 3's use of AI will present challenges. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

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Crypto Wallet BitKeep Raises $15M at $100M Valuation

Dragonfly Capital led the round, which will fund a cross-chain DAO for wallet users.

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Certora Raises $36M for Smart Contract Security Tools

Jump Crypto led the funding round for the firm, which secures $50 billion of DeFi assets.

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CyberConnect Raises $15M to Expand Social Graph Protocol

The project seeks to make user data interoperable between Web 3 dapps.

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Chainalysis Raises $170M at $8.6B Valuation

The crypto sleuthing firm says its tools monitor $1 trillion worth of transactions every month.

Chainalysis co-founder Jonathan Levin speaks at Crypto Bahamas 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk archives)

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Lighthouse Raises $7M to Be the Search Engine of the Metaverse

The platform is looking to bring interoperability to an array of virtual worlds.

The metaverse connectors of Lighthouse pose on some stairs. (Lighthouse)