Funding


Finance

Hashed Leads $6.5M Round for LOVO’s AI-Backed Voice NFTs

The company wants its synthetic speech tools to be used in chat apps or as in-game assets.

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Finance

Blockchain Security Firm CertiK Confirms $88M Raise at $2B Valuation

The valuation was double from the last funding round in December.

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Finance

Community Gaming Raises $16M in SoftBank-Led Round to Expand Crypto Esports

The competitive gaming platform is expanding into Latin America and Southeast Asia.

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Finance

EToro Is Aping Into Blue-Chip NFTs With $20M Fund

The trading platform is launching eToro.art, its foray into the world of non-fungible tokens.

EToro's Guy Hirsch speaks at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

SenseiNode Raises $3.6M as LatAm’s First Blockchain Infrastructure Firm

The company, operational for six months, already works with 11 protocols and plans to deploy 500 nodes by the end of 2022.

SenseiNode's executive team, left to right: Nacho Roizman, Martín Fernández, Pablo Larguía, Rodrigo Benzaquen and Jesús Chitty. (SenseiNode)

Finance

Pantera Capital Eyes ‘Mature’ Crypto Companies With New $200M Fund

The Pantera Select Fund will focus on “revenue-generating companies,” the crypto VC firm said in an investor letter.

Paul Veradittakit Partner at Pantera Capital (CoinDesk)

Finance

Sky Mavis Raises $150M Round Led by Binance to Reimburse Ronin Attack Victims

The funds from the round along with Sky Mavis and Axie Infinity funds will be used to refund users.

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Finance

Ethereum Scaler Boba Network Valued at $1.5B in $45M Series A

In addition to easing Ethereum’s transaction load, Boba injects off-chain machine learning into the contracts powering DeFi.

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Finance

Lightning Labs Raises $70M to Bring Stablecoins to Bitcoin

The Taproot-powered “Taro” protocol aims to bring low-fee stablecoin and asset transfers to the Bitcoin Lightning Network.

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Electric Capital Leads $4.5M Investment in Near Exchange Trisolaris

Jump Crypto and Dragonfly Capital also invested in the decentralized exchange on the Near protocol.

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