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Union Labs, a Connector of Blockchains, Raises $12M in Series A Round

The firm, which aims to bridge the Ethereum and Cosmos ecosystems with its interoperability layer, now wants to build links to Bitcoin too.

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Finance

Trump's Crypto Business Slashes Fundraise Goal by 90% After Lackluster Sales

The revised plan to sell only $30 million of WLFI tokens — instead of the originally planned $300 million — suggests Trump may not quickly see a big payday from World Liberty Financial.

Donald Trump at BTC 2024 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Blockchain Data-Availability Project Celestia's Foundation Raises $100M

The news comes as as Celestia's native token, TIA, had fallen 54% since the beginning of 2024.

Celestial bodies. (NASA/Unsplash)

Tech

Tune.FM, Music Streaming Project on Hedera Blockchain, Gets $50M Capital Commitment

The news comes just eight months after Tune.FM shared it had raised $20 million in a funding round.

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Tech

Chaos Labs Raises $55M as Demand Grows for On-Chain Risk Management

The influx of capital comes as Chaos Labs, founded in 2021, looks to expand its platform, designed to address the growing need for automated risk management in decentralized finance (DeFi).

The Chaos Labs team has raised $55M in Series A funding (Chaos Labs)

Tech

Rollup-in-a-Box Startup Caldera Raises $15M From Peter Thiel's Venture Fund

As Ethereum's Layer-2 ecosystem booms, Caldera's "Metalayer" aims to help developers quickly launch applications across multiple networks.

Citrea says its zero-knowledge rollup will help expand Bitcoin's ability to accommodate NFTs and DeFi. (Unsplash modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Top Crypto VC Says Ex-General Partner Made Undisclosed Side Deal With Portfolio Company

Polychain says Niraj Pant broke the fund's policies by secretly accepting "adviser" tokens from Eclipse.

Ritual co-founder Niraj Pant (Ritual)

Tech

Pi Squared, Building 'Universal ZK Circuit', Raises $12.5M

The startup, led by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign computer science professor, uses zero-knowledge technology to enable “trustless remote computing" along with other blockchain use cases including AI.

CEO of Pi Squared Grigore Rosu (Pi Squared)

Tech

MegaLabs, Behind the 'Real-Time' Blockchain, Raises $20M, Led By Dragonfly

The fresh round of capital will go towards building out the MegaETH protocol, with the aim of having a testnet go live in the next few months.

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Finance

Shiba Inu Fetches $12M Investment in a Token Sale to Build Privacy-Focused Blockchain

The new network will be built on top of layer-2 network Shibarium and offer enhanced privacy for users.

Shiba inu dog

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