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Finance

Ashton Kutcher and Michelle Phan Invest in Lolli’s $3M Seed Round

Lolli, the bitcoin rewards shopping app, attracted celebrity investors in a $3 million round led by the early-stage arm of Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund.

Lolli investor Michelle Phan in the offices of Em Cosmetics. (Credit: Mark Sacro for CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Can Boost Portfolio Returns, Even if Bought at All-Time High: Bitwise Study

Bitwise found that bitcoin acts as a useful counterweight to a traditional portfolio if managed in the right way.

Bitwise CIO Matthew Hougan

Finance

Shares in Grayscale's Bitcoin Trust Up By 14% After Crypto's Price Rallies

Shares in the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust climbed 14% on Wednesday as bitcoin's price rallied toward $9,000.

Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein speaks at Consensus: Invest 2018. (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Grayscale Says It Raised a Record $500M in First Quarter

The crypto investment firm says it raised almost as much in Q1 2020 as it did over the whole of 2019.

Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein speaks at Consensus: Invest 2018. (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Morgan Creek Invests in Startup Bringing Bitcoin to DeFi

Anthony Pompliano's investment firm has joined a seed round for Atomic Loans, a startup looking to create bitcoin-backed lending instruments.

Morgan Creek co-founder and partner Anthony Pompliano. (Credit: CoinDesk)

Markets

Looking for a Halving Payday? Quick Wins in Investing Are Rare

Miracle returns in investing seldom materialize. Beware excessive expectations for the bitcoin halving.

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Finance

Investors in Polychain Capital’s Crypto Hedge Fund Saw 1,332% Gains – If They Stomached the Dips

An investor document obtained by CoinDesk charts the dramatic ups and downs of the first four years of Polychain Capital’s cryptocurrency hedge fund.

Polychain Capital founder and CEO Olaf Carlson-Wee. (Credit: CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Polychain, Bain Capital Join $3M Series A Round for Indian Exchange CoinDCX

The funding round comes just weeks after the Supreme Court overturned the country's banking ban.

Mumbai, India.

Finance

VC Tim Draper Eyes India Investments as Nation Enters Crypto 'Renaissance'

Tim Draper plans to back local startups now the Indian supreme court has overturned a ban on financial services for crypto companies.

Tim Draper

Finance

VC Deals in Crypto Remained Steady but Amount Invested Fell in 2019: Report

As younger companies are raising more, larger businesses didn’t come back for extra capital.

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