Pantera Capital


Finance

Pantera Capital’s First Venture Fund Did Pretty Well. Its Second Fund? Not So Much

Pantera Capital’s venture capital returns, which have fallen by almost threefold, are beating startup investors but lagging the stock market.

Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Pantera Crypto Funds Report 100% Returns Amid DeFi Craze

Investments in decentralized finance (DeFi) drove returns exceeding 100% this year to Pantera Capital’s bitcoin index and altcoin hedge funds.

Dan Morehead, CEO Pantera Capital

Finance

Ex-Pantera Partner's New Crypto Fund Is 'Not for the Faint of Heart'

Paul Brodsky is helming a new crypto investment firm called PostModern Partners that bets on volatile digital assets, not bitcoin.

Paul Brodsky

Finance

New Bitcoin Options App Raises $4.7M in Round Led by Pantera Capital

PowerTrade is a new mobile-based cryptocurrency options trading platform set to launch this year.

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Tech

Polkadot-Based Acala Raises $7M as DeFi Grabs Land on Another Blockchain

Acala, a DeFi startup building on the Polkadot blockchain, has closed a $7 million simple agreement for future tokens (SAFT) led by Pantera Capital.

Fresh pastures (Francesco Ungaro/Unsplash)

Markets

Pantera Tells SEC Its Crypto Fund Has Raised Nearly $165M

Pantera has informed the SEC its crypto fund has received a total of $164.7 million from investors with portfolios worth over $5 million.

Paul Veradittakit Partner at Pantera Capital (CoinDesk)

Finance

Pantera Capital Leads $2.6M Seed Round for DEX Protocol Injective

The protocol, incubated by Binance Labs, sets out to solve some of the issues facing users of decentralized exchanges.

(Monika Gruszewicz/Shutterstock)

Finance

Pantera Crypto Hedge Funds Are Losing Double Digits, Bitcoin Fund Is Up 10,000% to Date

Pantera Capital’s bitcoin fund is vastly outperforming its more exotic crypto-asset fund counterparts.

Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead

Markets

Coinstar Plans Massive Expansion of Coinme Bitcoin ATMs as Usage Spikes 40%

Coinstar, the coin counting kiosk maker hosting 3,500 Coinme bitcoin ATMs, is considering doubling that count after a surge in usage amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Customers aren't just buying toilet paper at the supermarket.

Tech

NEAR Protocol Launches Following $21M Token Sale Led by Andreessen Horowitz

NEAR announced Monday the closing of a $21.6 million token sale involving a16z, Pantera and others. It also revealed the stealth-mode launch of the NEAR mainnet on April 22.

NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin speaks at Developer Week 2020.

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