Polychain Capital


Finance

Sahara AI, Blockchain Project Tackling Copyright and Privacy, Raises $43M

The funding round was led by Pantera Capital, Binance Labs and Polychain Capital and included participation from Samsung, Matrix Partners, Foresight Ventures and others.

16:9 Sahara Desert (Ernesta Sakalaite/Pixabay)

Finance

Bitcoin Layer-2 Builder Botanix Labs Raises $8.5M From Polychain Capital, Others

The New York-based firm built Spiderchain to be compatible with Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) layers.

Funding (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Tech

USC Professor's Crypto Startup 'Sahara' Raises $6M to Reward AI Trainers

Sahara co-founder Sean Ren, a computer science professor at the University of Southern California, says his tech can help workers and businesses get compensated for their knowledge, data and expertise in the age of AI.

Sahara co-founders Sean Ren and Tyler Zhou (Sahara)

Videos

OG Olaf Carlson-Wee on Why His Crypto Thesis Is Stronger Than Ever

Polychain Capital founder and CIO Olaf Carlson-Wee says his main thesis about crypto has remained consistent since the beginning. That is, that crypto constitutes an “incentive vortex” that will replace the world’s preoccupation with country-backed currencies. Carlson-Wee joins Unchained to break down his theory and the significance of the launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs.

Unchained

Tech

Bain Capital Crypto, Polychain Lead $6M Funding Round For Privacy Protocol Firm Nocturne Labs

Other investors included Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, Bankless Ventures and HackVC.

Treasure chest (Ashin K Suresh/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Decentralized Exchange Bluefin’s New Version Goes Live on Sui Network

The platform’s v2 allows sub-second trades and trading without a crypto wallet, the company said.

Bluefin v2 (Bluefin)

Finance

Polychain Capital Co-Leads $25M Fundraise for Manta Network Developer

The cryptographic development project, p0x, received a valuation of $500 million.

Lending money handing over paying cash (Shutterstock)

Finance

Crypto VC Firm Polychain Capital Raises $200M for Fourth Fund: Fortune

The crypto-focused firm has also cut three members of its research and development staff, Fortune reported.

Polychain CEO Olaf Carlson-Wee (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

DeFi-Focused Layer 1 Berachain Raises $42M Series A at $420.69M Valuation

The round was led by Polychain Capital and included participation from venture capital firms Hack VC, dao5, Tribe Capital, Shima Capital, CitizenX and Robot Ventures.

A brown bear waving. (Getty Images)

Finance

Polychain Leads $15M Funding Round for Crypto Startup Polyhedra Network

The Web3 infrastructure provider has now raised money twice in 2023.

Beldex raises $25 million with a new DWF Labs partnership (Unsplash)

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