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Finance

Evmos, Connector of Cosmos and Ethereum Blockchains, Raises $27M in Token Sale

Polychain Capital led the funding raise to accelerate the cross-chain decentralized app platform

Evmos, a connector between the Cosmos and Ethereum blockchains, raised $27 million. (Billy Huynh/Unsplash)

Finance

Ex-Polychain Partner Tekin Salimi Launches $125M Crypto Venture Fund

The new fund plans to convert into a decentralized autonomous organization, and involves Terra’s Do Kwon and Avalanche’s Emin Gün Sirer.

Tekin Salimi (dao5)

Finance

Polychain Leads $6.85M Investment in ‘Curate-to-Earn’ Project

KurateDAO is looking to use “cryptoeconomic games to curate the world’s information.”

Can KurateDAO build a new encyclopedia? (James/Unsplash)

Finance

Get Ready for Investor Fan Tokens: Polychain Backs Prysm’s Approach to ‘Social Investing’

The platform aims to let new traders follow “the best investors in DeFi.”

Prysm founders Thomas Scaria (left) and Shelby Thomas (Prysm)

Finance

Market Making on Polkadot Gets Prospective Boost With $22.3M Raised by dTrade

Which of the investors will be the primary market makers on the derivatives DEX is still to be finalized.

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Finance

Polychain Leads $21M Round for Retail-Oriented DEX

Shipyard’s Clipper DEX aims to attract retail traders with low trading fees.

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Finance

Crypto Derivatives Platform dYdX Raises $65M in Paradigm-Led Series C

The San Francisco-based DEX builder has processed $2.2 billion in trades and is now “hugely profitable.”

Members of the dYdX team

Videos

Solana Labs Raises $314M in Token Sale Led by A16z, Polychain

Solana Labs has raised $314 million from top crypto venture firms, including Andreessen Horowitz and Polychain Capital. One of the most significant token sales in recent memory, it supercharges plans to build an expansive decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem on the Solana blockchain. Is Solana becoming a leading contender as the “ethereum killer?”

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Policy

Industry Group Led by Polychain, Coinbase Seeks to Get Ahead on Staking Regulations

The Proof of Stake Alliance has released a set of recommendations for entities securing a proof-of-stake network to avoid drawing the ire of regulators.

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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)

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