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Crypto Investment Firm CoinFund Launches $300M Web3 Fund

Sectors of interest for the early-stage fund include layer 1 blockchains, gaming and NFTs.

CoinFund Managing Partner David Pakman (CoinDesk TV screenshot)

Finance

Crypto Venture Capital Firm Dragonfly Buys Hedge Fund MetaStable Capital

The fund has over $400 million in assets under management, according to Bloomberg.

Dragonfly has acquired MetaStable Capital. (Getty Images)

Finance

Blockchain Payments Platform Ansible Labs Raises $7M in Seed Funding Round

The startup was founded by two former Visa workers.

Ansible Labs co-founders Daniel Mottice and Matt Vanhouten (Ansible Labs)

Finance

DEX Protocol Injective Raises $40M From Jump Crypto, Brevan Howard Unit

The project will use the funds to boost the utility of the INJ Token.

(Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)

Finance

Bain Capital Leads $12M Round for Scalable Blockchain Developer RISC Zero

The startup uses zero-knowledge proofs to create a developer-friendly blockchain.

RISC Zero is building a scalable blockchain using zk rollups (Andrew Haimerl/Unsplash)

Finance

Greylock, Pantera Led $18M Round for NFT Infrastructure Provider Pinata

Silicon Valley investment giant Greylock also backed Pinata’s $3.5 million seed round last year.

Bored Ape (Yuga Labs)

Finance

Andreessen Horowitz Leads $20M Funding Round for CreatorDAO

Paris Hilton and musicians The Chainsmokers also invested in the project.

Paris Hilton was among the investors in CreatorDAO's latest funding round. (RB/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

Finance

Blockchain Analytics Platform Merkle Science Raises $19M to Take on Bridge Exploits

The threat detection company added funding to its Series A round, which now totals more than $24 million.

Merkle Science co-founder and CEO Mriganka Pattnaik (Melody Wang/CoinDesk)

Finance

Cashmere Raises $3M at $30M Valuation to Build Solana Enterprise Wallet

Investors in the seed funding round included Coinbase Ventures, FBG Capital and YCombinator.

Cashmere co-founders Charlotte McGinn and Shashank Khanna (Cashmere)

Finance

Nomad, Slope Hacks Create New Annoyance for Their Shared Backer Circle Internet Financial

The venture-capital arm of the USDC stablecoin-issuer gave money to Nomad and Slope, which were both exploited this week.

Circle (Sandali Handagama/ CoinDesk)