Chainalysis Raises $100 Million with a $2 Billion Valuation, No Plans to Go Public Yet

Blockchain research and analysis firm Chainalysis is the latest company in the crypto industry to raise funds. The firm has raised $100 million from investors led by Paradigm, co-founded by crypto exchange Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehsram.

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Blockchain.com Raises $300M At A $5.2B Valuation to ‘Aggressively’ Expand its Products

The company has over 31 million verified users, recording a 3x increase in active users and a total of 70.243 million unique wallets. The post Blockchain.com Raises 0M At A .2B Valuation to ‘Aggressively’ Expand its Products first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.

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Blockchain.com Raises $300 Million in Series C Funding Round

During the Series C funding round, crypto wallet service operator Blockchain.com raised $300 million from a group of private investors. The company's overall valuation rose to $5.2 billion.

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Blockchain.com Raises $300 Million, Firm’s Post-Money Valuation Now $5.2 Billion

The crypto financial services provider Blockchain. com revealed on Wednesday that the company has raised $300 million in a financing round. Blockchain. com’s latest funding round follows the $120 million raise the company obtained last month.

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Blockchain.com Raises $300M from Private Investors Bringing Company’s Valuation to $5.2B

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Blockchain.com raises $300M in crypto industry's third-largest capital raise

The investment round was led by DST Global, Lightspeed Venture Partners and VY Capital and gave Blockchain.com a $5.2 billion valuation.

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Ethereum Could Replace Bitcoin to Become Top Crypto Asset: Researcher

Ethereum, the second-largest blockchain network by valuation, has the potential to jump to replace Bitcoin to become the top digital asset, says Ryan Watkins of Messari. The senior research analyst cited a flurry of catalysts that could lead to the so-called flippening event.

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As NFTs Continue to Boom, Charlie Lee Shares His Thoughts on Fungibility

The innovation of Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in the world of blockchain promises to introduce a new means for authenticating ownership of digital artifacts.  Understanding NFTs Non-fungibility refers to these tokens’ uniqueness and indivisibility, which means that NFTs can’t be exchanged for other tokens as they hold special features and valuation.  These unique tokens can actRead More

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Blockchain Innovation Done the Polkadot Way According to Gavin Wood

In a recent Realvision interview, the developer Gavin Wood explains how Polkadot reimagines the innovation ecosystem from the ground up. Wood also discusses how the Polkadot protocol is both similar but also different than Ethereum, the second-largest crypto asset by market valuation.

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Publicly-Listed Bitcoin Mining Operations See Shares Skyrocket, Riot Blockchain Market Cap Reaches $1B

While bitcoin’s value has captured new all-time price highs, a number of publicly listed bitcoin mining operations have seen significant profits. The U. S. -based firm Riot Blockchain’s market valuation recently obtained a $1 billion capitalization.

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World’s Largest Asset Manager, BlackRock, to Hire a VP to ‘Drive Demand’ for Crypto Offerings

The New-York VP of blockchain requires experience in the technological foundations of blockchain technology who will be devising fundamental valuation methodologies for crypto-assets. The post World’s Largest Asset Manager, BlackRock, to Hire a VP to ‘Drive Demand’ for Crypto Offerings first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.

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Bitcoin’s Value Surpasses $23,700, Critics Claim Its a ‘Bubble,’ Onchain Analyst Says $100K Prices ‘Ridiculously Low’

The crypto economy has gained a massive amount of value during the last few days, as the aggregate market cap of all 7,500+ digital assets is a whopping $640 billion on Thursday. Meanwhile, the largest blockchain in terms of valuation, bitcoin has touched an all-time high of $23,777 rising more than 22% in 24 hours.

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Chainalysis hits $1BN valuation after $100M funding boost

Blockchain analytics and forensics firm is now a $1 billion blockchain company after confirming… The post Chainalysis hits $1BN valuation after $100M funding boost appeared first on Coin Journal.

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Chainalysis Raises $100 Million at over $1 Billion Valuation To Expand Its Global Regulatory Platform for Surging Cryptocurrency Market

Chainalysis, the blockchain analysis company, today announced it secured a $100 million Series C financing led by Addition, bringing its valuation to over $1 billion....

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Blockchain Bites: XRP’s Rally, Chainalysis’ $1B Valuation, Bitcoin’s Volatility in Perspective

The U.S. government uses USDC to bypass Venezuelan blockades. Chainalaysis eyes a $100 million raise. BTC is less volatile than 22% of S&P500 stocks, VanEck finds.

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Chainalysis Set to Become Blockchain’s Next Unicorn

Blockchain analysis and data provider Chainalysis should attain unicorn status this upcoming week as raising another $100 million in venture capital would give it a $1 billion valuation. In an interview with Forbes on Nov 20, Chainalysis CEO and co-founder Michael Gronager confirmed the upcoming event.

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Bitcoin’s organic valuation is at an all-time high and it’s a bright mid-term sign

The Bitcoin NVT Ratio is at an all-time high, which indicates that the blockchain network activity is supplementing the price. The post Bitcoin’s organic valuation is at an all-time high and it’s a bright mid-term sign appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Ethereum eyes record $1 trillion valuation

Ethereum is on a course that could see it become the first public blockchain...

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Ethereum competitor Polkadot hits $3.5b valuation: what’s fueling the rally? [UPDATED]

Polkadot (DOT), a blockchain protocol founded by Ethereum co-creator Gavin Wood, achieved a $3.5 billion market capitalization. The post Ethereum competitor Polkadot hits $3.5b valuation: what’s fueling the rally? [UPDATED] appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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IOST Is “All in DeFi,” Launches $6 Million DeFi Incentive Fund 2.0

High-performance, decentralized blockchain protocol IOST (IOST) is going “All in DeFi” with its $6 million DeFi Incentive Program 2. 0, bringing the DeFi-focused Noah Oracle Fund’s total valuation to $7 million.

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Alibaba’s Ant Group Plans Dual IPOs at Possible $200B Valuation

The dual-listing could turn Alibaba affiliate Ant Group into one of the largest companies operating in the blockchain space.

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DeFi Frenzy Drives Combined Market Cap of ERC-20 Tokens to Surpass ETH

The overall valuation of tokens built on top of Ethereum blockchain, especially the most popular ERC-20 tokens, has surpassed the value of ETH itself. The primary catalyst behind this phenomenon is being attributed to the recent surge in popularity of defi tokens, which are mostly ERC-20 based.

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Blockchain Bites: Bitmain’s $4B Valuation, Cambodia’s CBDC and BTC-e’s Bust

Bitmain's ousted co-founder is offering to buy his rival out of the company at a $4B valuation, significantly less than at the company's height.

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John McAfee Announces Privacy Coin – Airdrop Today

2020 has been a turbulent year for the cryptocurrency market, but it has established the resilience of blockchain technology. Despite a single-day market plunge that battered the entire market valuation with a 50% drop, the following rapid uptick in Bitcoin price has led it to outperform the S&P500 index by a large margin.

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Pitch Deck Says Solana Is Courting Dish Network, Kik for Its ‘Web-Scale’ Blockchain

Solana is looking to raise up to $12M at a $125M valuation, touting potential relationships with Dish and Kin in a pitch deck seen by CoinDesk.

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Ethereum’s bull run – the blockchain perspective

Research by Jesus Rodriguez and Lucas Outumuro of IntoTheBlock Ethereum has been experiencing a tremendous market momentum with a price increase of over 55 percent in this month. From a valuation standpoint, Ethereum has always been particularly complicated as it influenced not only by the performance of the native cryptocurrency but also all the token running […] The post Ethereum’s bull run – the blockchain perspective appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Why Ethereum is Beating Bitcoin So Far in 2020, And Why It May Continue

Bitcoin got a Twitter emoji but it is Ethereum that is doing better as the market enters February 2020. The second-largest blockchain asset by market valuation was up by 51. 75 percent on a year-to-date basis as of 0100 UTC, Tuesday.

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Three Reasons Why Ethereum is Weaker Relative to Bitcoin, And is Down 89% From ATH

For much of recent years, crypto enthusiasts hoped that Ethereum would take Bitcoin’s place to become the leading blockchain project by market valuation. But heading into 2020, the so-called “flippening” has still not arrived.

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Ripple Tops List of Blockchain Capital Raisers in 2019

Ripple raised the highest amount of funding among blockchain companies last year, according to a report by CB Insights. Ripple Raises $200 Million at a Valuation of $10B Last month, we reported that Ripple secured $200 million in a Series C round from investors like SBI Group, Tetragon Financial Group, and Routee 66 Ventures.

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Mobile Phone Retailer Joins China’s Blockchain Land Grab With US Company Investment

One of the largest smartphone retailers in China is stepping into the blockchain world by investing in U.S.-based startup Monsoon. Sources said the stake was sold at a nine-digit valuation.

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Crypto market forecast: 23rd December

It was a mixed trading week in the crypto markets with BTC enjoying healthy gains against a red week of trading in the altcoin markets. In wider crypto news, Blockchain financial services giant Ripple announced a successful series C funding round of US$200 million, putting the valuation of the company at US$10 billion.

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XRP Not Likely a Challenge to Bitcoin, Despite Ripple’s $10 Billion Valuation

Blockchain start-up and XRP proponent Ripple says it’s raised a $200 million investment round, lifting its valuation to $10 billion. Despite this move, critics worry whether Ripple and its XRP digital currency have a future in the space when up against CBDCs, stable coins, and XRP’s biggest competitor, Bitcoin.

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Crypto Unicorns: Top 10 Most Valuable Blockchain Companies

Unicorns, companies that have crossed the $1 billion valuation mark, are a rare breed. Even more so in crypto. Here’s a list of the 10 most valuable blockchain companies. Blockchain and crypto startups make up just a small fraction of unicorn companies, a category that includes any company with a valuation of $1 billion or […] The post Crypto Unicorns: Top 10 Most Valuable Blockchain Companies appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Radpay Decentralized Blockchain Payment Firm Secures Over $1 Million

A startup company focused on decentralized global payments called Radpay was recently been able to raise $1. 2 million USD in its latest seed round. According to the payment firm, the round was a success and the valuation of the firm is now floating around $10.

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Singapore-based firm launches crypto, blockchain fund for Asia-Pacific market

The crypto-asset industry is no longer being ignored by institutional investors and major financial entities. 2019 significantly improved the collective valuation of major assets and presently, variouThe post Singapore-based firm launches crypto, blockchain fund for Asia-Pacific market appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Crypto Data And Metrics Provider Messari Raises $4M In Funding And Adds New Board Member

Crypto data analysis firm, Messari Crypto, announced they had raised $4 million USD in a capital funding round led by Uncork Capital and joined by top crypto industry firms such as Coinbase Ventures, Blockchain Capital, CoinFund, Danhua Capital, Fenbushi Capital, and individual investor, Balaji Srinivasan.

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Decred, Stellar Post Massive Gains as Bitcoin Uptrend Halts

Decred (DCR) and Stellar (XLM) were moving higher on Friday as traders shifted focus from sideways-biased bitcoin. The thirty fifth-largest blockchain project by market valuation, Decred, today surged by as much as 17.

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John McAfee announces McAfeeDex crypto-exchange; to be powered by Ethereum blockchain

John McAfee, software entrepreneur and Bitcoin bull, has been advocating Bitcoin reaching a valuation of $1 million for a long time now, while also supporting numerous “side projects” to drive crypto-adoption.

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‘Death’ Comes to Haunt Ethereum Market – Again

With all the speculators projecting Bitcoin as a messiah against the mounting global market risks, it’s rival Ethereum is feeling neglected horribly. The second-largest blockchain project by market capitalization is up 31.

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CoinFLEX to Launch Polkadot’s DOT Futures on July 17, 2019

CoinFLEX, a platform that offers physically-delivered Bitcoin and Tether futures, is looking to launch its first initial futures offering (IFO) on July 17, 2019. The first project, Polkadot’s DOT tokens, will be offered at $75 each during the IFO.

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Visa and Blockchain Capital Lead $40 Million Round in Anchorage

Payment processor Visa along with specialist VC firm Blockchain Capital helped Anchorage, an institutional custodial service, raise nearly $40 million in capital at an undisclosed valuation. Visa recently launched a cross border remittance network with a pseudo-distributed ledger.

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Ethereum Price Jumps 6% as Institutional Money Tingles Bitcoin Recovery

In the past 24 hours, the price of ether, the native crypto asset of the Ethereum blockchain protocol, has increased by five percent against the U. S. dollar. e bitcoin price recovered by two percent.

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How Blockchain Could Change the Real Estate Investment Landscape

The expansion of real estate’s usage of blockchain — in title verification, valuation, diligence, insurance payment and settlement, smart contacts, construction monitoring and material verification — has a strong growth outlook for 2019

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Blockchain technology ‘not suitable for payments,’ says Bank for International Settlements’ Annual Report

The recent Bank for International Settlements report has stated that cryptocurrency’s backbone, blockchain, might not be “suitable for payment at all. ” Referring to the market’s 2018 crypto-winter when prices fell to new lows, the report stated that regulatory action has a significant impact on digital assets’ valuation, transaction volume, and user base.

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Gavin Wood’s Polkadot Completes Token Sale Asserting $1.2 Billion Valuation

Coinspeaker Gavin Wood’s Polkadot Completes Token Sale Asserting $1. 2 Billion ValuationEthereum co-founder’s Polkadot blockchain interoperability project has closed its private sale to fund its development claiming a $1.

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Ethereum Co-Founder’s Polkadot Closes Token Sale, Claims $1.2 Billion Valuation

Polkadot has closed on a private token sale that it says values the blockchain interoperability project as a tech unicorn.

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“Insane Valuation”: Algorand $60M Token Auction Implies $24bn Value

A new Proof-of-Stake blockchain protocol raised more than $60M in a token sale held in Singapore today. Algorand sold 25M Algos – its native token – in the first of a series of sales that will allow tokens to gradually enter circulation.

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Study: Blockchain Market in Automotive & Aerospace Industries to Reach Over $20B by 2029

The blockchain market in the automotive and aerospace fields will reportedly grow by 60.35% between 2019 and 2029, reaching a valuation of over $20 billion

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Cardano’s [ADA] team has made significant contributions to the cryptocurrency ecosystem, asserts Charles Hoskinson

IOHK, Cardano’s parent company, recently released the Cardano roadmap which charted the progress of the blockchain’s 2020 vision. Following the much-anticipated announcement however, ADA failed to post upward movement and recorded an underwhelming market trend.

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