Here’s the 6 biggest crypto VC deals in Q1 2024 and late 2023

The volume of crypto VC funding in Q1 2024 surged for the first time since the start of the crypto winter in 2022.

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Ethereum Funding Rates Hit Late 2020 Levels as Bulls Push Towards $4,000: What’s Next for ETH?

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Singularity attracts $2.2 million to develop KYC-compliant DeFi platform for institutions

Singularity Network, a protocol catering to institutional investors seeking confidential access to DeFi, raised $2. 2 million in its second funding round that concluded in late 2023, according to a Feb.

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WSJ debacle fueled US lawmakers’ ill-informed crusade against crypto

The Wall Street Journal corrected its misreporting about crypto funding Hamas, but it was too late to stop lawmakers from amplifying false claims.

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What may a government shutdown mean for Shiba Memu?

James Butterfill – the Head of Research at CoinShares expects Bitcoin to rally if the U. S. government does eventually shut down next month. How may a government shutdown help Bitcoin? Late on Friday, President Biden signed a funding bill that liquidated the government for another 45 days.

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Steve Cohen-backed NFT Platform Recur to Close Doors After Raising $50M Just 2 Years Ago

Recur, a prominent NFT platform backed by hedge fund mogul Steve Cohen, has decided to wind down its Web3 platform operations, despite having raised $50 million in a series A funding round in late 2021 at a valuation of $333M.

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Crypto Startups See Lowest Funding Since Late 2020

The first quarter of 2023 has witnessed a significant slowdown in venture funding for crypto and blockchain startups, with the sector raising a mere $900 million, marking an 87% decline from the same period in 2022

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Bitget raises $30m aimed at improving BitKeep multichain wallet

Bitget, a renowned crypto exchange, is funding $30m aimed at improving its BitKeep wallet. This comes after loosing $31m from the wallets through a hack in late Dec. 2022.

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Anthropic, an AI business Sam Bankman-Fried had a stake in, receives funding from Google

Google made a $300m investment in artificial intelligence (AI) startup, Anthropic, in late 2022.

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Twitch co-founder raises $24M for Web3 gaming firm Metatheory

The funding round led by Web3-focused venture capital firms will be used for upcoming nonfungible tokens, comics and a play-to-earn game slated for late 2022.

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Flickto announces their first blockbuster “The Cowboy”

With their inception late last year, Flickto began to make strides into disrupting the media industry as we know it. Flickto’s mission is to provide funding and distribution for underrepresented conThe post Flickto announces their first blockbuster “The Cowboy” appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Bitcoin Funding Rates Turn Negative In Sentiment Reset

Data shows following the crash, Bitcoin funding rates flipped to negative for the first time since September as market sentiment resets. Bitcoin Funding Rates Turn Negative For The First Time Since Late September As per the latest weekly report from Glassnode, market sentiment reset after the latest crash in BTC’s price as funding rates turned negative.

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Untamed Isles combines your classic RPGs with a gaming experience for today’s world

Since its Kickstarter campaign began in late August, the soon-to-launch monster taming game met its funding goal in just over a week and has since exceeded it by over 400 percent. There is no shortageThe post Untamed Isles combines your classic RPGs with a gaming experience for today’s world appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Australia-based crypto financial services firm Amber discusses U.S. growth plans

Cryptocurrency financial services firm Amber, which raised $100 million in a funding round in the middle of this year, announced in late September its launch in the United States. After the round, the Australia-based startup was valued at $1 billion.

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DeFi Stablecoins Record a Surge in Interest Rates, Total Stablecoin Supply Grows 4x in 8 Months

Lending and borrowing rates on DeFi stablecoins keep trending up. The rates first started going up in late July when the crypto asset prices bottomed and began their recovery. As crypto-assets started their uptrend, funding rates also gradually increased as traders joined in on the action.

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State Street to launch crypto services for private funds clients

After leading Lukka’s Series C funding round in late 2020, State Street partners with the firm to offer new digital asset services.

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FTX Crypto Exchange Raises $900 in Latest Funding Round at $18 Billion Market Valuation

One of the largest crypto exchanges by reported trading volume, FTX today announced it had raised $900 million in Series B funding round. FTX Raises a Whopping $900 Million FTX, a Hong Kong-based crypto exchange that has been dominating the headlines in the crypto industry of late today closed its Series B funding round wherebyRead More

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Community-driven crypto project Rally raises $57M to grow creator monetization app

CryptoNinjas » Community-driven crypto project Rally raises $57M to grow creator monetization app Following a successful launch late last year, Rally, a community-driven crypto project that empowers creators and artists to launch their own cryptocurrency to build sustainable, independent economies, today announced $57 million in funding for its community treasury through community approved sales of RLY, an Ethereum blockchain-based asset and native token of Rally.

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FalconX Crypto Trading Platform Secures Extra $50 Million in Funding

A successful round of funding late last year sparked interest from AmEx Ventures. Sure enough, in December it also threw its hat in the FalconX ring. AmEx joined an A-list group of investors that include Avon Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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U.S. Lawmakers Examining Cryptocurrencies’ Role in Domestic Terrorism Funding

U.S. lawmakers will discuss whether or not terrorists use cryptocurrencies and decentralized systems to fund attacks on Thursday. Crypto in Terrorism Funding The House Financial Services Committee subcommittee on National Security, International Development and Monetary Policy revealed further details concerning its hearing on domestic terrorism funding late Wednesday, together with witness testimony. While cryptocurrencies aren’tRead More

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Bitcoin Funding Rates Soar as Consolidation Persists; Long-Squeeze Imminent?

Bitcoin has seen some wild chop as of late, with the crypto’s price ranging between the lower and upper-$30,000 region It has found some strong support within the lower part of this range, with sellers attempting on multiple occasions to break it to no avail.

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Bitcoin Sets New All-Time High on Heels of OTC Buying Frenzy

Bitcoin and the aggregated cryptocurrency market are caught within another leg higher, with bulls staying in full control of the market This uptrend comes shortly after an intense selloff seen yesterday evening, which came as a result of incredibly high funding rates on margin trading platforms The move lower reset these funding rates and cleared out “late longs” – which laid the groundwork for a move higher One analyst explained in a recent tweet that […]

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Binance Funding Remains Negative, Providing Rocket Fuel for Bitcoin

Bitcoin’s short-term trend has grown somewhat unclear as of late, with the cryptocurrency being unable to extend its momentum past $13,800 This level has historical significance, as it is where BTC’s uptrend stalled back in the summer of 2019 when it rallied The sharp rise in the US Dollar’s value that took place yesterday may have been what sparked this movement Despite it now consolidating at just above $13,000 as bulls and bears reach an […]

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Bitcoin Could See a Massive Squeeze as Funding Rates Flip “Extremely Negative”

Bitcoin’s price action has been lackluster as of late, providing investors with few insights into the cryptocurrency’s near-term outlook as it consolidates Although from a technical perspective, it remains unclear as to where it might trend in the near-term, there are a few factors that may provide investors with some guidance One such factor that could have some influence over the digital asset is its funding rates, which have flipped negative throughout the past few […]

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Negative Funding Could Act as a Launchpad for a Massive Bitcoin Rally

Bitcoin’s recent consolidation phase has come about concurrently with traders stacking up on short positions This indicates that they expect the turbulence within the traditional markets to continue suppressing BTC’s price action, potentially leading it lower in the weeks ahead That being said, this has caused negative funding rates to surge as of late, making it costly to be short Historically, funding rates – when slanted towards one direction for extended periods – work as […]

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Institutional Crypto Demand Abounds Despite Volatility and Regulatory Woes

Bitcoin and the aggregated crypto markets have been incurring extreme volatility as of late which has caused many analysts and investors alike to question the longevity and long-term significance of the recent bull run that has ensued for the past several months.

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Crypto Startup Bitrefill Bags $2 Million Funding

California-based crypto startup Bitrefill on June 14, 2019, announced that it had successfully closed a $2 million late seed round which saw participation from a number of venture investors from the crypto industry.

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This Blockchain Startup is quietly snatching up the best crypto talent

The demand for blockchain talent is high, and among the ICO craze of late 2017, led to lucrative salary offerings for developers well-versed in the art of smart contract builds and implementing open-source frameworks like Hyperledger.

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EOS powered gaming challenge platform Azarus gets $1.8 million seed investment

CryptoNinjas Azarus, a “Smart Challenge” platform that offers gamers the ability to compete for digital assets in both casual and competitive gaming challenges, announced it has raised $1. 8 million in seed funding from Galaxy Digital via its Galaxy EOS VC Fund, Kleiner Perkins, and SVK Crypto, among others.

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Blackmoon Financial Group Launches A Product That Helps Users Participate In Lyft IPO

Ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft are gearing up for their IPO race. Although the second favorites in that race, Lyft was valued at $15.1 billion on the private markets in its last funding round, is aiming for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) valuation of $20 billion to $25 billion in late March-early April. Blackmoon is […]

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Tokenized fund COSIMO X invests in GECKO Governance, Lingar, and Oneiro

CryptoNinjas COSIMO Ventures, a global venture capital (VC) firm, announced three late seed round investments through its evergreen, tokenized VC fund, COSIMO X. Funding will be provided to GECKO Governance, a blockchain-based financial software solution that allows fund managers to meet regulatory and compliance.

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CipherTrace Partners with Maltese Regulators to Manage Risk of Financial Crimes

CipherTrace, a blockchain analytics company, is partnering with the Republic of Malta’s sole financial regulatory agency to ensure that all crypto transactions within the country are free of money laundering and other similar financial crimes.

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Trump Wall Talks Reach ‘Tentative’ Agreement – Still Not Enough to Avoid Another US Govt Shutdown?

Just when we thought Congressional leaders were incapable of compromise in order to avoid another government shut down, they surprise us. They announced late Monday that an agreement over border funding had been reached.

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Palestinian Fundamentalist Group Hamas Receives Funding via Bitcoin

In a particularly interesting case study for the consequence of Bitcoin’s global impact, the internationally recognized terrorist group Hamas has announced that it will accept bitcoin to fund itself.

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TRON Bringing Improvements to Popular ‘Blockchain Cuties’ Game

Late last month, TRON announced that it would be funding $100M into the blockchain-based gaming market. In a project entitled the TRON Arcade, this money will be sent out over the next three years.

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Crypto Cybercrime Has Tripled Since 2017; Nearly $1 Billion Lost in 2018

Most digital exchanges are unregulated and therefore unqualified to safely process cryptocurrency transactions. They don’t employ necessary know-your-customer (KYC) tactics, and roughly $1 billion in digital asset funds have been stolen since the start of 2018.

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Most ICOs Didn't Take Funding Hit Despite Ether Price Decline: Research

Despite the big drops in ether prices since late last year, ICO projects haven't lost money on average, according to new research from BitMEX.

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Beyond the ICO Part 1: Adapt or Die

The intoxicating, late 2017 cryptocurrency market run-up fired blockchain technology and digital currencies directly into the nucleus of the global financial ecosystem–demanding the attention of regulators, speculators and innovators.

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North Carolina Prohibits Cryptocurrency Campaign Donations

Cryptocurrency has gone beyond being a mere virtual coin. In recent years, it has seen several real-world use cases, from buying a cup of coffee to funding political campaigns. The United States is arguably one of the friendliest crypto countries in the world.

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North Carolina Prohibits Cryptocurrency Campaign Donations

Cryptocurrency has gone beyond being a mere virtual coin. In recent years, it has seen several real-world use cases, from buying a cup of coffee to funding political campaigns. The United States is arguably one of the friendliest crypto countries in the world.

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Chaincode Devs, Google Alumni Create Industry Group to Help Bitcoin Scale

Scaling has been a heated topic for the bitcoin community for some time. Further, even when a technology does become available, getting people to use it becomes the next big hurdle.

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