DeFi, CeFi and institutions: AscendEX’s $50M raise highlights ambitions beyond exchange business

Polychain Capital, Hack VC, Jump Capital and Alameda Research are just some of the big names behind AscendEX’s $50 million Series B.

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Crypto exchange AscendEX closes $50M Series B led by Polychain Capital and Hack VC

AscendEX, a cryptocurrency exchange platform, has announced the close of a $50 million Series B raise led by Polychain Capital and Hack VC, with participation from Jump Capital and Alameda Research, as well as Uncorrelated Ventures, Eterna Capital, Acheron Trading, Nothing Research, and Palm Drive Capital.

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CryptoPunk NFT sold for over $500 million in suspicious sale

In what would rank as one of the most expensive sales in the history of NFTs, a CryptoPunk NFT has just been sold for over $500 million, though analysts have begun to raise questions about the legitimacy of the sale.

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Play-to-Earn Gaming Hub Good Games Guild Raises $1.7 Million in Fundraising Round

Play-to-earn gaming hub Good Games Guild today announced the closure of its seed fundraising round with a raise of $1. 7 million from several prominent investors. Good Games Guild Raises $1. 7 Million In an announcement made today, play-to-earn gaming platform Good Games Guild stated it had raised $1.

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Dragon Kart Raises $1.1 Million For 3D Play-to-Earn Battle Racing Game

Dragon Kart, an innovative 3D play-to-earn battle racing game built on Binance Smart Chain (BSC), has announced the successful closing of an oversubscribed $1. 1 million funding round. The raise was led by Bigcoin Capital and LuaVentures, with participation from TomoChain, Signum Capital, NGC Ventures, Shima Capital, AU21, Kardia Ventures, LaunchZone, VBC Ventures, BSC Station and individual investors from Digital Strategies and Everse Capital.

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Investment app Plum raises $14M ahead of crowdfunding campaign

The firm hopes to raise a total of $24 million in funding to expand…

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Stellar Helps Fintech Firm Raise $145 Million to Expand Crypto Capabilities After Its Partnership with Visa and Circle

Tala lending app has raised $145 million from Stellar to increase the company's crypto offerings and capabilities for the unbanked; the firm is now valued at $800 million

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Stronghold Digital Mining Listing Shares at Roughly $17 in $100M IPO

Pennsylvania-based Stronghold Digital Mining plans to raise $100M by offering 5.9 million shares at between to $16 - $18. The post Stronghold Digital Mining Listing Shares at Roughly $17 in $100M IPO appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Arcana Network Lands $2.3 Million Funding from Leading Investors in Strategic Round

Arcana Network, a protocol for decentralized storage and data privacy, has received funding from investors to the tune of $2.3 million in its latest investment round. The latest funding comes on the heels of the $375k that it was able to raise during its seed round in July 2021. Arcana Network was funded by several […]

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Web3 Social Media Platform Yup Raises $3.5 Million in Latest Funding Round

Blockchain-based social network platform Yup that rewards users for liking and sharing content across the web recently announced a raise of $3. 5 million in its latest funding round. Yup Raises $3.

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Web3 Social Media Platform Yup Raises $3.6 Million in Latest Funding Round

Blockchain-based social network platform Yup that rewards users for liking and sharing content across the web recently announced a raise of $3. 5 million in its latest funding round. Yup Raises $3.

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ShoeFy Announces $3.65 Million Raise For Innovative NFT Platform With Utility Layers

ShoeFy, a decentralized project that has combined nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and fungible tokens (FTs) on one platform to add new utility layers to NFTs, has announced a $3. 65-million round of fundraising.

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MoonPay Raises $400 Million in Second Round Funding, Valuation Now at $3.4 billion

US-based crypto payment startup, MoonPay has completed a $400 million capital injection raise bringing the total valuation of the company to $3. 4 billion, a blog post from The Information reads. The funding aims to enhance the features of the platform and boost the global adoption of cryptocurrencies.

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ConsenSys Is Planning to Raise Funds at a Valuation of $3 Billion

ConsenSys is in talks to raise $250 million at a valuation of $3 billion, according to the latest reports. Arca and Golden Tree Asset Management are reportedly taking part in this round. In April this year, the company had raised $65 million in a “formation round” from traditional finance giants including JPMorgan, Mastercard, UBS, and […] The post ConsenSys Is Planning to Raise Funds at a Valuation of Billion first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.

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Idexo Raises $3.35 Million in Token Sales Ahead of USDT-Rewarding Staking Pools Launch

In an announcement made recently, blockchain project Idexo said it had raised a whopping $3. 35 million in cumulative token sales before its official launch. Idexo Raises $3. 3 Million Idexo, a blockchain-based project that aims to empower creative entrepreneurs to build industry-disrupting applications recently announced a raise of $3.

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Kawaii Islands Raise $2.4 Million to Release Anime NFT Metaverse

Novel gamified DeFi raises funds from the likes of Polygon, OKEX, Polkastarter

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Play-to-Earn Anime Metaverse Game Kawaii Islands Raises $2.4 Million Ahead of Alpha Version Launch

Kawaii Islands, a play-to-earn game anime metaverse set for an Alpha launch in September, has raised $2. 4 million from their private sale. $2. 4 million Raise Validates Kawaii Islands’ Vision and Model As per the press release on September 25, the private sale was led by Mapleblock Capital and Signum.

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Waggle Network Successfully Raises $3 Million Seed Round to Build Multi-Chain Marketplace for Strategic Token Sales

Waggle Network, a cross-chain protocol that unlocks liquidity for post-IDO tokens, has announced a $3 million seed raise by leading investors including (but not limited to) GBV, SVC, Genesis Block Capital, Basics Capital, Bixin Ventures, NGC, AU21, Gate.

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MonoX Raises Closes $5M Funding Round To Disrupt Traditional DEXs Using Single-Sided Liquidity Pools

MonoX protocol announced today the completion of its funding round that saw investors come together to raise $5 million. As per the announcement, the funding round saw numerous investors’ participation, including Krypital Group, Youbi Capital, Rarestone Capital Axia8 Ventures, Capital, 3Commas, OP Crypto, Animoca Brands Divergence Ventures, LD Capital, GenBlock, and Blockdream.

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DeFi Protocol MonoX Raises $5 Million Ahead of Q3 2021 Mainnet Launch

Eyeing a launch in Q3 2021, automated market maker (AMM) MonoX today announced it had successfully raised $5 million in its latest funding round. MonoX to Use Funds for AMM Launch MonoX, an AMM scheduled to launch in Q3 2021 has successfully concluded its debut capital raise of $5 million from venture capital firms thatRead More

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Bit2Me Raises 5M Euros In Under 60 Seconds Of The First Phase Of Its ICO

In just 59 seconds, Bit2Me was able to raise a total of 5 million euros by the end of the first phase of its Initial Coin Offering (ICO). The token sale makes history as the most successful one in Spain so far.

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Evrynet Raises $7 Million, Aims to Bring DeFi to Institutional Investors

Evrynet, the team behind the Evry.Finance dApp today announced it had successfully raised $7 million in its latest funding round. Evrynet Raises $7 Million In a statement issued today, Evrynet announced it had successfully concluded its latest funding round where it was able to raise funds to the tune of $7 million. Notably, Evrynet’s latestRead More

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MUFG boosts its crypto exposure following $41M Zipmex funding round

Thailand's Bank of Ayudhya, where MUFG holds a 76.9% stake, has participated in a $41 million raise for Asia-Pacific-focused crypto trading platform Zipmex.

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Blockstream's $210 Million Raise Is Critical In The Global Bitcoin Arms Race

Blockstream's $210 million raise will play a big role in North American ASIC production and manufacturing.

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Blockchain Startup In Pakistan Dubbed Bazaar Secures $30 million In Funds

Bazaar Technologies, a Pakistani blockchain marketplace, successfully raised about $30M in Pakistani’s biggest Series A round. An announcement made by Bazaar states that August 24th will be the closing of its raise.

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Pakistani blockchain marketplace completes record $30M raise

With total funding of $37.8 million to date, Bazaar Technologies is among Pakistan’s most capitalized startups.

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Blockstream Raises $210 Million, Now Valued At $3.2 Billion

Bitcoin infrastructure firm Blockstream is now valued at $3.2 billion after a $210 million Series B raise.

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Helium raised $111M: is now the perfect time to buy it?

Helium HNT/USD is a decentralized, peer-to-peer 5G wireless network that completed a successful token sale that managed to raise $111 million from a multitude of investors. Some of the contributors included Andreessen Horowitz, Almeda Research, Multicoin Capital, and Rabbit capital.

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US SEC fines so-called ‘DeFi’ lending project after $30 million raise

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged two Florida men and their Cayman Islands company for illegally selling upwards of $30 million of securities using smart contracts and even decentralized finance (DeFi) technology, a court filing last week showed.

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Rothschild’s Trust Invests in Aspen Digital Crypto Platform for Wealthy Customers

Rothschild-founded trust helps raise $8.8 million for Aspen Digital crypto investment fund for wealthy customers in Hong Kong

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NFT Marketplace Opensea Raises $100 Million — Firm Becomes a Blockchain Unicorn

Opensea has become the latest non-fungible token (NFT)-focused firm to raise funds this year as the company announced raising $100 million in a Series B this week. The venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz led the Opensea financing round alongside investors like Kevin Durant, Ashton Kutcher, and Tobi Lutke.

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Here’s why SUSHI’s discount offering should concern you 

SushiSwap has been in the news lately owing to a proposal submitted by developer OxMaki. The SushiSwap decentralized exchange intends to raise $60 million by selling discounted tokens to venture capitThe post Here’s why SUSHI’s discount offering should concern you  appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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iM Intelligent Mining Concludes Latest Funding Round with $2.5 Million Raise

iM Intelligence Mining (iM) today announced the closure of a $2. 5 million funding round that witnessed participation from several prominent individuals and crypto funds. iM Intelligence Mining (iM) Raises $2.

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FTX Closes $900 Million Series B — Capital Raise Pushes Exchange Valuation to $18 Billion

FTX Trading Ltd. announced the firm has closed the largest capital raise in crypto exchange history in a Series B funding round for $900 million. The financing gives FTX a valuation of around $18 billion and the crypto firm aims to expand its global presence.

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Bitcoin Exchange FTX Raises $900 Million, Largest Raise In Exchange History

FTX Trading Ltd just raised $900 million from over 60 investors and now has a $18 billion valuation.

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Robinhood Aims for $35 Billion Market Valuation in Upcoming IPO

An amended prospectus filed yesterday by Robinhood indicates the company is aiming to get a valuation of up to $35 billion in its upcoming IPO. The fee-free options, cryptocurrency, and stock trading service is expecting to sell up to 55 million shares and raise more than $2 billion when the IPO launches next week. Robinhood […]

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Flurry Finance Announces $3 Million Raise in Latest Funding Round to Expand Its DeFi Yield Aggregation Protocol

Flurry Finance today announced the conclusion of its latest investment round worth $3 million. Flurry Finance Raises $3 Million in Latest Funding Round The team behind the yield aggregator DeFi protocol FLURRY, Flurry Finance today announced it had closed its latest funding round which helped it raise $3 million.

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Bitcoin miner may land U.S. listing after investment

Bitcoin miner Iris Energy Proprietary Limited is hoping to seek a direct listing on the Nasdaq, but before that, it was planning to raise $200 million in a new fundraising round. As per reports, the SThe post Bitcoin miner may land U.

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Green Bitcoin Miner Planning to Raise $200 Million Ahead of Nasdaq Direct Listing This Year

Iris Energy Pty has also signed new mining equipment-related contracts that would push its mining capacity from the current 0. 7 exahash, which is on track to rise to 4. 5 exahash by 2022-end, to 15.

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BIT Raises $50 Million To Help Bitcoin Mining Expansion Out Of China

BIT Mining announced a raise of around $50 million for the company to expand and move its operations out of China.

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Mercado Bitcoin’s Director: SoftBank investment will ‘leverage our vision’

Mercado Bitcoin was valued at more than $2 billion after raising $200 million from Softbank’s Latin America Fund in a Series B round. The capital raise puts the Brazil-based cryptocurrency exchange in elite category as it now the eighth-most valuable unicorn in all of Latin America.

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Blockware Mining Closes $25M Investment Round, Plans To Triple Hash Rate From Kentucky Facility

Blockware announced on Thursday that a second oversubscribed fundraising round had raised $25 million. Blockware Raise Money In Oversubscribed Round North American bitcoin mining company Blockware Mining today announced that it has raised over $25 million in a second oversubscribed funding round, bringing the company’s total capital raised to more than $32 million. They want […]

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Morgan Stanley поддержал платформу токенизации Securitize в раунде на $48 млн

Провайдер технологий выпуска security-токенов Securitize привлек $48 млн по итогам раунда финансирования Серии B. Wall Street and venture capital converged in powering Securitize’s oversubscribed $48 million Series B capital raise, signaling consensus adoption of digital asset securities will continue to grow.

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PayPal Founder Backs BitDAO’s $230M Fund Raise

BitDAO raised $230 million on Tuesday from a private token sale led by PayPal… The post PayPal Founder Backs BitDAO’s $230M Fund Raise appeared first on Coin Journal.

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Bitwise Asset Management CEO Horsley on $70M raise: ‘we wanted to get some of the best minds’

Dozens of Silicon Valley and Wall Street heavyweights participated in Bitwise Asset Management’s $70 million in Series B funding. Among them were Bridgewater CEO David McCormick, Stanley Druckenmiller, Henry Kravis, along with nearly 30 other individuals.

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Microstrategy to Buy Another $1 Billion Bitcoin Through Stocks

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Facebook’s Novi Financial Chief, Solana and Other VC Firms Invest $3 Million in PARSIQ DLT Company

Director of Facebook's Novi Financial and several other top-line VC institutions in the crypto industry have helped PARSIQ raise $3 million in series A round

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Polygon And 0x Team Up to Devote $10.5 Million Into Attracting New Users & Developers

Polygon, formerly known as Matic Network, has announced that it will be partnering with decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol 0x to raise a total of $10. 5 million. The network aims to attract at least one million users into choosing its platform and the Ethereum blockchain through 0x's decentralized exchange liquidity aggregator API.

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BlockFi Seeks $5 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round

BlockFi is reportedly seeking to raise several hundred million more

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