News with the tag "Funding Rounds"

Alex Dolesky thought his startup's push to "financialize" the sleepy uranium spot market would be a hit as nuclear energy stages a global comeback. All that tokenized yellowcake's looking more like gold. Months after netting its first $1.7 million from venture investors, Uranium Digital raised anoth...

Crossmint, a blockchain infrastructure firm helping companies build on-chain applications, has raised $23.6 million in funding. The company, which has over 40,000 users, aims to simplify blockchain adoption by enabling firms to integrate wallets, tokenization, and payments with minimal code, accordi...

The team behind real-world asset (RWA)-focused layer-1 blockchain Mavryk Network, said it raised $5.2 million to advance its plans to integrate tokenization and decentralized finance (DeFi). The investment round was led by Ghaf Capital, Big Brain, MetaVest Capital, Cluster Capital, Collective Ventur...

Ethena, developer of the synthetic stablecoin USDe, has raised $100 million to finance a similar token targeted at traditional financial (TradFi) institutions, Bloomberg reported on Monday . The funding round was completed in December, with Franklin Templeton and Fidelity Investments-affiliated F-Pr...

Elastos, a project looking to turn Bitcoin into a more fruitful base for decentralized finance (DeFi), has raised $20 million towards that goal. Elastos, a decentralized infrastructure provider, aims to scale its Bitcoin DeFi protocol BeL2 as a utility layer for the world's original blockchain. The ...

Crypto accounting platform Cryptio has raised $15 million in an extension to its Series A funding round from June 2022 . Existing investor Alven led the round and featured participation from new backers 1kx and Ledger Cathay Capital, Cryptio told CoinDesk via email on Wednesday. The $15 million rais...

Decentralized identity project Humanity Protocol has closed a $20 million funding round, raising its valuation to $1.1 billion. The funding round was co-led by Pantera Capital and Jump Crypto, according to an emailed announcement. The project last raised $30 million at a $1 billion valuation in May ...

The crypto industry has a new "unicorn" in digital asset bank Sygnum, which has just closed a $58 million funding round. The Zug, Switzerland and Singapore-based lender closed an oversubscribed "strategic growth round," which was led by BTC-focused venture capital firm Fulgar Ventures, according to ...

Avalon Labs, the issuer of the BTC-backed stablecoin USDa, has raised $10 million to grow its Bitcoin decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. The Series A funding round was led by Framework Ventures and included contributions from UXTO Management, Presto Labs and Kenetic Capital, according to an ann...

The seed round included contributions from Hack VC, Delphi Digital, OKX Ventures, Polygon and Animoca Brands.