TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

About three-fourths of the teams are focusing on NFTs, infrastructure or decentralized finance (DeFi), while the majority of the teams are building on layer-1 blockchains Ethereum, Polygon and Solana. channels like Twitter or Discord onto blockchains. It won the Fall 2021 Chainlink DeFi Hackathon competition.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

It’s been a wild 2021 for NFT auction marketplace OpenSea. One of the company’s clearer growth roadblocks has been infrastructure issues native to the Ethereum blockchain that its marketplace has been built around. billion valuation. NFT marketplace OpenSea raises $23 million from a16z.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

While retail investors grew more comfortable buying cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum in 2021, the decentralized application world still has a lot of work to do when it comes to onboarding a mainstream user base. ” Andreessen Horowitz triples down on blockchain startups with massive $2.2 billion Crypto Fund III. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Chainalysis , a blockchain analysis company, announced Friday it has closed on $100 million in Series D financing, doubling its valuation to over $2 billion. Chainalysis’ self-described mission is “to build trust in blockchains to promote more financial freedom with less risk.”. Is rising usage driving crypto’s recent price boom?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Payments infrastructure company Stronghold has launched a venture capital arm to deploy $100 million of its balance sheet capital in startups and funds in three core strategies — underrepresented founders, fintech, and web3, CEO Tammy Camp told TechCrunch in an interview. It has raised $3.3 ”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Lightning Labs is building infrastructure that would enable users to send money across the world almost instantaneously and at a low cost through the Bitcoin network. Proceeds will be used to enable stablecoin transactions based on the Taro protocol, made possible by Bitcoin’s Taproot upgrade in November 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Data from blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis says the region’s crypto usage grew 1,200% last year, making it the third-fastest growing cryptocurrency economy. “What we’re doing is we’re creating financial infrastructure for people to build their lives. He founded the company in April 2021.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 20, 2025

Crypto and blockchain unicorns Weve also got some crypto and blockchain-related companies on the list. MoonPay , a Miami-based provider of payments infrastructure for crypto, is another on the IPO watchlist. Its raised more than $650 million to date, and last week it acquired Iron , a stablecoin infrastructure startup.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web3Auth, a non-custodial key infrastructure solution for Web3 apps and wallets, wants to solve these problems by leveraging social accounts and devices that mainstream users already own to enable users to manage their keys intuitively. The company also plans to increase its headcount, Young told TechCrunch. Image Credits: Web3Auth.

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The Crazy Programmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The Indian information Technology has attained about $194B in 2021 and has a 7% share in GDP growth. Blockchain Engineer. Blockchain is one of the leading technologies of the current era, especially for the banking and financing sector. And in the upcoming future, the career of blockchain engineer is going to be demanding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2023

Notably, Doorstead also announced that it picked up the Boston assets of another venture-backed proptech, Knox Financial, whose raise I had covered in 2021. While I’m sure there were already many down rounds in 2022, Tung expects we’ll see even more in 2023 as startups that had raised in 2021 began to get low on cash.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Fireblocks , an infrastructure provider for digital assets, has raised $310 million in a Series D round of funding that tripled the company’s valuation to $2.2 Its ARR (annual recurring revenue) is also up – by 350% so far in 2021 compared to 2020. We’ve already adjusted our revenue predictions for 2021 three times.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

To date, Dragonfly has invested in almost 60 companies through its previous funds launched in 2018 and 2021 for $100 million and $225 million, respectively. Dragonfly plans to focus its investments across all stages of blockchain and crypto-native companies, protocols, and tokens. “We Securities and Exchange Commission in January 2022.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

It has 40 investment professionals investing in areas including enterprise SaaS, infrastructure software, fintech, healthcare IT and crypto-infrastructure. So far in 2021, Sapphire invested $990 billion in capital, up from $970 million in 2020, and added 26 new companies into its portfolio. “If

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

While the 2021 venture cycle was still booming , every startup sector felt hot. Even more, the pendulum of relative power has swung back toward venture capitalists away from founders, startup prices are falling, and some ideas that ruled the roost in 2021 are in disarray. Every geography set records.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The company generated $3 billion in gross transaction value in 2021 and is profitable. The logic behind blockchain always made sense to me and we can definitely see a future where people would demand a more transparent financial system.”. This is Reku’s (previously called Rekeningku.com) first round of institutional funding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Blockchain and other web3 projects are racing to reach developers, hosting hackathons, bandying out grants and offering other perks to lure those who can build. It also screens projects using a number of factors such as a developer’s on-chain and GitHub history to shoulder much of the burden from various blockchain and web3 firms.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Its status stems, in part, from the advantage of having been the first cryptocurrency token on a public blockchain. . But as new blockchains continue to spring up, and after last year’s “DeFi” summer that brought new traction to Ethereum, Bitcoin investors have had to start watching their backs. More than just an asset.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Indeed, in the case of SuperLayer, the tokens might all look a bit different, but they will all be tied to a blockchain network called Rally that SuperLayer’s founders created earlier and want to help popularize by creating more interesting apps atop it.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Users register these tiles inside their app, where the ownership of individual tiles is tracked across the network using something that sounds an awful lot like a blockchain — though that’s a word the team was very careful to avoid using. VCs discuss gaming’s biggest infrastructure investment opportunities in 2021.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Along with increasing regulatory scrutiny and skeptical investors, capital deployment has pulled back significantly from the highs of 2021, which has left many young startups struggling to raise funds. This capital crunch is affecting the Bitcoin ecosystem as well.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In AltSchool’s pipeline are courses on product, blockchain and data. AltSchool plans to use the investment to build its content and curriculum, technology infrastructure and community concept, where students will meet offline to network and learn together. African tech took center stage in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The London-based company describes itself as “a crypto infrastructure company” that aims to make blockchain useful for businesses via its “digital asset payment gateway.” billion in April 2021. Mercuryo , a startup that has built a cross-border payments network, has raised $7.5 million in a Series A round of funding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Generally, companies interacting with blockchains struggle to make sense of their fragmented activity, according to Jaskiw. They tend to manage multiple wallets across various blockchains and hold funds in centralized exchanges or self-custody solutions like Gnosis Safe,” she said. It’s just incredibly cumbersome currently.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Bogota-based payments infrastructure startup Minka has secured $24 million in a funding round co-led by Tiger Global Management and Kaszek. The network was designed to connect separate legacy systems through blockchain concepts and APIs “to simplify the movement of complex money flows.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Blockchain infrastructure galore : Jacquelyn writes that QuickNode raises $60 million at a $800 million valuation to become the “AWS of blockchain.” New companies in this sector raised around $600 million last year, a steep decline from $800 million in 2021.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 18, 2024

Editor’s note: For more Web3 coverage, visit Crunchbase’s Web3 Tracker , where we track startups, investors and funding news in the Web3, cryptocurrency and blockchain space, powered by Crunchbase ’s live, comprehensive data. However, venture dollars are still down year to year and well off the highs seen in 2021-22.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

billion in revenue for Q4 2021, but “that was the good news,” reported Ron Miller and Alex Wilhelm. Businesses of this nature require a lot of upfront investment and buildout of infrastructure and often don’t break even for several years,” said John Dinsdale, chief analyst at Synergy Research. This week, Google Cloud reported $5.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

In 2020, there were 118 crypto deals, which spiked 233% to 393 deals in 2021, according to a report by PwC. In December 2021, two decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), Rari Capital and Fei Protocol, merged via a token swap and were united under a new TRIBE token and the name FeiRari. .” million to $179.7 ”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It will invest in AI, cloud, robo-advisors and blockchain-powered fintech companies in South Korea and overseas countries after the listing, Ryu added. billion won) in EBITDA in the first half of 2021. . The company’s total transaction volume recorded $72.4 Kakao Pay recorded $6.9 million (8.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

In an unusual twist, Sequoia just 1 month later walked away from the deal in which it reportedly wrote the self-described payments infrastructure company a $21 million check. In that same article, sources told Alex that Stripe saw gross revenue of about $12 billion in 2021, up 60% year-over-year. Weekly News.

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 15, 2024

That is only one shy of the 29 young unicorns created through all of last year — although still significantly off the pace in 2021 and 2022 when 107 and 77 early-stage unicorns were minted, respectively. Back to old ways?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

As a result, there were almost 1,800 publicly reported data breaches in the first six months of 2021 alone, accounting for the exposure of 18.8 That’s when Tide, a blockchain -based encryption method, was masterminded. billion records. The conversation changes after Covid.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The web3 bandwagon really took off in 2021 and 2022 as entrepreneurs and investors both sought to make their mark in the nascent industry. A few years ago, it also sucked because of the infrastructure that couldn’t handle a few thousand users at the same time, or because you couldn’t use it from mobile.

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Xicom

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

What does this hold for 2021? 2021 will be defined by a fresh new class of technologies all set to graduate to the sidelines to centre stage. Without any further ado, here are top promising digital revolutions that I believe will be the most significant in 2021. Only time will tell!

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

As such, Campbell said her startup plans to launch these kits in fall 2021, partnering with several universities for a beta rollout. Love them or hate them, there’s no denying these blockchain-savvy entrepreneurs are challenging the status quo in a space where women are horrifically underserved.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

We felt that the underlying infrastructure supporting the shift from investment product to digital advice was a more durable, interesting space to be allocating capital to,” the firm said in a recent newsletter. TechCrunch last reported on Fast in January of 2021, when the startup raised a $102 million Series B financing led by Stripe.

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