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‘AWS for blockchain’ Alchemy boosts valuation to $3.5B with $250M raise

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Exactly six months after raising $80 million at a $505 million valuation, blockchain and Web3 development SaaS startup Alchemy has raised $250 million in a Series C funding round that values the company at $3.5 For one, it represents one of a16z’s largest Web3/blockchain investments to date. In June, the firm revealed its $2.2

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Alchemy raises $80M at a $505M valuation to be the ‘AWS for blockchain’

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Blockchain developer platform Alchemy announced today it has raised $80 million in a Series B round of funding led by Coatue and Addition, Lee Fixel’s new fund. We realized that in order for space to thrive and build to its full potential, we needed to build a developer platform layer for blockchain,” Viswanathan told TechCrunch.

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Blockchain infra startup Tenderly raises $40M after seeing 500% YoY revenue growth

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Tenderly, a startup that aims to make it easier for web3 developers “of all skill sets” to build blockchain products, has raised $40 million in a Series B round of funding – just months after closing on its Series A. It now covers a whole range of blockchains such as Ethereum, Avalanche, Fantom, Optimism and Arbitrum.

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Tatum lets you interact with blockchains using API calls

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Meet Tatum , a blockchain infrastructure startup that wants to make it much easier to develop your own blockchain-based product. While blockchain development was quite easy at first, it quickly became much more complicated as new blockchains emerged. There are now dozens of different blockchains.

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Aztec Network takes on encrypted blockchains with $100M round led by a16z

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Encrypted blockchains provide transparency for the protocol but privacy for the users, so people aren’t required to show their identities when transacting, Williamson said. We chose [a16z] to lead the round because they’ve been through this before with the dawn of the internet,” Andrews said.

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Blockchain startup Fetch.ai grabs $40M to provide monetization and other tooling for AI-generated information

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is built on blockchain technology and it has created a FET token that will be used on its platform. to build AI models, he believes, is one example of how blockchain can be used for non-financial purposes. ” Blockchain startup Fetch.ai and Europe). The capital behind Fetch.ai Using Fetch.ai ” An earlier pilot Fetch.ai

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Blockchain: Distributed Shared Ledger Technology in Banking

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Over 90% of the world’s leading banks are either exploring, experimenting (PoCs), or formulating a strategy for leveraging blockchain technology, says an Accenture survey. Since its inception ten years ago, there has been plenty of hype around blockchain. An overview of Blockchain in Business Process Management (BPM).