“On behalf of our clients, we equip decentralized applications and smart contracts to identify exploits, and then to decline exploits as they are being proposed,” said Gravrock in an interview with CoinDesk. “It means contracts and applications can carry on processing legitimate transactions, so it’s a bit like a guardian angel is watching over your contract.” Source
The funding round also included Bankless Ventures, Animoca Ventures, Kucoin Ventures, DACM, LBK, SNZ and Canonical Crypto. Puffer previously received backing from The Ethereum Foundation through a $120,000 grant, and a $650,000 pre-seed round led by Jump Crypto. Source
Binance Labs announced investments in four incubator projects and participated in a round for privacy infrastructure startup zkPass. Source
Data shows that Bitcoin funding rates have risen to the greenest levels since February 2023, something that could increase the risk of a long squeeze. Bitcoin Funding Rates Are At Highest Levels Since February As pointed out by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, longs have accumulated in the market recently. The “funding rates” is an indicator that keeps track of the periodic fee that traders on the futures market are exchanging between each other right now. Related Reading: Bitcoin Addresses In Loss Soar To One-Month High Amid Mixed Market…
Japanese blockchain developer HashPort has raised 1.2 billion Japanese yen ($8.5 million) in a Series C funding round led by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners and Japanese billionaire entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa. The new round brings HashPort’s total funding to 2 billion yen ($14.2 million). According to the July 28 announcement, the funds will allow HashPort to consolidate business and secure a compliance management system and related personnel to navigate the sophisticated global regulatory environment for its expansion. The HashPort ecosystem includes its namesake blockchain-related…
The largest fundraises for the week belonged to metaverse startup Futureverse and RISC Zero, creator of developer tools for zero-knowledge proofs. Source
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has criticized the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) regulation by enforcement approach, questioning the agency’s crypto jurisdiction. Meanwhile, Gary Gensler, the chair of the SEC, has asked Congress for more funding to increase the agency’s oversight of the unregulated cryptocurrency market. Funding, the commission said, is for them to execute their mandate of protecting investors and ensuring markets are fair and efficient. Garlinghouse blasts SEC’s “political power play” Garlinghouse called out Gensler for what he perceives as inconsistent crypto regulation. He also said that…
The month of June closed out with a 29.73% decrease in venture capital investments, with just $779.32 million raised in 62 individual deals, according to data from the Cointelegraph Research Venture Capital Database. While the United States Federal Reserve halted interest rate hikes in June, the macroeconomic climate remains unchanged due to geopolitical uncertainties and continued efforts to tame inflation across the globe. As the data shows, investors remained cautious and in risk-off mode in June, with the growth trend of the previous three months coming to a halt. Purchase…
Web3 was defined by Crunchbase as cryptocurrency and blockchain startups, which have been hit hard by the ongoing crypto winter. While VC funding has slowed overall, with Crunchbase reporting an 18% drop across all sectors in the second quarter of 2023, crypto-related funding has had a much steeper decline. Meanwhile artificial-intelligence (AI) startups have become the new shiny object for investors, seeing $25 billion in funding in the first half of 2023. Source
Despite facing regulatory scrutiny in the United States, crypto firms continue to innovate, with nearly half of all capital investments flowing towards U.S. crypto businesses, according to a recent report. Published by crypto investment firm Galaxy Digital on July 14, the report stated that US-based crypto start-ups had a significant share of interest from venture capital firms. “US-based crypto startups accounted for more than 43% of all deals completed and raised more than 45% of the capital invested by VC firms.” This was followed by the United Kingdom claiming 7.7%…