Rarify, which offers infrastructure to help companies add non-fungible tokens (NFT) to their platforms, has closed a $10 million Series A funding round led by crypto investment firm Pantera Capital at a $100 million valuation. Other investors included Eniac Ventures, Greycroft, Hyper and Slow Ventures. Source
Some $14 trillion of cryptocurrency capital gains were created last year, and tax bills need to be paid. Source
In a recent call with investors, executives from the crypto hedge fund Pantera Capital said they believe DeFi assets such as Ethereum could soon break out of their current correlation to traditional macro markets. The market has seen increasing similarities between these two spaces recently. But there’s no guarantee it will continue or even last for very long at all, given how quickly things change in this industry. Pantera Capital believes the crypto market will be able to “decouple” traditional macro assets even when interest rates go up. In the…
The CEO and founder of leading blockchain venture fund Pantera Capital, Dan Morehead, stated that digital assets will be the “best place” to store capital following the potential fallout of interest rate hikes from the U.S. Federal Reserve. Investors across stock and crypto markets are currently fixated on the direction the Fed might take to combat rising inflation which topped 7.5% as of this month. Bitcoin and crypto markets have often moved in correlation to trends in the stock market, however, Morehead argued in his Feb. 16 newsletter that bonds,…
The Pantera Early Stage Token Fund I is expected to raise $20 million, said Yieldstreet Source
Maverick, a decentralized crypto derivatives protocol, has raised $8 million in a recently concluded funding round led by Pantera Capital. Other prominent crypto VCs who participated in this strategic funding round include Circle Ventures, Altonomy, Coral Ventures, CMT Digital, GoldenTree Asset Management, Gemini Frontier Fund, Spartan Group, LedgerPrime, Jump Crypto, Taureon and the Tron Foundation. The funding will be used to launch Maverick’s mainnet (expected in mid-2022) and scale the underlying protocol. Unlike the existing DEXs which are built on the Automated Market Maker (AMM) infrastructure, Maverick leverages a Gaussian…
DAOs, which are organized around a core mission and shared treasury, often issue tokens for governance and utility purposes, and also use the tokens to incentivize user deposits, a process called liquidity mining. Critics have said that liquidity mining offers imperfect incentivization and attracts temporary “farmers” who soak up the rewards and leave when the well runs dry. Source
One of Pantera Capital’s investors, Paul Veradittakit, was brave enough to make predictions for this year in the tumultuous world of crypto. Even though we applaud the courage, we’re going to poke holes in them. Because this is the Internet and that’s what we do here. To be clear, the author went through 2021 biggest trends and extrapolated them into the future. Which is a safe enough technique. Related Reading | Sports NFT Marketplace Lympo Suffers An $18.7 Million Hack Considering Pantera defines itself as the “first U.S. institutional asset…
Pantera’s Bitcoin Feeder Fund now has $63.7 million in funding from 153 investors, up from $18 million from 56 backers a year ago, according to a new regulatory filing. Founded in 2019, the Bitcoin Feeder Fund lets investors make indirect investments in the firm’s main Bitcoin Fund, according to an explanatory memorandum. The Bitcoin Fund is a passive tracker of bitcoin that offers investors daily liquidity. Last September, Pantera raised $369 million for a new blockchain fund. Two months later, The Information reported that Pantera was raising $600 million for…