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South African cryptocurrency exchange Valr announced recently that it has raised $50 million in a Series B round led by Pantera Capital. The capital raise means Valr is now valued at a reported $240 million. Funds Raised to Finance Valr’s Expansion Into Other Markets The South African cryptocurrency exchange, Valr, recently
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“Just as AWS has made it easy for companies to deploy applications across servers, storage, and databases, InfStones is making it simple to deploy nodes, APIs, and other services,” said Dragonfly Capital Partner Tom Schmidt in a press release. “Their platform helps reduce the barriers to entry for new companies
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Funds will be used for developing new technology, team expansion and potential acquisitions, the company said. Original Source
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Fintech startup Flutterwave announced recently that it has raised $250 million from its Series D funding round. The funding round, which attracted international investors, saw the startup’s value rise to over $3 billion. Capital Raised to Fund Flutterwave’s Expansion Plans The Nigerian fintech startup Flutterwave recently announced it raised $250 million
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Netflix has ordered a documentary series about the couple who allegedly laundered billions of dollars from the 2016 Bitfinex hack. Aspiring rapper Heather Morgan and her husband, Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein, were arrested in New York this week. The Department of Justice (DOJ) also seized 94,636 bitcoins stolen from the Bitfinex
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Streaming and production giant Netflix will soon produce a documentary series on the infamous Bitfinex hack — one of the biggest financial crimes from 2016 stealing 119,756 Bitcoin (BTC) — worth $72 million at the time. The Netflix documentary will be centered around a New York-based couple and their link to
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Hayvn, an Abu Dhabi-based crypto trading firm, is courting institutional investors for a Series B round with a view to eventually list, Reuters reported on Wednesday. Source
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Kyro’s founder, Samir Arora, worked at Apple for nearly a decade, where he developed platforms for distributed applications, a precursor to layers 0 and 1 of blockchain technology. Arora was also the CEO of NetObjects, one of the first companies to offer a website editor, from 1995 to 2002. Original Source
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The exchange wants to bring crypto to the Philippines, where P2E game Axie Infinity has flourished. Original Source
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Dune Analytics, a leading data analytics platform, has announced a capital raise of $69,420,000, in addition to a $1 billion-dollar valuation, the latter of which means that the company attained "unicorn" status, which describes privately-held startups that have attained a valuation of $1 billion or more. The Series B raise was
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