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Cryptocurrency fintech startup MoonPay has closed its first-ever venture capital round, reaching $3.4 billion in post-money valuation.The firm officially announced Monday that it closed a $555 million Series A funding round led by prominent industry investors like American investment firm Tiger Global and tech-focused investment manager Coatue. Other participants included
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MoonPay, a payment infrastructure provider for crypto companies, has raised $555 million in an all-equity Series A round led by Coatue and Tiger Global that values the firm at $3.4 billion. The funds will be used to hire people, expand geographic coverage and add more payment methods.Ivan Soto-Wright, MoonPay’s co-founder
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Private equity firm KKR plans to lead a Series D investment round for crypto platform Anchorage, according to The Information sources. The funding would reportedly push Anchorage up to a roughly $3 billion valuation.San Francisco-based Anchorage is a crypto custody platform that lets institutional investors safely hold and use crypto.
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Crypto exchange Gemini Trust is raising $400 million in a new funding round which would bring its valuation to $7 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.The round has not yet been finalized and could change, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.Gemini, which was co-founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss,
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Investments on the table for OpenSea’s new funding round would set its valuation to $10 billion, The Information reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.The marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFT) has seen explosive growth in 2021. Trading volume on the platform was over $200 million in late August 2021 compared
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“This valuation makes us more confident than ever in our vision,” said Eli Ben-Sasson, co-founder and president at StarkWare, in a statement. “By empowering blockchains to scale globally, people of any economic status will gradually be able to stop entrusting data into the hands of big companies, and control it
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Crypto exchange Bitmart is in talks to raise about $20 million at a $300 million valuation in a funding round led by a backer of Spotify and Airbnb.New York-based private equity firm Alexander Capital Ventures is in talks with BitMart to lead the Series B funding round, according to people
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“Players spend billions of dollars on digital assets each year, but the value of their collections has been locked away from them. Utilizing NFTs in gaming creates a whole new set of game design principles built around scarcity vs. inflationary free-to-play economies,” said John Linden, co-founder and CEO of Mythical
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According to documents viewed by CoinDesk, a valuation by accounting firm PwC dated July 16, 2020 priced ConsenSys AG assets including Infura, MetaMask, Truffle, PegaSys, CoDeFi, as well as ConsenSys subsidiaries in France, the U.K., Ireland, Australia and Hong Kong at a total valuation of $46.6 million. Original Source
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The round included contributions from GIC Capital, Ribbit Capital and CapitalG, the private equity arm of Google’s holding company, Alphabet.Nov 1, 2021 at 12:24 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 1, 2021 at 12:43 p.m. UTCDCG Founder, CEO Barry Silbert (CryptoX archives) Source
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