Latest from Sam Kessler
Crypto Carbon: Can Blockchain Networks Fix Carbon Offsets?
A budding movement within the crypto industry says it can keep carbon out of the atmosphere by locking it on a blockchain. Can it succeed?
Acala, VCs Commit $250M for Polkadot DeFi Investments
The fund will back companies with use cases for Acala’s aUSD stablecoin.
Katie Haun’s New Fund Joins $10M Round for Polkadot Lending Protocol Moonwell
The project will enable users to take out over-collateralized loans on Polkadot’s EVM-compatible Moonbeam parachain.
Ethereum Staking Protocol Swell Raises $3.75M as Locked ETH Tops $26B
Swell is attempting to make it easier to stake on Ethereum and eventually other blockchains.
Pantera Leads $4M Seed Round for Streamlined Cross-Chain Bridge
Swim Protocol wants to make it easier for users to swap native assets across blockchains.
‘Minimum Viable DAO’ Product Looks to Supercharge Web 3 Governance
Decent Labs has an opinion on what the future of DAOs should look like, and it’s baking it into a new set of tools.
Diagonal Raises $2.5M for Web 3 Subscription Payments
The project aims to create an all-in-one tool for merchants and creators to collect payments on Ethereum.
Polymer’s $3.6M in Seed Funding Says IBC Is the Future of Crypto
The team plans to make blockchains like Ethereum and Solana more easily compatible with chains built using Cosmos’ Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol.
Hedge Fund Giant Alan Howard Backs $7.5M Round for ‘Financial NFTs’ Project
Nested’s social trading platform allows investors to earn royalties on their crypto portfolios by representing them as NFTs.
Dialect Raises $4.1M to Bring ‘Smart Messaging’ to Solana
The project wants Solana-based DeFi apps to have actionable alerts and wallet-to-wallet chat.
