Fundraising

Fundraising

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Citadel Securities invests $400 million in Crypto.com, valuing exchange at $20 billion

The exchange's first institutional funding round values it at $20 billion and will fund expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives.

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin

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Crypto brokerage firm Alpaca raises $135 million for tokenized stock infrastructure

The company has previously cleared or held in custody roughly 94% of tokenized U.S. equities and now holds over $1.5 billion in underlying stocks.

Alpacas (Dylan Leagh/Unsplash)

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EDX Markets raises $76 million in funding round led by SBI Holdings

EDX’s model targets institutional clients by separating trading from custody through a central clearinghouse to minimize counterparty risk.

Stacks of 100 dollar bills (Dmytro Glazunov/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

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EToro invests in onchain derivatives platform Extended as brokers race into DeFi

The broker plans to bring perpetual futures into Zengo wallet and expand DeFi products to its core platform as rivals like Robinhood expand onchain offerings.

EToro CEO Yoni Assia. (Vanja Savic/Wikimedia Commons)

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Crypto's next frontier isn't crypto, it's financing AI and robotics, Framework's Anderson says

Blockchain is becoming the financial layer for capital-intensive industries rather than just crypto-native speculation, Michael Anderson, the crypto venture firm's cofounder, said.

Framework Ventures co-founders Vance Spencer and Michael Anderson

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Canton Network developer raises $355 million to bring Wall Street onchain

The investment comes as blockchains designed for big banks and institutions are having a moment, with Stripe's Tempo and Circle's Arc raising hundreds of millions of dollars.

Digital Asset co-founder and CEO Yuval Rooz (Digital Asset)

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Zerohash pursues new funding at more than $1.5 billion valuation after Mastercard drops investment plans

Crypto infrastructure providers are drawing renewed investor interest as Wall Street deepens its push into digital assets.

Mastercard (CoinDesk)

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Crypto wallet provider Ledger puts U.S. IPO plans on hold due to market conditions

The French crypto security firm, which is said to have explored a potential $4 billion U.S. listing, is reassessing its public market plans as volatile conditions weigh on investor appetite for crypto IPOs.

Ledger (Flickr)

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Stablecoin yield infrastructure project raises $13.5M in round led by Sky Ecosystem

Osero is coming with three products: Earn, App, and Foundry.

Stacks of 100 dollar bills (Dmytro Glazunov/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Elliptic raises $120 million backed by Nasdaq, Deutsche Bank as AI reshapes crypto security

The crypto analytics firm plans to expand its AI-powered monitoring tools as stablecoins and tokenized finance grow rapidly, CEO Simone Maini said.

Elliptic CEO Simone Maini (Elliptic)