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Finance

Crypto VC Firm Archetype Launches $100M Fund to Back Early Blockchain Startups

Archetype has a track record of successful investments, including Privy, which was acquired by Stripe, and US Bitcoin Corp, which completed a merger with Hut 8.

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Finance

Crypto Banking Startup Dakota Raises $12.5M for Global Stablecoin Push

The company, which lets businesses send and receive U.S. dollars globally via stablecoin rails, is expanding to over 100 countries with the funding.

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Finance

BTC-Only VC Ego Death Capital Closes $100M Fund for Projects Building on Bitcoin

“We’re investing in businesses that treat Bitcoin not as a trade, but as infrastructure - something to build on, not bet on,” ego general partner Lyn Alden said

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Finance

MtnDAO's Experimental Crypto Investment Fund Will 'Outperform VCs' Claims Founder

MtnDAO is launching a token and a futarchy-powered investment fund to boot.

mtnDAO host Barrett (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Markets

Dueling 'Eliza' AI Tokens Boom and Zoom in Frenzied Trading

Power and profits took center stage in a confusing trading session as two tokens with the same name battled for dominance.

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Finance

Crypto VC Market 'Tepid' as Q3 Investments Declined 20%, Says Galaxy Digital

Scared away by the various crypto collapses in 2022, institutional allocators have yet to make a comeback.

Morgan Creek Digital to raise up to $500M for new Web3 venture capital fund. (Jason Leung/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Winter-Era Seed Startups Mostly Persist Despite Tumult and Crisis

But fundraising difficulties and product-market-fit issues may imperil their future, according to a report from Lattice VC.

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Policy

VC Giants a16z, Union Square Ventures Get Subpoenaed by New York About Uniswap: Sources

"We don't wish the burden of unnecessary subpoenas on anyone," a spokesperson for Uniswap told CoinDesk.

New York state Attorney General Letitia James (CoinDesk archives)

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Markets

Hamster Kombat Says It Skipped VC Fund Offers, Bashes 'Exit Liquidity' Behavior

The wildly popular Telegram game has apparently amassed millions of users since its April release.

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Tech

Top Crypto VC Says Ex-General Partner Made Undisclosed Side Deal With Portfolio Company

Polychain says Niraj Pant broke the fund's policies by secretly accepting "adviser" tokens from Eclipse.

Ritual co-founder Niraj Pant (Ritual)

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