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Finance

Kraken Raises $500M in Funding Round Valuing Crypto Exchange at $15B: Fortune

The funding round sets the stage for a long-awaited IPO, expected to take place next year.

Kraken on phone (PiggyBank/ Unsplash)

Finance

Revolut Seeks $1B in New Funding at $65B Valuation: FT

The London-based company is among a growing number of fintech firms leaning into faster, crypto-native payment systems.

Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky (Credit: Getty Images, Kimberly White)

Finance

Crypto VC Paradigm Leads $11.6M Round for Kuru Labs’ DeFi Liquidity Engine

The raise will help build an on-chain orderbook on super-fast blockchain Monad.

Monad Labs is looking to provide faster EVM processing than Ethereum. (Julian Hochgesang/Unsplash)

Finance

Polymarket on the Verge of Raising $200M at $1B Valuation: Report

Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund leads the round, and the $200 million includes $50 million in previously unannounced funding.

Shayne Coplan, CEO, Polymarket, speaks at Consensus 2024. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk).

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a16z Crypto Leads $7M Round in KYD Labs That Aims to Transform Ticketing Industry

KYD Labs aims to put artists and venues in control, with blockchain-based ticketing boosting sales by 30%.

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Tech

MIT-Incubated Optimum Raises $11M Seed Round to Build Web3's Missing Memory Layer

The seed round was led by 1kx and included Robot Ventures, Finality Capital, Spartan and more.

MIT Professor Muriel Médard sitting at a table in front of a diagram-covered whiteboard (Optimum)

Finance

PayPal-Backed Raise Secures $63M to Expand Blockchain-Based Gift Card System

The company aims to bring digital gift cards on-chain, turning them into a “programmable retail currency.”

Gift (CoinDesk archive)

Videos

AMA With Spencer Dinwiddie and Solo Ceesay

Calaxy founder and NBA star Spencer Dinwiddie and Calaxy CEO Solo Ceesay join Consensus 2022 to discuss their recent fund raise and outlooks for upcoming projects.

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