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Finance

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.

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Finance

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.

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Finance

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

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

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Finance

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)

Finance

Kraken parent Payward seeks fresh funding at $20 billion valuation ahead of planned IPO

The crypto exchange operator is pursuing a new fundraising round as it ramps up acquisitions across derivatives and stablecoins while laying the groundwork for a future public listing.

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Finance

XO Market bets on user-generated prediction markets to rival Polymarket and Kalshi

Backed by 20VC, Picus Capital and Coinbase Ventures; XO lets users create and profit from their own prediction markets, and plans to rollout a new vault product to democratize market making.

Ali Habbabeh and Walid Al Habboul, co-founders of XO Market.

Finance

Cango raises capital as it faces NYSE delisting risk with shares below $1

The bitcoin miner issued a $10 million convertible note and closed a $65 million insider-led round while racing to regain compliance with exchange rules.

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Finance

Crypto accounting firm Cryptio raises $45 million as institutional demand accelerates

The company's platform tracks digital assets, storage locations and crypto loans, enabling financial institutions and corporations to produce accounting records and financial reports.

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Finance

Josh Swihart's Zcash Open Development Lab raises $25 million in seed funding

The capital will be used to expand development of the Zcash (ZEC) protocol and its privacy-focused self-custodial mobile wallet, Zodl.

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Finance

Kalshi, Polymarket seeking $20 billion valuations in fundraising talks: WSJ

Kalshi, approved by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, was last valued at $11 billion, while Polymarket was valued at $9 billion.

Kalshi website on a laptop.