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Finance

Cata Labs Raises $4.2M to Develop 'Bridging' Software

The round was led by Spartan Group and included participation from Robot Ventures, Maven 11, Alchemy Ventures, HashKey Capital, Circle Ventures and Superscrypt.

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Policy

Former CFTC Chair Timothy Massad Among Witnesses for House Crypto Hearing

Titled, "The Future of Digital Assets: Identifying the Regulatory Gaps in Spot Market Regulation," the hearing will take place on Thursday afternoon.

Former CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad to testify at House hearing on crypto (CoinDesk TV)

Finance

Out of Compute North’s Bankruptcy Rises 300MW Bitcoin Miner With Novel Energy Offering

Born out of the ashes of the Compute North bankruptcy, the new venture aims to give customers control over their energy strategy.

Saxet Infrastructure Group, a new company, is building a data center in Corpus Christi, Texas. (Saxet Infrastructure Group)

Finance

Former Signature Bank Crypto Payments Chief, 4 of His Team Join Fortress Trust

Joseph Seibert, formerly head of digital assets at Signature Bank, has brought over part of his risk and compliance team and a blockchain payments specialist.

Joseph Seibert, Fortress Trust Company (Joseph Seibert)

Finance

Major Crypto Firms Deny Investment in Three Arrows Founders' New Exchange

Susquehanna (SIG), DRW and Nascent had been included in list of "major investors" in a Friday tweet from OPNX, the exchange.

Kyle Davies (left) and Su Zhu (middle). (Kyle Davies/X)

Finance

CoinFund Leads $8M Round for Decentralized Database Firm Tableland

The fundraise comes ahead of the network’s mainnet launch early next year.

Tableland co-founders Carson Farmer, Sander Pick, Aaron Sutula and Andrew Hill (Tableland)

Tech

Blockchain Infrastructure Provider 0x Rolls Out New Line of APIs

The new platform is aimed at providing developers the tools to build financial products on crypto rails.

0x founders Will Warren and Amir Bandeali (0x)

Finance

Cubist Launches Bank-Grade Ethereum Key Management Service

The company also announced Web3 staking provider Ankr as its first key management customer.

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Finance

Crypto Market Maker DWF Labs’ More Than $200M in Deals Blur What ‘Investing’ Means

DWF Labs made headlines with flurry of investments in crypto projects such as CryptoGPT or Synthetix. A closer examination reveals that many of their deals aren’t typical venture capital investments. However, the firm says it’s all a misunderstanding.

Andrei Grachev of DWF Labs (LinkedIn, modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

UK’s New Technology Department to Tackle Country’s Metaverse, Web3 Strategy

The department will explore economic growth, investment and business opportunities in these areas, as well as implications on regulation.

Metaverse (We Are/Getty Images)