Funding
Alan Howard-Backed Cryptography Investor Geometry Emerges From Stealth
Tom Walton-Pocock, the former CEO of zero-knowledge proofs shop Aztec, is heading up Geometry.

Blockchain Analytics Firm Kaiko Raises $53M Series B Led by Eight Roads Amid Bear Market
The investment will enable Kaiko to further strengthen its institutional data products and infrastructure, it said.

Crypto Exchange Unizen Receives $200M 'Capital Commitment' From Investment Group GEM
The investment is milestone-based and performance-related as a means of ensuring the funding is optimized fully.

Flowdesk Raises $30M to Expand Market-Making Services
The French company will boost its flagship product to provide liquidity fund management services to cryptocurrency issuers.

Bit Digital Production Slump Continued Into Q1, Strikes Deals With Coinmint, Riot to Increase Hashrate
The bitcoin miner has struggled to recover its hashrate since moving its operations out of China.

Ex-Sushi CTO Raises $8M for NFT Lending Platform Astaria
The platform, led by CEO Justin Bram and DeFi vet Joseph Delong, aims to provide instant liquidity for your JPEGs and should be available to the public by September.

’Stripe for NFTs’ NFTPort Raises $26M Series A
The round was co-led by Atomico and Taavet+Sten, the investment arm from the co-founders of Wise and Teleport.

Words With Friends Co-Founder Raises $46M for Web 3 Game Studio
Paradigm led the round for The Wildcard Alliance, the new Web 3 subsidiary of Playful Studios.

NFT App Floor Closes $8M Series A Led by Mike Dudas' VC Firm
The round was led by 6th Man Ventures, the investment firm of The Block's founder.

Binance Labs Among Backers of $7.6M Round for Discord Game Tatsumeeko
The round for the fantasy MMORPG was co-led by DeFinance Capital, Delphi Ventures and BITKRAFT Ventures.

