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Markets

Strive proposes $150 million preferred stock sale to repay debt, buy bitcoin

The capital raise will support balance sheet restructuring and the company's bitcoin strategy.

Strive CEO Matt Cole speaks at BTC Asia in Hong Kong (screenshot)

Finance

Revolut Hits $75B Valuation in Fundraise Backed by Coatue, NVIDIA, Fidelity


Revolut is growing its crypto offerings, including a recent partnership with Polygon Labs and a MiCA license to offer crypto services across Europe.

A Revolut card (Kay/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Lighter Raises $68M at $1.5B Valuation to Take on Decentralized Derivatives Rivals: Report

Backed by Founders Fund, Haun Ventures and Robinhood, zk-rollup-powered Lighter plans to expand its institutional trading suite.

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Markets

Pantera Backs TransCrypts with $15M Seed Round to Expand Blockchain Identity Platform

The funds will be used to expand the company’s credential verification system beyond employment into healthcare and education.

Zain Zaidi (CoinDesk)

Tech

The Protocol: 77% of Bitcoin Holders Have Never Used BTCFi, Survey Reveals

Also: Ethereum Fusaka Upgrade on Holesky, DoubleZero Goes Live and Bee Maps Raises $42M.

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Tech

Zama Raises $57M, Becomes First Unicorn Involved With Fully Homomorphic Encryption

The team said the fundraise pushes Zama’s total capital raised to over $150 million and values it at over $1 billion, making the firm the first unicorn involved with FHE.

Rand Hindi

Tech

Project Eleven Raises $6M to Defend Bitcoin From the Coming Quantum Threat

Project Eleven is also offering 1 BTC to the first team to break an elliptic curve cryptographic key using a quantum computer.

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Markets

H100 Group Targets $79 Million Raise to Power Bitcoin Strategy

Blockstream CEO shares details with CoinDesk on strategic convertible loan backing bitcoin-focused treasury play.

Adam Back, CEO Blockstream (second from right) speaks at Consensus Hong Kong 2025 by CoinDesk (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

Markets

AI's Lead Over Crypto for VC Dollars Increased in Q1'25, But Does This Race Really Matter?

Despite the crypto 'Trump bump' at the end of 2024, deal flow still favors Artificial Intelligence. But is there a new preference for AI over crypto?

Rolls of dollar bills of varying denominations. (NikolayFrolochkin/Pixabay)

Tech

Union Labs, a Connector of Blockchains, Raises $12M in Series A Round

The firm, which aims to bridge the Ethereum and Cosmos ecosystems with its interoperability layer, now wants to build links to Bitcoin too.

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