Jacquelyn Melinek

Jacquelyn Melinek

Jacquelyn Melinek is a New York-based reporter covering funding, decentralized finance (DeFi) and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). She previously reported on energy markets for S&P Global Platts and Bloomberg News and is published in over 65 news outlets. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in Media and Journalism. Contact Jacquelyn via email at [email protected]

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Lots of fresh capital entered the crypto space this week, up 36% from last week’s $1.34 billion

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The proposal would reduce the token allocation of a JUNO whale, alleged to have exploited a loophole, by over 98%

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The Ethereum layer-2 developer is raising at least $100 million, Israeli newspaper Calcalist reported

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Some crypto mining companies are turning to overlooked, smaller cities and towns to revitalize abandoned real estate and create high-paying jobs

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Cake DeFi Ventures will focus its investments across Web3, the metaverse, the NFT space, gaming, esports and fintech spaces that will benefit its core business

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The team will deploy the capital across 30 new companies or protocols, the firm’s managing partner told Blockworks

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The program will focus on supporting blockchain-enabled gaming, DeFi, NFTs and institutional use cases

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The stablecoin payment infrastructure provider’s seed round will go toward onboarding new users to Terra’s UST stablecoin and expanding cross-chain

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The investment was led by Greylock Partners and Electric Capital with participation from Sequoia Capital, Blockchain Capital and Slow Ventures

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The largest buzz came from Electric Capital with its $1 billion raise for two new funds focused on crypto ventures and tokens

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The country initially announced an airdrop was “confirmed” for donors but canceled the plan 29 hours later

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The novel crowdfunding and airdrop underscore potential for traditional organizations to bootstrap mainstream crypto adoption

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Of those women, 60% said they plan on buying crypto within the next few months

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The Series B round, led by Pantera Capital, raises the company’s valuation to $240 million

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The capital raise brings the firm into a bigger playing field alongside major crypto funds such as Andreessen Horowitz, Paradigm and10T Holdings

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The cryptocurrency exchange plans to invest up to $1 billion this year

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The total amount invested by JPMorgan was not disclosed

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Over $1.3 billion in investments poured into the crypto sector this week

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Total value locked in DeFi protocols has risen 237% from $55.36 billion to $186.55 billion year-over-year, a trend Aligned expects to continue

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The company plans to triple its headcount in the next year and double its supported protocols

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The platform can be used to send and receive money for investments, payments and subscriptions

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The firm’s past CFO Yaron Shalem was suspended from Celsius in November 2021, after he was arrested in Israel on allegations of money laundering, Blockworks reported

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The funds will be used to establish a bitcoin reserve for Terra’s UST stablecoin

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The crypto platform was founded in 2017 and works with over 1,000 clients in institutional and consumer markets.

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Scammers made off with 254 NFTs, including a few Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, according to data from blockchain security firm PeckShield

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The unit is FTX’s newest effort to encourage gaming studios to use crypto, blockchain technology and NFTs

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A number of funding rounds this week focused on gaming and DeFi, hinting at continued growth and demand for the sectors in the months ahead

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The Network of Decentralized Economics (NODE) will kick-start the program with $5 million to creators focused on blockchain gaming, play-to-earn gaming and the metaverse

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Founders have asked the firm to take a more active role in managing its tokens — this fund will give it that ability to engage further, it said

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Digital Currency Group, Multicoin Capital, Reciprocal Ventures, gumi Cryptos Capital, NGC Ventures and HashKey provided the capital to accelerate growth on The Graph

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“It is clear that a gigantic shift is underway in digital currencies and financial services, and the applications extend beyond the financial sphere,” Tom Horton said to Blockworks

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Payments and financial infrastructure firm Stronghold has launched a venture capital arm to expand into early-stage startups across three areas

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The rebranding is to stress its independence and deemphasize Binance’s role going forward, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said

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The announcement comes exactly two months after Brinc closed a $130 million funding raise led by Animoca

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From Alchemy to XYO, recapping the latest investments into the sector

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The media group is expected to go public this quarter on the New York Stock Exchange

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The fund increased from about 67 ether on Feb. 3 to 17,422 ether on Feb. 9

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The company, founded in 2018, is focused on building Bitcoin and Lightning Network payment infrastructure to help accelerate its growth and adoption

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The equity round follows a $250 million Series C in October

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The individuals allegedly conspired to launder 119,754 bitcoins that were stolen from the platform after a hacker breached the systems and made over 2,000 unauthorized transactions

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The protocol wants to help DAOs deploy governance tokens from treasuries to deepen token liquidity, without having to give up ownership

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The capital raise boosts the platform’s valuation to $1.45 billion, following its $28 million Series A led by a16z in April 2021

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The five-year-old Ethereum-focused ecosystem has scaled dramatically in the past year and more than doubled from about 3,000 dApps in October 2021 to over 7,000 dApps at the end of January

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Some of the larger rounds include FTX’s $400 million and Phantom’s $109 million capital raises

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Wormhole’s bridging portal is running again after it patched the vulnerability, the protocol stated

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Professionals ranging from college graduates to 30-year finance veterans are pivoting into crypto, a source at a top global capital market firm said

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The network has over $1 billion in total value locked and supports six blockchains: Terra, Solana, Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Avalanche and Polygon

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The firm raised $69,420,000 in capital which will be used to distribute financial rewards to content creators and attract up to 1 million new Web3 analysts

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“Some of our dreams couldn’t be realized at Facebook due to regulatory pressure or the company being unable to adopt cutting edge technology aggressively,” said Evan Cheng, co-founder and CEO of Mysten Labs

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“Significant capital raises that closed last year will be deployed now, I expect an increased pace of activity,” Stan Miroshnik, co-founder of 10T Holdings, told Blockworks