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News analysis: Institutional investors may be pumping the crypto brakes, but that doesn’t equate to running for the digital asset exists

Crypto saw several executive additions across the sector this week, alongside job cuts at Gemini, DCG-owned Luno and Matrixport

Institutional traders have been closely watching how Brevan Howard Digital deals with broad turmoil in cryptocurrency markets

Morgan Creek Digital, Take-Two Interactive Software, Polygon, Ubisoft, Xsolla and others also participated in the round

Crypto startups notched hundreds of millions in fresh cash from some of the usual venture capital suspects including Jump, a16z and Brevan Howard

Blockworks exclusive: Layer-1 blockchain Injective wants to become the future of all things DeFi, but it faces stiff competition

Outside of gaming, crypto funding was quieter than usual this past week, but investors are still committing to startups building in the space

Blockworks exclusive: The longtime global macro hedge fund firm has raised more than $1 billion for its flagship crypto vehicle, according to four sources with knowledge of the matter

British hedge fund manager Alan Howard has personally invested in about 40 cryptocurrency companies so far, including FTX and Polygon

Cowen Digital, Brevan Howard and GSR among the firms backing the blockchain-focused fintech company

Notable investors included Greylock, Coinbase, OpenSea, Pantera Capital and Thirty Seconds to Mars’ Jared Leto

Mina is the creator of a proof-of-stake protocol which bills itself as the “world’s lightest blockchain”

The firm’s inaugural crypto strategy started trading earlier this month with a sizeable amount of internal capital

The firm “has begun trading in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin to complement the dozens of other assets in which they invest,” according to a June 7 SEC disclosure.