Funding

Three past presidential contenders have accepted crypto donations, and dozens of other politicians do too

Auradine and River Financial top big week of raises that included $6 million from Jack Dorsey

The funding will accelerate Azteco’s market activation and product refinement, amplifying its impact in Latin America and Europe

DeFi and NFT-related projects dominated over the past few days

The future of Web3 intellectual property is at the center of Pudgy Penguins’ new $9 million seed round

Dan Tapiero’s 10T Holdings led the investment, with participation from Framework Ventures and crypto angel investor Santiago Santos

A community bitcoin payment and custody solution, a multichain ZK rollup trading layer, and a probability token provider were the top fundraisers

Mechanism Capital’s Marc Weinstein shares advice for struggling crypto entrepreneurs

NFTs, SFTs and a self custodial wallets all got a little love this week

The company has secured $4.2 million in funding and will be looking to hire new talent

Aptos, Celos, Flow, HBAR Foundation, NEAR and Solana Foundations are all offering grants totaling up to $1 million for startups

A karate league structured as a DAO raised $18 million this week

Deals slowed to 333 in the first quarter of 2023, down from 500 in the first quarter of 2022

Web3 marketing solutions and wallet security are top of mind

The protocol has secured $1.25 million in its latest seed round

Governance protocol M^Zero Labs picked up $22.5 million of its own as well

Ledger and LayerZero have garnered valuations worth billions of dollars with fresh funding rounds over the past week

Astria, a shared sequencing network, has just landed $5.5 million from investors

Security is top of mind, as crypto funding investments continue to flow.

EigenLayer hopes to create a model that lets developers “easily consume trust, instead of needing to built trust”

Web3 gaming startups continue a trend: Investors are seeing dollar signs

The free offering organizes and tracks a list of programs and available requests for proposal

Only $37 million went into crypto startups this week

Proven, Believer and Kresus lead the way as Lightspeed, LC Ventures and Framework lead rounds

DeFi attracted 41x more capital in 2022 than it did in 2020… and the trend continues