Funding

Blockstream secures $125 million, QuickNode lands $60 million

Bear market conditions see less money going into startups but investor interest in Web3 remains

What comes after ‘F’? Founders of bankrupt Three Arrows Capital have a new project they want money for, to enable trading of FTX claims

CyberX landed an impressive $15 million in funding from Foresight Ventures despite the long bear market

Wyre’s employees were earlier reportedly told to brace for an unwinding of the business

Funding to crypto startups is off to a slow start in the first week of 2023

Blockchain technology projects Nillion and Blocknative respectively received $20 million and $15 million in fresh funding

A handful of crypto startups received funding in the $4 million to $15 million range from VCs this past week

Seed and early-stage crypto startups drew heavier checks this year than in 2021, according to Pitchbook

The largest raise this week is a $72 million injection for digital assets market maker Keyrock

The separate investment vehicle will target mid- to late-stage metaverse startups

The funds keep flowing, even as the industry reels from the collapse of FTX

FTX owes at least $8 billion to hundreds of thousands of individual traders and institutional clients

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s repeated attempts to come up with last-minute emergency financing to save his flailing business have run into a brick wall

Priority is taking care of customers as the falling exchange is in talks with players to gain liquidity

Bear market DeFi-builders are still receiving a fairly steady stream of funding, mostly from crypto-native investors

Venture capital firms invested $5.5 billion into crypto startups this quarter, according to the latest Galaxy Digital report

Venture capitalists have together raised $121 billion this year, but only $32 billion has been deployed so far

The explosive growth of Blockchain.com has reportedly been tempered by the bear market, with far lower valuations on the horizon

Venture funding in the crypto space has been on the decline this year compared to 2021, according to a second quarter 2022 report

Crypto valuation models require a high degree of understanding, because crypto assets exist along a spectrum of functionality

Venture funding is picking up again after the market downturn

Modular blockchains, as opposed to monolithic blockchains, are, in theory, highly scalable because of their segmented nature

Blockworks exclusive: Arca leads $1.6 million investment in the “Bloomberg Terminal for NFTs”

Grant committees tend to favor network-building projects over technical ones, industry participants say