Funding

“The goal with Universal is to make everything that we consider to be a crypto asset tradable with very deep liquidity on crypto rails,” Universal’s Austin Diamond explained to Blockworks

“If we were to be successful, we would be on par with the Teslas and the DeepMinds of the world,” Frodobots’ co-founder said

Jambo’s James Zhang talked to Empire about potential future fundraising and whether or not he considers Jambo a DePIN

A pair of fundraises by Tapestry and Oh both came with expansive ideas about the future of AI and the role of humans in it

Tribe Capital’s Evan Park explains why he’s focusing on DePINs and what he’s looking for specifically when being pitched

GSR’s Toe Bautista is keeping a close eye on AI and its potential impacts on crypto

VanEck Ventures and VanEck’s Digital Assets Alpha Fund invested $2.5 million in DAWN through a strategic funding round, the teams exclusively told Blockworks

Also, Hyperbolic’s total funding raised comes out to $20 million after $12 million Series A

Two stablecoin firms made announcements this week, with one raising an undisclosed amount and Paxos expanding into the EU through an acquisition

Portal Ventures founders Evan Fisher and Catrina Wang discussed their newest fund with Blockworks

“BIO can be thought of as a Y Combinator for onchain Science,” Binance said in a statement

A gaming studio helmed by an Electronic Arts veteran announced a Series A this week

Thirty-three DeFi companies announced raises last month, data from the TIE terminal shows
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