Treehouse, a Web3 company transforming on-chain data into meaningful metrics to help decentralised finance (DeFi) investors make informed financial decisions, announced an US$18 million seed round raise. An undisclosed investor
Ethereum software developer ConsenSys announced on Tuesday it has raised US$450 million in Series D funding, bringing its valuation to US$7 billion. See related article: New Cosmos, Mastercard projects to boost Ethereum scalability Fast facts The latest funding round was led by ParaFi Capital, with investors including Temasek, SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Microsoft. The […]
This week the news was dominated by the President’s Executive Order on digital assets. The crypto industry breathed a collective sigh of relief as it was mainly positive news. We also had more news out of Russia, Better.com laying off half their staff, Marqeta announcing 2021 earnings and more. Here are what I consider to be the top ten fintech news stories of the past week. Biden just put out an executive order on cryptocurrencies — here’s everything that’s in […]
Even as talk persisted of a slowdown in venture dollars going to startups and valuations being cut, the likes of Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners all announced more deals in U.S.-based startups last month than they did in January.
Political events have recently flipped the crypto market on its head, causing unforeseen impacts across the markets. However, none of the effects are hitting The Sandbox. Shortly after the announcement of hitting 2 million users, The Sandbox continues to expand its business with a meaningful partnership for women. To celebrate International Women’s Day, The Sandbox, [...]
Zeta, which won Best of Show in its Finovate debut at FinovateWest Digital 2020, has announced a five-year global partnership with Mastercard. The collaboration, which also featured an investment of $30 million from Mastercard and other investors, will enable the two companies to jointly launch credit cards via Zeta’s full stack, cloud-based, API-ready card processing Read more...
Klarna, one of the most valuable financial technology firms, recently published its results for 2021. During the reported period, the company’s net operating income jumped by 38% to $1.