Investment

Startups

Andreessen Horowitz Forecasts Fourth Crypto Bull Cycle

a16z says high quality projects in the past cycle (some being startups in its own portfolio) will drive growth in the next.

Business  ·  18 May 2020
Funding Rounds

Accel, Coinbase Join $17M Funding Rounds for Institutional Crypto Trading Firm FalconX

The crypto trading firm pitched investors on the basis that its best trade execution platform offers institutions a solution to the wash trading that is rife in the space.

News  ·  18 May 2020
Newsletters

Crypto Long & Short: Mining Derivatives Point to Growing Sophistication

Noelle Acheson picks apart trends in global interest and trust in crypto asset technology, and revisits the growing financialization of bitcoin mining.

Markets  ·  18 May 2020
Celo

Investors on CoinList Pour $10M Into Celo Token Sale in Roughly 12 Hours

Silicon Valley blockchain startup cLabs just raised $10 million for the Celo project through a token sale to investors on CoinList.

Business  ·  13 May 2020
Exchanges

Binance Invests in Regulated Indonesian Crypto Exchange

Binance is betting on Indonesia as a promising market for cryptocurrency trading.

Business  ·  12 May 2020
Investment

Hedge Fund Pioneer Paul Tudor Jones Says He Holds 1%-2% of Assets in Bitcoin

"We’re watching the birthing of a store of value, and whether that succeeds or not only time will tell," he told CNBC.

Business  ·  11 May 2020
Bitcoin

Ashton Kutcher and Michelle Phan Invest in Lolli’s $3M Seed Round

Lolli, the bitcoin rewards shopping app, attracted celebrity investors in a $3 million round led by the early-stage arm of Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund.

Business  ·  11 May 2020
Investment

Bitcoin Can Boost Portfolio Returns, Even if Bought at All-Time High: Bitwise Study

Bitwise found that bitcoin acts as a useful counterweight to a traditional portfolio if managed in the right way.

Markets  ·  6 May 2020
Bitcoin

Shares in Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust Up By 14% After Crypto’s Price Rallies

Shares in the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust climbed 14% on Wednesday as bitcoin's price rallied toward $9,000.

Business  ·  30 April 2020
Grayscale

Grayscale Says It Raised a Record $500M in First Quarter

The crypto investment firm says it raised almost as much in Q1 2020 as it did over the whole of 2019.

Business  ·  16 April 2020
DeFi

Morgan Creek Invests in Startup Bringing Bitcoin to DeFi

Anthony Pompliano's investment firm has joined a seed round for Atomic Loans, a startup looking to create bitcoin-backed lending instruments.

Business  ·  15 April 2020
Opinion

Looking for a Halving Payday? Quick Wins in Investing Are Rare

Miracle returns in investing seldom materialize. Beware excessive expectations for the bitcoin halving.

Markets  ·  2 April 2020
Polychain Capital

Investors in Polychain Capital’s Crypto Hedge Fund Saw 1,332% Gains – If They Stomached the Dips

An investor document obtained by CoinDesk charts the dramatic ups and downs of the first four years of Polychain Capital’s cryptocurrency hedge fund.

Business  ·  30 March 2020
Exchanges

Polychain, Bain Capital Join $3M Series A Round for Indian Exchange CoinDCX

The funding round comes just weeks after the Supreme Court overturned the country's banking ban.

Business  ·  24 March 2020
India

VC Tim Draper Eyes India Investments as Nation Enters Crypto ‘Renaissance’

Tim Draper plans to back local startups now the Indian supreme court has overturned a ban on financial services for crypto companies.

Business  ·  23 March 2020