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Less than two months after starting the deck for it, Kavita Gupta — a former executive at ConsenSys – announced the close of the cryptocurrency market’s last crypto fund: Delta Blockchain Fund.

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Dapper Labs, the maker of the popular basketball NFT game platform NBA Top Shot, has raised $250 million in a new funding round.

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Asset management giant has partnered with Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital to develop a range of cryptocurrency-linked exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

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Orca, a Solana-based decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round.

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Delivering on a vision for an interoperable global standard for dollar digital currency, Circle and TRON have partnered to make USD Coin (USDC) available on the TRON blockchain, which has grown to more than 56 million accounts and nearly 2.5 billion transactions since its founding just four years ago. TRON is home to a broad ecosystem for digital assets in Asia and around the world, and the TRON community can now benefit from easy access to the world’s fastest-growing, regulated dollar digital currency. 

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Robinhood has announced that it is introducing its long-awaited crypto wallet and transfer features to select customers.

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Quick Take

• Despite potential regulatory concerns surrounding the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) vertical and subsequent stablecoins that power much of its ecosystem, DeFi has been the most popular deal type amongst investors for the majority of 2021
• The DeFi vertical has received nearly $1.3 billion investment across 275 funding rounds, with Ethereum-based applications receiving a significant percentage of that capital from January to August
• In total, Ethereum’s DeFi ecosystem has amassed at least 320 startups and protocols across 14 verticals, which The Block has mapped out below
• This ecosystem map has been UPDATED from here
   
   

Iceland-headquartered bitcoin mining firm Genesis Digital Assets has raised $431 million in a strategic funding round led by investment firm Paradigm.  Genesis Digital Assets said in an announcement on Tuesday that other investors in the round included NYDIG, Stoneridge, FTX, Ribbit, Electric Capital, Skybridge, and Kingsway Capital. Kingsway also invested $125 million in a previous […]

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A U.S. Magistrate Judge has denied Ripple’s request for documents detailing regulators’ crypto trading activity. 

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