Venice raises $65M Series A at $1B valuation in VVV
Dragonfly-led round hands Series A investors both 8.98% equity and 6.5M VVV in grants and warrants, leaving public holders weighing whether buy-and-burn volume can absorb token-linked dilution.
Funding rounds, seed and Series raises, project token sales, grants, and bankruptcy events.
Dragonfly-led round hands Series A investors both 8.98% equity and 6.5M VVV in grants and warrants, leaving public holders weighing whether buy-and-burn volume can absorb token-linked dilution.
The surviving token sits at a $320K market cap, but the wallet concentration reads as the real story: one address plus 20 fresh wallets hold enough supply to dictate any move in either direction.
For Voorhees' crypto-AI bet, the structure is the story: investors bought equity, VVV tokens, and warrants, signaling that VVV is being priced as a long-dated bet on private inference, not a typical…
The cycle-peak collapse tells the story by itself: 95% fewer dollars raised and 90% fewer deals completed versus the prior high, the weakest quarter in four years.
Just 47 ICOs, IDOs and IEOs cleared a combined $40M last quarter, the thinnest public-sale pipeline since 2022 and a 95% collapse from the cycle peak.
The price target actually lands below Strategy's recent trading band, so the upside call is rooted in the new capital framework rather than a higher multiple on the existing bitcoin stack.
The 30-year term closes a US fraud case that ran parallel to his asylum-driven exile from Beijing, with prosecutors tying the crypto scheme to broader financial misconduct.
The micro-sale marks Strategy's first Bitcoin divestment in nearly four years and signals that the credit products layered on top of its BTC treasury can pull bitcoin sales into the open market to…
Seventeen deals in six months matches Tether's entire 2025 tally, with $750M concentrated in three bets: Replit, Whop, and Gold.com.
The 604M-token stash in the named KOL's wallet is now worth more than the entire initial mints of several 2025 launches, with no mechanism in the token contract to dilute or unlock it.
The 54th edition of The Funding flags a quiet rotation: crypto-native funds are stepping further into AI and other verticals as deal flow at home stays thin.
The grants target builders stranded by the stablecoin's wind-down, with HIP-1 and HIP-3 deployers, HyperEVM protocols, USDH:USDC bridges, and Native Markets all eligible if they migrate or shut down…
The thesis: crypto is shifting from serving crypto users to financing GPUs, solar and uranium via tokenization, with $300B in stablecoins now a credible capital pool for real-world assets.
Van Epps pegs Ethereum core protocol R&D at roughly $30M annually and warns the Foundation's shrinking treasury means new outside institutions must step in, even as EVM adoption and stablecoin…
Virtuals is repositioning itself as infrastructure for what its co-founder calls an agent society, with five pillars spanning digital and physical agents, coordination, capital, and governance.
Rootdata counts more than 60 protocol shutdowns year-to-date, with ten raising over $10M each and the three highest-funded all tracing back to a16z.
Backed by BlackRock and Ark Invest, the tokenization infrastructure provider is set to trade on the NYSE on July 2 after lower-than-expected SPAC redemptions kept the PIPE intact.
The firm's fourth fund doubles down on its crypto roots while formally broadening into AI and robotics, a signal that top-tier venture capital still sees crypto-native deal flow as a viable anchor…
The fund's expansion into AI, robotics and energy is the headline, but its conviction in core digital-asset positions like Hyperliquid, Plasma and Sky shows crypto is still the anchor.
The speed gain is real, but Stretch now trades at $80.84, below its $100 par value, raising questions about whether the product's financing mechanics can hold up long-term.