Crypto VCs Pivot Beyond Crypto as AI Deals Lure Capital
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.
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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 Maelstrom chief is not known for Synapse-tier bets, which makes the timing of a fresh $2.2M pocket read into a 10x June move worth watching.
Le invoked Amazon and Tesla's near-death chapters to frame the current BTC drawdown as a defining test, not a structural crisis, drawing a straight line from the 2022 bear market to today's…
Long-term holders now control a record 79% of circulating supply, BTC is closing its third straight red quarter, and the first Fannie Mae-backed Bitcoin mortgage just closed, all signals veteran Mike…
The protocol still runs, but the relayer powering its DEX goes dark, and LRC delistings earlier this year stripped it of the trading flow a non-EVM rollup needed to keep the lights on.
A 43% open-interest expansion on a $36M-cap post-collapse governance token is the whole story compressed: name recognition plus thin liquidity plus perps access equals a two-hour trade on nothing but…
Binance's founder is back on US soil after serving his sentence, pushing Binance.US to tap global liquidity, but stopped short of saying he wants to run an exchange again.
The preliminary approval pairs with Ripple's existing EMI to passport payments and crypto across all 30 EEA states, but the ESMA conflict test on RLUSD issuance is the real gate the CSSF still has to…
The block is the proof-of-concept, but the structural shift is miner-built templates displacing pool-built ones, with payments firm GoBTC Pay as the first named commercial beneficiary.
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 fourth weekly purchase in a row would extend an accumulation run even with the treasury roughly $13 billion below its $75,646 average cost basis.
John Egan frames throughput and finality, not fees, as the metric that decides whether AI-to-AI commerce runs on-chain at all.
The 847,363 BTC treasury keeps growing while MSTR trades near multi-year lows and Ripple's CEO slams the funding model; the gap between balance-sheet conviction and equity-market reception is the…
Mow's pitch rests on the April 2024 halving arriving 37 days after the prior all-time high, a break from the four-year cycle that other analysts say is not yet enough evidence to call the low.
Galaxy's CEO pinned the leg lower on founder-driven doubt around MicroStrategy and a hawkish macro setup, warning that a $60K-$59K break opens the door to a $45K retest.
Architect Partners frames the eight-times-revenue multiple as a purchase of a regulated seat, not a profitable exchange, with up to half of Japan's 27 registered venues expected to disappear under…
The $3B USDC injection into Circle's first-party Wall Street blockchain signals a strategic pivot from Coinbase dependency, but the partnership strain could reshape stablecoin settlement rails.
The Binance founder's wealth now sits above one of the founding figures of modern tech philanthropy, a symbolic marker of how crypto's founder class has joined the global billionaire tier.
The ask highlights how tightly Apple's supply chain is bound to Chinese memory production, and how Washington's blacklist regime now has to bend around the consumer electronics sector.
The Philippines now ranks 4th globally in TRM Labs' Country Crypto Adoption Index, with regulators leaning collaborative over restrictive as new fintech licensing pathways open.