a16z Launches $2.2B Crypto Fund 5 Despite AI VC Pull
The raise lands as VC dollars migrate toward AI — but a16z is betting that quiet cycles build the durable infrastructure crypto is now running on.
Funding rounds, seed and Series raises, project token sales, grants, and bankruptcy events.
The raise lands as VC dollars migrate toward AI — but a16z is betting that quiet cycles build the durable infrastructure crypto is now running on.
Coinbase is laying off approximately 14% of its staff, with CEO Brian Armstrong pointing to market conditions and a…
Tokenized $STRC — Strategy's perpetual preferred stock carrying an 11.5% annual dividend — is now live on Ethereum, BNB…
GSR hasn't taken an external strategic investor since founding in 2013 — and the back-to-back trades with SC Ventures' Libeara tokenization arm point to a deeper bid on institutional crypto plumbing.
The 0x2daa wallet now holds the second-largest position in $SATO on Ethereum, a small-cap memecoin where single-wallet concentration is the only investable signal on the chain.
An 183x return in 16 days, on a single wallet, is a story about meme-coin flow mechanics rather than repeatable alpha — the take is the velocity, not the result.
Bitmine has now staked 4.19M ETH — over 82% of its treasury — putting the company among the largest single stakers on Ethereum and adding real depth to the institutional staking thesis.
Forte, Konnex, Verse8, Voyage, Fortytwo, and Sphinx Protocol round out the list — each tagged at sub-five-dollar entry cost and covered with step-by-step activity guides.
April was the lowest monthly tally in over a year — and the drop from March's $2.6B is sharper than typical seasonal softness, pointing to a hard risk-off reset in capital flows.
A billion-dollar crypto-native fund close — at a time when the broader VC cohort is still pulling back — is itself the signal: the firm is underwriting the next cycle from a position of conviction…
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, the backbone of US securities settlement, is developing a tokenized…
Securitize is the first broker-dealer cleared to underwrite onchain IPOs and custody tokenized securities — an atomic-settlement unlock that puts the firm at the center of Wall Street's tokenization…
The same wallet that banked $1.3M on $ASTEROID just became $SATO's second-largest holder on Ethereum, spending $127K in a single buy at $0.50 a token.
JMWH alone — a single tokenized-megawatt-hour asset from Justoken and YPF Luz — drives roughly 70% of XRPL's represented RWA segment, making the $3.6B headline a concentration story as much as a…
A grab bag of mid-tier project moves: Kelp DAO publishes an rsETH recovery framework, PumpFun torches repurchased PUMP, Ondo adds governance for tokenized equities, and WLFI trims another 5.9B from…
The Ethereum Foundation has completed the sale of 10,000 ether to BitMine, confirming the transaction as part of a…
The product is a direct bet that stablecoin rails are mature enough to distribute institutional credit — and the timing lands in the middle of Washington's bank-versus-crypto fight over yield on the…
The $660M April print is the lowest monthly total in over a year and a ~4x collapse from March's $2.6B — a clean read on a risk-off tape that closed the door on new rounds.
The Tom Lee–chaired treasury has routed nearly all of its ETH pile into staking — a structural vote of conviction on network yield that concentrates $9.48B of one fund's supply into validators.
The spike-and-rejection puts the $80K question back on the table — bulls need a clean break and hold, otherwise $73.5K is back in play.