This is a segment from the Lightspeed newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. A little-known privacy project, Umbra, launched its initial coin offering (ICO) on Solana yesterday. As I write...Read More
Grass, the Solana DePIN project, is raising $10 million in a bridge raise, Blockworks has exclusively learned. The project previously raised both a seed and a Series A round. Polychain...Read More
Bitcoin life insurer Meanwhile has raised $82 million in new funding to meet surging global demand for BTC-denominated life insurance, annuities and savings products. The round was co-led by Bain...Read More
NYSE owner’s investment values the prediction market at $8–9 billion, signaling Wall Street’s entry into event-based trading PJ McDonnell/Shutterstock and Adobe modified by Blockworks Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company...Read More
Pineapple begins deploying its $100 million Injective Digital Asset Treasury, staking INJ to earn yield and fund onchain mortgage ambitions jarnbeer19/Shutterstock and Adobe modified by Blockworks Pineapple Financial Inc. has...Read More
This is a segment from the Forward Guidance newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. The SEC’s mid-2024 approval of spot ether ETFs was a milestone, for sure. But the agency...Read More
ETF inflows, miner strength, and tightening supply drive Bitcoin past its prior peak amid renewed demand for scarce assets 3dMediSphere/Shutterstock and Adobe modified by Blockworks Bitcoin has reached a new...Read More
The Guidestar team, led by Alex Nezlobin, will join Uniswap Labs to enhance automated market maker design and smart order routing FlashMovie/Shutterstock and Adobe modified by Blockworks Uniswap Labs announced...Read More
This is a segment from the Lightspeed newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Bee Maps has raised $32 million to scale its DePIN mapping network, with Pantera Capital, LDA Capital,...Read More
Galaxy Digital Inc. has launched GalaxyOne, a new consumer-focused financial platform led by Zac Prince, the co-founder and former chief executive of BlockFi Inc. — the crypto lender that collapsed...Read More
