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Three Crypto Pioneers on Crypto’s Monolithic vs. Modular Debate

Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana Labs, Nick White, COO at Celestia, and Chris Burniske, partner at VC firm Placeholder discuss the differences between modular and monolithic, or integrated, blockchains, with Solana epitomizing the monolithic approach and Celestia the modular one

Unchained

Markets

Galaxy-Backed Gyroscope's 'All-Weather' Decentralized Stablecoin Goes Live on Ethereum Mainnet

The GYD dollar-pegged token aims to protect against the risks of holding stablecoins by offering an alternative to centralized and algorithmic designs.

Gyro stablecoin (Gyroscope)

Finance

DAOs, VCs Put $6M Behind Governance Startup Tally

If DAOs are basically a "group chat with a bank account," they're going to need more tooling to go mainstream, say Tally's founders.

abacus, invest

Finance

Andreessen Horowitz Leads $4.4M Round in DeFi's Element Finance

Element Finance, which is building a yield-maximizing marketplace for crypto interest rates, has landed some prominent backers.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) co-founder Marc Andreessen

Finance

‘Chainlink Killer’ API3 Closes $3M Funding Round With Placeholder and Pantera

API3, a firm aiming to provide an alternative to oracle service Chainlink, has raised $3 million in a private funding round led by Placeholder.

Placeholder partner Chris Burniske at Consensus Invest 2017

Finance

Climate Startup Nori Raises $4M to Solve Carbon Market Double-Spending

Nori has been funded to build a blockchain-based market for carbon credits that will start by paying farmers to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

Morzine, France

Tech

Numerai Raises $3M in Another NMR Token Sale With Union Square Ventures, Placeholder

Numerai has sold an additional $3 million in NMR tokens to a slate of investors led by Union Square Ventures on the strength of its latest product, Erasure.

Numerai founder Richard Craib at ErasureCon 2019 (Credit: Numerai)

Finance

'Passwordless Login' Startup Magic Raises $4M From Naval Ravikant, Placeholder

Ethereum startup Magic just raised $4 million from investors like Naval Ravikant, SV Angel, Placeholder and Volt Capital to make passwords less of a pain.

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Markets

Placeholder Leads $2 Million Seed Round for DeFi Services Provider Zerion

DeFi services provider Zerion has raised $2 million from Placeholder, Blockchain and others to build out its team.

Team image via Zerion

Markets

Startup Bringing Zero-Knowledge Proofs to Ethereum Raises $2 Million

Matter Labs is using "mathematical magic" to speed up transactions on ethereum. Now Placeholder VC and others are investing $2 million in the project.

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