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Pantera Leads $18M Round for Rift’s Liquidity Mining Alternative
The startup, which is coming out of stealth mode, offers protocol-based liquidity to DAOs that creates a better incentive model.

SoftBank Leads $60M Funding Round for B2B Payments Platform Tribal
Tribal will use the money to continue building out its teams in Latin America, and also plans to release some crypto-related products later this year.

Seashell Emerges From Stealth Mode With ‘Inflation-Resistant’ High-Yield Savings Accounts
The fintech, which provides lending services for crypto holders wanting fiat currency, also closed a $6 million seed funding round led by Khosla Ventures and Kindred Ventures.

Router Protocol Raises $4.1M to Bridge EVM and Non-EVM Chains
“The need of the hour is the ability for these to talk to each other,” said CEO Ramani Ramachandran.

Liquid Staking Protocol PStake Raises $10M in Strategic Funding
The round included investments from Galaxy Digital, Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures and Alameda Research.

VCs Invested Record $6.5B in Crypto, Blockchain in Q3: CB Insights
Coinbase Ventures was the most active investor in the quarter by far, with 24 deals.

Worldcoin, Now Valued at $1B, Has Grand Plans to Get You to Gaze Into the Orb
Former Y Combinator President Sam Altman’s Worldcoin has raised $25 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Coinbase Ventures. Valued at $1 billion, the project bets billions of people will line up to gaze into “The Orb” in exchange for crypto, which over 130,000 users already have.

A16z, Coinbase Back CoinSwitch Kuber in $260M Funding Round
The Indian exchange is valued at $1.9 billion, making it India’s second crypto “unicorn.”

MobileCoin Raises $66M to Build Out Privacy-Focused Payments Tech
MobileCoin, a privacy-oriented and mobile-first cryptocurrency project, has raised $66 million in venture capital led by Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research, Coinbase Ventures, and others to build out its payments technology.
