Insurance


Videos

Crypto Insurance Firm Raises $14M Despite Bear Market

Evertas, the cryptocurrency insurance firm that received a nod from Lloyd’s of London earlier this year, has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round led by Polychain Capital. "The Hash" hosts discuss what this means for the crypto insurance sector and the broader industry.

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Finance

Crypto Insurance Firm Evertas Bucks Bear Market With $14M Raise

The Series A round was led by Polychain Capital and also included SinoGlobal Capital, Morgan Creek and Balaji Srinivasan.

Inside the Lloyd's of London insurance market. (Lloyd's of London)

Finance

Compass Mining Launches Bitcoin Miner Protection Plan

The plan is initially available to customers hosted in Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska and Oklahoma.

Compass Mining's booth at Mining Disrupt in Miami in July 2022. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Web3

Crypto Custodian Aegis Trust Offers $25M Insurance Policy for NFTs

The policy, provided by insurance marketplace Lloyd’s of London, will protect institutional investors’ NFTs.

(Passakorn Prothien/Getty Images)

Opinion

Crypto Needs an FDIC-Like Protocol to Prevent Liquidity Crises

How does the FTX fallout resemble the history of bank runs?

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 6:  The entrance to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), located across the street from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, is viewed on June 6, 2017 in Washington, D.C. The nation's capital, the sixth largest metropolitan area in the country, draws millions of visitors each year to its historical sites, including thousands of school kids during the month of June. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto Custody Firm Copper Inks $500M Insurance Deal With UK Giant Aon

The deal provides cover for employee collusion, third-party theft and physical loss of or damage to digital assets held by the London-based company.

Aon arranged insurance cover for digital assets in cold storage with Copper. (Shutterstock)

Opinion

‘Crypto CAT Bonds’ – A Killer App for Digital Assets?

Innovative crypto insurance could deliver a reliable interest rate-determined return to crypto investors, while helping close the reinsurance funding gap with tens of billions of dollars worth of tokens now being staked.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Finance

Blockchain-Powered Reinsurer Re Raises $14 Million Seed Round to Build Decentralized Market

The company sees its protocol as providing collective backing of insurance policies in a similar way to the Lloyd’s of London market.

Inside the Lloyd's of London insurance market. (Lloyd's of London)

Opinion

Why DeFi Insurance Needs a New Design

Decentralized finance offers a blank canvas for reimagining markets insurance with programmability and decentralization as core constructs, says the CEO of IntoTheBlock.

(Atilla Bingöl/Unsplash)