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Finance

‘Tamagotchi on Crack’: Irreverent Labs Raises $40M for NFT Cockfighting Game

Investors are backing a gaming studio whose “MechaFightClub” title is predicated on 6,969 robot chicken NFTs, according to government filings.

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Finance

Ready Games Raises $3M to Bring Web 2 Gaming to the Web 3 World

The initiative could lead to a sizable increase in the number of NFT games in Apple’s App Store.

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Finance

Katie Haun’s New Crypto Fund Leads $50M Raise for NFT Protocol Zora

The funding round values the NFT tooling startup at $600 million.

Venture capitalist Katie Haun appears on stage at the 2022 FTX/SALT Crypto Bahamas conference. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Early Wyre Backer Launches $200M Fund for ‘Mid-Growth’ Crypto

Blockchain Coinvestors has more than $450 million in assets under management.

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Markets

Andreessen Horowitz Commits $500M for Indian Startups: Report

The move comes as more VCs target India’s growing startup ecosystem.

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Finance

(Crypto) Action! Indie Movie Studio Received $10M in Bitcoin for Shares in October

Angel Studios’ 2021 fundraise featured Uncorrelated Ventures and Gigafund, the Elon Musk-aligned VC.

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Finance

Crypto Venture Capital's Rejection of Venture Capital and ‘The Box’

The mechanics behind crypto yield farming are eerily simple, but that simplicity should act as a warning label rather than an advertisement.

What magically happens inside "The Box"? (PM Images/Stone/Getty Images)

Finance

Gate Ventures on Track to Close $200M Crypto Fund by Q3

The VC arm of Gate.io will invest in layer 1 and layer 2 protocols that can help build an open internet.

Money (Mufid Majnun/Unsplash)

Finance

OneFootball Closes $300M Funding Round Led by Liberty City Ventures

The company also announced the formation of OneFootball Labs, a joint venture with Animoca Brands and Liberty City Ventures to accelerate its expansion into Web 3.

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Finance

Argent Raises $40M to Make Crypto Wallets Easier to Use

The company's non-custodial wallet lets users take control without needing to remember a complicated seed phrase.

Argent mobile app (Argent)