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StarkWare

StarkWare

Netanya, Israel-based StarkWare Industries raised a $100 million Series D at a valuation of $8 billion, up $6 billion in six months. StarkWare is part of the layer 2 ecosystem, blockchains built atop layer 1 blockchains like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Avalanche, and...
Avalanche

Avalanche

According to DeFi Llama, there are 108 blockchains, and Avalanche ranks third with a total value locked (TVL) of $5.3 billion, thanks to the demise of Terra. Mothership Ava Labs was reportedly raising $350 million at a valuation of $5.25 billion, which would put it in...
Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin

There’s no more high-brow content than Ethereum co-founder Vitalik’s blog. It features such blissfully elevated concepts as “Social Discovery Wallet” and “Soulbound NFTs” — which describe a more secure wallet and NFTs that represent “more of who you are and not just...
Flow

Flow

Flow blockchain, originally developed by Dapper Labs, has raised a $725 million ecosystem fund from a16z, Coatue, Digital Currency Group, Greenfield One, and others. The ecosystem fund will be used to support crypto developers who are building on the Flow blockchain...
Kadena

Kadena

Kadena announced a $100 million Web3 grant program to encourage developers to build projects on its blockchain. The company was founded in 2016 by two former JP Morgan employees, lead engineer Will Martino and executive director of new products, Stuart Popejoy. The...
Alchemy

Alchemy

Alchemy was born in a small loft in San Francisco in 2017. Mission: make blockchain development accessible with an off-the-shelf SDK (kit) to fast-track complex and costly tasks like debugging and writing to nodes on the Ethereum, Flow, Optimism, Polygon, and Arbitrum...