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Digital Collectibles Platform Few And Far Secures $10.5M In Funding
Friday, March 3, 2023 - 10:28am | 254British Virgin Islands-based digital Collectibles web3 platform Few and Far has raised $10.5 million in a funding round led by blockchain investment firm Pantera Capital. Cypher Capital, Huobi Ventures, Hypersphere, Metaweb, Mantis Partners, and K5 Global also participated in the effort. The new...
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Investment Gurus Predict Next Bull Market For Cryptocurrencies
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:36pm | 237Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead and Osprey Funds chief Greg King have both expressed optimism about the future of cryptocurrencies in the wake of the recent bear market. Blockchain assets have reached their lows and are now entering the next bull market cycle, regardless of what happens in...
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DeFi To Dominate Crypto Market In 2023: Pantera Capital Predicts A Decentralized Financial Future
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 - 6:33pm | 335Venture capital firm Pantera Capital, which manages around $3.8 billion in assets, predicted decentralized finance (DeFi) would be the future of the crypto market. In a letter to investors titled "The Year Ahead," the company's CEO and co-CIO Dan Morehead said, "...
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Pantera Capital Seeks To Raise $1.25B For Blockchain Fund: What You Need To Know
Thursday, September 29, 2022 - 11:51am | 548Crypto venture capital firm Pantera Capital is seeking to raise $1.25 billion for its second blockchain fund. What Happened: At a conference in Singapore, Pantera founder Dan Morehead said the new fund would invest in digital tokens and equities, including shares of companies that...
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Amazon's Twitch Co-Founder Kevin Lin Raises $24M For His Web 3.0 Gaming Firm Metatheory
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 - 2:14pm | 323Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin raised $24 million in a funding round for his Web 3.0 firm Metatheory. What Happened: Metatheory's funding round was led by Andreesen Horowitz with the participation of Pantera Capital, FTX Ventures, Dragonfly Capital and others, according to a Monday...
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Now Is The Right Time For New Investors To Buy Bitcoin, Says Pantera CEO
Thursday, June 17, 2021 - 1:17am | 517Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead took to Twitter on Wednesday to make the point that the Bitcoin (BTC) market was below trend and “it’s best time to buy” for new investors. What Happened: Morehead tweeted a chart showing Bitcoin’s deviation from the 11-year trend and pointed...
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Fidelity's First Bitcoin Fund Raised Over $100M In Nine Months
Thursday, May 27, 2021 - 12:38pm | 328What Happened: According to recent SEC filings, Fidelity Investments’ Wise Origin Bitcoin Index Fund I, LP, has raised $102 million from affluent investors over the past nine months. The fund is a passively-managed investment vehicle that is managed by Chief Strategist Peter Jubber and...
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PayPal, Square Gobbling Up All New Bitcoin Supply Fuels Current Price Spike: Report
Monday, November 23, 2020 - 1:00am | 435PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: PYPL) and Square Inc (NYSE: SQ) foray into the cryptocurrency space is fueling Bitcoin’s upward movement, according to Pantera Capital, an investment firm focused on digital currency and blockchain technology. What Happened: The investment firm analyzed the...
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Goldman Sachs Predicts The Current Generation Of Cryptocurrencies Likely Won't Survive
Thursday, February 8, 2018 - 10:49am | 462After a huge year in 2017, the price of bitcoin has dropped another 10 percent in the past seven days and is down 43.4 percent so far in 2018. Cryptocurrency traders are now left to determine whether or not the 2018 downturn is the beginning of the end for cryptocurrency or just another volatile...
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Bitcoin Wallet Circle Rumored To Be Raising $40 Million
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 11:21am | 327Boston-based bitcoin wallet startup Circle Financial is looking to raise more cash in a rumored round of fundraising that could be formally announced in the coming days. If the rumors are true, the company is expected to disclose that it is raising around $40 million in its third round of...
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Silk Road Bitcoin Auctions Prove There's Still An Interest In Cryptocurrency
Monday, March 9, 2015 - 11:51am | 338On Thursday March 5, the U.S. Marshals Service auctioned off around $13.9 million worth of bitcoins seized from Ross Ulbricht during the investigation into the Silk Road black market. The auction attracted 34 bids from 14 bidders, proving that interest in the cryptocurrency isn't dead...
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State Of Bitcoin, Regulation And Radical Transparency
Friday, July 11, 2014 - 3:53pm | 709State Of Bitcoin Report CoinDesk released its 59-slide State of Bitcoin Q2 2014 Report. Highlights include: 4x increase in mainstream media mentions from last year 63K merchants accepting bitcoin 5.3 million bitcoin wallets 2014 VC investment run-rate larger than 1995 internet $...
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Tim Draper Buys Nearly 30,000 Silk Road Bitcoins
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - 1:53pm | 405The New York Times reported Wednesday Tim Draper’s Silk Road Auction bid for 29,656 bitcoins was accepted by the U.S. Marshals. Monday announcements by losing bidders that their below market bids had been rejected ignited heavier volume than usual for bitcoin and drove the price from a...