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27/01/2022

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29/04/2021

A 2.4 billion dollars deal.

Paxos has raised a $300 million Series D funding round led by Oak HC/FT.

With today’s funding the round, the company is now valued at $2.4 billion.

The company has been building infrastructure and white-label services for enterprise clients that want to offer cryptocurrency products to their own customers.

In particular, Paxos has partnered with PayPal for its cryptocurrency features. Since October 2020, PayPal customers have been able to buy, hold and sell a handful of crypto assets — Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin. Venmo, a PayPal subsidiary, added the same cryptocurrency features just a few days ago.

offers different products, such crypto trading and settlement, custody and the ability to issue tokens. It focuses on big enterprise clients, such as Revolut, Credit Suisse, Société Générale and StoneX Group Inc.

Paxos has also launched its own stablecoin called Paxos Standard (PAX).

Stablecoins are crypto assets like BTC or ETH.
But the value of PAX is indexed on USD.
At any point in time, one PAX is worth one USD.

29/04/2021

Paxos has raised a $300 million Series D funding round led by Oak HC/FT. With today’s funding the round, the company is now valued at $2.4 billion. The company has been building infrastructure and white-label services for enterprise clients that want to offer cryptocurrency products to their own customers.
In particular, Paxos has partnered with PayPal for its cryptocurrency features. Since October 2020, PayPal customers have been able to buy, hold and sell a handful of crypto assets — Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin. Venmo, a PayPal subsidiary, added the same cryptocurrency features just a few days ago.
Paxos offers different products, such crypto trading and settlement, custody and the ability to issue tokens. It focuses on big enterprise clients, such as Revolut, Crédit Suisse, Société Générale and StoneX.
Paxos has also launched its own stablecoin called Paxos Standard (PAX). Stablecoins are crypto assets like BTC or ETH. But the value of PAX is indexed on USD. At any point in time, one PAX is worth one USD.

28/04/2021

A new 80 million dollars Series B round.

developer platform Alchemy announced today it has raised $80 million in a Series B round.

The company previously raised a total of $15.5 million, so the latest financing brings its total raised to $95.5 million since it launched in 2017.

The company has reached a $505 million valuation it powered over $30 billion in transactions for tens of millions of users all over the world and it also already powering the majority of the industry.

Alchemy’s goal is to be the starting place for developers considering building a product on top of a blockchain or mainstream blockchain applications.

Its developer platform aims to remove the complexity and costs of building infrastructure while improving applications through “necessary” developer tools.

Amongst its investors, we find Yahoo co-founder and former CEO Jerry Yang, Coinbase, Samsung, Stanford University, Google chairman John L. Hennessy, Charles Schwab, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and others.

28/04/2021

developer platform announced today it has raised $80 million in a Series B round. The company previously raised a total of $15.5 million, so the latest financing brings its total raised to $95.5 million since it launched in 2017.
The company has reached a $505 million it powered over $30 billion in transactions for tens of millions of users all over the world and it also already powering the majority of the industry.
Alchemy’s goal is to be the starting place for developers considering building a product on top of a blockchain or mainstream blockchain applications. Its developer platform aims to remove the complexity and costs of building infrastructure while improving applications through “necessary” developer tools. Amongst its investors, we find co-founder and former CEO Jerry , , , University, chairman and Stanford University President John L. , Charles , co-founder Reid and others

27/04/2021

, the digital banking service aimed at teens announced this morning the close of a $100 million round of Series C funding after growing to over 1.5 million users just six months after launch. To date, Step has raised over $175 million.

27/04/2021

, the digital banking service aimed at teens announced this morning the close of a $100 million round of Series C funding after growing to over 1.5 million users just six months after launch. To date, Step has raised over $175 million. Among its new investors, we find start Stephen which is only the latest addition to a collection of celebrity investors like ’Amelio, The , , and . With the new capital the company is planning to hire across operations, engineering, product, and design, to double its now 65-person team over the next year. Its great success has to be attributed to the fact that it’s one of the very few mobile banking services that target teenagers ages 13 to 18. Through Step’s app, teens gain access to an FDIC-insured bank account without fees and a secured card that helps them to establish credit before they turn 18. The app also offers Venmo-like functionality for sending money to friends. An Interesting alternative to Step is rising in , it is called , just like Step targets young people, with the unique method of using and attracting placed in strategic places for teenagers and young adults.

22/04/2021

Emerging platforms like and , want to tackle to problem of giving more space to the artist's profits, and especially the latter provides a space where new artists can interact with the app’s users and increase their fanbase.

22/04/2021

Streaming , currently the most effective response to piracy, conquered the music scene with the promise of helping struggling musicians providing them with a fairer scenario. Nowadays, It is possible to say that that promise lost itself in the way. A lot has changed in the way we enjoy and listen to music, but musicians are still often forced to pay instead of getting paid for putting their work out there.

The premium fee paid to stream platforms like is for the majority divided between different intermediaries before reaching the artist. It has been estimated that between 30% and 40% does not eave the platform. While A small part of what is left goes to composers, what is left after this goes to record labels, distributors, and other mandatory intermediaries. Only after all that, musicians receive their share.

Emerging platforms like and , want to tackle to problem of giving more space to the artist's profits, and especially the latter provides a space where new artists can interact with the app’s users and increase their fanbase.

19/04/2021

The has decreased to roughly 52% from nearly 60% in only two weeks. This sharp drop officially defines the current crypto bull run as " season". The top three movers within the largest 15 cryptos (by $ market capitalisation) have indeed been Dogecoin ( ), VeChain ( ) and Chainlink ( ) in the last 7 days. However, the US Treasury charged several financial institutions for money laundering using cryptocurrencies leading the crypto markets to a dramatic sell-off also due to profit-taking on the miners' side. Bitcoin dropped from about $59,000 to a low of $52,800 (-10.5%), followed to low of $1,970 (-12.8%). The move triggered at least $7.9B in liquidations in few hours, causing panic amongst FOMO investors.

This is not the first time that the U.S. Treasury has accused individuals of using crypto assets' holders to launder money. In March of 2020, the agency sanctioned two Chinese nationals to launder stolen cryptocurrency on behalf of – a group the FBI has labelled as a North Korean state-sponsored hacking organization.

16/04/2021

In his latest and presumably final shareholder letter, which dropped today, Jeff noted one statistic that speaks volumes.

“Half of all purchases” on , he writes, “are finished in less than 15 minutes. Research suggests the typical physical store trip takes about an hour.”In other words, Amazon is not simply in the retail business, it is in the business of saving people time. That’s one reason the services sector is eyeing Amazon with such deep concern. The last time I called my bank, I felt lucky to be done in less than an hour. And the last time I took out an insurance policy or disputed a card charge, it was a weeks-long ordeal. Remember: Your inconveniences are Amazon's opportunity. The of financial services is in some ways what broadly is all about. True, the words “ ” and “ ” and “ ” do not appear in the text of Bezos's latest letter. But as our latest research shows, Amazon certainly has financial services in its cross-hairs.

15/04/2021

As of March, 's with 35 million customers and a $25 billion valuation in its latest round is the largest in the world. That valuation is already half that of Itau’s market cap, the largest public bank in Brazil, which has been around for more than 75 years.

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