Funding News

A Dutch project fighting fake news with blockchain wins the European Commission’s “Blockchains for Social Good” prize.

Singaporean blockchain developers Building Cities Beyond creates an innovation grant to encourage development on its ecosystem.

The consolidated class-action lawsuit against the Tezos Foundation appears likely to end in a $25M settlement which might forestall further SEC action.

AMD and ConsenSys’ W3bcloud joint venture obtained $20 million through the sale of convertible notes.

An MIT startup focused on providing institutions better access to crypto trading technologies, recently secured millions in funding.

Blockchain technology firm LayerX raised nearly $28 million to further blockchain adoption.

Despite a correlation between crypto hedge funds and traditional public markets, crypto assets have more benefits in a time of crisis.

Robinhood reportedly saw record revenue growth amid the coronavirus pandemic, anonymous sources reveal.

GMO Coin unveiled BAT lending, Japan's stay at home order affected crypto businesses, and more headlined news from Japan this past week.

Despite innovative research and institutional interest in crypto, academic research funding for blockchain remains scarce.

Most of the fundraising in the cryptocurrency space shifted from the Americas to Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Asia Pacific region.

The International Blockchain Monetary Reserve will fund a token project that aims to improve financial inclusion in Southeast Asia.

A report has found that equity fundraising has dramatically overtaken ICOs as the leading for leading source of capital for blockchain companies.

The Tezos Foundation granted over $37 million to ecosystem projects in the last six months.

Interlay received a grant from Web3 Foundation to develop a Bitcoin bridge on Polkadot that would allow wrapped versions of BTC to be exchanged on the network.