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The crypto VC community turned out for several startups this week, including Story Protocol’s $80 million series B funding round. The week, between Aug. 18 and Aug. 24, has been buzzing with activity in the crypto venture capital space. According…
Crypto venture capital firm Paradigm has appointed David Swain as its new chief marketing officer. Swain previously worked as head of global communications at Instagram and senior director of technology communications at Facebook. He also served as vice president of…
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Paradigm, a crypto-focused venture capital firm, has announced a new $850 million fund. Matt Huang, co-founder and Managing Partner at Paradigm, said in an announcement that the VC platform’s third fund will focus on crypto projects in their earliest development…
Researchers at Paradigm, Dan Robinson and Dave White, have introduced Miner Extractable Value (MEV) taxes, a mechanism that aims to help decentralized applications capture their own MEV, potentially redirecting value back to users and developers. For the uninitiated, MEV refers…
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Paradigm is looking to raise new funds for crypto investments as venture capitalists flock back to the burgeoning digital asset industry.Â
Crypto speculators incurred a 20% loss on JBX after it was revealed that the $69 million funding from Paradigm was just an April Fool’s joke. Juicebox, a multipurpose DAO-tooling platform, marked April Fool’s Day uniquely by boosting its native token…
Merkle Manufactory, the brains behind the Farcaster network, is reportedly on the brink of securing a major funding round that values the company at approximately $1 billion.Â
New York City-headquartered blockchain startup Monad Labs is seeking $200 million to build the scalable smart contract distributed ledger. Monad Labs, a blockchain startup founded by former Jump Trading staff, is reportedly aiming to secure $200 million in funding and…
The Ethereum layer-2 network launched by Blur’s co-founder and backed by Paradigm announced openings for two important roles for its promised mainnet which doesn’t exist yet.
A smart contract security marketplace Code4arena appears to be the latest victim of a SIM swap attack on X. An X account for Code4arena, a smart contract auditing platform, was compromised allowing a hacker to publish a scam post luring…
Paradigm researcher Dan Robinson questioned Blast’s launch scheme, saying the VC firm doesn’t endorse ‘these kinds of tactics.’ Blast, a layer-2 network announced by Blur founder Tieshun Roquerre, is now facing criticism from its own backers after security experts raised…
Fred Ehrsam, co-founder and managing partner of Paradigm, is stepping down to a general partner role, allowing him to focus on other areas of interest. Ehrsam announced via an Oct. 24 post on X, emphasizing that while he will remain…
Paradigm invests $60 million in Flashbots' Ethereum blockchain software. Series B round defies Silicon Valley VC trend
Rodrigo Seira, Special Counsel at crypto investment firm Paradigm, has criticized the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for what he considers an unjustified pursuit of crypto exchange Bittrex in its attempts to regulate secondary crypto markets.
Paradigm argues that the SEC's antiquated approach to crypto regulation is flawed and counterproductive.
Bybit, a crypto exchange, has launched spreads trading on USDT-margined instruments in collaboration with Paradigm, a crypto derivatives trading platform