According to the fund manager it is the first instance Australia has witnessed its first unlisted retail bitcoin, ether and filecoin funds.

Global banking giant Goldman Sachs and European VC firm Dawn Capital have poured fresh capital into Elwood Technologies

The fund, which will support new decentralized exchanges, lending protocols and stablecoin issuers, is building on the Cardano blockchain

The world’s largest digital currency asset manager introduced its 18th investment product

The crypto platform seeks to offer DeFi projects liquidity incentives and achieve regulatory compliance for crypto firms

Blockworks Exclusive: The latest capital-raising effort comes after the venture firm raised $200 million for an early-stage crypto fund last fall

The fund, with an initial target raise of $600 million, will close to new investors in April

The team will deploy the capital across 30 new companies or protocols, the firm’s managing partner told Blockworks

The program will focus on supporting blockchain-enabled gaming, DeFi, NFTs and institutional use cases

The investment was led by Greylock Partners and Electric Capital with participation from Sequoia Capital, Blockchain Capital and Slow Ventures

Blockworks Exclusive: The fund will differentiate itself from crypto investments firms by offering “broad exposure” across the Web3 ecosystem, managing partner Benjamin Cohen said

A number of funding rounds this week focused on gaming and DeFi, hinting at continued growth and demand for the sectors in the months ahead

Founders have asked the firm to take a more active role in managing its tokens — this fund will give it that ability to engage further, it said

Digital Currency Group, Multicoin Capital, Reciprocal Ventures, gumi Cryptos Capital, NGC Ventures and HashKey provided the capital to accelerate growth on The Graph

The third fund from Castle Island Ventures is focused on blockchain and cryptocurrency startups

The emergence of a derivatives market suggests more institutional products focused on Solana will appear, a report by crypto investment firm Two Prime says

The firm has made investments in Blockdaemon, Anchorage, Messari, Hashflow, Acala and pStake

DAOs in the digital asset community are member-owned communities that lack a centralized leader. While collaborative in nature, DAOs are not usually seen in an asset management setting.

The fund, called Viridis, will focus on financing the development of DeFi on Algorand’s network