Binance's Acquisition Spree Continues
Funding dropped considerably this week, falling to $26m from $503 million last week. Infrastructure deals led funding with 42% of the capital raised. All the fundraising this week was in the seed round stage. The largest deal raised was a $7.8 million seed round by Revel, an NFT minting and trading marketplace. While NFT volume has fallen off a cliff since the high levels of activity seen late last year, many large consumer-facing firms such as Nike, Facebook, and Starbucks have continued to experiment on their potential applications for consumer activations. We go into more detail on the significance of the raise in our Deal of the Week section below.
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WEEKLY RECAP Crypto funding rose 92% from $213 million to $410 million, one of the highest weekly totals in months. The majority of funding came from two deals: Monad’s $225 million round (DotW) and Auradine’s $80 million Series B round, the first mining deal of 2024. Auradine’s Teraflux family of Bitcoin ASIC miners has set new performance and energy efficiency benchmarks and has shown robust field performance, which has helped...
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