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Rollup-in-a-Box Startup Caldera Raises $15M From Peter Thiel's Venture Fund
As Ethereum's Layer-2 ecosystem booms, Caldera's "Metalayer" aims to help developers quickly launch applications across multiple networks.
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Ritual co-founder Niraj Pant (Ritual)
Top Crypto VC Says Ex-General Partner Made Undisclosed Side Deal With Portfolio Company
Polychain says Niraj Pant broke the fund's policies by secretly accepting "adviser" tokens from Eclipse.
Ritual co-founder Niraj Pant (Ritual)

CEO of Pi Squared Grigore Rosu (Pi Squared)
Pi Squared, Building 'Universal ZK Circuit', Raises $12.5M
The startup, led by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign computer science professor, uses zero-knowledge technology to enable “trustless remote computing" along with othe...
CEO of Pi Squared Grigore Rosu (Pi Squared)

(MegaLabs)
MegaLabs, Behind the 'Real-Time' Blockchain, Raises $20M, Led By Dragonfly
The fresh round of capital will go towards building out the MegaETH protocol, with the aim of having a testnet go live in the next few months.
(MegaLabs)

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Shiba Inu Fetches $12M Investment in a Token Sale to Build Privacy-Focused Blockchain
The new network will be built on top of layer-2 network Shibarium and offer enhanced privacy for users.
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CEO of Espresso Systems Ben Fisch (Espresso Systems)
Espresso Systems Raises $28M in Fresh Funds, Led By A16z Crypto
The leading shared sequencer firm said it would further invest in its products as well as additional hires.
CEO of Espresso Systems Ben Fisch (Espresso Systems)

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Polyhedra Network Closes $20M Round at $1B Valuation
This is the Web 3 infrastructure provider’s fifth round of financing in the last two years.
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Rand Hindi, CEO of Zama (Zama)
Cryptography Firm Zama Raises $73M for 'Fully Homomorphic Encryption' Apps
The funding found was led by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs and included participation from Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko and Ethereum and Polkadot co-founder Gavin...
Rand Hindi, CEO of Zama (Zama)

Sahara co-founders Tyler Zhou and Sean Ren (Sahara)
USC Professor's Crypto Startup 'Sahara' Raises $6M to Reward AI Trainers
Sahara co-founder Sean Ren, a computer science professor at the University of Southern California, says his tech can help workers and businesses get compensated for their know...
Sahara co-founders Tyler Zhou and Sean Ren (Sahara)

Group photo of the Baanx team
Crypto Payments Specialist Baanx Raises $20M Funding Round
The Series A investment round included Ledger, Tezos Foundation, Chiron and British Business Bank.
Group photo of the Baanx team