Tagged: galaxy digital

February 10, 2022 @ 12:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Compute North, a key player in sustainable, large-scale computing infrastructure, has announced that it has finalized its growth capital round of $385 million, “comprised of $85 million in the initial Series C equity closing, co-led by Mercuria and Generate Capital with additional investors including National… Read More

February 7, 2022 @ 8:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sequoia Capital India has led a $450 million funding round for Polygon. Polygon is a platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development. The company reports widespread adoption with 7,000+ applications hosted, 1B+ total transactions processed, approximately 130 million unique user addresses, and over $5 billion… Read More

January 18, 2022 @ 9:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brandon Bailey, a crypto mining analyst at Galaxy Digital, notes that a strong Bitcoin bull market, “authoritarian” crackdown on cryptocurrency mining in China and “flight to North America” seems to have flipped the international hashrate economy on its head during 2021. In a recent report,… Read More

December 16, 2021 @ 7:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Ramp is pleased to confirm that they have secured $10.1 million in funding to take the platform to the next level and “continue pushing the frontier of what’s possible in the crypto space.” Ramp’s management noted that their seed round was led… Read More

November 24, 2021 @ 10:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Staking Rewards, a provider of independent staking data and research, has secured 3 million CHF from various digital asset investment companies to create a new suite of products and services catering to the staking space, “including the development of investable staking index products.” Currently, staking… Read More

November 4, 2021 @ 6:25 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

TradeStation Group, an online broker, announced today it is going public through a SPAC with the Quantum Fintech Acquisition Corporation. The new company will list on the NYSE under the symbol QFTA after the transaction closes some time in the first half of 2022. It… Read More

October 6, 2021 @ 10:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Masterworks, an online investment platform that enables retail investors to invest in fractionalized art, has raised $110 million in a Series A funding round led by Left Lane Capital, along with Galaxy Interactive (a division of Galaxy Digital), Tru Arrow Partners, and others. Goldman Sachs… Read More

September 23, 2021 @ 10:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Portal, a self-hosted Layer-2 wallet and “true” cross-chain DEX on Bitcoin that “makes atomic swaps between Bitcoin and other digital assets fast, secure, and private,” is pleased to confirm that it has finalized an $8.5 million round to develop a self-sovereign and “uncensorable” DeFi solution… Read More

August 21, 2021 @ 6:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Blockstream, a Bitcoin-focused firm, has released its Markets Weekly Report, dated  August 20, 2021. As noted in the report from Blockstream, Bitcoin is currently on pace “to finish on the top end of this week’s range for the fifth weekly win in… Read More

June 15, 2021 @ 7:39 pm By Priyanka Pani  |  

UK-based crypto platform Ramp has raised $10.1 million in funding from California-based venture firm NFX and financial services firm Galaxy Digital along with some Fintech and crypto entrepreneurs such as Coinbase’s CTO Balaji S Srinivasan. Mozilla, Seedcamp, firstminute capital, and Fabric Ventures also participated in… Read More

December 24, 2020 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MoneyGram International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGI), a major cross-border P2P payments and money transfers service, has issued a statement after a lawsuit was filed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Ripple Labs Inc. MoneyGram stated that it had not “been notified or been… Read More

October 3, 2020 @ 3:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DeFi (decentralized finance) growth continued this week as Galaxy Digital, a full-service crypto merchant bank, made strategic investments in Parafi, a digital asset fund focused on DeFi investments. As noted by KuCoin exchange (which was hacked recently): “Following bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum’s (ETH) trajectory, leading… Read More

August 15, 2020 @ 4:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. (TSX: GLXY) (OTC: BRPHF), a financial services firm that specializes in digital assets, published its Galaxy Digital Holdings LP’s and GDH Ltd.’s financial results on August 14, 2020. Galaxy Digital CEO Michael Novogratz noted that its Q2 2020 and year-to-date results… Read More

August 12, 2020 @ 6:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralized or non-custodial crypto exchange (DEX) aggregator 1inch.exchange has reportedly secured $2.8 million in capital via an external investment round that was led by Binance Labs. FTX, Galaxy Digital, Dragonfly Capital, and several other investors also took part in the 1inch’s round. Loi Luu, the… Read More

December 1, 2019 @ 6:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Galaxy Digital (TSXV: GLXY), a full-service cryptocurrency merchant bank launched by former hedge fund manager Michael Novogratz, has generated $58.4 million in net income during the first three quarters of this year, which represents a 133% increase from the same financial period in 2018. In… Read More

October 25, 2019 @ 1:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Galaxy Digital Asset Management, a division of the full service, digital assets merchant bank Galaxy Digital LP, is reportedly planning to introduce two new Bitcoin (BTC) funds in November 2019. Galaxy will be offering the crypto funds to accredited investors so that they can get… Read More

October 24, 2019 @ 7:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital bank Current has raised $2o million in a Series B funding round, according to a company release. The funding was led by Wellington Management Company, Galaxy Digital EOS VC Fund, and CMFG Ventures. Current also said it was expanding its partnership with Visa as… Read More

October 16, 2019 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Earlier this month, DrawBridge Lending (dba DBL Digital), a digital asset lending, borrowing and investment management firm, partnered with Kingdom Trust, a qualified custodian providing a self-directed IRA incorporating several digital assets with property and traditional asset investments. DBL Digital and Kingdom Trust aim to… Read More

July 29, 2019 @ 11:52 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Mike Novogratz’ ambitious crypto merchant bank venture, Galaxy Digital (TSXV: GLXY; Frankfurt: 7LX) has been licensed by FINRA to underwrite crypto-token offerings, which will lead to the, “expansion of its broker-dealer, Galaxy Digital Advisors LLC,” Galaxy Digital states in a press release July 24th. According to TechCrunch, Galaxy… Read More

June 27, 2019 @ 10:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Clause Announces $5.5 Million Series A Round Galaxy Digital and DocuSign have joined to back a $5.5 million Series A round in smart contract cloud firm “Clause.” Existing investors BN Capital at Lerer Hippeau, and Seedcamp participated. Several new investors participated including Raptor Group, Galaxy… Read More