Request Finance closes a $5.5 million seed round

Request Finance, the Web3 enterprise crypto payments startup, has closed a $5.5 million seed round with institutional backers including Animoca Brands, Europe’s leading early-stage venture capital investor Balderton Capital, and XAnge. The seed round also attracted a star-studded lineup of Web3 founders including Sebastien Borget co-founder and COO at The Sandbox, Michael Kong, CEO of Fantom, and Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of Aave, and Julien Bouteloup, Founder of StakeDAO. The fresh round of capital will support the company’s efforts to expand its...

Appota lands Mirae funding for blockchain initiative

Appota Group announced today the close of a financing round led by Mirae Asset Venture Investment with participation from other strategic partners. The investment is earmarked for developing the company’s blockchain ecosystem based on its 10-year gaming publishing business. Anthony Tran, group co-founder and COO, said in a statement: “We are excited to have Mirae Venture on this journey. As an Appota investor since 2017, Mirae’s guidance has been crucial to our focus on continuous innovation. This...

Sila is a Nacha Preferred Partner for ACH Enablement and Payments

Sila is now a Nacha Preferred Partner for ACH Enablement and Payments. In becoming a Preferred Partner, Sila joins an elite group of innovators that Nacha recognizes for offering products and services that align with Nacha’s core strategies to promote the ACH Network. “Nacha’s Preferred Partners play a role in advancing the ACH Network to continue to deliver payments safely and quickly,” said Jane Larimer, Nacha President and CEO. “Today, we welcome Sila as our newest Preferred Partner for...

Unifi to launch upgrade for DeFi ecosystem

Unifi Protocol DAO is set to launch a massive upgrade to their sustainable and decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. Unifi’s blockchain products were first introduced in 2020, and have since expanded to include more services such as trading (uTrade), staking (uStake), and recently the addition of a cross-chain bridging solution (uBridge). With roughly $11.5M locked in the Unifi Protocol ecosystem, Unifi stated in their infrastructure improvement proposal that much of that value is currently being under-utilized. The upgrade will see major changes...

PraSaga Introduces SagaPython at Consensus 2022

PraSaga™, a Swiss foundation building the next generation of Layer One blockchain, today officially announced the introduction of SagaPython. SagaPython is a new extension of the popular coding language Python, with an integration into PraSaga’s blockchain, the SagaChain™, and its Class Manager Infrastructure (CMI). PraSaga will be presenting SagaPython during Consensus 2022 in Austin, Texas, which runs from June 9-12. Bringing simplicity into the blockchain SagaPython represents the next step for developers looking to create all varieties of apps...

NFT Tech Announces Successful Listing in Europe

NFT Technologies Inc. (NEO: NFT | Frankfurt: 8LO) (the “Company” or “NFT Tech”), a leading technology company to mainstream decentralized ownership, NFTs and the metaverse for public markets, announced today that the Company has successfully listed its common shares for trading in Europe. The trading symbol for the common shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange is “8LO” and the WKN identification number is A3DM5Z. This new listing follows upon NFT Tech’s successful launch on the NEO Exchange...

Blockchain Coinvestors Fund I Top Performing in PitchBook

Blockchain Coinvestors, a leading blockchain venture fund of funds and coinvestment program with a combined portfolio of more than 400 blockchain enterprises and projects, including approximately 50% of the blockchain unicorns, today announced that its Fund I has been ranked in the top decile for performance in Q4 2021 in its category by PitchBook. PitchBook is a financial data and software company that collects and analyzes detailed data on the entire venture capital, private equity and...

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