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Hack VC raises $200M fund to back early-stage crypto startups
The investors behind virtual hack.summit(), the world’s largest blockchain programmer event, have launched a $200 million crypto seed fund under the Hack VC umbrella, fund partner Alex Pack told TechCrunch in an interview. Ed Roman, formerly a solo GP, invested
Katherine Wu leaves Coinbase Ventures to join crypto investment firm Archetype
Coinbase Ventures investor Katherine Wu is leaving the company for early-stage crypto venture capital firm Archetype, less than a year after joining Coinbase as a senior deal lead in September. “[T]oday is my last day at coinbase sometimes you take
Experts Weekly: Recruiting recruiters, crypto marketing, earned media 101
Do you have recent experience recruiting talent for pre-revenue startups? If this describes you — or someone you know — please read this important announcement. TechCrunch Experts is recruiting recruiters Growth marketing (TechCrunch+) Create a social media punch list for
Soon all blockchain companies will be crypto speculators
Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. It’s a little hard to sit down and write up some jaunty
Of course, Netflix ordered a movie about the big crypto scandal
When news broke earlier this week that the Department of Justice had seized $3.6 billion of allegedly stolen bitcoin, we had some questions. What do these revelations mean about government intervention in crypto? Will this scandal impact the decentralized finance
Taxing crypto only makes it stronger
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What Crypto Tells Us about Our Dysfunctional Monetary Order
Perhaps private-money options need not be the stuff of fantasy. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I nflationary breakouts have a way of concentrating people’s minds about anything related to money. People start looking to invest in assets that, they hope, will maintain
Meet Patrick Tan, a Pilot and Lawyer-turned Crypto Hedge Fund Manager
Patrick Tan is the CEO & General Counsel of Novum Alpha, a quantitative digital asset trading firm that has launched one of Singapore’s first fully-licensed and regulated digital asset hedge funds, the Novum Alpha Global Opportunity Digital Asset Fund, managed
Crypto platforms need regulation to survive, says SEC boss
The chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission is warning that cryptocurrency trading platforms are putting their own survival at risk unless they heed his call to work within the nation’s regulatory framework. Gary Gensler told the Financial Times