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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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