Warehouse robotics startup Ultra raised a $12M seed and a $50M Series A, and expands its deal with Physical Intelligence to supply AI software for its robots
Finance editor Jeff John Roberts here. The explosive growth of the robotics industry in recent years is reflected in new technology feats …
Source: cryptocurrency exchange Kraken quietly closed a $500M funding round at a $15B valuation, including from co-CEO Arjun Sethi's Tribe Capital
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Binance says 2M BNB, worth ~$570M, were stolen from its BNB Chain in an exploit; “majority” of BNB are in the hacker's wallet, ~$100M worth were “unrecovered”
Then It Got Complicated The Guardian : World's largest crypto exchange hacked with possible losses of $500m Ephrat Livni / New York Times : Binance Blockchain Hit by $570 Million Hack, Exposing Crypto...
Coinbase beats with $2.5B Q4 revenue, $840M net income, and 11.4M monthly transacting users, up from 7.4M in Q3; 2021 revenue was $7.4B, up from $1.1B in 2020
2021 was a year of tremendous growth and development in the cryptoeconomy, as well as for Coinbase. MK Manoylov / The Block : Coinbase earned $2.5 billion in net revenue during 2021's fourth quarter T...
Coinbase says it expects its shares will start trading on April 14 and plans to release Q1 results on April 6
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Digital Currency Group to invest $100M in its subsidiary Foundry, which was quietly formed in 2019 to mine bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in N. America
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Robinhood raises $280M Series F led by Sequoia Capital, valuing the company at $8.3B, and says it's added 3M funded accounts since the beginning of the year
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Automated crypto lending platform Compound raises $25M Series A from a16z, says it now has over $150M worth of assets on its platform
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Pilot, which provides an automated accounting service, raises $40M Series B led by Index Ventures with participation from Stripe
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Ripple launches a $100M fund, overseen by Forte, to encourage integration of blockchain into games, such as in-game marketplaces, with grants to developers
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