Stripe hits a $159B valuation after an employee share sale to investors like Thrive, Coatue, and a16z, a 70% jump from its $92B valuation in February 2025
Stripe hits a $159B valuation after an employee share sale to investors like Thrive, Coatue, and a16z, a 70% jump from its $92B valuation in February 2025
Deal will allow payments company to stay private for longer — Stripe's valuation has soared by more than 70 per cent to $159bn …
Josh Kushner's Thrive raised $10B+ for its tenth and largest fund, lifting its AUM to ~$50B; sources: it distributed 64% of capital raised during the 2021 peak
Josh Kushner's Thrive raised $10B+ for its tenth and largest fund, lifting its AUM to ~$50B; sources: it distributed 64% of capital raised during the 2021 peak
The backer of OpenAI, Stripe, SpaceX and Skims says it's taking “ride-or-die” approach to investing.
Farcaster co-founders Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan, along with the team at Merkle, join stablecoin startup Tempo, weeks after Merkle sold Farcaster to Neynar
Quick Take — Romero and Srinivasan's move follows Farcaster's sale to Neynar and the founders' exit from day-to-day leadership of the protocol.
Christian Catalini, co-creator of Meta's Libra stablecoin project, reflects on Libra's failure, what Stripe's Tempo blockchain can learn from it, and more
including one of the card networks the whole thing is designed to replace—and “neutrality.” [image] Brij Singh / @brij : Facebook's Libra turned out to be a strangely “successful” ...
Shopify partners with Coinbase to enable USDC payments for its merchants through Coinbase's Base layer-2 network, starting with a limited group of merchants
The integration is set to roll out on June 12 to a limited group of early access merchants, with wider availability expected later in the year.
Uniswap Labs says the US SEC has closed its probe into the company and will not file enforcement actions, after the SEC dropped OpenSea and Robinhood probes
WSJ: BBG John E Deaton / @johnedeaton1 : Hayden lays out the problem when it comes to regulators more interested in pushing a political agenda than enforcing the law. Hayden mentio...
Bitcoin passed $89K for the first time, Tesla closed up 8.96%, Coinbase closed up 19.76%, and Robinhood closed up 7.4%, as investors pile into “Trump trades”
It Just Had Its Best One Ever Steven Walgenbach / Inside Bitcoins : BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Hits New Record As Polymarket Odds Of Bitcoin Hitting $100K This Year Soar Vladimir Popesc...
Paradigm says it raised $850M for its third fund, which will focus on early-stage crypto projects; Paradigm launched a $2.5B crypto fund in November 2021
- Venture capital firm raised a $2.5 billion fund in 2021 — The new fund will invest in early-stage crypto projects
Uniswap Labs details Uniswap v4, the next version of the decentralized exchange, and invites feedback; Uniswap v3 launched in 2021 and has processed over $1T
The biggest decentralized crypto exchange is opening its development process to the public for the first time as the SEC cracks down on its centralized competitors.
A look at the similarities and differences between the SEC's lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance, as the SEC views every crypto exchange in the US as illegal
SEC v. Crypto — “A decent rule of thumb,” I wrote in March, “is that all cryptocurrency exchanges are doing crimes …
A look at the similarities and differences between the SEC's lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance, as the SEC views every crypto exchange in the US as illegal
SEC v. Crypto — “A decent rule of thumb,” I wrote in March, “is that all cryptocurrency exchanges are doing crimes …
Stripe raised a $6.5B+ Series I at a $50B valuation to help its employees cover tax obligations for the expiration of RSUs and to fund a new stock tender offer
Digital payments firm Stripe on Wednesday announced that it has raised more than $6.5 billion at a $50 billion valuation.
Sources reveal FTX and Alameda's dubious financial practices, like showing investors some of the same assets on their books despite claiming separate operations
more than I realized. A run on the bank and market crash exhausted liquidity. So what can I try to do? Raise liquidity, make customers whole, and restart. Dylan Matthews / @dylanma...
A look at SBF's desperate efforts to raise $7B+ from Sequoia, Apollo, TPG, the Saudis, and others; FTX's internal accounting software hid FTX-Alameda transfers
As customers withdrew billions of dollars from crypto exchange FTX one frantic Sunday this month, founder Sam Bankman-Fried worked …
A look at SBF's desperate efforts to raise $7B+ from Sequoia, Apollo, TPG, the Saudis, and others; FTX's internal accounting software hid FTX-Alameda transfers
As customers withdrew billions of dollars from crypto exchange FTX one frantic Sunday this month, founder Sam Bankman-Fried worked …
Speaking hours after Ethereum's Merge update, SEC Chair Gary Gensler says cryptocurrencies that let holders stake coins may be subject to US securities laws
SEC chairman says system used by ether following software update could trigger securities laws — WASHINGTON—Ethereum's big software update …
Ethereum activates its long-awaited Merge upgrade, in development since 2020, and transactions are now being processed under proof of stake
First off, thank you for reading and as always, nothing you read or hear of my content is ever financial advice. Ryan Whitwam / ExtremeTech : Ethereum Switches to Proof-of-Stake, W...
Hackers drain nearly the entire $190.7M in crypto from the Nomad token bridge, which raised an April 2022 seed from Coinbase, OpenSea, and five other companies
Hundreds of potential exploiters appear to have drained all of the bridge's $190 million in TVL in just a matter of hours. — 57 Total views