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Roundtable #3 – From Gaming to Entertainment, how is Web3 creating a new paradigm?
Absolute Labs, LimeWire, Tatum and LeadBlock Partners were delighted to welcome the Web3 community for a side-event during Paris Blockchain Week! Thrilled to have hosted a...
Roundtable #2 – Building in Web3, what tools can brands and corporations use?
Absolute Labs, LimeWire, Tatum and LeadBlock Partners were delighted to welcome the Web3 community for a side-event during Paris Blockchain Week! Thrilled to have hosted a...
Roundtable #1 – Token listings’ outlook
📉 Since Q4 last year we've received a lot of inbounds from founders on the outlook for token listings, how to approach it, when to do it etc. We thought it would be helpful to...
Web3 Sprints, an initiative by LeadBlock Partners
🤔👀 Interested in Web3? LeadBlock Partners is excited to announce the launch of its Web3 Sprints initiative in France, in partnership with leading France-based VC funds: Alven AXA...
Kraken and ConsenSys back staking platform Kiln in $17 million round
ConsenSys and the venture arm of Kraken have backed institutional staking platform Kiln in a $17.6 million round. Kiln provides staking services to clients directly or via an API...
European crypto venture firm LeadBlock Partners hits first close of $150 million fund: Exclusive
London and Paris-based crypto venture firm LeadBlock Partners says it has completed the first close of a new fund, which has a target value of $150 million. Through its first...
N26 adds crypto trading with new Bitpanda integration
Challenger bank N26 is launching a new trading feature in its app — N26 Crypto. Users will be able to easily trade crypto assets using money in their N26 account. Behind the...
Blockchain Development Platform Tatum Raises $41.5M From Octopus, Circle, Others
Blockchain development platform Tatum has raised $41.5 million in funding from Octopus Ventures, Circle, Leadblock Fund and founders of crypto exchange Bitpanda, among others....
The ‘crypto winter’ is coming — but just how bad will it be?
Like all market crashes, this one afflicting crypto at the moment is unpleasant — but the community is trying to take advantage of it. It might seem that the time of crypto...
Quadrata Announces $7.5 Million Seed Round, Led by Dragonfly Capital
MARINA DEL REY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quadrata, a passport network bringing identity, reputation and compliance to blockchain applications, has announced a $7.5 million seed...
Talos Raises $105 Million Series B Funding Round As Institutional Adoption Of Digital Assets Accelerates
The funding round, led by General Atlantic, values the institutional digital asset technology provider at $1.25 billion NEW YORK, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Talos, the premier...
Venly Raises 21 Million Euros in Series A to Bring More Users Into Web3
[April 28th, Antwerp / Berlin]—Venly, a major blockchain technology provider from Belgium, today announces it has secured over €21 million (USD$23 million) in Series A funding,...
Tesseract unveils yield platform to help mid-size crypto firms compete with Binance and Coinbase
Tesseract has launched a platform to enable other crypto firms’ customers to earn yield on their holdings, as the Finnish lending firm branches out from its core institutional...
Bored Ape Yacht Club creator raises $450 million to build an NFT metaverse
Yuga Labs, the owner of three of the biggest NFT brands on the market, has raised $450 million in funding at a $4 billion valuation, the company announced today. The team behind...
Hex Trust Raises $88M for Crypto Custody Focused on the Gaming Sector
Asia-focused crypto custody provider Hex Trust has raised $88 million in a funding round co-led by Animoca Brands and Liberty City Ventures. The Series B funding round will be...
Treehouse Raises US$18 Million to Establish a Standard for DeFi Analytics
Treehouse, a Web3 company transforming on-chain data into meaningful metrics to help decentralized finance (DeFi) investors make informed financial decisions, announced an US$18...
Expert Interview: A conversation with Roland Cortivo
Interview with Roland Cortivo, Chief Revenue Officer at Swisscom for Enterprise Blockchain 2021 report by LeadBlock Partners Can you introduce Swisscom and what brought the...
In safe hands — Trustology joins our den to become Bitpanda Custody
It’s official! Trustology has hopped on board the Bitpanda rocketship. Transforming into Bitpanda Custody, we’re keeping all of your valuables safe with this super-secure and...
Les NFTs: Engouement spéculatif ou révolution ?
Avec la participation de Hubert de Vauplane, avocat, il dirige l'équipe FinTech de Kramer Levin LLP (Paris) et est spécialiste des sujets tels que le numérique, la blockchain et...
Expert interview: A conversation with Emmanuelle Ganne
Interview with Emmanuelle Ganne, Senior Analyst and blockchain expert at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for Enterprise Blockchain 2021 report by LeadBlock Partners Could you...
Spring Labs and TransUnion Bring Credit Data to Public Blockchain Networks for the First Time
Spring Labs is bringing TransUnion’s identity and credit data on-chain via the ky0x Digital Passport to help accelerate Web 3 and DeFi adoption For the first time ever, off-chain...
7 investors discuss web3’s present and peer into its future
Most people have experienced the internet only through Web 2.0: online applications, the social web and software as a service form the fabric of our lives. But even as other...
“Web3 Is Unlocking New Market Dynamics”: How To Find Value In The Next Generation Of The Internet
Crypto markets have been booming this year, sending stalwarts like bitcoin to fresh highs and introducing a whole new audience to novel products such as non-fungible tokens...
Expert interview: A conversation with Todd McDonald
Interview with Todd McDonald, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at R3 (Corda) for Enterprise Blockchain 2021 report by LeadBlock Partners Which of the recent projects...
Press Release: Enterprise Blockchain 2021 Report
LeadBlock Partners reveals its annual report, "Enterprise Blockchain 2021" and offers an analysis of how start-ups are driving adoption of blockchain by the world’s largest...
Expert interview: A conversation with Mathew Keeley
Interview with Mathew Keeley, CEO & Founder of Grow Inc for Enterprise Blockchain 2021 Report by LeadBlock Partners Could we briefly introduce yourself and Grow Inc? "I’m the...
Expert interview: A conversation with Hadrien Zerah
Interview with Hadrien Zerah, Managing Director at Nomadic Labs (Tezos) for Enterprise Blockchain 2021 Report by LeadBlock Partners Which of the recent projects launched on Tezos...
Expert interview: A conversation with Christopher May
Interview with Christopher May, CEO & Co-founder of Finoa for Enterprise Blockchain 2021 Report by LeadBlock Partners Finoa was founded in the middle of the crypto winter,...
