Liquid staking derivatives (LSDs) has emerged as a major trend in 2023. Simply put, LSDs are financial products that serve as a representation of a staked token within a DeFi protocol. …

MetaWeb Ventures, a global venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in crypto start-ups, announced today the launch of its first fund (“Fund I” or “the Fund”), with total capital commitments of $30 million USD. LPs in the Fund include NEAR Foundation, Sequoia Capital, Dragonfly Capital, GSR Markets…

August 11, 2022 — What happens when an entrepreneur who invented Tinder’s swipe feature and a top Facebook “do no evil” engineer join forces? They create Niche: an ad-free, decentralized social media platform consisting of user-owned communities, where members can own and sell their own content. Niche has recently closed…

Today, we are thrilled to announce that Connect3 has received a strategic investment from MetaWeb Ventures to build a one-stop social networking platform for the Open Web! 🎉 MetaWeb Ventures is a global crypto firm with a focus on the NEAR ecosystem. With their extensive network and deep insights into…

Through close collaboration with NEAR, WOO Network and Kronos Research: Orderly Network offers permissionless spot and future orderbook trading infrastructure with CeFi-level execution June 09, 2022 — Orderly Network, a permissionless, decentralized exchange protocol built on NEAR, today announced the completion of a US$20 million strategic round of financing from…

Outline: Sender Wallet announced seed round financing from Binance Labs and MetaWeb Ventures; the investment will help the Sender team to expand its development and ecosystem team. Sender is currently the leading browser extension wallet of NEAR Protocol with the highest level of security. It currently supports four mainstream browsers…

Major NEAR funding round led by Tiger Global, FTX Ventures, and more — NEAR Protocol has successfully raised $350 million in its latest funding round, accelerating its mission to help billions of people learn and use blockchain and decentralized technologies. Led by hedge fund Tiger Global, with participation from Republic Capital, FTX Ventures, Hashed, Dragonfly Capital, ParaFi Capital, Blockchange Ventures, and MetaWeb Ventures…

Burrow, the first decentralized money market on NEAR Protocol, has successfully raised $5M prior to mainnet launch. Investors include Dragonfly Capital, ParaFi Capital, Jump Crypto, Lemniscap, Mentha Partners, Warburg Serres Investments, QCP Capital, DeFi Capital, D1 Ventures, GFS Ventures, SevenX Ventures, IOSG Ventures, Kronos Research, Move Capital, and Metaweb Ventures…