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2026-06-15 21:04

Latin American payments app El Dorado closes $9 million Series A round, led by Paradigm

According to The Block, Paradigm has led a $9 million Series A funding round for El Dorado, a Latin American cross-border payment application, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Verda Ventures.

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2026-06-15 21:02

Latin American cross-border payment app El Dorado completes $9 million Series A funding, led by Paradigm

: Latin American cross-border payment app El Dorado has completed a $9 million Series A funding round, led by venture capital firm Paradigm, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Verda Ventures. The company stated that its current key growth paths include "non-mainstream payment corridors" such as Brazil and Bolivia. It is already operating in 12 countries, covering markets including Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia, with over 100,000 active users and 5 million processed transactions.Additionally, El Dorado has launched a cross-border payment product for enterprises, incorporating multi-signature and multi-organization architecture, and integrating stablecoin and fiat channels. It operates on a Layer 1 network supported by Tempo, primarily serving real trade scenarios such as electric vehicle imports. (The Block)

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2026-06-11 18:37

Digital Asset Completes $355 Million Funding Round Led by a16z crypto

According to Odaily, Digital Asset, the developer of the Canton network, has announced the completion of a $355 million equity funding round, led by a16z crypto. Participating investors include subsidiaries of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Apollo Funds, BNP Paribas, Citadel Securities, CME Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, HSBC, S&P Global, SBI Group, SoFi, Tradeweb, and others. The project's primary business is developing the Canton blockchain network designed for institutions. The funds will be used to accelerate partnerships with institutional players, pursue mergers and acquisitions, and participate in related projects. (The Block)

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2026-06-03 08:19

Coinbase Completes Investment in Ethena by Purchasing ENA on the Open Market; Both Parties to Jointly Launch On-Chain Savings Product

According to The Block, Coinbase Ventures announced its investment in Ethena by purchasing ENA tokens on the public market. The two parties also announced a strategic partnership to jointly expand onchain financial and savings products. According to Guy Young, Ethena’s founder, the integration will go live next week, marking the first time Ethena’s products will be made available to Coinbase’s over 100 million users. Additionally, the collaboration involves Circle’s USDC stablecoin, though specific details of this cooperation have not yet been disclosed.

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2026-06-03 07:45

Coinbase invests in Ethena via open market ENA purchases, teases new collaboration

Coinbase Ventures stated it has invested in Ethena by purchasing ENA tokens on the open market. Following the announcement, ENA rose approximately 6% over the past 24 hours.Ethena said the two parties will collaborate to advance on-chain finance and savings products. Coinbase also mentioned that they will establish closer cooperation, which involves Circle's stablecoin USDC.Ethena founder Guy Young stated that Ethena's products will be integrated with Coinbase's user base of over 100 million for the first time next week, to support its dollar savings products. The market is watching how the two parties will subsequently collaborate around USDC and Ethena's synthetic dollar, USDe. This move also comes as the US "Clarity Act" remains deadlocked in the legislative process. The bill concerns whether platforms like Coinbase can offer users rewards for holding stablecoins, while banking lobbying groups have consistently opposed similar stablecoin yield arrangements.

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2026-05-22 11:01

Jia Secures $3 Million Seed Funding Round, with Participation from Coinbase Ventures and Stellar Development Foundation

According to WebWire, Jia, a financial operating system targeting small businesses in emerging markets, has announced the completion of a $3 million seed funding round. Investors include Coinbase Ventures, the Stellar Development Foundation, and A100x, with follow-on investments from TCG and Hashed Emergent. Following this round, Jia’s total funding has reached $7.3 million.

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2026-05-22 10:39

Web3 fintech startup Jia completes $3 million seed funding round, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and others

: Web3 fintech startup Jia announced the completion of a $3 million seed funding round, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Stellar Development Foundation, A100x Ventures, TCG, and Hashed Emergent.To date, Jia's total cumulative funding has reached $7.3 million. Jia currently operates multiple decentralized lending pools and introduces liquidity through networks including Base, Stellar, Arbitrum, and Polygon, while utilizing stablecoins for cross-border settlements to reduce remittance costs and settlement times.The new funds will be used to expand features such as corporate bank accounts and cash flow management.

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2026-05-21 21:02

Crypto financial infrastructure firm Cycles raises $6.4M in seed funding, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and others

According to TechFundingNews, crypto financial infrastructure firm Cycles has announced the completion of an $6.4 million seed funding round, led by Blockchange Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Compound VC, and Primitive Ventures. Following this round, the company’s total funding has reached $8.7 million. Cycles aims to build a private clearing network for crypto markets and enhance capital efficiency through its “clearing network” mechanism. By leveraging zero-knowledge proofs and trusted execution environments, the network enables multilateral netting settlement—reducing counterparty risk and minimizing liquidity usage.

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2026-05-21 09:09

predict.fun: The probability of "Variational's FDV market cap exceeding $500 million one day after opening" has risen to 57%, up 12% in 24H

Monitoring by Odaily Seer Prophet Channel shows that on predict.fun, the probability of "Variational's FDV market cap exceeding $500 million one day after opening" has risen to 57%, up 12% in 24H. Additionally, the probability of "Variational's FDV market cap exceeding $800 million one day after opening" has risen to 36%.Last night, Variational announced the completion of a $50 million Series A funding round, led by Dragonfly Capital, with participation from Bain Capital Crypto and Coinbase Ventures.Odaily Seer Prophet Channel continues to monitor the prediction market — seeing changes before they are priced in.

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2026-05-20 21:47

Variational Secures $50 Million Series A Funding, Led by Dragonfly Capital

decentralized derivatives trading platform Variational has announced the completion of a $50 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Dragonfly Capital, with participation from Bain Capital Crypto and Coinbase Ventures. Headquartered in the Cayman Islands, the company is dedicated to building an on-chain derivatives protocol for institutional and traditional finance traders. By aggregating liquidity from both traditional finance and crypto markets, it aims to provide instantly tradable on-chain markets for real-world assets such as oil and commodities. Its core product, the Omni platform, adopts a zero-fee model and incorporates a liquidity pool mechanism to enhance market depth and execution efficiency.Variational stated that its goal is not to directly compete with centralized exchanges, but rather to connect multi-source liquidity through a "brokerage-style" model, including traditional finance market makers and major crypto trading platforms, in order to solve the "liquidity cold start" problem for on-chain markets. (Fortune)

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2026-05-12 21:01

Charms raises $1.5 million in pre-seed funding, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and others

AI character economy platform Charms Interactive has announced the completion of a $1.5 million pre-seed funding round, with participation from Lattice, JME, Coinbase Ventures (Base Ecosystem Fund), Gidorah (Echo), and others. Charms has simultaneously launched its product, Charms.ai, aiming to upgrade "AI characters" from application features to tradable, ownable, and sustainable on-chain economic assets. (Decrypt)

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2026-04-29 21:58

Squads completes $18 million strategic funding round led by Solana Ventures

: Solana ecosystem multi-signature protocol Squads announced the completion of an $18 million strategic funding round, led by Solana Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Haun Ventures, L1D, and others. Its total cumulative funding has now reached $42.9 million. According to reports, Squads' stablecoin payment platform Altitude allows enterprises to conduct 24/7 global payment settlements in stablecoins through self-custodial wallets, and connects to the global payment network via its compliance and risk control system. (The Block)

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2026-04-29 21:58

Squads, a Solana ecosystem multisig protocol, announced it has completed an $18 million strategic funding round led by Solana Ventures.

According to The Block, Squads, a multi-signature protocol in the Solana ecosystem, has announced the completion of an $18 million strategic funding round led by Solana Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Haun Ventures, L1D, and others. This round is an equity financing, bringing Squads’ total funding to $42.9 million. Squads will use the funds from this round to expand its stablecoin-based corporate finance platform, Altitude.

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2026-04-29 21:06

Blockworks completes Series A extension funding at $192 million valuation, betting on the integration of crypto data and information infrastructure

Blockworks has announced the completion of a Series A extension funding round, achieving a post-money valuation of $192 million. The round was co-led by ParaFi Capital and Reciprocal Ventures, with support from Coinbase Ventures, MoonPay Ventures, and several other institutions and industry participants. The funding also attracted investments from over 20 founders and operators of ecosystem projects including Solana, LayerZero, Arbitrum, and Kraken, though the specific amount raised has not been disclosed.The company stated that while the crypto market has grown to a trillion-dollar scale lacking traditional capital market infrastructure, it still faces issues such as fragmented data, inconsistent disclosure standards, and a lack of investor communication mechanisms. Blockworks aims to fill this gap through a "data + disclosure + investor relations" tripartite architecture. (CNBC)

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2026-04-14 21:14

OpenGradient Raises $9.5M, with Participation from a16z crypto

OpenGradient, a verifiable AI computation layer, has announced the completion of a $9.5 million funding round. Investors include a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, SV Angel, Foresight Ventures, Pragma, SALT, Symbolic Capital, Canonical Crypto, Black Dragon, NEAR, Celestia, Thanefield Capital, and angel investors including Balaji Srinivasan, former CTO of Coinbase. The new funds will support the development and expansion of a decentralized infrastructure network for hosting, executing, and verifying AI models—enabling open and auditable model execution.

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