SBF leads $50M funding round to bring DeFi to Maps.me's 140M users
A travel and mapping application with 140 million users worldwide has raised $50 million to integrate decentralized finance protocols into its platform. Leading offline mapping application Maps.me has conducted a $50 million seed funding round to embed decentralized finance tools onto its platform.The funding round for “Maps.me 2.0” was led by Sam Bankman-Fried of Alameda Research and also featured participation from crypto venture heavyweights CMS Holdings and Genesis Capital.Maps.me 2.0 will be a wide-ranging application, featuring travel guides, hotel bookings and mapping services, in....
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The funding will go toward the launch of a multi-currency wallet on Maps.me, enabling decentralized finance (DeFi) features for 140 million users.
Binance's VC arm lea DeFi liquidity provider WOO Network's $12 million Series A+ funding round. Decentralized finance (DeFi) liquidity provider WOO Network has secured additional funds in a Series A funding round.Incubated by quantitative trading heavyweight Kronos Research, WOO Network has pocketed an additional $12 million strategic investment in a a Series A+ funding round led by Binance Labs. The fresh funding, announced by Binance Labs on Tuesday, builds upon WOO Network’s $30 million Series A funding round.WOO Network is known for adding liquidity to tens of institutions, exchanges,....
Alameda Research is going all-in on a travel app to jumpstart DeFi adoption How much are 140 million users worth? After a $50 million direct investment in travel app Maps.me earlier in the year, Alameda Research has announced today a $40 million investment in decentralized finance protocol Oxygen, a Solana-based lending platform that will plug into the app. Similar to lending protocols such as Aave and Compound, “Oxygen will first offer borrow-lending services via pools, in which users will deposit their assets and leverage Serum’s on-chain infrastructure to lend according to their desired....
The next generation of decentralized finance protocols and services will need to offer better security and protection to users. Insurance packages are currently a novelty in the industry, but that may not be the case for much longer. Shield Finance has a bold vision to combine the best of DeFi and insurance into an accessible […]
Updated with comment from BitFury CEO Valery Vavilov. BitFury has raised $20m in additional funding to complete development of its 28nm ASIC chip capable of achieving energy efficiency of 0.2 joules-per-gigahash (J/GH) and first announced in September. The pre-Series B round marks the second time this year BitFury has raised $20m in new funding, following its initial Series A in May. The funding was largely contributed by existing investors including venture capitalist Bill Tai, current BitFury board member and former VeriFone CFO Bob Dykes and the Georgian Co-Investment Fund. Google Maps....