Nic Carter’s Castle Island Ventures Closes $50M Investment Fund
The early stage VC will continue to invest around its primary thesis: "that public blockchains are changing the world."
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Founding partner at Castle Island Ventures Nic Carter has laid out what he sees as three plausible paths for Bitcoin as the industry moves toward post-quantum cryptography: freeze vulnerable early coins, leave them untouched and accept the consequences, or pursue a legal “salvage” process that avoids a protocol-level confiscation. The debate matters because, in Carter’s […]
In a post on X this past weekend, Quinn Thompson, Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Lekker Capital, declared that Ethereum (ETH) is “completely dead” as an investment. His comments sparked a flurry of responses from prominent figures in the crypto industry, including Nic Carter of Castle Island Ventures, Columbia Business School professor Omid Malekan, and […]
The island of Jersey has approved the launch of a bitcoin investment fund, which the government claims will be the first such fund to be regulated. Called the Global Advisors Bitcoin Investment Fund (GABI), the fund received regulatory approval from the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) earlier this week. The fund, set up by Global Advisors Jersey Limited (GAJL), is set to launch on the 1st August. The Island of Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands and is a self-governing British Crown dependency. Due to its liberal tax policies the island developed into a tax haven....
Yellow Card, an Africa-focused crypto exchange platform, recently announced a capital raise of $15 million from its Series A funding round. The capital raise, which is Yellow Card’s largest, was led by Valar Ventures, Third Prime, and Castle Island Ventures. Square, Coinbase Ventures, and Blockchain.com Ventures also participated in the round.
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According to the exchange platform’s blog post, part of the funds raised will be used to “ramp up hiring and continue its expansion across the continent.” On the other hand,....
PRESS RELEASE. Dubai, UAE, 5th November 2021 — Mintverse, a new and improved NFT service platform, closes their seed round raising $1.5 million from private investors. Led by A&T capital, and other large investment firms including Mirana Ventures, Longling Capital, Genesis Block Ventures, FBG, Fenbushi Capital, Cipholio Ventures, Nebulas, Ceras Ventures, NDG and other individual angel investors, Mintverse aims to be a community-based initiative to provide products and services that explore future use cases of NFTs.
It is expected to feature a completely decentralized....