Venture capital recedes from crypto in Q3, but not all is bleak: Report
Even though venture capital inflows into the blockchain industry dropped by 66% in Q3 2022, it doesn’t necessarily suggest an overwhelmingly bearish sentiment. In 2022, it’s no surprise that most assets are in a bear market. People have a variety of signals they look for when determining a good time to enter the market, and Cointelegraph Research’s Venture Capital Report for Q2 revealed that VC inflows stagnated at just above $14 billion last quarter, the same as Q1.However, the third quarter did not fare as well, dropping over 66% to just $4.98 billion, as Cointelegraph Research explores....
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The crypto market downturn is impacting private funding, but are recent declines in capital inflows as bad as the figures suggest? Typically a lagging indicator of the sector’s health, the explosion of venture funding in the blockchain sector in 2021 and the first half of 2022 appears to be cooling off after seven consecutive sectors of growth. According to Cointelegraph Research, inflows in the blockchain venture capital market have declined by 43% month-on-month in July 2022.The Web3 sector, including GameFi and the Metaverse, continues to command the lion’s share of investor interest.....
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CoinDesk State of Bitcoin Q1 2014 from CoinDesk. Download the full report in PDF form. View more of CoinDesk's Research Reports here. Much has happened since CoinDesk released its first State of Bitcoin report earlier this year and today we are publishing an update featuring brand new data and analysis. We were blown away by the success of the first report, which, at the time of writing, had over 110,000 views on SlideShare. So thank you for taking the time to read and share it across your networks. The new report focuses on data and events in the first quarter of 2014 through to the....
CoinDesk is releasing its 'State of Bitcoin 2014' report on Tuesday, which takes an in-depth look into the evolution of bitcoin and the potential hurdles it is still yet to face. This article is the first of a two-part series drawn from the report. The series looks at the trends in venture capital investment in bitcoin. It assesses how venture investment in bitcoin to date compares with other related investment sectors (eg financial technology), or previous major waves of investment (eg the Internet). It also examines the types of Bitcoin companies venture investors have focused their....
There are positive signals for crypto as Bitcoin closed September with only a 3% drop, while venture capital was up 20.6% and security token volume was up 19.76%. The blockchain industry does not exist in a bubble. The impact of the rest of the world’s economic turmoil seems to be stomping all over the progress of the “blockchain revolution.” Traditional markets like the S&P 500 index crashed by more than 11.5% in September, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index plummeted by 12.5%. However, Bitcoin (BTC) may have seen a decoupling, having only dropped 3% during this same period. For some,....