Q1 2022 venture capital activity in crypto set to outpace 2021
All the deals, trends, moves and investments in Q1 2022 across the blockchain landscape, brought to you by Cointelegraph Research. The first quarter of 2022 saw unprecedented growth in terms of venture capital activity in different blockchain sectors. In 2021, venture capitalists poured in over $30 billion into infrastructure, nonfungible tokens (NFTs), decentralized finance (DeFi), centralized finance (CeFi) and Web3. That set the bar pretty high if 2022 was going to beat it. In the first quarter of 2022, capital inflows from venture capitalists were over $14.6 billion, or around 48% of....
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