Former Facebook engineers at Mysten Labs raise $36M for Web3 infrastructure
“We believe fundamental limitations in existing crypto infrastructure are frustrating broader adoption of Web 3.0,” said Mysten’s team, citing the scalability of existing chains as well as the lack of interoperability of many smart contracts. Mysten Labs, the research and development firm founded by former engineers from social media giant Facebook, has announced the completion of a $36 million funding round towards its goal developing a Web 3.0 infrastructure platform.In a Monday announcement on Medium, the team behind Mysten Labs said the firm had raised $36 million in a Series A funding....
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Mysten Labs, developer of a new blockchain project called Sui, raised $300 million in its latest funding round. The round, which was led by FTX ventures, also had the support of A16z crypto, Jump Crypto, Apollo, Binance Labs, Franklin Templeton, and Coinbase Ventures, among others. The funds will be directed to continue growing Sui’s infrastructure and core, hiring in the Asia Pacific area for this task.
Mysten Labs Reaches $2 Billion Valuation in Series B Funding Round
Mysten Labs, a company founded by Meta’s former employees that worked on the Novi project, has....
Mysten Labs' engineers formerly created the blockchain network on Facebook's Diem and Novi crypto projects. Sommelier, a co-processing protocol to the Ethereum Virtual Machine, or EVM, has today announced a research and development partnership with Mysten Labs to increase liquidity transaction speeds and launch smart contract applications on the Cosmos blockchain.Founded in 2020 by Zaki Manian, a core developer on the Cosmos protocol, Sommelier is a test-net protocol designed to deliver enterprise-grade automated financial transactions such as limit orders, batched orders and portfolio....
Investors included FTX Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Jump Crypto, a16z, Circle Ventures, among others. Mysten Labs, the company behind the yet-to-launch layer-1 blockchain Sui has raised $300 million aimed at building core infrastructure and accelerating the adoption of its Sui blockchain ecosystem. The blockchain company, which was founded by former executives of social media giant Meta in 2021 said in a Sept. 8 announcement that it landed $300 million in a Series B funding round led by crypto exchange venture arm FTX Ventures.: Today, we're excited to announce our $300M Series B funding....
Integration will roll out before the end of 2022, enabling General Message Passing on Sui blockchain. The proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain Axelar and the infrastructure company behind Sui blockchain, Mysten Labs, disclosed a partnership on Sept. 27 to deliver cross-chain communication for developers through General Message Passing, aiming to advance the prospect of a "super DApp." Integration is expected to be completed before the end of the year.The collaboration will enable DApps created in Move — Mysten's programming language — to call any function on any external chain. According to the....
Crypto- and blockchain-focused capital raises continue to make headlines as venture funds look to support the emergence of Web 3.0. Bitcoin’s (BTC) return to sub-$50,000 levels has many market participants fretting over the legitimacy of their favorite price models. For venture capitalists and other smart money investors, the latest decline is nothing but noise. Instead, they see the emergence of an entirely new economy that is transforming business, redefining monetary value and pushing the internet to a new frontier. This week’s Crypto Biz newsletter highlights four major funding deals....