Finance Redefined: Axelar becomes a unicorn, new ETH addresses hit 1.5M per m...
Axelar surpasses $1B valuation, Ethereum’s metrics reveal insights, Umbria innovates on Avalanche — all in this week’s Finance Redefined. Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance newsletter.This week has been full of funding raises, innovations, service deployments and a bit of volatile technical price action — for a change.Axelar Network attains $1B valuation following secondary raiseThe Axelar Network announced the completion of a $35-million Series B funding round this week, elevating its total market valuation to over $1 billion and establishing its status....
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The partnership seeks to enable Ethereum ecosystem developers to have access to functions and users on Axelar’s dozens of connected chains. Cross-chain platform Axelar has announced a partnership with Polygon to deliver secure cross-chain communications to Polygon Supernets. The company said that Axelar’s partnership with Polygon will serve as infrastructure for an interoperable internet of dedicated Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) blockchains powered by Polygon Edge. Speaking with Cointelegraph, CEO and co-founder of Axelar Sergey Gorbunov shared that this partnership is important to the....
Axelar is a decentralized protocol designed by the founding members of Algorand to make it easier for dapps to work across blockchains.
Axelar's co-founder shared his views on blockchain infrastructure and adoption at Converge22 in San Francisco. Cross-chain communication between blockchains is more than just moving data from point A to B, but how it can connect applications and users for enhanced experiences and fewer gas fees in Web3, outlined Sergey Gorbunov, Axelar Network co-founder and CEO, speaking to Cointelegraph's business editor Sam Bourgi on Sept. 28 at Converge22 in San Francisco. As the crypto industry has developed over the past few years, blockchain interoperability has seen a surge in demand, attracting....
The platform's one-billion-dollar valuation affirms the burgeoning demand for decentralized cross-chain service providers in the blockchain industry. The Axelar Network has announced the completion of a $35 million Series B funding round, pushing its market value above $1 billion. Participants of the round include Dragonfly Capital, Polychain Capital and North Island Ventures, among others.The raise succeeds a previously undisclosed round led by the head of Crypto.com Capital, Bobby Bao in late-November 2021, a nine-investor $25 million Series A raise led by Polychain Capital, and....
The technical genius behind Apple, Steve Wozniak AKA The Woz, visited Yahoo! Finance to talk about everything under the sun. They titled the post “Steve Wozniak on accepting crypto pitches in ‘Unicorn Hunters’,” even though only the last few minutes were about that. Such is the power of cryptocurrencies. Unicorn Hunters is a Shark-Tank-like show […]