Andreessen Horowitz invests $70M in Ethereum staking protocol Lido
The venture capital firm said Lido's liquid staking solution removes many "operational complexities" institutional investors have faced in staking ETH. Ethereum staking solution Lido Finance has raised $70 million from venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz, marking the protocol’s first funding round since May 2021. Andreessen Horowitz’s investment in Lido is intended to further support the adoption of decentralized staking solutions for Ethereum 2.0, a spokesperson for the venture capital firm said. Ethereum 2.0 marks a significant shift in the network’s consensus algorithm by ushering....
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Just recently Andreessen Horowitz has raised a whopping 1.5 billion dollars to invest in the next big technological breakthroughs. This injection of capital into Andreessen Horowitz could mean big things for Bitcoin-related and distributed ledger technology startups and projects. Andreessen Horowitz Loves Bitcoin. Andreessen Horowitz is one of the....
Singapore — August 17th – Lido Finance, a giant in the Ethereum staking world, will be enhancing liquidity on Polygon with KyberSwap Elastic. Lido Finance is the largest platform for liquid staking services on Ethereum. Powering DeFi and CeFi applications alike with their technology, Lido Finance empowers stakers to put their staked assets to use on their supported networks: Ethereum, Solana, Polygon and Polkadot. This first phase of this joint initiative is set to bring liquidity providers over $120,000 in liquidity mining rewards, with more incentives to come in the near....