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Global cryptocurrency platform Eco has gotten its fingers on some serious cash following a heavy funding round that garnered the company roughly $26 million. The event was led by a16z Crypto. Eco Is Making a Lot of Moolah The company was founded three years ago in 2018. It’s main claim to fame is a crypto product it initially developed for around-the-world purchases of everyday items. However, Eco has made it clear in the past that it is not a banking or financial...

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) – a well-known venture capital firm – has announced it will be creating a second fund devoted entirely to digital currencies.a16z Creates Fund Number TwoThe company says it’s looking to center its focus on new use cases for digital assets including decentralized finance, payment systems and content monetization. The firm first gave rise to a cryptocurrency fund back in June of 2018. Approximately $300 million was invested in it. This second fund will be worth more...

Compound Finance, a crypto lending and decentralized finance (DeFi) startup has recently raised a massive $25 million in its latest funding round led by venture capital Andreessen Horowitz. This is reportedly one of the largest investments in any DeFi startups to date.Andreessen Horowitz will be pouring money into Compound through its a16z crypto fund. Besides, other investing firms include Bain Capital Ventures, Paradigm, and Polychain Capital.Currently, Compound holds nearly $103 million...

Photo: Anchorage / MediumIn what seems to be forward-thinking move, the premier cryptocurrency and digital asset custodian Anchorage backed by Visa has introduced a governance platform that has on-chain voting rights. The first cryptocurrency token to be supported in this regard is the Maker DAO’s Maker (MKR) token.The platform referred to as Anchorage Governance will enable all the custodian’s clients which hold the MKR token to be able to vote at the Multi-Collateral Dai (MCD) vote which...

Juno is a new banking solution organization that focuses on redistributed assets decentralized in nature and based on distributed ledger systems and blockchain technology. Recently, it has managed to raise $3 million in seed funding from investors. The firm is said to attract the attention of high profile firms including Polychain Capital and Sequoia Capitals’ Surge. Juno is expected to become available to a few markets this year but it will further expand next year with a fresh new approach...