StarkWare

One could probably argue that Floodgate, the Bay Area-based seed-stage venture firm, punches above its weight. The roughly 15-year-old firm has just around $500 million in assets under management —…

VC Ann Miura-Ko is looking to help more students answer the question: Is this idea big enough?

We asked a range of crypto market players for their thoughts on the Merge and which Ethereum-based startups may hit the ground running.

Which Ethereum-focused startups will survive the Merge?

Throughout the most recent crypto bull run, plenty of new crypto users have interacted with the Ethereum network for the first time and have been surprised to find sluggish, expensive…

Paradigm and a16z back Ethereum scaling startup Optimism at $1.65B valuation

If blockchain technology is to reach true mass adoption, it will have to become cheaper and more efficient. Low transaction throughput on some of the most popular blockchains, most notably…

Stanford cryptography researchers are building Espresso, a privacy-focused blockchain

As the crypto world continues to heat up, developers are clinging to the Ethereum network despite its general struggle to meet the stresses of a global network’s transaction load. To…

Sequoia backs blockchain scaling startup StarkWare at $2 billion valuation