Tech

• Chinese Real Estate Start-Up Paved the Way to TikTok

• Ramp raises another $150M co-led by Khosla and Founders Fund at a $7.65B valuation

• Meta gives the Quest 2 its second permanent price cut in four months

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Crypto

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• Bitcoin Whales Bought $1.2B BTC Amid the Price Dip

• Ripple CEO Walks Back $5 Trillion Crypto Marker Prediction

• Michael Saylor unloaded 400,000 MicroStrategy shares in 2024

• Gull Network has raised $1.6M in private funding co-led by OZARU Ventures and Morningstar Ventures

• Avalon has raised $10M in a funding round co-led by Bitkraft and Hashed

• Restaking protocol Puffer Finance has raised $18M in a Series A funding round co-led by Brevan Howard Digital and Electric Capital

• Centrifuge has raised $15M in a Series A funding round co-led by ParaFi Capital and Greenfield Capital

• Aark Digital has raised $6M in a Seed funding round

• Usual Labs has raised $7M in a strategic funding round co-led by IOSG and Kraken Ventures

• Blast-based DEX Thruster has raised $7.5M in a Seed funding round led by Pantera Capital

If you have any questions, please contact me directly in my email.

Sincerely,

Constantin Kogan

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