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1confirmation Founder: Next Wave of Crypto User Growth May Be Driven by RWA Tokenization

1confirmation founder Nick Tomaino stated on platform X that bringing real-world assets (RWA) on-chain will become an important direction for driving the next …

Notional Launches Out of Stealth to Bring Fixed-Rate Lending to DeFi

Lending and borrowing rates on all the top decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms are dizzyingly variable.

Enter Notional, a new protocol that lets users lend and borrow crypto at fixed rates. After 10 months in stealth, the platform launches in beta on Ethereum today. The startup also announced Monday a $1.3 million funding round from a total of eight investors, including Coinbase Ventures,…

A startup offering a new twist on token airdrops has raised $2 million from a group of notable investors, CoinDesk has learned.

The investment in governance startup Commonwealth was led by 1confirmation, Canaan Partners and former Polychain partner Ryan Zurrer.

Commonwealth’s new distribution approach, called a “lockdrop,” looks to maintain the high levels of interestthat airdrops inspire, while…

3 Under-the-Radar Product Trends for 2020

This post is part of CoinDesk’s 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Richard Chen is a partner at 1confirmation, a seed-stage venture fund supporting crypto-native founders fueling the decentralization of the web and society.

Bitcoin dominance. The rise of DeFi. Libra. QuadrigaCX.

Crypto always has its fair share of…

Crypto Venture Firm 1confirmation Announces New $45 Million Fund

Venture capital firm 1confirmation is announcing a new, $45 million fund for investing in cryptocurrency startups.

Led by early Coinbase employee Nick Tomaino, the firm’s first fund, focused on seed rounds, amounted to $26 million.

“We wanted to start off relatively small, prove out the model and raise more capital if the model was working,” Tomaino told CoinDesk in an email. “The model is…