– Ondo Finance is a New York-based deFi protocol startup.
– The company has raised $4m in funding.
– The round was led by Pantera Capital with participation from Genesis, Digital Currency Group, CMS, CoinFund, Chapter One, Bixin, Divergence, Protoscale Capital, The LAO, Stani Kulechov, Josh Hannah, Richard Ma, Diogo Monica, and Christy Choi.
– The funds will be used to accelerate the adoption of DeFi among mainstream investors by enabling the granular exchange of risk.

– Vincent, an alternative asset aggregation hub, raised $6m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by LAUNCH with additional investment from 8VC and Digital Currency Group, among others.
– The platform has 75 partner platforms integrated with the site.

– Circle, a global financial technology firm based in Boston, raised $440m in a series E funding.
– The round was led by Fidelity Management and Research Company, Marshall Wace, Willett Advisors, Intersection Fintech Ventures, Atlas Merchant Capital, Digital Currency Group, FTX, Breyer Capital, Valor Capital Group, Pillar VC as well as Michael J. Price and Friends.
– The new investment will be used for continued growth, organizational development and market expansion opportunities.

– Figure Technologies, Inc. (Figure™) announced it is closing a $200 million Series D funding round at a $3.2 billion valuation.
– The round was led by 10T Holdings and Morgan Creek Digital and joined by new and existing investors including DCM, Digital Currency Group, HCM Capital, Ribbit Capital, RPM Ventures, the partners at DST Global and others.
– The company also announced that Sachin Jaitly, General Partner at Morgan Creek, and Stan Mironshik, Partner and Co-Founder of 10T, will join the board.
– Figure is using Provenance, a public, open source, permissionless, decentralized blockchain, for its digital asset marketplaces including home lending, capital table management, fund management and administration, banking and payments.

– Lolli is a NYC-based bitcoin rewards company.
– In March 2021 the company raised $5m in Pre-Series funding.
– The round was led by Seven Seven Six, Night Media, Serena Ventures, Casey Neistat, Phil Defranco, Cody Ko, Noel Miller, Ian Borthwick, and Gabriel Leydon.
– The funding follows a previous $3m seed round led by PathFinder, Founders Fund’s early-stage investment vehicle, and included Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures, Michelle Phan, Digital Currency Group, and Bain Capital.