– Shipyard Software, Inc. specializes in building decentralized exchanges for specific types of trades, traders, and instruments.
– Company raised $21M in funding.
– The round was led by Polychain Capital with participation from 0x Labs, 1inch, DeFi Alliance, Quantstamp, MetaCartel DAO, Robot Ventures, FJLabs, Naval Ravikant, Nascent, Three Arrows Capital, Electric Capital, LD Capital, and IOSG.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate growth and expand operations.

– Bitwise announced the completion of its Series B.
– The round was led by Elad Gil and Electric Capital, joined by new backers including Daniel Loeb’s Third Point LLC, Daniel Och’s Willoughby Capital, Louis Bacon’s Moore Strategic Ventures, Paul Eisenstein’s Vetamer Capital, and Coinbase Ventures.
– Bitwise plans to use the proceeds from its Series B round to strengthen its balance sheet and accelerate the national buildout of its organization, team and product suite.
– Bitwise is the world’s largest cryptocurrency index fund manager and is currently profitable.
– Assets under management are up more than 20x year over year, crossing $1.2 billion at the end of Q1 and taking the company to profitability.

– Hashflow, a decentralized exchange connecting DeFi traders with top crypto market makers, has closed a seed funding round of $3.2 million from leading venture capital firms and angel investors.
– The round was led by Dragonfly Capital and Electric Capital, and joined by IDEO Ventures, Alameda Research, Metastable, Galaxy Digital, Unanimous Capital, and angels including Balaji Srinivasan, Kain Warwick, & Ryan Sean Adams.
– Decentralized exchanges on Ethereum have seen rapid growth over the past year with over $215 billion traded on DeFi alone in Q1 2021. This growth can be credited to the popularity of Automated Market Makers (AMMs) which catalyzed DeFi’s explosive growth by offering a simple and permissionless on-chain trading experience.