Community Labs, which is building crypto projects on blockchain data storage platform Arweave, has raised $30M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg)

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk:
An independent audit shows the Luna Foundation Guard spent $2.8B in crypto and Terraform Labs spent $613M trying to defend the UST stablecoin in May 2022  —  Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon dismissed similarities with the collapse of FTX.  —  Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) …

Hannah Miller / Bloomberg:
Stardust, which makes developer tools for building blockchain-based games, raised a $30M Series A led by Framework Ventures  —  Despite a steep drop in venture funding for crypto companies, some startups are still managing to secure fresh capital.  Stardust, which provides developer tools …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Trendsi, which helps sellers and manufacturers predict demand, raised a $25M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to $30M  —  In the traditional business-to-business world, sellers often don’t know how much of a product they should order.

Michael Mignano / Lightspeed Venture Partners:
Whereas Creator Economy companies have mostly built infrastructure for the top 1% of creators, new AI tools will fuel businesses that democratize creativity  —  Creativity has become the focal point of our modern Internet economy.  What was once just a means of artistic expression now powers …

Umar Shakir / The Verge:
Zoom releases its Mail and Calendar clients in beta as part of the Zoom One interface, announces an AI-based Zoom Virtual Agent coming in 2023, and more  —  Available as a beta release, the Outlook-like Mail and Calendar will slot neatly into the company’s new unified Zoom One interface alongside …

Hannah Miller / Bloomberg:
Horizon Blockchain Games, which develops the Sequence developer platform, Niftyswap marketplace, and Skyweaver trading card game, raised a $40M Series A  —  Crypto winter has helped chill demand for nonfungible tokens, but that hasn’t stopped startups that use them from raising money.