Horizon Blockchain Games, which develops the Sequence developer platform, Niftyswap marketplace, and Skyweaver trading card game, raised a $40M Series A (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Documents: Japan may let crypto exchanges list tokens without a lengthy screening process, unless the tokens are new; the rule could take effect by December  —  Japan plans to further loosen cryptocurrency rules by making it easier to list virtual coins, potentially burnishing the country’s allure …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
London-based Sequence, which offers APIs and other tools for pricing, billing, and related services, raised a $19M seed led by a16z  —  When it comes to fintech, consumers have commanded the most attention in the last decade, with banking, credit, investing and other legacy services getting the disruption treatment.

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 …

Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Binance and Huobi block deposits of FTX’s native token, FTT, after 192M tokens worth ~$400M were released out of schedule and without warning  —  The tokens were illicitly released from FTT’s main deployer address.  —  Crypto exchanges Binance and Huobi blocked deposits of FTT …

Hannah Miller / Bloomberg:
PitchBook: venture capital investment in crypto startups declined 37% YoY in Q3 2022 to $4.44B, the industry’s lowest level in more than a year  —  Crypto startups are suffering from this year’s mass selloff of digital currencies.  Venture capital investment in the industry sank to its lowest level …

Danny Nelson / CoinDesk:
Sources: due to an accounting bug, Binance erroneously disbursed ~4.8M of Helium’s HNT tokens, worth ~$19M, to some of its users, many of whom quickly sold them  —  The Helium network has two tokens, HNT and MOBILE.  Binance counted them as one, HNT, resulting in a windfall for customers who deposited the MOBILE.