DeFi startup Uniswap Labs, which runs a decentralized exchange, raised a $165M Series B led by Polychain and plans to build an NFT aggregator (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
DeFi startup Uniswap Labs, which runs a decentralized exchange, raised a $165M Series B led by Polychain and plans to build an NFT aggregator  —  Uniswap Labs on Thursday announced a $165 million Series B funding round, led by Polychain Capital, that values the company at $1.66 billion.

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Uniswap Labs launches an NFT marketplace aggregator with listings from OpenSea, LooksRare, NFTX, and others, after acquiring the aggregator Genie in June (Taylor Locke/Fortune)

Taylor Locke / Fortune:
Uniswap Labs launches an NFT marketplace aggregator with listings from OpenSea, LooksRare, NFTX, and others, after acquiring the aggregator Genie in June  —  Though sales of nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, have dropped substantially amid the ongoing Crypto Winter, Uniswap Labs remains bullish on the future of the market.

Fleek, which is developing tools for Web3 companies, including for storage, billing, and hosting, raised a $25M Series A led by Polychain Capital (Jacquelyn Melinek/TechCrunch)

Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch:
Fleek, which is developing tools for Web3 companies, including for storage, billing, and hosting, raised a $25M Series A led by Polychain Capital  —  Web3 developer platform Fleek has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Polychain Capital, the company shared exclusively with TechCrunch.

Six people, including Coinbase employees and prominent crypto developers, sue the US Treasury, Janet Yellen, and officials in Texas over Tornado Cash sanctions (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Six people, including Coinbase employees and prominent crypto developers, sue the US Treasury, Janet Yellen, and officials in Texas over Tornado Cash sanctions  —  Six users of Tornado Cash, a popular decentralized cryptocurrency service, filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the U.S. Treasury Department …

Tharsis Labs, which develops the Evmos cross-blockchain tool to connect Ethereum and Cosmos, raised $27M via a token sale led by Polychain Capital (Brandy Betz/CoinDesk)

Brandy Betz / CoinDesk:
Tharsis Labs, which develops the Evmos cross-blockchain tool to connect Ethereum and Cosmos, raised $27M via a token sale led by Polychain Capital  —  Polychain Capital led the funding raise to accelerate the cross-chain decentralized app platform  —  Tharsis Labs – the core developer of Evmos …

Alameda-backed DeFi projects Maps.me, a maps app for travelers, and “DeFi Prime Brokerage protocol” Oxygen say 95%+ of their native tokens are locked up at FTX (Xinyi Luo/CoinDesk)

Xinyi Luo / CoinDesk:
Alameda-backed DeFi projects Maps.me, a maps app for travelers, and “DeFi Prime Brokerage protocol” Oxygen say 95%+ of their native tokens are locked up at FTX  —  Alameda Research led funding rounds into both companies in 2021.  —  Maps.me and Oxygen, two decentralized finance …

Brian Armstrong’s “Coin: A Founder’s Story”, a documentary commissioned to show the “good, bad, and ugly”, feels like a hagiography to reset his narrative (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Brian Armstrong’s “Coin: A Founder’s Story”, a documentary commissioned to show the “good, bad, and ugly”, feels like a hagiography to reset his narrative  —  Pass the popcorn.  Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong just announced a new film titled Coin …