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Venture Capital Giant Injects Millions into Ethereum DeFi Startup: Good for ETH

Nick Chong by Nick Chong
November 15, 2019
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Venture Capital Giant Injects Millions into Ethereum DeFi Startup: Good for ETH
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Over the past few months, Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency and blockchain by market capitalization, has been seeing a Cambrian explosion in its decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. This hasn’t gone unnoticed.

Case in point, a leading venture capital giant in Silicon Valley has backed DeFi application Compound, long one of the most popular Ethereum-based protocols in the digital asset ecosystem.

Legendary VC Firm Backs Ethereum Startup

On Thursday, Fortune revealed that Compound — a decentralized platform that allows users to lend out and borrow Ethereum-based assets like ETH itself, USD Coin, Basic Attention Token, and 0x — has secured a $25 million worth of investments from Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z (round leader), Paradigm, Bain Capital Ventures and Polychain Capital.

Compound CEO Robert Leshner explained that his company’s goals will be to be integrated “with crypto exchanges, custodians, and wallets by the end of 2020, Leshner says. This means ordinary consumers could soon be able to use a service like Coinbase or Kraken to lend out their cryptocurrency.”

A16Z Going Big on DeFi

It seems that a16z is going big on decentralized finance, boding well for Ethereum’s future prospects.

Last September, the crypto fund of the venture capital behemoth made a $15 million U.S. dollar investment into the MakerDAO blockchain project. This substantial investment sees a16z crypto picking up 6% of the total MKR token supply for the aforementioned investment.

For those who are unaware, Maker, a relatively new, yet well-established project, offers the first fully-fledged decentralized stablecoin, named DAI, which is backed by a system that has the first “formally verified smart contracts on Ethereum (or any blockchain, for that matter).” Katie Haun, a General Partner and co-founder at a16z crypto, explained the investment:

As a first mover and innovator in stablecoins, MakerDAO represents a very compelling opportunity in the crypto space. MakerDAO’s technology, ecosystem and talent have put theory into action to deliver a decentralized stablecoin that we believe will help drive the future of the crypto economy.

Along with this token purchase, MakerDAO will reportedly receive operating capital for the startup’s next growth stage, three years of financial support for the MakerDAO community, “and most importantly, full operational support from the 80+ person Andreessen Andreessen Horowitz a16z team.”

Also, just a few weeks back, an address linked to the firm acquired Synthetix tokens valued at some $235,000 at the time. This purchase pushed the price of the altcoin higher, allowing it to surmount Compound as the second-largest DeFi protocol.

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Nick Chong

Nick Chong

Since 2013, Nick has shown interest in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. He has since become involved in the industry as a full-time content creator, working for NewsBTC, Bitcoinist, LongHash, among other outlets. Aside from covering the news, Nick is a Creative at Taiwanese technology company HTC.

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