Cryptocurrency Exchange Kucoin Raises $150 Million in Pre-Series B Funding Round, Reaches $10 Billion Valuation
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Cryptocurrency Exchange Kucoin Raises $150 Million in Pre-Series B Funding Round, Reaches $10 Billion Valuation

THELOGICALINDIAN - Kucoin a Seychellesbased cryptocurrency barter has appear it has aloft 150 actor in a preSeries B allotment annular The agreement which was led by Jump Crypto with the accord of added investors including Circle Ventures IDG Capital and Matrix Partners has conferred the barter a appraisal of 10 billion The barter will use these funds to accumulate accretion in the Web3 sector

Kucoin to Expand in the Web3 Arena

Crypto barter Kucoin has announced it has aloft $150 actor as a allotment of its pre-Series B allotment round. The company, which had aloft $20 actor in its Series A allotment annular aback in November 2018, has accomplished a appraisal of $10 billion with this basic influx.

The pre-funding annular advance was led by Jump Crypto, and had accord from added VC firms in the sector, including Circle Ventures, IDG Capital, and Matrix Partners. On this round, Johnny Liu, CEO of Kucoin, stated:

New Opportunities

With this new basic influx, Kucoin is aiming to go above the centralized barter business and alpha accretion to decentralized use cases, including the Web3 movement. This includes accessible investments in fields like crypto wallets, defi, gaming applications, and NFT platforms. Another point of advance is KCC, the exchange’s blockchain, which aims to additionally account from this advance to become added decentralized.

Kucoin added declared it will put some of these assets against convalescent its trading arrangement to bigger abutment the growing cardinal of users on its platform, accretion the bounded acquiescence accomplishment to acclimate to new regulations in added countries, and acceptable the aegis for traders application its trading desk.

This advance from Kucoin to advance in this affectionate of decentralized action is not new. In November, Kucoin Labs, which is the advance and analysis arm of the exchange, launched a $100 actor armamentarium to abutment the advance of aboriginal metaverse applications. In the aforementioned vein, the barter partnered with Windvane, an NFT market, to start a $100 actor armamentarium to empower NFT creators on the belvedere in April.

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