President Trump nominated Brian Quintenz, a former Commodity Futures Trading Commission commissioner and cryptocurrency policy lead at venture-capital firm a16z, to run the derivatives market ...

Quintenz's appointment could speed up the CFTC's growing crypto role, mainly if Congress expands the regulator's authority.

Fuel Ventures has invested £2 million in Prosper, a wealth management platform targeting high net worth individuals that is ...

A memo circulated to investors seems to imply that hiring Daniel Penny will be good for the VC's public safety business.

Daniel Penny has joined the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) in a move some critics view as a diversity, ...

Vijay Pande, PhD, founding investor of Andreessen Horowitz's Bio + Health fund and a general partner with the tech venture ...

Venture capital firm a16z has called on prosecutors from the US Department of Justice to cease targeting decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols for users' mistakes, as the protocols lack control over ...

A16z said the US Department of Justice should stop holding DeFi protocols accountable for wrongdoing they didn’t instigate ...

Midha says R1 won't stop AI from spending billions.It means they will do more with the compute power they can obtain.

So Mistral is positioned [well]. They have the most compute of any open source provider,” Midha said of his portfolio company. Facebook’s Llama, the largest Western open source AI model rival ...

VCs are back backing crypto projects. Investors poured almost $1.2 billion into the sector in January, a 63% increase from 2024. Experts expect total investments to surge to $18 billion in 2025.