Numerai announced that it has completed a $30 million Series C financing round at a $500 million valuation, led by several university endowments, with participation from Union Square Ventures, Shine Capital, and Paul Tudor Jones. The new funds will be used to expand the engineering and R & D team and will open a new office in New York City.

Richard Craib, founder of Numerai, tweeted that the NMR Total Lock Value (TVL) data displayed by most websites is incorrect due to the specificity of how we pledge. For example, CoinMarketCap shows $4 million, but it is actually around $20 million.
Numerai LLC, a San Francisco-based quantitative investment firm, has secured commitments of up to $500 million from JPMorgan Asset Management, which will be deployed over the next year. The firm currently manages about $450 million in assets.
SharpLink Gaming has announced that Joseph Chalom, former head of digital asset strategy at BlackRock, has joined as co-CEO. Joseph Chalom previously helped launch the BlackRock Bitcoin Spot ETF IBIT, BlackRock Ethereum Spot ETF ETHA, and BUIDL (the first tokenized Treasury fund on Ethereum).
The Sam Altman-backed digital identity project World (formerly Worldcoin) is now available in the Philippines, where World ID Orb verification was implemented as a pilot in a private setting, but will soon be available to the wider public as part of the country's rollout.
ZK Digital Identity Project Holonym Foundation announced the expansion of its network with the acquisition of identity verification platform Gitcoin Passport for $10 million, which is said to be completed in late 2024, combining Gitcoin Passport's "human proof" system with Holonym's "human network", which leverages ZK technology implementation of a privacy-focused on-chain reputation.
The number of non-farm payrolls in the United States in December is only a "superficial" slowdown? Gold volatility is insufficient, and the consolidation time may be further extended! Bitcoin once again fell 100,000 mark, and the key to breaking through new highs is...
Bloomberg data showed that Fidelity FBTC had a net outflow of $208.60 million yesterday.
GOOLSBY: 227,000 is a big number, but we need to look at the average.