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Miami-based Bitcoin startup TMRW has raised $1.3 million in pre-seed Funding to develop its social payments app powered by the Bitcoin Lightning Network. Maple VC led the funding round, and…

Company Name: River Founders: Alexander Leishman Date Founded: February 2019 Location of Headquarters: Columbus, OH Amount of Bitcoin Held in Treasury: Proof of reserves launching soon Number of Employees: 50…

Company Name: Fedi Founders: Obi Nwosu, Justin Moon and Eric Sirion Date Founded: June 2022 Location of Headquarters: Fully remote Amount of Bitcoin Held in Treasury: N/A Number of Employees:…

Custodial Lightning has clearly achieved product market fit. Users benefit from instant Bitcoin payments and minimal fees, while custodians manage the complexities of channel and liquidity management. Major platforms like…

Company Name: Alby Founders: Michael Bumann, Moritz Kaminski and René Aaron Date Founded: Open-source project founded in December 2020 / Company founded in March 2022 Location of Headquarters: Fully remote…

Leading Latin American crypto exchange Bitso has partnered with Lightspark to integrate the Bitcoin Lightning Network onto its platform. This will introduce faster, cheaper Bitcoin transactions to Bitso’s user base…

Nu Holdings, known as Nubank, Latin America’s largest fintech bank, has partnered with Lightspark to integrate the Bitcoin Lightning Network and UMA (Universal Money Addresses) into its platform. This collaboration aims…

Competition for blockspace is and always will be one of the core tensions that exist between different users of the Bitcoin protocol. At the end of the day there are…

Founders: Sam Means and Michael Rhee Date Founded: 2022 Location of Headquarters: Chicago,IL; New York, NY and Phoenix, AZ Amount of Bitcoin Held in Treasury: N/A Number of Employees: 3…