2021 was an interesting year in the crypto world. Bitcoin (BTC) hit all-time highs in several different metrics including adoption, media coverage and price action. It has been exciting to see all of the coverage and attention being paid to everything crypto including interest in nonfungible tokens (NFTs), decentralized finance (DeFi) and even large publicly traded companies like MicroStrategy holding serious amounts of BTC on its balance sheet. All of this is the public face of the crypto industry.
However, this does not happen on its own. There are teams of people and projects working every day to improve existing applications for crypto and trying to be the next DeFi phenomenon, NFT craze or solution to a legacy problem that only blockchain can efficiently solve.
Pulling from the Cointelegraph Research Terminal’s database of venture capitalist deals, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity, investors and crypto companies, this 12-page report shows insights from investment activities in 2021. The report brings meaningful insights into the trends over the past few years and what VCs concentrated on in 2021.
The next stages of the blockchain revolution are building behind the scenes, but this takes time, and an important aspect that can be overlooked is capital investment. Venture Capital (VC) can come from many different sources such as high-net-worth individuals (HNWI), family offices, institutions, funds and even decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).
Knowing what is being built, who is behind it and the network helping to build a project can help interested parties get a leg up on the future of the blockchain industry, as opposed to reading online news articles about the results after the fact.
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