{"id":52918,"date":"2021-11-15T19:54:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T17:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=52918"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:31:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:31:42","slug":"paradigm-launches-2-5-billion-venture-fund-to-back-crypto-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/paradigm-launches-2-5-billion-venture-fund-to-back-crypto-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradigm launches $2.5 billion venture fund to back crypto projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Paradigm investment company announced the launch of a new venture fund worth $2.5 billion to back next-generation crypto projects.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Announcing our new venture fund <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F01ts3xwRt\">https:\/\/t.co\/F01ts3xwRt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paradigm (@paradigm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paradigm\/status\/1460272702976000006?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The company described cryptocurrencies as \u201cthe most exciting technological frontier.\u201d According to the press release, over the past decade digital assets have come a long way, but they are still used by fewer than 10% of the world\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe journey is only beginning; the potential of cryptocurrency has never been clearer,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The fund size surpassed media expectations, which in October <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/media-paradigm-to-launch-venture-fund-for-crypto-startups\">predicted<\/a> its size to be between $1.25 billion and $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In November, the blockchain company Enjin <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/enjin-launches-100-million-fund-to-build-nft-metaverse\">announced the launch of a $100 million fund<\/a> to create a metaverse with non-fungible tokens.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog\u2019s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The investment firm Paradigm announced the launch of a new venture fund worth $2.5 billion to back next-generation crypto projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1608,1133],"class_list":["post-52918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-paradigm","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"30","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52920,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52918\/revisions\/52920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}