
Bluesky Raises $100 Million in Series B After CEO Transition
Bluesky closes a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto, now reaching 43 million users as founder Jay Graber steps down as CEO.
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Bluesky closes a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto, now reaching 43 million users as founder Jay Graber steps down as CEO.

How Rune Christensen built MakerDAO, created the DAI stablecoin, survived Black Thursday, and rebranded to Sky — reshaping decentralized finance since 2015.

How Jeremy Allaire built Allaire Corporation, Brightcove, and Circle, the company behind USDC — the $79 billion stablecoin reshaping global payments.

How Hayden Adams built Uniswap, the decentralized exchange that processed over $3 trillion in trading volume and redefined crypto trading forever.

From OpenAI's record $110 billion round to a brain implant startup raising $230 million, here are the biggest raises of the week.

How Emin Gün Sirer went from creating a digital currency before Bitcoin to building Avalanche, the blockchain processing 4,000 TPS at a $5.25 billion valuation.

How Stani Kulechov built Aave from a law student's side project into the largest DeFi lending protocol with $27 billion in deposits.

How Brian Armstrong went from Airbnb engineer to Coinbase CEO, building a $60 billion crypto exchange that survived SEC lawsuits and crypto winters.

How Brandon Mulvihill left Jefferies to build Crossover Markets, the institutional crypto ECN processing $50 billion in trades at a $200 million valuation.

How Anatoly Yakovenko went from 12 years at Qualcomm to founding Solana, the fastest Layer-1 blockchain processing 4,000 transactions per second.

How Jed McCaleb went from eDonkey, Mt. Gox, and Ripple to founding Vast, the $1 billion space station company launching Haven-1 in 2026.

How Nikil Viswanathan co-founded Alchemy, the Web3 developer platform powering OpenSea and Uniswap, reaching a $10 billion valuation in 16 months.

How Sergey Nazarov built Chainlink into the dominant oracle network powering DeFi and TradFi, connecting 60+ blockchains and 11,000 banks.

How CZ built Binance into the world's largest crypto exchange, survived prison, and emerged richer than Bill Gates.