{"id":16716,"date":"2021-08-03T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T06:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/08\/03\/asias-leading-crypto-financial-services-platform-matrixport-valued-at-over-1-billion-two-years-after-its-founding\/"},"modified":"2021-08-03T06:50:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T06:50:00","slug":"asias-leading-crypto-financial-services-platform-matrixport-valued-at-over-1-billion-two-years-after-its-founding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/08\/03\/asias-leading-crypto-financial-services-platform-matrixport-valued-at-over-1-billion-two-years-after-its-founding\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia\u2019s Leading Crypto Financial Services Platform Matrixport Valued at Over $1 Billion \u2014 Two Years After its Founding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">\n                               Series C funding round led by partners of DST Global, C Ventures and K3 Ventures with Jihan Wu\u2019s crypto firm raising $129 Million to date                            <\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 3 August 2021&#13;<br \/>\n&#8211;<b> <\/b>Matrixport, Asia&#8217;s fast growing digital assets financial&#13;<br \/>\nservices platform closed its Series C funding round with a valuation of over&#13;<br \/>\nUS$1 billion \u2014 just two years after its establishment. This round was led by&#13;<br \/>\npartners of DST Global, C Ventures and K3 Ventures with other participants&#13;<br \/>\nincluding Qiming Venture Partners, CE Innovation Capital, Tiger Global, Cachet&#13;<br \/>\nGroup, Palm Drive Capital, Foresight Ventures and A&amp;T Capital, along with&#13;<br \/>\nearlier investors Lightspeed, Polychain, Dragonfly Capital, CMT Digital and IDG&#13;<br \/>\nCapital. The Singapore-based start-up has raised $129 million to date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/release.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/Images\/Thumb\/500x0\/167307\/ValuedOneBillionBannerPRfinal.jpg#image-167307\" width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Crypto&#8217;s Newest Unicorn: Matrixport Valued at&#13;<br \/>\n&gt;$1 Billion in Series C Funding\u00a0<\/h5>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Matrixport&#13;<br \/>\noffers a full suite of cryptocurrency financial services including&#13;<br \/>\ninstitutional custody, trading, lending, structured products and asset&#13;<br \/>\nmanagement to institutional and retail<sup>1<\/sup> clients. As of March 2021,&#13;<br \/>\nthe company held over $10 billion of client assets under management and&#13;<br \/>\ncustody, and recorded $5 billion in monthly transactions across all product&#13;<br \/>\nlines.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#13;<br \/>\nalways believe an open and permissionless blockchain ecosystem is the bedrock&#13;<br \/>\nof a new financial network that will benefit a large part of the world&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\npopulation. As a result, there will be hundreds of trillions of value created,&#13;<br \/>\nstored and transferred on this new financial network,&#8221; said Jihan Wu,&#13;<br \/>\nCo-Founder &amp; Chairman of Matrixport.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Since&#13;<br \/>\nits inception in 2019, Matrixport&#8217;s mission is to be a one-stop financial&#13;<br \/>\nservices platform. Its exponential growth has been driven by robust technology&#13;<br \/>\ncapabilities and innovative product offerings, such as the world&#8217;s first crypto&#13;<br \/>\ndual currency product. The company provides a comprehensive suite of offerings&#13;<br \/>\ntailored across different risk appetites and yield expectations.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#13;<br \/>\nare more than a gateway to the crypto economy. Matrixport is where both&#13;<br \/>\ninstitutional customers and individuals find it easy to get more from their&#13;<br \/>\ncrypto, beyond just trading. We are continually pushing out more new ways to&#13;<br \/>\ninvest crypto and earn yields in a safe and sustainable manner. We believe that&#13;<br \/>\nit is very important to give the choice back to our customers with a range of&#13;<br \/>\ninnovative crypto investment products,&#8221; said John Ge, Co-Founder &amp; Chief&#13;<br \/>\nExecutive Officer, Matrixport.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>With&#13;<br \/>\nthis funding, Matrixport plans to further invest in research and development to&#13;<br \/>\nenhance its innovative product offerings and security while optimising for an&#13;<br \/>\neven greater user experience. The funds will also be used to support its global&#13;<br \/>\nexpansion as well as to secure licenses to operate in more jurisdictions. With&#13;<br \/>\nthe company&#8217;s vision to &#8220;Make Crypto Easy For Everyone&#8221;, the roll-out will&#13;<br \/>\nallow more users globally to embrace its cryptocurrency financial services&#13;<br \/>\nplatform.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_heading=h.b2pzqt7lkpyu\"\/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As&#13;<br \/>\nblockchain based digital assets gain wider adoption and acceptance, new&#13;<br \/>\npathways are needed to capture yield, source liquidity and manage crypto assets&#13;<br \/>\nas an emerging asset class. With deep knowledge of traditional finance and a&#13;<br \/>\nkeen understanding of crypto assets, Matrixport is well positioned to answer&#13;<br \/>\nthe increasing demand for this new area of investment, driven primarily by the&#13;<br \/>\nyounger generations,&#8221; said Adrian Cheng, founder of C Ventures and CEO of New&#13;<br \/>\nWorld Group.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Matrixport has demonstrated tremendous&#13;<br \/>\nthought leadership as a digital assets&#13;<br \/>\nfinancial services platform by being first movers in delivering a well-curated&#13;<br \/>\nsuite of innovative crypto investment&#13;<br \/>\nofferings. Matrixport empowers crypto natives, sophisticated institutional&#13;<br \/>\nclients, and just as importantly the large community of first-time users who&#13;<br \/>\nare embarking on their crypto investing journey aboard a robust and trusted&#13;<br \/>\nplatform,&#8221; said MX Kuok, Managing Partner of K3 Ventures.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_heading=h.1fob9te\"\/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_heading=h.8esrdd5uyf4a\"\/>&#8220;As an early investor,&#13;<br \/>\nDragonfly is excited to see Matrixport&#8217;s continuous growth and innovation in&#13;<br \/>\nthe emerging asset class. It is well-positioned to become one of the most&#13;<br \/>\ncritical onramps for crypto adoption,&#8221; said Feng Bo, Founding Managing Partner&#13;<br \/>\nof Dragonfly Capital.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-08-03\/88844\/asias-leading-crypto-financial-services-platform-matrixport-valued-at-over-1-billion-two-years-after-its-founding\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Series C funding round led by partners of DST Global, C Ventures and K3 Ventures with Jihan Wu\u2019s crypto firm raising $129 Million to date HONG KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 3 August 2021&#13; &#8211; Matrixport, Asia&#8217;s fast growing digital assets financial&#13; services platform closed its Series C funding round with a valuation of over&#13; US$1 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}