Layer-1 blockchain developer Aptos Labs has closed a $150 million funding spherical to additional its ambitions within the Web3 house, additional highlighting enterprise capital’s urge for food for budding crypto-focused startups.

The funding spherical was co-led by enterprise studios FTX Ventures and Bounce Crypto, with further participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Apollo, Franklin Templeton and Circle Ventures. In accordance with Bloomberg, the funding spherical greater than doubled the startup’s valuation, which was over $1 billion as of March.

Aptos was launched by former Meta staff Mo Shaikh and Avery Ching. The founders additionally had a job in advancing Mark Zuckerberg’s failed Diem undertaking. As Cointelegraph reported, the Diem Affiliation and its subsidiaries wound down operations in February of this yr, with Meta transferring to promote the undertaking’s mental property and different property.

At a look the $14.67 billion invested in Q2 isn’t any massive change from the $14.66 invested in Q1 however in actuality #Web3 and #Metaverse investments took over #DeFi.

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As Bloomberg reported, Aptos’ blockchain makes use of Diem’s programming language, referred to as Transfer, which reportedly makes transactions cheaper and extra environment friendly. Mysten Labs, one other blockchain undertaking to emerge from the ashes of Diem, additionally makes use of the Transfer programming language. Mysten Labs closed a $36 million funding spherical in December 2021.

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Though the so-called crypto winter is upon us, enterprise capital continues to make strategic investments throughout the blockchain and crypto industries. In accordance with Cointelegraph Analysis, enterprise corporations invested $14.67 billion into the sector within the second quarter, principally matching first-quarter commitments. Web3, a broad idea that describes the subsequent iteration of the blockchain-powered web, attracted probably the most curiosity.