Binance Labs focuses its weight on Web 3.0 coin projects, decentralized finance (DeFi) and several blockchains focused on cross-chain capabilities.
Web 3.0 coin project rose with the investment news of Binanace Labs
Binance Labs, the venture capital (VC) arm of Binance cryptocurrency exchange, announced on Tuesday that it will contribute the Oasis Foundation’s $200 million ecosystem development fund, sending a strong signal that major investors are willing to support emerging projects in alternative blockchain networks.
With the investment, Binance Labs joins other leading VC firms to support the Oasis Network (ROSE), an alternative smart contract platform that aims to compete with Ethereum. Cryptocoin. com, the Oasis Foundation has launched an initial $160 million development fund to attract promising startups to Blockchain. In addition to Binance Labs, other notable VC firms supporting the ecosystem development fund include Hashed, Jump Capital, Dragonfly Capital, and Draper Dragon. After the news, the altcoin price surged more than 25% on a daily basis.
ROSE price chart for the last 24 hours / Source: CoinMarketCapBill Chin, head of the Binance Labs fund, praised Web 3.0 coin project Oasis Network’s ‘scalability and privacy-preserving features’ and its ability to advance Web3 development as reasons to support the project. Binance Labs has invested in several blockchain projects in the past 12 months. In December, the VC firm spearheaded a $60 million investment round in the cross-chain protocol Multichain. A few weeks later, Binance Labs announced that it has joined Woo Network’s $12 million Series A funding round. Venture capital made a huge splash in the blockchain industry in 2021, with investment firms pumping more than $17 billion into crypto-focused projects over the first 10 months of the year.
