The amount of venture capital fundraising for Blockchain companies up to now in 2018 has already reached more than 40 percent of the total of last year. report published by Crunchbase News on February 27th.

Crunchbase News has determined the companies to include in their data analysis by making a list of all the organizations already categorized on their site in relation to "Bitcoin", "Ethereum" "Blockchain", "Cryptocurrency" and "Virtual Currency", as well as adding the keywords "digital currency" and "utility token" to their search.

The list also includes all companies in the Crunchbase data that led the Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) this year, bringing the total number of companies included in the analysis to about 2,900.

Looking at a chart of all venture capital investments this year in "Block" Crunchbase found that the peaks and declines in Bitcoin's price since January 2018 had not prevented venture capital investments to increase steadily.

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Crunchbase mentioned some of the biggest risk tournaments that took place this year with the crypto wallet Ledger, the Blockchain-cargo QUASA Russian tracing platform, and the Blockchain Harbor technology firm. Platform.

Crunchbase data show that there is a mix of traditional investors and more vertical companies – companies like Digital Currency Group taking place in these market-oriented towers. Blockchain Just last week, the Digital Currency group announced that it had recently invested in Silvergate Bank, a user-friendly encryption system.

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The Crunchbase data showed that the countries that participated in the fundraising for Blockchain and Blockchain-adjacent companies were concentrated in a handful, led by the United States and the United Kingdom, Singapore and Switzerland are notable stars.

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Cointelegraph recently published an expert Watch how Switzerland becomes a" crypto-nation "because of its financial authority [ 1 9459005]" balanced approach " to manage the regulation of the ICO, as well as the Swiss tax laws making the country a crypto tax haven "unofficial".