Rhythm note:On the evening of February 17, Sequoia Capital announced the launch of a cryptocurrency investment fund with a scale of 500-600 million US dollars. Also identified is an ecosystem sub-fund of $900 million to $950 million, allowing selected founders of portfolio companies to invest in other related companies, and an expanded sub-fund of $3.2 billion to $3.5 billion focused on growth-stage companies company.

This article is an article published by Rhythm in December 2021. It summarizes the investment in Crypto, Metaverse, and NFT and other fields related to the encryption market disclosed by Sequoia Capital, Sequoia India, and Sequoia China as of December 8, 2021.

In order to make it easier for readers to understand Sequoia Capital's crypto journey, Rhythm supplements Sequoia Capital's subsequent investment events in the Crypto field on the basis of the original text.

2022 Sequoia Capital, Sequoia India and Sequoia China Crypto Investment Reports

February 17,Crypto Startup Multis Announces $7M Funding, Sequoia Capital led the investment, Long Journey Ventures, Sound Ventures, MakerDAO, Paul Veradittakit, Ryan Selkis, Diogo Monica, eFounders, Y Combinator and White Star Capital participated in the investment.

February 15,Polygon-based P2E game Ethlas announced the completion of $ 2.7 million in seed round financing, this round of financing was participated by Sequoia Capital India, YGG Southeast Asia, Global Blockchain Innovative Capital, Venturra Capital, Play It Forward DAO, Blockchain Space, Genesis Fund, Deus Ex DAO, Hustle Fund, etc.

February 7,Ethereum Scaling Solution Polygon Announces $450 Million Funding, this round of financing was led by Sequoia India, Softbank, Tiger Global, Galaxy Digital, Republic Capital, Makers Fund, Alameda Research, Alan Howard, Alexis Ohanian, Steadview Capital, Elevation Capital, Animoca Brands, Spartan Fund, Dragonfly Capital, Variant Fund and Kevin O'leary participated in the investment

January 20,STEPN, the "Move-to-Earn" game on the Solana chain, announced the completion of a $5 million seed round of financing, Sequoia Capital India and Folius Ventures led the investment, Solana Ventures, Alameda Research, Spark Digital Capital, 6th Man Ventures, Sfermion and other institutions, former ParaFi Capital partner Santiago Santos and Republic Asia Pacific partner Zhen Cao participated in the investment.

January 19,Affiliated Decentralized Autonomous Organization IndiGG Announces $6 Million Funding, this round of financing was participated by Sequoia India, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Variant Fund and others. This round of financing will strengthen IndiGG's dominant position as India's largest gaming guild.

January 11,Citadel Securities, a world-renowned market maker, completed a financing of US$1.15 billion at a valuation of US$22 billion, led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Paradigm, Sequoia Heritage, Sequoia Capital Global Equities and the Global Growth Fund. Sequoia Partner Alfred Lin to Join Citadel Securities Board of Directors

2021 Sequoia Capital Crypto related investment report

On December 8, Sequoia Capital changed its Twitter profile to "We help courageous people build a legendary DAO and turn their ideas into reality. From ideas to Token airdrops." The news sparked heated discussions in the market, and then Sequoia Capital Shen Nanpeng, global executive partner, responded: "all in crypto (crypto)".

In fact, Sequoia Capital's layout in the Crypto field is not a whim. According to incomplete statistics from Rhythm, in 2021 alone, Sequoia Capital, Sequoia India, and Sequoia China will disclose 33 investments in fields related to the crypto market such as Crypto, Metaverse, and NFT, and Sequoia Capital will invest 21 this year. Sequoia China made 3 investments and Sequoia India completed 9 investments.

2021 Sequoia Capital Crypto related investment report

December 14,Ex-Instagram Vets, Tinder, and Stripe Execs Create $50M Crypto Fund, Sequoia Capital and the founders of Reddit backed it.

December 2,Digital asset custody platform Fireblocks completes $400 million in Series E financing at an $8 billion valuation, Sequoia Capital participated in the investment. In July this year, Fireblocks completed a $310 million Series D round of financing at a valuation of $2 billion, and Sequoia Capital was also among the participants.

November 30,Crypto Startup Iron Fish Closes $27.6M Series A Funding, a16z led the investment, Sequoia Capital, LinkedIn Executive Chairman Jeff Weiner, Alan Howard and others participated in the investment.

November 30,Blockchain security company CertiK completes $80 million B2 round of financing, led by Sequoia Capital.

November 16,Ethereum Layer 2 development company StarkWare completes $50 million in Series C financing, led by Sequoia Capital.

November 8,Polkadot DeFi protocol Parallel Finance announced the completion of a strategic round of financing at a valuation of US$250 million, Sequoia Capital and Founders Fund led the investment, Shima Capital and others participated in the investment.

November 4,Metaverse interactive platform Gather completes $50 million in Series B financing, led by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures;

November 4,Gaming startup Faraway raises $21 million in Series A funding, FTX and Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round, with participation from a16z, Solana, Jump Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Pantera Capital.

November 3,Cricket NFT platform Faze Technologies announced the completion of a $ 17.4 million seed round of financing, this round of financing was led by Tiger Global, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Dapper Labs, Samsung Next, and Courtside Ventures;

October 21,FTX announced that it has completed more than 420 million US dollars in B-1 round financing, 69 investors including BlackRock, Tiger Global, Ontario Teachers Pension Fund, Singapore investment company Temasek Holdings, Sequoia Capital, Ocean Capital, International Venture Capital IVP, ICONIQ Growth and other well-known institutions participated in the investment.

October 7,Decentralized fixed-income trading platform Strips Finance completes $8.5 million in financing, Multicoin Capital and Sequoia Capital participated in the investment;

September 21,Social blockchain platform DeSo completes $200 million in financing, a16z, Sequoia Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Winklevoss Capital, Polychain Capital, Pantera Capital, etc. participated in the investment;

August 24,African mobile payment platform OPay announces $400 million in funding. This round of financing was led by SoftBank Vision Fund No. 2, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Source Code Capital, DragonBall Capital, and 3W Capital.

July 27,Blockchain infrastructure provider Fireblocks completes $310 million in financing, Sequoia Capital and others lead the investment;

July 21,FTX announced the completion of $900 million in Series B financing, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank, Thoma Bravo, Paul Tudor Jones Family Office and more than 60 investors participated in the investment.

May 10,PayPal Finance, Asia's largest encrypted financial institution, announced the completion of a $40 million Series A round of financingApril 26,

April 26,Biaoxin Smart Chain, a public resource trading platform, recently announced the completion of A+ round financing of nearly 100 million yuanMarch 25,

March 25,Ethereum Layer 2 Solution Starkware Announces $75 Million in FundingMarch 23,

March 23,The hot new social network BitClout founder Diamondhands investor list, Sequoia Capital, a16z, DCG, Coinbase, etc. participated in the investment;

March 15,Digital payments company Stripe announces it has closed a $600 million (€500 million) funding round at a $95 billion (€80 billion) valuation, Allianz X, Axa, Baillie Gifford, Fidelity Management & Research Company (Fidelity Management Research Company), Sequoia Capital and Ireland's National Treasury Management Agency (Ireland's National Treasury Management Agency) participated in the investment.

February 2,Stock and cryptocurrency trading platform Robinhood announces $3.4 billion in fundingsecondary title

2021 Sequoia China Crypto related investment reports

December 28,One-stop DeFi wallet DeBank completes $25 million in equity financing at a valuation of $200 million, Sequoia China led the investment, Dragonfly, Hash Global, Youbi and Coinbase Venture, Crypto.com, Circle, Ledger participated.

December 21,Cross-chain bridge protocol Multichain (formerly AnySwap) announced the completion of a $60 million financing, this round of financing was led by Binance Labs, with participation from Sequoia China, IDG Capital, Three Arrows Capital, DeFiance Capital, Circle Ventures, Tron Foundation, Hypersphere Ventures, Primitive Ventures, Magic Ventures and HashKey.

On October 20th, NFT and games promote digital property rights to build an open metaverse companyAnimoca Brands Announces $65 Million Investment, Ubisoft, Sequoia China, Dragonfly Capital, etc. participated in the investment, with a valuation of 2.2 billion US dollars.

On September 13, eSignature, a blockchain electronic signature service provider, completed its E-round financing of 1.2 billion yuan, led by Sequoia China, IDG Capital, and ProLogis Hidden Mountain Capital.

January,Sequoia China becomes the strategic partner of Dragonfly Fundsecondary title

2021 Sequoia India Crypto related investment report

December 6,Polygon may complete a round of financing of US$50 million to US$150 million, Sequoia Capital India and Steadview Capital participated.

November 16,Cosmos Ecological Liquidity Staking Protocol pSTAKE Completes $10 Million Financing, Three Arrows Capital, Galaxy Digital, DeFiance Capital, and Sequoia India jointly led the round.

November 1,DeFi platform Beta Finance completes $5.75 million in financing, Sequoia India led the round.

October 6,Decentralized fixed-income trading platform Strips Finance announces $8.5 million in funding, this round of financing was participated by Multicoin Capital, Sequoia Capital (India), Fabric Ventures, Morningstar Capital, OKEx and others.

October 6,Indian crypto trading platform CoinSwitch Kuber announced the completion of $260 million in Series C financing, this round of financing was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Coinbase Ventures, with participation from Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital India.

September 30,Encrypted asset management platform Coinshift received $2.5 million in seed round financing, Sequoia India and ConsenSys Mesh participated in the vote.

On June 29, digital bank Tonik Financial received USD 21 million in Series A equity financing, led by Sequoia India and Point72 Ventures.

January 13,Cryptocurrency trading platform CoinSwitch Kuber completes $15 million Series A funding, Ribbit Capital and Paradigm led the investment, and Sequoia Capital India and others participated in the investment.