The company raised the money in the form of subscription receipts, which let investors receive shares contingent on a transaction, from Digital Currency Group, Animoca Brands, FalconX and others. The Cayman Islands-based firm is founded by Karia Samaroo, the founder and former CEO of Toronto crypto company WonderFi. It is expected to start trading on the TSX Venture Exchange Wednesday. (The Logic)
Talking point: Samaroo’s new company is hopping on a big trend by planning to invest its treasury in TAO, the native token of the US$3.9-billion Bittensor blockchain. The phenomenon of public companies accumulating crypto has been called the industry’s trend of the year, as well as a potential systemic risk to crypto markets. The company will also operate infrastructure that helps validate transactions on Bittensor, which aims to use crypto to reward the creation of innovative machine learning models.