{"id":29422,"date":"2020-09-30T16:38:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T13:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=29422"},"modified":"2025-08-27T16:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:52:06","slug":"galaxy-digital-takes-minority-stake-in-parafi-capital-to-back-defi-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/galaxy-digital-takes-minority-stake-in-parafi-capital-to-back-defi-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy Digital takes minority stake in ParaFi Capital to back DeFi investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Galaxy Digital, the cryptocurrency trading bank led by Mike Novogratz, has become a minority shareholder in ParaFi Capital. The partnership envisages joint investments in the DeFi sector, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/parafi-capital-the-defi-focused-asset-management-firm-announces-strategic-investment-from-galaxy-digital-301139426.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as stated<\/a> in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>ParaFi Capital has been investing in DeFi projects since 2018. Its portfolio includes Compound, Aave and Uniswap. As of August 31, 2020, assets under management exceeded $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>The deal value between Galaxy Digital and ParaFi Capital was not disclosed. Other investors in the firm include Bain Capital Ventures and Henry Kravis, co-founder of private equity firm KKR &#038; Co.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-09-29\/novogratz-plows-ahead-in-defi-amid-the-gamifying-of-crypto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloomberg<\/a>, Novogratz said that about 5% of Galaxy Digital&#8217;s capital has been invested in the DeFi sector.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a very large portion. But we want to invest in cutting-edge technologies. I think DeFi will become a truly important part of the cryptocurrency ecosystem,&#8221; said the company&#8217;s CEO.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to him, ParaFi shares Galaxy Digital&#8217;s views on the potential of DeFi. The partners plan to accelerate the industry&#8217;s development by leveraging their experience in decentralized finance and global ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Galaxy Digital and Bakkt announced the launch of a service for institutional investors.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galaxy Digital, Mike Novogratz&#8217;s cryptocurrency trading bank, has become a minority shareholder in ParaFi Capital. The partnership envisages joint investments in the DeFi sector, the press release says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1093,770,1156,1133],"class_list":["post-29422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-defi","tag-galaxy-digital","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29424,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29422\/revisions\/29424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}