{"id":41674,"date":"2021-04-30T14:46:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T11:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=41674"},"modified":"2025-08-30T19:47:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T16:47:37","slug":"argo-blockchain-linked-defi-focused-fund-raises-15-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/argo-blockchain-linked-defi-focused-fund-raises-15-3-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Argo Blockchain-linked DeFi-focused fund raises $15.3 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dispersion Holdings, a DeFi-focused investment firm, raised \u00a311m ($15.3m) after a stock placement. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/team-behind-argo-blockchain-launches-london-listed-defi-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CoinDesk<\/a> reports this.<\/p>\n<p>The securities were listed on the British alternative trading system Aquis under the ticker DEFI. Among the buyers was the large asset manager Schroders.<\/p>\n<p>Dispersion Holdings&#8217; market capitalization stood at \u00a318m ($25m).<\/p>\n<p>DEFI is pitched as a vehicle for investors to bet on the sector&#8217;s further development, without needing to hold cryptocurrencies directly or to touch markets built on smart contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Dispersion Holdings&#8217; board includes Argo Blockchain co-founder Mike Edwards and director of the mining-backed NFT Investments, Timothy Le Druillenec. The latter in April this year <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nft-investments-raises-35m-in-aquis-share-placement\">raised<\/a> \u00a335m also via an equity placement on Aquis.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>We are going to invest in early-stage projects based on Ethereum, Binance and Polkadot<\/em>, Edwards explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier ForkLog reported on <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-argo-blockchain-linked-crypto-fund-to-hold-ipo\">another upcoming IPO<\/a> tied to the Argo Blockchain crypto fund.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dispersion Holdings, a DeFi-focused investment firm, raised \u00a311m ($15.3m) after a stock placement, CoinDesk reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1182,1093,1211],"class_list":["post-41674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-argo-blockchain","tag-defi","tag-stock-market"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41674","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=41674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41676,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41674\/revisions\/41676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}