{"id":64560,"date":"2022-07-19T08:34:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T05:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=64560"},"modified":"2025-09-06T15:08:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:08:36","slug":"christies-launches-a-venture-fund-for-investments-in-web3-and-blockchain-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/christies-launches-a-venture-fund-for-investments-in-web3-and-blockchain-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie\u2019s launches a venture fund for investments in Web3 and blockchain solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British auction house Christie\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christies.com\/about-us\/press-archive\/details?PressReleaseID=10594&#038;lid=1\">announced<\/a> the launch of a venture fund focused on technology companies developing products in the art space.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the Christie\u2019s Ventures team will focus on three areas:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-web3\">Web3<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>art-finance digital products;<\/li>\n<li>solutions that enable unimpeded interaction with art objects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The fund&#8217;s first investments went to LayerZero Labs, which is developing a cross-chain protocol.<\/p>\n<p>As reported, Christie\u2019s has been active in the digital-art segment. In March 2021, at auction, Christie\u2019s sold a <span data-descr=\"non-fungible token\" class=\"old_tooltip\">NFT<\/span> by artist Beeple <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/beeples-nft-sells-at-christies-for-69-3-million\">for $69.3 million<\/a>, in May \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nine-cryptopunks-nfts-sold-at-christies-auction-for-nearly-17-million\">nine NFTs from the CryptoPunks collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British auction house Christie\u2019s announced the launch of a venture fund focused on technology companies developing products in the art space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"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":[1331,52,1110],"class_list":["post-64560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-culture-and-art","tag-investments","tag-web-3-0"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64560","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=64560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64561,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64560\/revisions\/64561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}