Scalability is a hot investment as VCs and retail pour into rollup and sidechain solutions
As Ethereum gas fees soar and the demand for scalability reaches fever pitch, layer-two scaling solution has announced today a $75 million Series B funding round led by Paradigm, Three Arrows, Alameda Research, Pantera Capital, and Sequoia, among others.
The team announced the raise in a Tweet:
Announcing our $75M Series B, led by @paradigm, with new investors (Three Arrows & @AlamedaResearch), and old ones too (@PanteraCapital, @sequoia, @foundersfund, @DCVC, @Wing_VC).— StarkWare (@StarkWareLtd) March 24, 2021
StarkWare, which previously raised $30 million in 2018, offers zero-knowledge rollup technology allowing for offchain computation, beefed up transactional throughput, and claims to offer mainnet-coparable security guarantees. CEO