Volatility derivatives project Volmex Finance attracts backing from VC giants
Volatility derivatives are coming to DeFi with backing from several VC giants. A number of venture capital giants have completed a financing round for Ethereum-based volatility and derivatives protocol Volmex Finance.According to a March 17 announcement from Volmex Labs, the financing round was contributed to by several leading decentralized finance venture capital firms including Alameda Research, Three Arrows Capital, Robot Ventures, CMS Holdings, IOSG Ventures, D64 Ventures, and Fourth Revolution Capital in addition to a number of individual angel investors including BarnBridge's Tyler....
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