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Global investment management firm VanEck is expanding its venture capital presence with the launch of a new fund focused on fintech, digital asset or artificial intelligence (AI) companies in pre-seed or seed stages, it announced Wednesday.

A sudden trading volume on VanEck’s HODL product seemed “retail armyish,” one analyst said.

The index contains a variety of dog-themed coins and other popular meme tokens.

The VanEck Bitcoin ETF, the first spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), debuted on Thursday.

Eclipse raised more than $50 million from investors but has been marred by controversy over the past year.

"We don't wish the burden of unnecessary subpoenas on anyone," a spokesperson for Uniswap told CoinDesk.

PitchBook reports $2.7B in venture funding, up from Q1, but with less deal flow. It expects $12-14B for the year, up significantly on 2023’s numbers.

Venezuela is ending its Petro cryptocurrency on Monday, more than five years after it was first launched, according to multiple reports.

Venezuela's state-run oil company started experimenting with Tether in 2023.