福布斯刚刚发布了全球 50 强金融科技公司名单。其中九个来自加密货币行业。
2021 年，随着全球健康危机推动更多的网上购物和银行业务以及比特币和科技股的价格上涨，加密货币投资者和风险资本家在金融科技领域投入了更多资金。
根据 CB Insights 的一项调查，全球对该行业的投资总额为 1320 亿美元。这一数额大约是上一年预算的 490 亿美元的三倍。
如今，尽管大流行病在加密货币寒冬中抬头，但与一年前相比，福布斯 2022 年金融科技公司 50 强榜单中的加密货币公司数量有所增加。
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今年的福布斯金融科技 50 强名单创下了九家专注于加密货币的公司的记录——这是最先进的私营金融科技初创公司的荣誉榜。
据该商业刊物称，这九家加密货币公司共筹集了 65 亿美元的风险资金。其中很大一部分发生在去年。
去年，当比特币达到 68,000 美元以上时，加密公司见证了一波新客户。福布斯 2022 年名单包括四位新的加密货币和区块链名人。
据福布斯（Forkast News）报道，FTX 获得了 15 亿美元的私人资本，估值为 320 亿美元。
据《福布斯》报道，由亿万富翁 Sam Bankman-Fried 创立的加密货币交易所 FTX 位居榜首，获得了 15 亿美元的私人资本，估值为 320 亿美元。
福布斯指出，关于今年金融科技 50 强名单上越来越多的加密初创公司，加密爱好者越来越多地适应市场消极或下滑的现实。福布斯认为，这种收益必须持续下去。
排名第二的 OpenSea 已成为买卖 NFT 的首选交易所，每月完成超过 30 亿美元的交易。
（来源：BeInCrypto/福布斯）
排在第三位的是 Web3 基础设施提供商 Alchemy，总投资额为 4.13 亿美元，来自 Andreessen Horowitz、Lightspeed Venture Partners、Silver Lake 等。 Alchemy 的市值为 102 亿美元。
Avalanche 区块链的开发商 Ava Labs 排名第四。福布斯没有透露 Ava Labs 的市值，但该公司的原生加密货币 AVAX 估计价值约 85 亿美元。
日线图上的加密货币总市值为 1.21 万亿美元 |来源：TradingView.com
稳定币 USD Coin 背后的公司 Circle Internet Financial 排名第五。贝莱德和富达为Circle Financial提供了15亿美元的资金，使其得以进入榜单。 Circle 的市值为 90 亿美元。
排在第六至第九位的是 Chainalysis、Fireblocks、Paxos 和 TRM Labs，它们的总市值接近 200 亿美元。
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