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A lawsuit filed against OlympusDAO’s co-founders over $20M+ in the DAO’s native tokens could unmask their identities, testing the limits of pseudonymity in DAOs (Sam Kessler/CoinDesk)

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Exodigo, which maps subterranean areas using sensors and AI, raises a $29M seed co-led by Zeev Ventures and 10D Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

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India’s BharatPe, which helps offline merchants accept digital payments, raises $108M Series D, at a $900M valuation, led by Coatue Management (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

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Sources: Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon is a pseudonymous co-founder of Basis Cash, a failed algorithmic stablecoin from 2020 that reached $174M total value locked (CoinDesk)

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Lev, whose marketplace uses AI to help borrowers compare and source commercial real estate financing, raises a $70M Series B, sources say at a $400M valuation (T.P. Yeatts/The Real Deal New York)

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Samsung, Lenovo, and Microsoft commit to shipping Android 12L, featuring optimizations for tablets and foldables, for some of their devices later this year (Sam Byford/The Verge)

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Education publisher Pearson acquires Credly, which helps businesses issue digital credentials to certify workers’ skills, for $140M (Jonathan Greig/ZDNet)

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UK’s 5G spectrum auction raised only £1.36B, just above the £1.1B reserve price and a fraction of the £22.5B 3G auction in 2000 (Nic Fildes/Financial Times)

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US federal judge rules that Citibank isn’t entitled to be returned $500M it accidentally sent to creditors early via Flexcube software, which had a confusing UI (Timothy B. Lee/Ars Technica)

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Bengaluru-based Jumbotail, a B2B e-commerce company that supplies groceries to mom-and-pop stores, raises an $85M Series C led by Artal Asia (The Economic Times)

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German startup Shopware, which offers open source e-commerce tools used by 100K brands, raises $100M from PayPal and Carlyle, its first outside investment (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)