The move underscores the growing acceptance of digital currencies among financial institutions as they seek a wider range of investors
"We refute the popular narrative of one 'attacker' or 'hacker' working to destabilise UST," Nansen's principal research analyst Aurélie Barthère and colleagues said in the report.
The firm had raised $40 million in its previous round, a year earlier. The cryptocurrency lender and asset manager is now valued at $2 billion.
Collapses of so-called stablecoins, digital tokens that track the price of the US dollar, have raised fears about the overall cryptocurrency market
The LKB & Partners law firm filed a lawsuit against Terraform Labs co-founders Do Kwon and Daniel Shin, the Seoul-based Munwha Ilbo newspaper reported
Stablecoins are meant to offer a reliable investment option, unlike unpegged cryptocurrencies like bitcoin or ether, which are very volatile
While the US accounts for more than a third of all bitcoin mining - as measured by power consumption - China has taken the second spot, with 21.11% of the total
India's Reserve Bank tells government that cryptocurrencies could lead to a dollarisation of the economy
TerraUSD had a value of $1, with a market value of nearly $19 billion at its peak, before it plunged the whole of last week and ended at just 16 cents on Friday
Many global investment banks have been looking to offer clients more crypto related services, responding they say to demand from institutional investors
Asia Financial's Future of Money index, a basket of 10 leading cryptocurrencies, has plunged 19% this week alone and is down 27% during the past month.
The fund outperformed all other actively managed US equities in 2020 on the strength of its portfolio of companies such as Zoom Video Communications and Teladoc Health