Yudaswap Labs which is a company founded by the creator of Uniswap raised $165 million and a $1.7 billion valuation during DevCon. You see established venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz, they participated in that round. So it's kind of a combination of those things, you know, longevity, the firms, the technology sort of all getting better.
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