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Token sale The Graph, a data-indexing protocol used by many popular decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, has raised $12 million in a public sale of its native GRT token, CoinDesk’s Zack Seward reports. The firm previously raised $5 million in a private token sale involving Coinbase Ventures and a $2.5 million seed round led by Multicoin Capital.

Halfway through the past year Ava Labs’s Avalanche blockchain raised roughly $42 million in a public token sale. The Graph is the latest project to join the trend of high-value public token sales to close this year.

Timeline of Avalanche