The total sum venture capital has invested in blockchain technologies in the first half of this year was $290 million, shows a new study from Juniper Research – a UK consulting and analysis company specializing in the identification and appraisal of high growth opportunities. The recipients are over 30 startups and the three major investors, accounting for more than a third of all investment were: Circle – the social payment provider whose Bitcoin P2P payment app recently got integrated in Apple’s iOS 10, the sidechain developer Blockstream and the distributed ledger solutions (DLT) provider Digital Asset holdings.