Trending NFT Collections on major NFT Marketplaces
Presenting the top NFT Collections sorted by 7-day floor price growth currently trending on marketplaces such as OpenSea, Blur, Magic Eden, Tensor, and Unisat. Among the best performers are Squiggly, Friendship Bracelets, RTFKT X NIKE, MetaHero, 0xmons.
Decentralized social media platform Bluesky raised $15 million in Series A funding
Blockchain Capital led Series A funding with participation from Alumni Ventures, True VC, SevenX, and other investors. Bluesky now exceeds 13M users with highly requested features like direct messages and video and AT Protocol developer ecosystem.
👉 bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a
Top-15 Monthly Social Volume Gainers
Social Volume refers to the overall count of social media messages, posts, and metadata from the internet that include terms related to a specific cryptocurrency project.
Ankr integrates TON to help developers build Telegram apps
By using Ankr's API, devs will no longer need to deploy or maintain nodes to access on-chain data and will be able to take advantage of an instant connection to TON. Ankr is a cross-chain infrastructure with a DeFi platform enabling staking and dApp development.
👉 ankr.com/blog/start-building-telegram-centric-d-apps-on-ton-with-our-newest-rpc/
Binance Labs announced an investment in Moonwalk Fitness
Moonwalk is a fitness accountability app that combines gamification and financial incentives to promote healthier lifestyles. The app encourages users to hit daily step goals by staking USDC, SOL, BONK. Moonwalk scheduled an iOS, Android app release soon.
👉 binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/binance-labs-invests-in-moonwalk-fitness-to-gamify-fitness
GnosisDAO introduced a new $40M Venture Fund targeting RWA, infrastructure and payments
GnosisDAO will invest $20 million in the fund while the remaining half will come from external LPs. The fund will be partially governed by GNO token holders. The GnosisVC already made preliminary investments in Monerium and Naptha AI projects.
👉 theblock.co/post/322895/gnosisdao-is-launching-a-new-40-million-venture-fund-targeting-real-world-assets
Zyfi (ZFI) to conduct its token sale on Impossible Finance
Staking period is now live and will last till Oct 31. Purchase will be available during 24H starting on Oct 31, 2:00 PM UTC. Token sale price is $0.04. Sale Hard Cap is $350,000. Public Sale Valuation is $20,000,000. ZyFi is the leading Gas Abstraction layer on ZKsync.
👉 blog.impossible.finance/ido25-zyfi
Party Icons has closed a $9M Seed fundraising round
The funding was led by Bitkraft Ventures and joined by IDG Capital, Leap Capital, Mantle, King River Capital, Mask Network, Yield Guild Games and others. At its core, Party Icons offers players access to three primary game modes, with more planned for the future.
👉 x.com/PartyIconsOGX/status/1849316208287375435
Ubisoft launched Champions Tactics game on Oasys blockchain
This free-to-play tactical strategy, available on PC via the Ubisoft Connect platform, utilizes NFTs minted on the Oasys blockchain network. Players can now immerse themselves in a fantasy world where digital champions battle in strategic, turn-based combat.
👉 x.com/ChampionsVerse/status/1849058476695191610
DAILY CRYPTOMARKET REVIEW
Total Market Capitalization: $2.42T (-0.66%)
BTC Price: $67,188 (+0.39%)
BTC Dominance: 54.9% (+0.20%)
Fear & Greed Index: 69 (Greed)
Total Value Locked: $142B (-1.29%)
Uniswap launched a cross-chain bridge powered by Across Protocol
Users can now bridge their assets between 9 networks, including Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, Zora, Blast, OP Mainnet, World Chain, and ZKsync through Uniswap Interface and Wallet.
👉 blog.uniswap.org/permissionless-bridging-is-now-live
Arbitrum derivatives trading protocol Variational raised $10.3 million in a Seed funding round
Bain Capital and Peak XV Partners co-led the round, with Coinbase Ventures, Dragonfly Capital, North Island, Hack VC, and others participating. Variational builds Omni and Pro platforms for retail and institutional traders. Omni is live on Arbitrum Sepolia Testnet.
👉 theblock.co/post/322653/arbitrum-crypto-protocol-variational-funding
Top 15 projects by positive market sentiment on Oriole Insights
Oriole Insights is a gamified prediction platform harnessing collective wisdom. The list of projects by Bullish expectations with a minimum of 50 predictions and 500 ORI pooled.
👉 https://app.orioleinsights.io/projects
Top Polygon dApps by the number of users in the last 30D
The infographic depicts the Top-12 Polygon Layer 2 dApps sorted by the number of Unique Active Wallets interacting or performing a transaction with a dApp's smart contracts in the last 30 days.
Binance to delist KP3R, OOKI, UNFI, and IDRT on November 6
Keep3rV1 (KP3R), Ooki (OOKI), Unifi DAO (UNFI), and Rupiah Token (IDRT) trading to be ceased on November 6, 3:00 UTC. Users will be able to withdraw assets until February 7th. The prices of the respective tokens were hit significantly by the news.
👉 binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-will-delist-idrt-kp3r-ooki-unfi
Top 15 Staking Providers by Total Assets Under Management
The ranking shows the cumulative worth of all the assets entrusted to the provider's management, encompassing various forms of staking and delegation activities. A higher AUM (Assets Under Management) suggests substantial user trust, while a lover AUM might indicate a more specialized or selective approach.
Top 15 projects by positive market sentiment on Oriole Insights
Oriole Insights is a gamified prediction platform harnessing collective wisdom. The list of projects by Bullish expectations with a minimum of 50 predictions and 500 ORI pooled.
👉 https://app.orioleinsights.io/projects
Grass (GRASS) to conduct its initial listing on Bybit on October 28th, 14:00 UTC
To celebrate the listing, Bybit will also launch Token Splash campaign with 200,000 GRASS in rewards. On the same day, users will be able to claim Airdrop One. Grass is a network of over 2 million people who are earning rewards for sharing unused internet bandwidth.
👉 x.com/Bybit_Official/status/1849526276622635205
DAILY CRYPTOMARKET REVIEW
Total Market Capitalization: $2.41T (-1.68%)
BTC Price: $67,391 (+0.36%)
BTC Dominance: 55.4% (+0.50%)
Fear & Greed Index: 72 (Greed)
Total Value Locked: $142B (-1.29%)
Kraken unveiled its Ethereum L2 built using the OP Stack
The Ink Layer 2 blockchain scheduled to launch in early 2025 in partnership with Zora. It is designed to offer permissionless access to DeFi applications, including trading, lending and borrowing services. Ink Testnet is expetted to launch later this year.
👉 theblock.co/post/322879/kraken-ethereum-layer-2-ink-op-stack
Plume Network joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
The EEA brings together leaders from various industries, including Fortune 500 companies, startups, and blockchain projects such as J.P. Morgan, Microsoft, Consensys, Chainlink, among others. Plume is the first fully integrated and modular chain focused on RWAfi.
👉 x.com/plumenetwork/status/1848796826411163950
STATE OF THE STAKING
According to the StakingRewards, the Staking Market Cap (valuation of all projects with a staking mechanism) is currently at 583 billion USD. An overview includes all staking assets, including PoS, Liquid Staking, Restaking, and DeFi Staking.
We have prepared the list of projects sorted by the USD value of the staked tokens. The list shows the Top 5: Ethereum, Solana, Lido Staked Ether, BNB Chain, and Sui Network.
Top-15 Projects by average daily development activity growth on Github in the last 30 days
We took the data from Santiment.net. Projects are sorted by the average daily development activity growth during the last 30 days on the Github. The number of daily events is approximate.
Top 3 are Drift, Treasure, and Kyber Network.
MANTRA (OM) has publicly launched its Mainnet
MANTRA is a purpose-built Layer 1 offering a comprehensive and customizable suite of tools built with reliable network security and strict regulatory compliance for developers and institutions to tokenize real-world assets seamlessly.
👉 mantrachain.io/resources/announcements/mantra-launches-mainnet-to-tokenize-real-world-assets
Crypto Events Recap, October 22-23
👉 cryptodiffer.com/feed/project-updates/crypto-events-recap-october-22-23-2024
Japanese investment firm Metaplanet raised $66 million through an 11th stock offering
Tokyo-listed firm completed its stock acquisition rights program with participation from 13,774 individual shareholders, with the total funds raised amounting to 10 billion yen ($66M). The company now holds 861.4 BTC and its shares up up 642% year-to-date.
👉 theblock.co/post/322554/metaplanet-raises-66-million
0G Labs will hold AI Alignment Node Sale on November 11
The nodes will be distributed across 32 tiers, starting at 0.05 ETH. 0G's nodes will offer evolving utility, rewarding participants with emissions for securing network. 0G Labs is the first decentralized AI Operating System. Previously, it raised $35M in a Pre-Seed funding.
👉 0g.ai/blog/0g-foundation-ai-alignment-node-sale-101-key-details-and-how-to-participate
Velvet.Capital (VLV) expands its DeFi app to BNB Chain
The Velvet allows users to manage, trade, and create portfolios in a one-singe app. Among the features are also personal, private, and public vault creation, with shared yield for community members. Velvet is a DeFi management platform, backed by Binance Labs.
👉 x.com/Velvet_Capital/status/1848739569379774924
Elixir (ELX) plans to kick off its Mainnet phase 1 on October 31
The Elixir Network is a modular DPoS network enabling users to deploy liquidity to pairs and exchanges to build trustless features to enhance their liquidity. Previously, it raised over $17M in 3 rounds from Hack VC, Maelstorm, Mysten Labs, GSR and others.
👉 x.com/elixir/status/1848780470449770819