Polygon rolls out major upgrade replacing MATIC token with POL
The upgrade establishes POL as the native gas and staking token. In the future, POL will secure other chains within Polygon’s broader “aggregated” network, including the AggLayer. This transition is a key part of “Polygon 2.0” roadmap, introduced last year.
👉 x.com/0xPolygon/status/1831097340482166908
Creator.Bid rolled out V2 of its AI Creator Agent Launchpad
V2 streamlines content creation by enhancing the GPT interface with new features, improving efficiency and ensuring alignment with the user’s brand. Creator.Bid is the hub for the AI creator economy, allowing everyone to create, market, and co-own AI Agents.
👉 x.com/CreatorBid/status/1830996251837685952
DAILY CRYPTOMARKET REVIEW
Total Market Capitalization: $2.08T (-4.88%)
BTC Price: $56,831 (-3.59%)
BTC Dominance: 53.8% (-0.10%)
Fear & Greed Index: 27 (Fear)
Total Value Locked: $124B (-4.57%)
Web3 social platform UXLINK (UXLINK) has been listed on Upbit
Trading is now available via UXLINK/USDT, UXLINK/KRW, and UXLINK/BTC pairs. Deposits and withdrawals are live via Arbitrum Network. UXLINK is a Web3 social platform and infrastructure. Early today, UXLINK also received an investment from Animoca Brands.
👉 x.com/Official_Upbit/status/1830912861943857462
Top NFT Collections by Market Cap
NFT Collection Market cap is equal to the floor price multiplied by the collection total NFTs supply.
Top Base Layer 2 dApps by the number of users in the last 30D
The infographic depicts the Top-12 Base 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.
DAILY CRYPTOMARKET REVIEW
Total Market Capitalization: $2.16T (+1.54%)
BTC Price: $59,041 (+1.69%)
BTC Dominance: 53.9% (-0.10%)
Fear & Greed Index: 26 (Fear)
Total Value Locked: $130B (+2.36%)
The biggest Fundraising Rounds conducted in the last 7 days
Projects that received the most funding are Bridge ($58M), a stablecoin-based payments platform, Edge Matrix ($20M), a multichain infrastructure company, and Space and Time ($20M), a verifiable compute layer for AI and Blockchain.
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.
👉 app.orioleinsights.io/projects
Top-15 Blockchain Dapps by Users growth in the last 30 days
Among the top performers are Bitball, a Web3 Sport Games Metaverse, SA World, a gaming ecosystem with 100+ games across various genres, and PonytaSwap, a DEX for traders and gamers on Rangers Protocol.
DAILY CRYPTOMARKET REVIEW
Total Market Capitalization: $2.12T (-2.31%)
BTC Price: $58,206 (+0.05%)
BTC Dominance: 54.0% (+0.10%)
Fear & Greed Index: 26 (Fear)
Total Value Locked: $127B (-2.18%)
Crypto Events Recap, August 29-30
👉 cryptodiffer.com/feed/project-updates/crypto-events-recap-august-29-30-2024
Robot Ventures raised $75 million for early-stage crypto venture capital fund
This is the fourth fund by New York-based Robot Ventures, and its investors include TrueBridge Capital Partners, Haun VC, Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon. Robot Ventures is an early-stage investor in crypto startups such as EigenLayer, Lido Finance, and Flashbots.
👉 bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-30/robot-ventures-raises-75-million-for-early-stage-crypto-venture-capital-fund
Top Fundraising Rounds conducted in August
Projects that received the most funding are Story Protocol ($80M), a Layer 1 intellectual property blockchain, Chaos Labs ($55M), a risk and security product for DeFi, and Morpho ($50M), a DeFi lending protocol.
Top-15 Summer Total Value Locked (TVL) gainers
Among the top performers are Colend Protocol, a lending and borrowing protocol on the Core blockchain, Edgevana, a liquid staking solution on Solana, and Pharaoh CL, an AMM designed to serve as Avalanche's central liquidity hub.
Top-15 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Coins by Market Capitalization
These digital assets are in the front row of revolutionizing the crypto market by ushering in an era where transactions aren't just secure but smart, thanks to AI-driven smart contracts.
Arbitrum (ARB) introduced Arbitrum Stylus on mainnet
Stylus, a backward-compatible virtual machine, allows developers to build on Arbitrum using the WebAssembly compatible languages such as Rust, WASM, and LLVM. Arbitrum is an Ethereum scaling solution developed by Offchain Labs.
👉 blog.arbitrum.io/arbitrum-stylus-mainnet/
NATIX burning is now live with over 8.5M NATIX burned so far
The initial burn saw 8.5M+ NATIX destroyed from withdrawal fees and marketplace revenue. For the next 6 months, the burning process will occur on a bi-monthly basis. NATIX Network is the AI-powered dynamic map supercharged by DePIN.
👉 natix.network/blog/depin-token-over-8m-natix-burnt
Web3 security firm Hypernative raised $16 million in Series A funding
Quantstamp led the Series A funding round with participation from Bloccelerate VC, Boldstart Ventures, Borderless Capital, CMT Digital, IBI Tech Fund, and Re7 Capital. The round was structured as equity, bringing Hypernative’s total funding to $27 million.
👉 theblock.co/post/314305/web3-security-firm-hypernative-series-a-funding
Kroma Layer 2 has closed a Series A funding round
Among investors are Gate Ventures, Planetarium, Taisu Ventures, The Spartan Group, Waterdrip Capital, Iskra, Overtake, Xstar and more. Kroma is Asia’s leading Layer 2 solution, designed to make Web3 accessible through intuitive, gamified real-life dApps.
👉 x.com/kroma_network/status/1830463310845841527
Tomo has rolled out its all-in-one social wallet
Tomo Wallet allows users to log in effortlessly with social accounts and supports multiple chains, with a particular emphasis on bringing Bitcoin into EVM, Solana and Cosmos ecosystems. Tomo Wallet is now live on Google Play, App Store and Google Chrome.
👉 x.com/tomo_wallet/status/1830621687672639528
Crypto Events Recap, Aug 31 - Sep 2
👉 cryptodiffer.com/feed/project-updates/crypto-events-recap-aug31-sep2-2024
AutoLayer (LAY3R) to conduct its IDO on Poolz on September 12
LAY3R token sale price is $0.65. Vesting: 15% unlock at TGE followed by a 6 months linear vesting. Diluted Valuation is $19.5M. AutoLayer is the premier LRTfi hub on Arbitrum offering to its users a one-click Liquid Restaking and Staking.
👉 https://x.com/Poolz__/status/1830576420927508677
SingularityNET (AGIX) has joined hands with BNB Chain (BNB)
This collaboration will merge SingularityNET’s AI techs with BNB Chain’s storage infrastructure, BNB Greenfield, to deliver innovative solutions to the market. SingularityNET is a decentralized platform that aims to democratize access to AI services.
👉 x.com/SingularityNET/status/1829142663167389805
Binance Labs-backed Sahara AI launched Prometheus Program
Prometheus Program is an initiative designed to involve community members in the development and shaping of Sahara AI platform and reward them for joining. Sahara is a decentralized AI network that enables everyone to deploy autonomous AI.
👉 saharalabs.ai/blog/prometheus-program
MAJOR UPCOMING EVENTS IN SEPTEMBER!
A full list of Major Upcoming Events, to be updated
👉 https://cryptodiffer.com/events
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Frax introduced the Frax Name Service (FNS), powered by ENS
The Frax Name Service (FNS) is a fork of the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), tailored to meet the specific needs of the Frax ecosystem. It retains ENS's core features and burns FXS tokens instead (1000 three-letter FNS names will burn 1M FXS annually).
👉 x.com/fraxfinance/status/1829183229397741945
Hedgehog Protocol (HOG) launches on Sepolia Testnet
Users will be able to mint BaseFee token, participate in stability pools, and trade BFEE with AMM V60. To take part users need both Sepolia Testnet ETH, wstETH in their wallet. Hedgehog is building an infrastructure for on-chain native derivatives.
👉 medium.com/hedgehog-protocol/wen-testnet-now-8291b44c2ed5
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.
👉 app.orioleinsights.io/projects
Quai Network raised $5M in a Strategic funding round
Investors in the round include Cogitent Ventures, MH Ventures, TPC Ventures, Giga Chad Ventures, and DexCheck Ventures. Quai is the fully scalable and programmable Layer-1 providing innovative two-token system and execution sharding capabilities.
👉 x.com/QuaiNetwork/status/1829163441107411306