Blockchain interoperability protocol LayerZero raised $120 million in Series B funding at $3B valuation. a16z Crypto, Sequoia Capital, Circle Ventures, Samsung Next, OpenSea and Christie's are among investors
Читать полностью…Some of the recent private fundraising events among blockchain startups you should know about. March 2023, part 4.
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Читать полностью…Matter Labs announced the alpha release of its zkEVM - ZkSync Era. ZkSync is a Layer 2 network. And it will be the first zkEVM on the Ethereum blockchain. There is no native token at this stage but users can expect it to be released with the future decentralization of the network.
Matter Labs has raised $200M Series C funding round co-led by Blockchain Capital and Dragonfly in November 2022.
Despite the fact that Arbitrum website is down and many users can’t claim their tokens, ARB is already tradable. ARB peaked around $17 and is currently trading around $1.5 per token. Below we’ve compared market caps of Ethereum Layer 2 networks.
Читать полностью…Burnt Finance is rebranding to Burnt and will launch its own blockchain Xion. According to the blog post the network will be utilizing the Cosmos SDK and Tendermint Consensus for cross-chain interoperability and sovereign governance.
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Читать полностью…Arbitrum will release its token ARB on March 23. Layer 2 project will airdrop 11.5% of the supply to users who meet certain criteria. Recipients will be able to check their balances from today and will be able to claim the tokens next week. Of the total supply of 10B ARB tokens, 56% will go to a DAO-controlled foundation.
Читать полностью…Coin98 Labs has released its NFT Marketplace, Dagora. According to the blog post, during the soft launch Dagora will support Polygon, BSC and Solana. Other networks to follow.
Читать полностью…Euler Finance was attacked today via a flash loan. Around $178M of assets has been drained.
Читать полностью…Web traffic to crypto exchanges in February 2023. According to the data from SimilarWeb in February a cumulative web traffic to cryptocurrency exchanges has remained at the same level as in January (excluding abnormal spike in traffic to Huobi).
Читать полностью…Uniswap Labs announced early access to its mobile wallet. According to the blog post, a mobile app is primarily a self-custodial crypto wallet and will also offer the ability to trade tokens directly with Uniswap. The public access on iOS is supposed to happen after Apple approval.
Читать полностью…Binance will offer Radiant Capital (RDNT) farming on Binance Launchpool as of March 31. Users will be able to stake their BNB and TUSD into separate pools to farm RDNT tokens over 40 days, starting Mar 31. 1.5% (15M RDNT) of the total token supply to be offered on the platform. Radiant is building omnichain money market atop LayerZero.
Читать полностью…ConsenSys announces a public testnet of its zkEVM Linea. According to the blog post with the new name ConsenSys is inviting developers, users, or protocols to try its zkEVM.
Читать полностью…Impossible Finance will host Arken Finance token sale on April 6. $1M worth of ARKEN tokens to be sold during this round at $40M fully diluted valuation. Vesting: 100% distributed on day 1. Day 1 market cap: $2.1M. Sale format: proportional among IDIA token stakers. Staking period: Mar 15 - Apr 4. Arken Finance is building an abstraction layer for DeFi protocols & UX. Sale participants will have a buy back option and will get back 90% of their investments in 2 weeks in case the price falls below a certain threshold.
Читать полностью…Arbitrum (ARB) will have a primary listing on March 23. ARB token will be available for trading on Binance, Coinbase, KuCoin, Bitget, Huobi, OKX, Bitfinex, AscendEx, Gate, MEXC and some other trading platforms around 5:00 PM UTC.
Читать полностью…Subscription for Space ID (ID) public sale on Binance Launchpad is now open. Users have 3 hours to subscribe by committing their BNB tokens between 2023-03-22 06:00 (UTC) and 2023-03-22 09:00 (UTC). Trading will go live at 12:00 (UTC).
Читать полностью…Binance Launchpad will host Space ID (ID) token sale on March 22. Sale format: proportional among BNB holders. Binance will record user BNB balances for 5 days from Mar 17 till Mar 22. Public sale goal: $2.5M for 5% of total token supply at $50M FDV. SPACE ID is building a hub to discover, register, trade .eth, .bnb, & .arb web3 domains.
Читать полностью…Uniswap Labs announced release of its DEX on BNB chain. Wormhole was chosen as the protocol's designated bridge to BNB Chain. Till today PancakeSwap was the leading decentralized trading platform on BNB chain.
Читать полностью…Sei Network is launching the final version of its testnet, Atlantic-2. Sei is building a new L1 that is optimized for exchanges via novel approaches to block propagation, block processing, parallelization. The startup has raised $5M in August 2022 from Multicoin, Coinbase & Delphi Digital among others.
Читать полностью…Some of the recent private fundraising events among blockchain startups you should know about. March 2023, part 1.
Читать полностью…Ethereum Layer 2 network Scroll raised $50M at $1.8B valuation. Investors in the round included Polychain Capital, Sequoia China, Bain Capital Crypto, Moore Capital Management, Variant Fund, Newman Capital, IOSG Ventures and Qiming Venture Partners, Scroll said Monday.
Читать полностью…Top 20 most discussed cryptocurrencies on Twitter in February 2023. In the chart below you can find a share of mentions of each coin among top 150 coins by market cap.
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