Pharos has raised $8M in a Seed funding round co-led by Lightspeed Faction and Hack VC
Layer 1 blockchain developer Pharos has secured $8M in a seed funding round co-led by Lightspeed Faction and Hack VC. Other investors in the round include SNZ Capital, Reforge, Dispersion Capital, Hash Global, Generative Ventures, MH Ventures, Zion, and Chorus One.
Pharos is a crypto startup building a Layer 1 blockchain network to bridge traditional fintech services with Web3 technologies. Pharos network is currently in an internal development phase, with plans to launch a testnet in Q1 2025 and a mainnet later in the year.
🔗 theblock.co/post/325246/layer-1-blockchain-pharos-seed-funding
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Bitcoin [BTC] set a new all-time high at $80,076!
The bull run is here. Bitcoin, $BTC has reached an all-time high of $80,076. In the past 24 hours, BTC's price surged by around 4%. Bitcoin dominance stands at 54.7%. Market capitalization is $2.89T (+5%). Spot volume is $76.17B (+47%).
The current BTC price is $79,633. The BTC market cap is $1.58T.
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Top 7 Crypto Fundraising Rounds of the Week
Let’s take a look at the top 7 biggest private crypto fundraising rounds completed in the previous week, backed by crypto venture investors including a16z, Lemniscap, Lightspeed Action, Hack VC, Coinbase Ventures and others.
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Binance Labs has invested in decentralized science project BIO Protocol
Binance Labs has made an undisclosed investment in the decentralized science project BIO Protocol. The BIO platform allows scientists, patients and investors globally to fund, develop and co-own new drugs through biotech DAOs, addressing gaps in traditional scientific funding, especially in areas like rare diseases, longevity and emerging health challenges.
BIO’s existing network comprises seven “BioDAOs” focused on funding projects researching cryopreservation, women’s health and psychedelics for mental health. The project’s ultimate goal is to create autonomous infrastructure for scientific funding driven by AI, drug design and open-source computational biology.
🔗 theblock.co/post/325185/binance-labs-desci-investment-bio-protocol
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Coinbase launches Bitcoin-backed token on Solana blockchain - cbBTC
Coinbase has announced the launch of cbBTC, the first Bitcoin -backed token on the Solana blockchain $SOL. The newly created SPL token is backed by Bitcoin at a 1:1 ratio with Coinbase’s reserves. Coinbase has made cbBTC available to its customers in several countries, including Singapore, Australia, the UK, and the US.
As of launch day, cbBTC has been integrated into significant DeFi platforms such as Jupiter Exchange, Meteora, Kamino Finance, and Raydium. This integration enhances liquidity and collateral opportunities for users in Solana’s DeFi applications.
🔗 coindesk.com/business/2024/11/07/coinbase-brings-bitcoin-to-solana-spurring-high-hopes-for-defi-surge
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Pond has raised $7.5M in a Seed funding round led by Archetype
Pond, a crypto startup building a decentralized AI model layer, has raised $7.5M in a seed funding round led by Archetype. Other investors include Cyber Fund, Delphi Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Near Foundation, Web3.соm Ventures, Presto Labs and several angel investors such as Illia Polosukhin (Near Protocol), and Chris Yin (Plume Network).
Pond is developing a decentralized AI model layer for the crypto space. Moreover, Pond offers models that suggest NFTs to users on Zora and DeFi protocols on Gearbox.
🔗 x.com/PondGNN/status/1854586595774808337
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Plume Network in partnership with StakeStone launched Pre-Deposit Vault Campaign
Plume Network in collaboration with StakeStone, a staking protocol designed to connect omnichain liquidity and provide staking, rolled out a pre-deposit vault campaign. The pre-deposit event supports two assets: $STONE and $SBTC, users can commit them to the first staking pool with a $30M cap. Previously, Plume Network joined Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), a member-driven organization that brings together leaders from various industries, including, startups, and blockchain projects.
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Ethereum [ETH] has introduced a temporary Testnet for Pectra upgrade - Mekong
Ethereum $ETH has unveiled a temporary testnet named Mekong for the coming Pectra upgrade. The testnet aims to trial specific code changes before deploying them on other public testnets and, ultimately, the mainnet. Initially, the Pectra upgrade was set to incorporate 20 Ethereum Improvement Proposals, but this number has been scaled down to about eight.
These modifications focus on improving user experience and network efficiency when launched on the mainnet through Pectra. The features successfully tested on the Mekong are expected to progress to Ethereum’s public testnets like Sepolia and the expected mainnet in the first half of 2025.
🔗 blog.ethereum.org/2024/11/07/introducing-mekong-testnet
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HashKey Global [HSK] will conduct initial listing on November 26th
HashKey Global has announced the initial listing of HashKey Platform Token (HSK) in the innovation zone on November 26th, at 10:00 UTC. $HSK is the platform token of HashKey Group and will be used across all HashKey businesses, covering global licensed exchanges, investment and asset management, tokenization, infrastructure services, and more.
Moreover, $HSK is the native token and gas token of HashKey Chain, an L2 public chain, empowering long-term growth of the ecosystem. Users can now participate in genesis trading campaign until November 25th, with 2.88M $HSK in rewards.
🔗 support.global.hashkey.com/hc/en-us/articles/16761152342300-HashKey-Global-Initial-Listing-HashKey-Platform-Token-HSK
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Clearpool’s L2 Ozean has announced a partnership with Helix
Ozean has partnered with Helix, an institutional-grade RWA DeFi protocol that tokenizes a diverse range of private credit and fixed-income offerings. This collaboration will see Helix integrate with Ozean and bring private credit opportunities to the Ozean blockchain.
Ozean is a Layer 2 blockchain for RWA yield launched by Clearpool, with its seamless integration of RWAs in a compliant and user-friendly manner, enables users to earn native yield on-chain automatically. Current $CPOOL price is $0.22. Fully diluted market cap is $226M.
🔗 clearpool.medium.com/ozean-partners-with-helix-to-bring-100m-of-private-credit-on-chain-b647cc3e2467
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Top Exchanges by Liquidations in the last 24 hours
The vast majority of the casualties were short positions in last 24 hours, with more than $569M liquidated in total. Let’s take a look at the top exchanges by liquidations of longs and shorts within the last 24 hours, according to Coinglass.com.
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Binance will list Cow Protocol [COW] and Cetus Protocol [CETUS] today, on November 6th
Cow Protocol $COW and Cetus Protocol $CETUS will be listed on Binance with the seed tag applied today, on November 6th, at 12:00 UTC. CoW Protocol is a meta-DEX aggregation protocol that leverages trade intents and batch auctions. Cetus Protocol is a MOVE-based liquidity protocol.
Current $COW price is $0.45. Current FDV is $434M. Current $CETUS price is $0.28. Current FDV is $288M.
🔗 binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-will-list-cow-protocol-cow-and-cetus-protocol-cetus-with-seed-tag-applied-2faa229be2ba4b758bbeb1859f63ba36
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0G Labs has announced a partnership with Animoca’s Mocaverse [MOCA]
0G Labs has partnered with Mocaverse $MOCA, Animoca Brands' marquee consumer platform for gaming and entertainment products. Through this partnership, 0G Labs will conduct an AI Alignment Node Sale for the Mocaverse community. The node sale begins exclusively on MocaList on November 7th.
The 0G AI Alignment Node Sale is distributed across 32 tiers, starting at 0.05 ETH. Up to 15% of the total $0G ecosystem supply is allocated to node holders to build and maintain the ecosystem.
Naptha AI has raised $6M in a Pre-Seed funding round co-led by Arche Capital and Cyber Fund
Naptha AI, a cutting-edge platform that orchestrates multiple AI agents to optimize performance and drive innovation, has secured $6M in a pre-seed funding round co-led by Arche Capital and Cyber Fund. Other investors in the round include Seed Club Ventures, Polymorphic Capital, GnosisDAO, and Halo Capital. Naptha is a framework and infrastructure for developing and running massive multi-agent systems across many devices.
🔗 businesswire.com/news/home/20241031911023/en/Naptha-AI-Raises-6-Million-to-Lead-the-Evolution-of-AGI-Towards-a-Web-of-Trillions-of-Cooperating-Agents
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Vlayer has raised $10M in a Pre-Seed funding round backed by a16z CSX
Vlayer, a crypto startup developing Solidity 2.0, has raised $10M in a pre-seed funding round. Investors in the round include a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX), Credo Ventures, BlockTower Capital and angels such as Remco Bloemen (Worldcoin), Jakub Florkiewicz Worldcoin), and others. The startup is developing verifiable data infrastructure or Solidity 2.0, which will introduce new functions to Ethereum’s programming language.
Vlayer is currently in an open alpha phase, inviting developers to build on its platform. Vlayer testnet, mainnet, and token launch are expected "no sooner than 2025".
🔗 theblock.co/post/324359/vlayer-funding-ethereum-solidity-2-0
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Binance will list Act I : The AI Prophecy [ACT] and Peanut the Squirrel [PNUT] today, on November 11th
Act I : The AI Prophecy $ACT and Peanut the Squirrel $PNUT will be listed on Binance with the seed tag applied today, on November 11th, at 10:00 UTC. ACT is a meme token running on the Solana blockchain and launched on Pumpfun promoted by AI. Peanut the Squirrel is a meme coin on Solana.
Current $ACT price is $0.33 (+1350% in last 24h). Current FDV is $335M. Current $PNUT price is $0.36 (+228% in last 24h). Current FDV is $365M.
🔗 binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-will-list-act-i-the-ai-prophecy-act-and-peanut-the-squirrel-pnut-with-seed-tag-applied-d16d96c136154680a6373225d592bca1
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Top Upcoming Events of the Next Week
We compiled a list of top important upcoming events of the next week (Nov 11th - Nov 17th), including 0G Labs $0G, BounceBit $BB, Ronin $RON, Hyperliquid $HYPE, AI Nexus $A1, Ink Finance $QUILL, Persistence $XPRT, peaq $PEAQ, Aptos $APT, Cross the Ages $CTA, Maple Finance $SYRUP, Cellula $CELA, Unmarshal $MARSH, Starknet $STRK, Zyfi $ZFI, and Arbitrum $ARB. Stay tuned!
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Top Exchanges by Liquidations in last 7 days
The vast majority of the casualties were long positions last days, with more than $2B liquidated in total. Let’s take a look at the top exchanges by liquidations of longs and shorts within last week, according to Coinglass.com.
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0G Labs has launched AI Alignment Node Sale on MocaList
0G Labs has rolled out an AI Alignment Node Sale on MocaList until November 13th, at 12:00 UTC. The node allocation for sale is 31.4K. The final node price will be determined after the sale, dependent on the number of nodes sold: at 50% sold, nodes cost $245; at 75%, $272; and at 100%, $298. FDV will range from $175M to $349M.
Up to 15% of the total $0G ecosystem supply is allocated to node holders to build and maintain the ecosystem. 33% of tokens are claimable on TGE followed by a 36-month linear vesting schedule. TGE is expected to occur within Q1 of 2025.
a16z-backed Story Protocol has launched final Testnet - Odyssey
Story Protocol has rolled out Odyssey, its final testnet. Nearly 100 ecosystem partners are building blockchain apps on Odyssey. Over the next week only, users can mint IP assets as commemorative NFTs on Story Network. The iliad public testnet has attracted over 247M transactions, 21M wallets, and 1M IPAssets registered on PoC protocol.
Story's mainnet launch is expected later this year. The Layer 1 blockchain is being developed via Cosmos SDK and will be fully compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).
Polygon [POL] has partnered with Magic Labs to launch a new cross-chain network - Newton
Polygon $POL and PayPal-backed Magic Labs are launching a new cross-chain network called Newton. The platform aims to make using decentralized apps across multiple blockchains as seamless as browsing the internet. By leveraging Polygon’s decentralized AggLayer and Chain Development Kit, Newton will enable developers to build dapps that operate on different chains without requiring users to keep different wallets.
🔗 theblock.co/post/324876/paypal-backed-magic-link-and-polygon-launch-a-new-cross-chain-network-aiming-to-bust-blockchain-silos
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Cytonic has raised $8.3M in a Seed funding round co-led by Lemniscap and Lattice
Cytonic, a multi-virtual-machine blockchain, has secured $8.3M in a seed funding round co-led by Lemniscap and Lattice. Other investors in the round include IOBC Capital, Nomura, Lyrik Ventures, Public Works, and Arthur Hayes. Developed by MultiVM Labs, Cytonic is pioneering the first multi-virtual-machine blockchain, with a mission to seamlessly integrate diverse networks like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana into a unified Layer 1 blockchain solution.
🔗 techbullion.com/cytonic-secures-8-3-million-seed-funding-to-solve-blockchain-compatibility
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Top Cross-chain Bridges by Volume in last 30 days
The wide set of reliable cross-chain bridges is an essential requirement to exchange assets, data and value between multiple blockchain networks for crypto users right now. Let’s compare the top cross-chain bridges by volume in last 30 days, according to Defillama.com.
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Sophon [SOPH] has launched new farming pool - stAVAIL
Sophon $SOPH launches a new farming pool AVAIL's stAVAIL. Stakers now have the opportunity to benefit from multiple rewards, including native $AVAIL APY and exclusive incentives through Sophon's farm mechanics. By staking stAVAIL tokens on the farm, participants earn Sophon Points (SP) and have the chance to boost their deposits for increased rewards.
Sophon has collected over 20.8K
$WETH
(worth about $54.4M at current rate) via node sale on Impossible Finance, with 123.5K nodes (62%) sold. By running a node on Sophon, users will be eligible to earn a share of up to 20% of SOPH token emissions over 3 years.
KIP Protocol [KIP] has announced strategic investment in HackQuest
KIP Protocol $KIP has invested HackQuest, a Web3 developer education platform. This investment will strengthen KIP Protocol’s capabilities in decentralized AI (DeAI) evangelisation and education, while also empowering HackQuest with a powerful suite of DeAI tools to onboard burgeoning DeAI developers.
KIP Protocol is an open-source Web3 framework designed to facilitate the creation, management and monetization of decentralized knowledge assets for AI applications. It has raised $5M in a funding round backed by Animoca Ventures, Tribe Capital, GBV Capital, Morningstar Ventures, DWF Ventures, and ZBS Capital.
🔗 decrypt.co/290238/kip-protocol-announces-strategic-investment-in-hackquest-to-drive-decentralized-ai-innovation
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bitSmiley [SMILE] has conducted initial listing on Bybit, KuCoin, Bitget, Gate and MEXC
bitSmiley $SMILE has been initially listed on Bybit, KuCoin, Bitget, Gate and MEXC on November 6th, at 10:00 UTC. bitSmiley is a stablecoin, lending and derivatives protocol for $BTC ecosystem, which allows users to over-collateralize native BTC on BTC network to mint bitUSD stablecoin. It has raised $10M in Round 2 funding backed by NxGen, IBC Group, Pragma Ventures, Zephyrus Capital, MH Ventures, KuCoin Ventures, Cypher Capital, and others.
Previously, bitSmiley launched on KuCoin GemPool with 630K $SMILE rewards. Moreover, bitSmiley launched farming on Bybit Launchpool with 2.1M $SMILE in reward. Current $SMILE price is $0.44. Current FDV is $90.7M.
🔗 x.com/bitsmiley_labs/status/1853351358612849097
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Dogin Hood [DOGIN] has conducted initial listing on Gate and MEXC
Dogin Hood $DOGIN has been initially listed onGate and MEXC today, on November 5th, at 15:00 UTC. Dogin Hood is a memecoin infrastructure on Solana with the first-ever fully gamified token launch platform, and farming app on Telegram.
Previously, Dogin Hood $DOGIN conducted IDO on Ape Terminal, eesee and SpartaDex. IDO price is $0.0028. Current $DOGIN price is $0.006. Fully diluted market cap is $6M.
🔗 x.com/doginhood_io/status/1853804316542287952
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Lumia [LUMIA] has announced a partnership with Gelato [GEL]
Lumia $ORN teams up with Gelato $GEL, a rollup-as-a-service platform. Through this partnership, Gelato Relay and functions go live on Lumia, to create Web2-like user experiences for RWAs. Previously, Binance completed Orion mainnet swap and rebranding to Lumia.
Lumia is a hyper-liquid volition type Layer 2 built on PolygonCDK, emphasising modularity and vertical scalability, focusing on end-to-end RWA tokenization and trading. Current $LUMIA price is $0.99. Current $LUMIA FDV is $237M.
🔗 x.com/BuildOnLumia/status/1853561559219388500
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Anchorage Digital, Bullish, Galaxy Digital, Kraken, Nuvei, Paxos and Robinhood have introduced Global Dollar Network
Anchorage Digital, Bullish, Galaxy Digital, Kraken, Nuvei, Paxos and Robinhood have partnered to release a new stablecoin network - Global Dollar Network. The network aims to accelerate stablecoin adoption worldwide and to incentivize new use cases for the stablecoin USDG launched on November 1st. The blockchain infrastructure platform Paxos will issue USDG out of Singapore in compliance with the nation's Monetary Authority.
Singapore banking giant DBS Bank will custody $USDG reserves. The token is available on Ethereum with plans for issuance on other blockchains in the near future.
🔗 theblock.co/post/324413/anchorage-digital-bullish-galaxy-digital-kraken-nuvei-paxos-and-robinhood-partner-to-introduce-global-dollar-network
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Biconomy [BICO] has introduced its permissionless network - MEE
Biconomy $BICO, a multi-chain transaction infrastructure, has unveiled a Modular Execution Environment (MEE). The MEE is a permissionless network that can provide credible execution for various off/on-chain instructions contained within the Supertransaction data model. Supertransactions' core spans multiple chains and execution modalities with a single signature.
Previously, Biconomy has closed a strategic funding round backed by Consensys, Jump Capital, Borderless Capital, Taisu Ventures, Manifold, Side Door Ventures, Blockchain Founders Fund and others. Current $BICO price is $0.21. $BICO FDV is $213M.
🔗 biconomy.io/post/modular-execution-environment-supertransactions
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