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Kuru has raised $2M in a Seed funding round led by Electric Capital
On-chain orderbook exchange Kuru has secured $2M in a seed funding round led by Electric Capital. Brevan Howard Digital, CMS Holdings, Pivot Global, Breed and Velocity Capital also participated in the round alongside notable angel investors, including Keone Hon (CEO at Monad Labs0, Jarry Xiao (co-founder at Ellipsis Labs), and Eugene Chen (co-founder at Ellipsis Labs). Kuru claims to be the first fully on-chain order book DEX on Monad, providing users with a single platform to find, research and trade spot assets on-chain.
🔗 x.com/KuruExchange/status/1816487370222706708
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Clearpool [CPOOL] has launched on Arbitrum, originating $18M of loans
Clearpool $CPOOL rolls out on Arbitrum $ARB, a Layer 2 blockchain. The integration marks the debut of Clearpool Prime on Arbitrum and $18M of loans have already originated upon launching on Arbitrum to Flow Traders and Bastion Trading. Moreover, Clearpool has also received a grant in $ARB tokens from Arbitrum Foundation to support the protocol’s growth and technical development.
Clearpool is the leading DeFi credit and RWA lending protocol. Current $CPOOL price is $0.14. Fully diluted market cap is $142M.
🔗 clearpool.medium.com/clearpool-launches-on-arbitrum-originates-18m-of-loans-and-receives-arbitrum-foundation-grant-f611b75d827b
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aPriori has raised $8M in a Seed funding round backed by Consensys
aPriori has secured $8M in a seed funding round at a $100M valuation led by Pantera Capital. Other investors in the round included Consensys, OKX Ventures, CMS Holdings, ABCDE, Gumi Cryptos Capital, Flow Traders, Laser Digital, Chorus One, Everstake Capital and Staking Facilities.
aPriori will launch the testnet of its platform on day 1 of the Monad testnet and the mainnet of its platform on day 1 of the Monad mainnet.
OpenSocial has raised $6M in a Strategic funding round co-led by Framework Ventures and North Island Ventures
Web3 community platform OpenSocial Protocol has secured $6M in a strategic funding round co-led by Framework Ventures and North Island Ventures. Other participants in the round include Hivemind Capital Partners, Stratos, Moonrock Capital, Chorus One, HV Capital, X Ventures, Gat Labes, Panga Capital, and Aspen Digital.
Previously, OpenSocial has secured $5M in a seed funding round backed by Portal Ventures, SNZ Capital, Animoca Brands, Awesome People Ventures, Arche Fund, and others. The round brings OpenSocial's total funding raised to $26M.
Top Exchanges by Liquidations in the last 24 hours
The vast majority of the casualties were long positions in last 24 hours, with more than $289M 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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Blocklords [LRDS] has been listed on Coinbase today, on July 24th
Blocklords $LRDS has conducted listing on Coinbase today, on July 24th. Blocklords is a player-driven MMO medieval grand strategy game with GameFi activities, developed by MetaKing Studios. It raised $15M in a seed funding round backed by Makers Fund, Bitkraft Ventures, Delphi Digital, Animoca Brands, Shima Capital, WW Ventures, Spartan Group, Huobi Ventures, and others.
To celebrate TGE day, Blocklords distributed 300K LRDS tokens via GameDrop 4. Previously, Blocklords launched a startup pool event on Gate and offered an airdrop on MEXC Kickstarter. After the announcement, the price of $LRDS increased by 70% Current $LRDS price is $2.47. Current FDV is $247M.
🔗 x.com/CoinbaseAssets/status/1816138974512996702
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Caldera has raised $15M in a Series A funding round led by Founders Fund
Caldera, a Web3 infrastructure platform, has secured $15M in a Series A funding round led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund. Other investors in the round include Dragonfly, Sequoia Capital, Arkstream Capital, TrueBridge Capital and Lattice. With fresh funding, Caldera is now building Metalayer, which aims to unify the fragmented Layer 2 and Layer 3 ecosystem.
Caldera is a rollup-as-a-service platform that helps developers quickly launch their application-specific chains based on tech stacks such as Optimism's $OP Stack, ZKsync's $ZK Stack, Arbitrum $ARB Nitro and Polygon $MATIC CDK. Previously, it raised $10M in a funding round backed by Sequoia, Ethereal Ventures, 1kx and Dragonfly.
🔗 caldera.xyz/blog/caldera-announces-series-a-to-build-the-metalayer
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Top Blockchains by Commits and Development Activity in last 7 days
Let’s compare the top blockchains by GitHub commits and active developers in last 7 days, according to artemis.xyz, in order to evaluate their current development activity.
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SingularityNET [AGIX] will invest $53M in AI infrastructure and modular supercomputer
SingularityNET $AGIX, an artificial intelligence platform developer, has revealed a $53M investment in a modular supercomputer dedicated to decentralized artificial general intelligence (AGI). The investment’s first phase will allocate $26.5M to the supercomputer, incorporating modular data center solutions from Ecoblox, graphics processing units (GPUs) and processors from companies such as Nvidia, AMD and Tenstorrent.
SingularityNET’s supercomputer will optimize the training of deep neural networks (DNNs), large language models (LLMs) — including multimodal variations — and hybrid neural-symbolic computing architectures, such as OpenCog Hyperon. Current $AGIX price is $0.59. Current FDV is $1.19B.
🔗 cointelegraph.com/news/singularitynet-invest-53-million-ai-infrastructure-modular-supercomputer
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Igloo, the firm behind Pudgy Penguins, has raised $11M in a Strategic funding round led by Founders Fund
Igloo, the parent company of the popular NFT brand Pudgy Penguins, has secured $11M in a strategic funding round led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. Other investors in the round included Fenbushi Capital, 1kx, Everest Ventures Group and Selini Capital.
The company will use the funding to set up Cube Labs, a new venture under the Igloo banner, to oversee and contribute to the development of the Abstract Layer 2 blockchain.
Binance Labs has invested in Telegram game Catizen's publisher Pluto Studio
Pluto Studio, the GameFi publishing platform that launched Catizen, has raised funds from Binance Labs. Pluto Studio made waves in March this year with the launch of its flagship project, Catizen, a groundbreaking gaming bot on Telegram that seamlessly integrates Telegram with the TON blockchain. Previously, Pluto Studio has raised two rounds — a $2.2M seed round and a $4M strategic round backed by HashKey Capital and The Open Platform.
In just a few months, Catizen has grown its community to around 25M players, around 1.5M on-chain gamers, and over 500K paying users globally. The game has also dominated the TON blockchain ecosystem, securing the top application spot for three consecutive seasons of The Open League, an incentive program for TON users, teams, and traders hosted by the TON Foundation.
🔗 binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/binance-labs-invests-in-pluto-studio--the-publishing-platform-of-telegrambased-web3-game-catizen-346617774142878362
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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 $980M 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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Blocklords [LRDS] will conduct initial listing on KuCoin, Gate, and MEXC tomorrow, on July 24th
Blocklords $LRDS will be initially listed on KuCoin, Gate, and MEXC tomorrow, on July 24th, at 13:00 UTC. Moreover, Blocklords launched a startup pool event on Gate and offered an airdrop on MEXC Kickstarter. Previously, Blocklords has launched its companion app on Base blockchain - Dynasty.
Blocklords is a player-driven MMO medieval grand strategy game with GameFi activities, developed by MetaKing Studios. It raised $15M in a seed funding round backed by Makers Fund, Bitkraft Ventures, Delphi Digital, Animoca Brands, Shima Capital, WW Ventures, Spartan Group, Huobi Ventures, and others.
🔗 kucoin.com/announcement/en-blocklords-lrds-gets-listed-on-kucoin-world-premiere
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AutoLayer [LAY3R] has announced a partnership with Inception
AutoLayer $LAY3R has teamed up with Inception, а liquid restaking protocol. Through this partnership, AutoLayer will bring $inETH to its DeFi hub, allowing users to restake $inETH using Arbitrum $ARB or Ethereum $ETH networks. Moreover, projects will launch a joint $inETH restaking campaign that will grant users boosted rewards and will last from July 22nd to TGE.
AutoLayer is the LRTfi hub on Arbitrum, which offers one-click liquid restaking and staking along with other DeFi strategies and incentives. Previously, AutoLayer announced its IDO on Poolz Finance. IDO price is $0.65, at $20.8M valuation. Initial market cap is $435K.
🔗 autolayer.medium.com/autolayer-integrates-with-inception-lrt-on-arbitrum-and-ethereum-3845ebf778a0
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Top 10 Blockchains by Total Value Locked in DeFi protocols
The total value of assets locked in DeFi-protocols across all the blockchains is around $88B, according to DefiLlama.com. Let’s compare the top blockchains by current TVL in USD, in order to evaluate their adoption scale.
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pSTAKE [PSTAKE] will launch Bitcoin liquid staking on Babylon on July 29th
pSTAKE’s Bitcoin liquid staking testnet on Babylon will be launched on July 29th with a 50 $BTC deposit cap. pSTAKE’s Bitcoin liquid staking solution is built on top of Babylon, an innovative security-sharing protocol that brings the security of Bitcoin’s PoW algorithm to PoS chains with trustless BTC staking. A total of 44.8K users have participated, depositing an impressive 40.65 sBTC into the testnet procedure.
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Kintsu has raised $4M in a Seed funding round backed by Brevan Howard Digital
Kintsu, a liquid staking protocol building on Monad blockchain, has secured $4M in a seed funding round led by Castle Island Ventures. Other investors in the round include Brevan Howard Digital, CMT Digital, Spartan Group, Breed VC, CMS Holdings, Arche Capital, Lbank Labs and Animoca Ventures. Kintsu first built a liquid staking protocol for the Aleph Zero blockchain but is now laser-focused on Monad. Kintsu's sMONAD liquid staking token will launch in the first week of Monad's launch.
🔗 x.com/Kintsu_xyz/status/1816482015304200503
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Top Blockchains by Number of Transactions in last 7 days
Let’s compare the top blockchains by number of transactions registered on-chain and average daily active addresses in last 7 days, according to Artemis.xyz, in order to evaluate their current adoption and performance.
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Galaxy Asset Management has raised $113M for a new crypto venture fund
Michael Novogratz’s Galaxy Asset Management raised $113M for a new crypto venture fund. The new venture will invest in early-stage crypto startups, mainly in cryptocurrency software, infrastructure, and financial applications. The new fund, called Galaxy Ventures Fund I LP, aims to invest in 30 companies initially and will continue raising funds until it reaches the $150M target, which is expected to happen by 2025 at the latest.
As part of Galaxy’s bet on the future of blockchain, the new fund will invest between $3M and $5M on each project. Galaxy's investment portfolio includes such projects as Polygon $MATIC, Aleo $ALEO, Celestia $TIA, pSTAKE $PSTAKE, Babylon and others.
🔗 cointelegraph.com/news/galaxy-asset-management-raises-113m-for-new-crypto-venture
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Decentralized AI startup Redpill has raised $5M in Pre-Seed and Seed funding rounds
Redpill AI has secured $5M in pre-seed and seed funding rounds. Animoca Venture led pre-seed round, meanwhile, seed round was led by Digital Finance Group (DFG). Other investors across these rounds included Jsquare, Hypersphere, IOSG Ventures, Outlier Venture, PAKA, Sanctor Capital, TKX Capital, Gate Venture, LD Capital, Incuba Alpha, Math Wallet and MEXC.
Redpill’s mission is to democratize access to the best AI resources. The platform works as a permissionless LLM router network, offering seamless integration across various AI models. Redpill is gearing up for a full-scale launch in 2024, promising to bring more innovations to the forefront of AI and blockchain integration.
🔗 cointelegraph.com/press-releases/redpill-secures-5m-seed-round-with-new-vision-to-democratize-ai
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Top Solana Protocols by Total Value Locked
The total value of assets locked in Solana $SOL is around $5.2B, according to DefiLlama.com. Let’s compare the top DeFi-protocols on Solana by current TVL in USD including Jito $JTO, Marinade $MNDE, Kamino $KMNO, Raydium $RAY, Sanctum $CLOUD, Jupiter $JUP, marginfi, Drift $DRIFT, BlazeStake $BLZE, Meteora, and others in order to evaluate their adoption scale.
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Blocklords [LRDS] has conduced initial listing on KuCoin, Gate, and MEXC
Blocklords $LRDS has been initially listed on KuCoin, Gate, and MEXC today, on July 24th, at 13:00 UTC. Blocklords is a player-driven MMO medieval grand strategy game with GameFi activities, developed by MetaKing Studios. It raised $15M in a seed funding round backed by Makers Fund, Bitkraft Ventures, Delphi Digital, Animoca Brands, Shima Capital, WW Ventures, Spartan Group, Huobi Ventures, and others.
To celebrate TGE day, Blocklords distributed 300K LRDS tokens via GameDrop 4. Previously, Blocklords launched a startup pool event on Gate and offered an airdrop on MEXC Kickstarter. Current $LRDS price is $1.10. Current FDV is $110M.
🔗 kucoin.com/announcement/en-blocklords-lrds-gets-listed-on-kucoin-world-premiere
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Sharpe AI will airdrop 2.5M SAI tokens to Aevo [AEVO] traders
Sharpe AI will distribute 2.5M $SAI tokens (worth $500K at IDO price) to Aevo $AEVO traders. Users' airdrop allocation will depend on their trading volume in the $SAI pre-launch. Meanwhile, Sharpe AI has just achieved $500M in platform volume. Recently, Sharpe AI launched Sharpe Perps and Sharpe Swap on Mantle Network $MNT, and achieved $500M in platform volume.
Previously, Sharpe AI conducted IDOs on Ape Terminal and AIT Launchpad. IDO price is $0.02. Initial market cap is $1.62M.
Web3 AI firm Network3 has raised $5.5M in Pre-Seed and Seed funding rounds
Network3, a Web3 AI startup, has secured $5.5M in pre-seed and seed funding rounds. Investors in the round include IoTeX Eco fund, SNZ, Waterdrip Capital, Bing Ventures and EV3. Network3 is building a decentralized AI infrastructure that distributes tasks across numerous devices, reducing latency while prioritizing privacy. It is currently have 240k live nodes worldwide and will release a physical mining machine in the coming months.
🔗 theblock.co/post/306471/web3-ai-firm-network3-raises-5-million-in-funding
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Zircuit has closed Mainnet funding round with participation from Binance Labs and others
Zircuit, a zero-knowledge rollup with AI-enabled sequencer-level security, has closed a mainnet funding round. Investors in the round include Binance Labs, Mirana Ventures, Amber Group, Selini, Robot Ventures, Nomad Capital and angel investors including the founders of Renzo, Etherfi, Pendle, Parallel, LayerZero, etc.
Previously, Zircuit has launched LRT, LST and ETH staking for receiving Eigenlayer and Zircuit points, and reached over $2.94B in TVL. The network’s hybrid architecture also results in a fast, low-cost, and fully EVM-compatible ZK rollup, offering unparalleled security for users without compromising speed or compatibility.
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Poolz Finance [POOLX] now supports projects built on TON [TON]
Poolz Finance $POOLX is now supporting TON $TON projects. Through this innovation, Poolz is now opening the gate for TON companies to launch their IDOs on Poolz. As part of this process, users can now connect their TON native wallets to the fundraising platform. Poolz aims to be a multi-chain platform and currently, users can participate in IDOs and NFT sales on Ethereum, BNB Chain, Polygon, Celo, and Avalanche, with many more to come.
🔗 blog.poolz.finance/poolz-finance-is-now-supporting-ton-projects
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Eight Spot Ethereum ETFs are officially live!
Eight Spot Ethereum $ETH ETFs, including Grayscale, Franklin, VanEck, Bitwise, 21Shares, Fidelity, iShare and Invesco, are live now. Six of the funds will use Coinbase as a custodian. VanEck is using Gemini as a custodian, while Fidelity is self-custodying its $ETH. Perfumo predicted $750M to $1B of net inflows per month for the first five to six months.
The SEC allowed S1 registration statements to become effective on Monday, which marked the final sign-off for those funds to begin trading. Current $ETH price is around $3,470.
🔗 theblock.co/post/306812/spot-ethereum-etfs-begin-trading-today-heres-what-you-need-to-know
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Bitlayer has raised $11M in a Series A funding round led by Franklin Templeton
Bitlayer has secured $11M in a Series A funding round led by Franklin Templeton. Other investors in the round include Stake Capital Group, WAGMI Ventures, Flow Traders, GSR Ventures, FalconX and others. Bitlayer addresses Bitcoin's trade-off between security and completeness through cryptographic innovations and blockchain protocol engineering.
Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin Layer 2 network based on BitVM, offering Bitcoin-equivalent security and Turing completeness. Previously, it raised $5M in a seed funding round backed by Framework Ventures, ABCDE Capital, StarkWare, OKX Ventures, Alliance DAO, UTXO Management, Asymmetric Capital and others.
🔗 fortune.com/crypto/2024/07/23/franklin-templeton-bitcoin-bitlayer
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Plume Network has reached over 1.6M users during first week of its Testnet
Plume Network has achieved 15.4M transactions on its Testnet, with 1.63M cumulative users. During the testnet, users can get a Plume Miles for completing X (Twitter) tasks, joining Discord and other quests associated with Celestia, Bitget Wallet, Omni Network, etc.
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Spot Ethereum ETFs have been made effective by SEC and set to launch on July 23rd
Spot Ethereum ETFs have been made effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Five Spot Ethereum ETFs including VanEck, Invesco, Fidelity, 21Shares and Franklin Templeton, are set to launch today, on July 23rd, at 9:30 UTC, according to the CBOE exchange. Ether ETF applicants first received 19b-4 form approvals back in May. However, there has been a delay in wrapping up final loose ends. Current $ETH price is around $3,500.
🔗 x.com/ericbalchunas/status/1815489137484722333
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