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Top Polygon Protocols by Total Value Locked
The total value of assets locked in Polygon $POL is around $1.16B, according to DefiLlama.com. Let’s compare the top DeFi-protocols on Polygon chain by current TVL in USD, in order to evaluate their adoption scale.
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bitSmiley [SMILE] farming has been launched on Bybit Launchpool on October 31st
Farming of $SMILE tokens has been launched on Bybit Launchpool. Users are able to stake their $SMILE, $MNT or $USDT tokens into separate pools to farm $SMILE starting November 5th, 10:00 AM UTC. 2.1M $SMILE are offered on Launchpool.
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, NewTribe Capital, Aegis Ventures and others.
🔗 announcements.bybit.com/article/bybit-launchpool-stake-usdt-or-mnt-to-earn-a-share-of-2-100-000-smile--blt6c4211f2367f4b36
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Termina has raised $4M in a Seed funding round led by Lemniscap
Nitro Labs, the developer of Termina, has secured $4M in a seed funding round led by Lemniscap. Other investors in the round include Borderless, Race Capital, No Limit Holdings, Animoca Ventures, Finality Capital, Bitscale Capital, Chorus One, and Flowdesk. Termina is an open-source platform that aims to enable developers to easily deploy custom Solana rollups or SVM network extensions, essentially Layer 2 networks.
🔗 x.com/Terminaxyz/status/1851691841793728550
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Sapien has raised $10.5M in a Seed funding round led by Variant
Sapien has secured $10.5M in a seed funding round led by Variant. Other investors in the round include Primitive Ventures, Animoca Brands, Yield Game Guild and HF0. Sapien uses rewards on the blockchain to essentially gamify data labeling, a process integral to advancing AI-powered language learning models like OpenAI’s Chat GPT. Previously, it raised $5M in a funding round backed by Primitive Ventures, Animoca Brands, Yield Guild Games and angel investor Naval Ravikant.
🔗 coindesk.com/business/2024/10/30/ai-data-collection-startup-sapien-raises-105m-seed-funding-led-by-variant
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Nillion [NIL] has raised $25M in a funding round led by Hack VC
Privacy-focused blockchain project Nillion $NIL has secured $25M in a funding round led by Hack VC. Other investors in the round include HashKey Capital, Maelstrom, Animoca Brands, Chapter One, Big Brain Holdings, Manifold, GSR and Presto. Previously, Nillion raised $20M via token sale on Coinlist. Sale price was $0.40, at $400M valuation.
Nillion is a secure computation network that decentralizes trust for high value data in the same way that blockchains decentralized transactions. In 2022, it raised $25M in two funding rounds backed by Distributed Global, HashKey Capital, AU21 Capital, GSR, Big Brain Holdings and others.
🔗 x.com/nillionnetwork/status/1851615323163689421
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Aethir [ATH] partners with GAIB and GMI Cloud to launch decentralized AI compute powered by H200 GPUs
Aethir $ATH has partnered with GAIB and GMI Cloud to launch the first decentralized AI compute network powered by NVIDIA's cutting-edge H200 Tensor Core GPUs. The collaboration aims to accelerate the development of large-scale AI applications by providing a more accessible and cost-effective way to utilize high-performance computing resources globally.
Previously, Aethir has announced the launch of the $100M Aethir Ecosystem Fund to accelerate the innovation of artificial intelligence and gaming
Glif will airdrop 10% of GLIF total supply to points holders
Glif is set to launch its native GLIF token, with 100M (10% of total supply) tokens allocated for airdrop to eligible users. These tokens will be distributed 1:1 to GLIF points holders with at least 1 point, and any unused tokens will return to the community rewards pool.
Airdrop recipients can access 25% of their tokens immediately, while the remaining 75% will vest linearly over 180 days, mirroring the Filecoin network's block reward structure.
Optimism provides 25M OP token grant for Kraken to build Ink blockchain
Optimism Foundation has agreed to provide a 25M $OP token grant ($42.5M at current rate) to crypto exchange Kraken. The deal which was finalized around January or February, paved the way for Kraken to use Optimism’s OP Stack. The token allocation would be paid to Kraken in grants over a time period.
Recently, Kraken announced the launch of its layer 2 blockchain Ink next year. Testnet where developers will be able to try apps for Ink, will start later this year, and the blockchain is expected to become open to retail and institutional users in the Q1 of 2025.
🔗 coindesk.com/tech/2024/10/29/optimism-foundation-agreed-to-give-kraken-425m-of-op-tokens-in-layer-2-deal
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PumpBTC has raised $10M in a Seed funding round co-led by SevenX Ventures and Mirana Ventures
PumpBTC has secured $10M in a seed funding round co-led by SevenX Ventures and Mirana Ventures. Other investors in the round include UTXO, Mantle Ecosystem Fund, Seven Seas Capital, Istari Venture, Arcane Group, Coinsummer, Sharding Capital, and 10k Ventures.
PumpBTC is a liquid staking protocol on Babylon. Since its launch in July 2024, PumpBTC has attracted over 3,400 BTC in TVL (approximately $240M) and gained over 30,000 users.
🔗 medium.com/@Pumpbtcxyz/pumpbtc-raises-10m-seed-funding-to-build-a-new-standard-in-btc-yield-vaults-with-btc-fi-15de7cf26a82
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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 $1.25B 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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Alchemy Pay [ACH] plans to launch Layer 1 blockchain - Alchemy Chain
Alchemy Pay $ACH unveiled its launch plan for its Layer-1 blockchain built on a scalable Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) - Alchemy Chain. Alchemy Chain will integrate advanced Layer-2 solutions that enable seamless account mapping and data synchronization, minimizing redundant data storage and optimizing scalability. The launch of Alchemy Chain will also introduce two tools meme launchpad and meme Telegram bot.
$ACH will serve as the utility token of Alchemy Chain, allowing users to pay gas fees. Current $ACH price is $0.019. Current FDV is $192M.
🔗 xinwen.alchemypay.org/news-and-press/alchemy-pay-unveils-alchemy-chain-launch-plan-a-transformative-layer-1-blockchain-for-the-future-of-payments
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Top 7 Biggest Token Unlocks in the Next 7 Days
Monitoring of vested tokens and future unlock events is an important step to make more cautious and, in the end, better trading decisions. Let’s take a look at this and some other biggest unlocks coming in the next 7 days, including $TIA, $SUI, $OP, $IMX, $MAV, $PORTAL and $PRIME according to CryptoRank.io.
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bitSmiley [SMILE] has raised $10M in Round 2 funding
bitSmiley $SMILE has secured $10M in Round 2 funding. Investors in the round include NxGen, IBC Group, Pragma Ventures, Zephyrus Capital, MH Ventures, KuCoin Ventures, Cypher Capital, NewTribe Capital, Aegis Ventures and others.
Previously, bitSmiley conducted a public sale on People’s Launchpad. Token sale hardcap is $1,000 (for 210M $BIT, 1% of total supply). Token sale price is $0.0004762, at a $100K valuation.
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 Blockchain Capital, BainCapital, Bitkraft, Wintermute, Peak XV partners and others.
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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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Alliance Games has raised $5M in a Series A round co-led by Animoca Brands and Asymm Ventures
Alliance Games has secured $5M in a Series A funding round co-led by Animoca Brands and Asymm Ventures. Other investors in the round include Spartan Group, Kyros Ventures, Dialectic, Coin98 Ventures, ZBS Capital, Arche Fund, and Ancient8.
Alliance Games creates the infrastructure, SDKs and APIs for decentralized hosting, data storage and AI-powered game creation. The latest round brings Alliance Games’ total fundraising to $8M, following a $3M seed funding round.
🔗 x.com/alliancegamesx/status/1851896821347647907
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Dogin Hood [DOGIN] has announced upcoming IDO on Ape Terminal
Dogin Hood $DOGIN will launch its IDO on Ape Terminal. Subscription period for IDO is now live and will last till November 4th, at 5:00 UTC. IDO price is $0.0028 ($2.82M valuation). IDO hardcap is $600K. Initial market cap is $2.82M.
Previously, Dogin Hood has announced the launch of Degen Caravan, a fully gamified launch platform. The Degen Caravan is a memecoin infrastructure web app on Solana allowing projects and memecoins to gather community, distribute the token, and raise funds through gamified launches
OKX Ventures launched $10M Telegram Growth Hub in partnership with TOP and Folius Ventures
OKX Ventures, The Open Platform (TOP), and Folius Ventures announced the launch of a $10M Telegram growth Hub. Designed to boost innovation in TON blockchain and expand Telegram's mini-app ecosystem, the Telegram Growth Hub will fund and support projects that enhance user engagement on TON.
The fund will focus on three key areas: user onboarding and educational tools, trading capabilities and networks, and mini-app ecosystem expansion. Telegram Growth Hub will select up to 10 promising projects for a two-month acceleration program.
🔗 okx.com/learn/okx-telegram-growth-hub
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Top Ethereum Layer 2 Projects by Total Value Locked
The total value of assets locked in Ethereum Layer 2 systems is almost $38B at the moment, according to L2BEAT. Let’s compare the top Layer 2 projects by current TVL in USD, including Arbitrum $ARB, Base, Optimism $OP, Mantle $MNT, Blast $BLAST, Scroll $SCR, zkSync Era $ZK, Linea, Starknet $STRK, Manta Network $MANTA and others.
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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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Perpetual DEX dYdX [DYDX] has laid off 35% of its staff
dYdX Trading $DYDX, the company behind the decentralized derivative platform, has laid off 35% of its staff. CEO Antonio Juliano recently rejoined the firm after a six-month sabbatical. He initially stepped away on May 13 due to personal and professional reasons.
The news comes on the day Ethereum development firm Consensys announced a 20% reduction in staff. Current $DYDX price is $1.04. Fully diluted market cap is $1.04B.
🔗 theblock.co/post/323612/dydx-trading-lays-off-35-of-its-employees-including-core-team-members
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Consensys is cutting workforce by 20% as CEO blames abuse of power by SEC
ConsenSys, a developer of MetaMask and Linea, is cutting over 160 employees across all divisions of the company. Founder and CEO Joe Lubin announced that attributed the layoffs to headwinds from the macroeconomy as well as legal expenditures from the company’s protracted battles with regulators.
Multiple cases with the SEC, including ours, represent meaningful jobs and productive investments lost due to the SEC’s abuse of power and Congress’s inability to rectify the problem
Clearpool’s L2 Ozean has announced a partnership with Ethena [ENA]
Ozean, a Layer 2 blockchain for RWA yield launched by Clearpool $CPOOL, has partnered with Ethena $ENA, a derivative infrastructure provider on Ethereum ($2.68B in TVL). Through this partnership, Ethena's USDe and sUSDe will be integrated into Oxygen (O2), the RWA liquidity layer on Ozean. $USDe & $sUSDe is also being introduced to Ozean’s upcoming Liquidity Generation Event (LGE), where depositors can earn extra rewards (Ethena Points).
Ozean, 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 $224M.
🔗 clearpool.medium.com/introducing-ethenas-usde-susde-in-ozean-s-liquidity-generation-event-oxygen-2821617990fd
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Chainlink [LINK] launched Data Streams on Solana via GMX-SOLANA
Chainlink's $LINK Data Streams is available on Solana $SOL, featuring GMX-SOLANA as a launch partner. Through this launch, Solana devs now have access to high-frequency, sub-second market data backed by Chainlink's time-tested, decentralized infrastructure. Chainlink is a provider of real-world data to blockchains. Current $LINK price is $11.4. Current FDV is $11.4B.
🔗 x.com/chainlink/status/1850992279068283167
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Top Solana Protocols by Total Value Locked
The total value of assets locked in Solana $SOL is around $6.3B, according to DefiLlama.com. Let’s compare the top DeFi-protocols on Solana by current TVL in USD including Jito $JTO, Kamino $KMNO, Jupiter $JUP, Marinade $MNDE, Raydium $RAY, Sanctum $CLOUD, Drift $DRIFT, marginfi, Meteora, Orca $ORCA, and others in order to evaluate their adoption scale.
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Gelato [GEL] has raised $11M in a Series A+ funding round led by Hack VC
Rollup-as-a-Service platform Gelato has raised $11M in a Series A+ funding round led by Hack VC. Other investors in the round include Animoca Brands, IOSG Ventures and Bloccelerate VC. Gelato claims to support more than 500 applications, including Aave, Sky and Synthetix’s Infinex.
The latest round brings Gelato’s total fundraising to $23.2M, following an $11M Series A token sale round in 2021 led by Dragonfly Capital and $1.2M in earlier seed funding led by IOSG Ventures and Galaxy Digital. Current $GEL price is $0.14. Current FDV is $61.5M.
🔗 theblock.co/post/323265/gelato-raises-11-million-usd-unveils-kraken-layer-2-ink-as-customer
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FTX [FTT] has agreed to drop lawsuit against Bybit in $228M settlement
FTX $FTT has agreed to drop its lawsuit against Bybit in a settlement that would allow FTX to collect around $228M. The settlement will allow FTX’s liquidation estate to reclaim $175M in cryptocurrencies held on Bybit accounts.
FTX will sell Mirana (Bybit's investment arm) over 105M $BIT tokens valued at around $52.7M. Earlier this month, a U.S. bankruptcy court approved FTX’s reorganization plan to repay its creditors.
🔗 theblock.co/post/323199/ftx-agrees-to-drop-lawsuit-against-bybit-in-228-million-settlement
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Top Upcoming Events of the Next Week
We compiled a list of top important upcoming events of the next week (Oct 28th - Nov 3rd), including Hatom $HTM, Grass $GRASS, Ethernity Chain $ERN, Zyfi $ZFI, Aethir $ATH, Elixir Network $ELX, bitSmiley $SMILE, Zyfi $ZYFI, Celestia $TIA, Optimism $OP, Immutable $IMX, ZetaChain $ZETA, and Sui $SUI. Stay tuned!
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KIP Protocol [KIP] has announced a partnership with Seraphnet
KIP Protocol $KIP has partnered with SeraphNet, a decentralized base layer for generative AI apps. Through this partnership, KIP’s robust decentralized base layer with SeraphNet’s privacy-focused generative AI infrastructure. Projects aim to provide both developers and users with stronger data security, effortless scalability, and AI workflow automation.
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.
🔗 www.kip.pro/blog-posts/revolutionizing-decentralized-ai-kip-protocol-partners-with-seraphnet
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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 $76B, 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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