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Mawari Network has raised $10.8M in a Strategic round co-led by Anfield Ltd, Borderless Capital and 1kx
Mawari Network has secured $10.8M in a strategic funding round co-led by Anfield Ltd, Borderless Capital and 1kx. Other investors in the round include Accord Ventures, Animoca Brands Japan, Blockchange Ventures, Draper Dragon, and Samsung Next.
Currently, Mawari is in active development on Solana's devnet and plans to launch its mainnet in the Q1 of 2025
Avalanche [AVAX] has introduced Retro9000, a $40M grant program to reward ecosystem developers
Avalanche $AVAX has unveiled a $40M grant program to reward developers for building new protocols in the blockchain ecosystem. The program, called Retro9000, is supposed to encourage developers to build on Avalanche ahead of a much-anticipated upgrade known as Avalanche9000.
Builders and users will have to register with the Retro9000 platform to build on Avalanche, where the users receive some voting credits, based on their activity on the network
Guggenheim has issued $20M of tokenized commercial paper on Ethereum blockchain
Wall Street Titan Guggenheim tokenizes $20M of commercial paper on Ethereum blockchain $ETH. The tokenization comes weeks after German industrial giant Siemens AG issued digital commercial paper via megabank JPMorgan’s Onyx and blockchain platform SWIAT.
While RWA is a new direction for Guggenheim, which boasts a whopping $300B in assets under management, the global investment firm has previously participated in the crypto ecosystem. The firm’s Macro Opportunities Funds have for years been authorized to take on up to 10% exposure to the former Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC).
🔗 coindesk.com/business/2024/09/26/wall-street-titan-guggenheim-tokenizes-20m-of-commercial-paper-on-ethereum
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AminoChain has raised $5M in a Seed funding round led by a16z Crypto
Decentralized science project AminoChain has secured $5M in a seed funding round led by a16z Crypto. The first application that will be built on AminoChain will be a peer-to-peer marketplace for “bio-samples” called the Specimen Center, which will house an inventory of research samples of human tissue potentially useful for scientific research.
AminoChain is building a “decentralized biobank” and Layer 2 network, which will connect enterprise medical institutions looking to share medical data. Previously, AminoChain raised $2M in pre-seed financing, bringing its total raised to date to $7M.
🔗 theblock.co/post/318158/a16z-makes-first-desci-investment-in-decentralized-biobank-platform-aminochain
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Fusionist [ACE] launches Planet NFT Launchpad on Endurance
Fusionist $ACE has launched Planet NFT Launchpad on Endurance. The Planet Launchpad will offer 6,000 planet blind boxes. Users can participate in the event by staking ACE, wbACE, or USDC till September 28th. Each wallet can obtain 1 whitelist in a single pool, with a total of 3 obtainable.
Holding a Planet NFT, users can play Fusionist Game, where they can build bases, gather materials, and engage in mech construction and trading.
Infinex has raised $65.29M via Patron NFTs sale backed by Wintermute
Infinex has secured $65.29M via Patron NFTs sale. Investors in the round include Wintermute, Framework Ventures, Moonrock Capital, Bodhi Ventures, Wormhole, Breyer Capital, Solana Ventures, Near Foundation, Bankless Ventures, Synthetic Ventures, Pyth and others.
Infinex is a decentralized perpetuals exchange created by Kain Warwick (founder of Synthetix). Currently, it supports six EVM and non-EVM chains, including Solana, Base and Arbitrum.
🔗 x.com/infinex_app/status/1834512800531841461
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Top Solana Protocols by Total Value Locked
The total value of assets locked in Solana $SOL is around $5.3B, 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, Orca $ORCA, Meteora, and others in order to evaluate their adoption scale.
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Binance [BNB] has launched a pre-market spot trading service
Binance $BNB has rolled out a pre-market spot trading service, enabling users to take early positions before a token's official launch. Binance is the only crypto exchange to offer pre-market spot trading whereby tokens will be exclusively allocated and generated for users to hold and trade in the pre-market on the Binance platform.
Only selected Binance Launchpool tokens will be available for pre-market trading. With Binance Pre-Market, users can trade these tokens immediately, subject to restrictions like withdrawal, transfer and deposit limits until the official listing.
🔗 theblock.co/post/318063/binance-pre-market-spot-trading
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Meridian has raised $4M in a Seed funding round co-led by ParaFi Capital and Borderless Capital
Meridian, a decentralized liquidity marketplace and liquid staking protocol built on Movement, has secured $4M in a seed funding round co-led by ParaFi Capital and Borderless Capital. Other investors in the round include Amber Group, Saison Capital, Interop Ventures, Oak Grove Ventures, Serafund, and DCF GOD.
Meridian is poised to become the Movement ecosystem's central liquidity and yield hub, enabling partner protocols to build deep liquidity in a capital-efficient manner while offering users secure, productive yield on their assets. The protocol is currently live on testnet and is scheduled to launch on day one of Movement's mainnet.
🔗 prnewswire.com/news-releases/meridian-secures-4m-in-seed-funding-to-revolutionize-defi-on-movement-302256477
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Plume Network has announced an integration with zkMe
Plume Network has integrated with zkMe, a provider of ZK identity verification solutions. With this integration, Plume has recognized zkMe as their first integrated zkKYC solution, highlighting collaboration's role in setting a new standard for secure user verification in daps. The projects aim to introduce zkMe’s advanced on-chain compliance solutions to a broader RWAfi user base, providing a revolutionary identity solution.
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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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Smolbound has raised $6M in a Seed funding round led by Bitkraft Ventures
Darkbright Studios, developer of Smolbound, has raised $6M in a Seed funding round led by Bitkraft Ventures. Other investors in the round include Play Ventures, Anthos Capital, King River Capital, Rockaway X, Zentry, Caballeros Capital, Gam3Girl Ventures, and Offchain Labs. Smolbound is an RPG/sim hybrid in a player-driven world with seamless Web3 integration. The studio has initiated closed beta tests for the game, with plans to launch it on the Treasure Layer 2 blockchain next year.
🔗 venturebeat.com/games/darkbright-raises-6m-to-build-life-sim-rpg-smolbound
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W3GG [W3GG] will be initially listed on Gate, MEXC and Uniswap tomorrow, on September 25th
W3GG #W3GG will conduct the initial listing on Gate, MEXC and Uniswap tomorrow, on September 25th, at 10:00 AM UTC. W3GG is a decentralised gaming protocol that transforms the entire gaming experience, offering true digital ownership and rewarding gamers with tangible benefits. It raised $15.5M in two funding rounds backed by Yield Guild Games, HashKey Capital, Circle, Animoca Brands, Solana Ventures and others.
🔗 x.com/w3ggofficial/status/1837297441160450275
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Aethir [ATH] has announced a partnership with Kima Network
Aethir $ATH teams up with Kima Network, a decentralized, blockchain-based money transfer protocol. Through this partnership, projects will work towards a unified vision for growth, technological synergy, global reach and accessibility. Moreover, with Aethir’s globally distributed cloud infrastructure, Kima will be able to expand its reach, bringing its community-building solutions to a wider audience around the world.
Aethir is a decentralised GPU cloud infrastructure, positioned as an enterprise-grade AI-focused GPU-as-a-service provider, tailored for AI and gaming. Backed by Framework Ventures, Merit Circle, Hashkey, Animoca Brands, and others, Aethir has raised over $32M for its ecosystem. Moreover, it raised around $111M via Node sale on Impossible Finance. Current $ATH price is $0.065. Current FDV is $2.72B.
🔗 x.com/AethirEco/status/1838199673728676091
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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 $WLD, $PORTAL, $YGG, $MAV, $NFP, $RAD and $GTAI according to CryptoRank.io.
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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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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, Blast $BLAST, Mantle $MNT, Scroll, zkSync Era $ZK, Linea, Starknet $STRK, Manta Network $MANTA and others.
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Trust Wallet [TWT] has announced upcoming launch of Trust Launchpool
Trust Wallet $TWT is going to launch its launchpool soon, with the details to be announced shortly. Trust Wallet is a self-custody multi-chain platform with over 130M user base, that supports millions of assets across blockchains such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, Optimism, and much more. After the announcement, the price of $TWT increased by 6%. Current price is $0.93. Current FDV is $931M.
🔗 x.com/TrustWallet/status/1839274792127500599
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AutoLayer [LAY3R] will conduct initial listing on KuСoin on October 3rd
AutoLayer $LAY3R will be initially listed on KuСoin on October 3rd, at 8:00 UTC. Previously, AutoLayer #LAY3R has conducted its IDO on Magic Launchpad, Poolz, ChainGPT and Ape Terminal. IDO price is $0.65, at $19.5M valuation. Initial market cap is $550K.
AutoLayer is a multi-chain hub for LRTfi, which offers one-click liquid restaking and staking along with other DeFi strategies and incentives. It raised $2.5M in a seed funding round backed by Morningstar Ventures, Poolz Ventures, KuCoin Labs, Staked.vс, BlackEdge Capital, Spark Digital Capital and Dewhales.
🔗 x.com/AutoLayer/status/1839220919945867288
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Gunzilla Games [GUN] has announced a strategic investment from Delphi Ventures
Gunzilla Games $GUN has announced a strategic investment from Delphi Ventures. The amount of investment was not disclosed. Through this investment, Delphi Ventures has become the largest validator of Gunzilla’s gamer-first ecosystem and blockchain platform GUNZ. Moreover, the GUNZ chain has been integrated into OpenSea.
Gunzilla Games is a game developer behind ‘Off The Grid’, a AAA Battle Royale and gaming-focused blockchain GUNZ. It has raised $76M in two funding rounds backed by CoinFund, Blizzard Fund, Morningstar Ventures, Republic Capital and others.
🔗 gunzillagames.com/en/news/58-Gunzilla-Games-Announces-Delphi-Ventures-as-GUNZ-Blockchain-s-Largest-Validator
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pSTAKE [PSTAKE] has announced an integration with Leather
pSTAKE Finance $PSTAKE has integrated with Leather, a wallet for Runes, Ordinals, and the Stacks L2 Ecosystem. With pSTAKE, Leather will offer Bitcoin Yields through Babylon to its user base.
pSTAKE is a liquid staking protocol unlocking the liquidity of staked assets built by Persistence $XPRT. Current $PSTAKE price is $0.051. Current FDV is $25.7M.
🔗 x.com/pStakeFinance/status/1838927085907112016
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Initia has raised $14M in a Series A funding round led by Theory Ventures
Initia has secured $14M in a Series A funding round at a $350M token valuation. Theory Ventures led the round, with Delphi Ventures and Hack VC participating. Initia's public testnet, dubbed The Initiation, concluded last month with over 125M transactions and nearly 3M unique wallets.
The mainnet and token launch are expected within the next two months.
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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Daylight has raised $6M in a Seed funding round co-led by USV and 1kx
Daylight, a crypto platform that recommends personalized on-chain actions for users, such as airdrop claims, has secured $6M in a seed funding round co-led by Union Square Ventures and 1kx. Other investors in the round include Framework Ventures, Chapter One, and angels such as Zerion co-founders Evgeny Yurtaev and Vadim Koleoshkin.
Daylight is an "onchain for you" API integrated into major wallets like MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, Zerion and OKX Wallet. In 2022, it raised $3M in a pre-seed funding round backed by Framework Ventures, Chapter One, 6th Man Ventures, OpenSea Ventures, and others.
🔗 theblock.co/post/317916/daylight-onchain-for-you-seed-funding
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zkLink [ZKL] will conduct listing on HTX today, on September 25th
zkLink $ZKL will be listed on HTX today, on September 25th, when deposit volume meets the demand of market trading, which will be officially announced in advance. zkLink is the app-specific aggregated rollup infrastructure built for high performance ZK applications. It has raised $18.5M from Coinbase Ventures, Ascensive Assets, Arrington Capital, Morningstar Ventures and others. Current $ZKL price is $0.10. Current FDV is $103M.
🔗 htx.com/support/104981556873888
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Top Exchanges by Liquidations in last 7 days
The vast majority of the casualties were short positions last days, with more than $915M 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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Polymarket considers token launch to raise over $50M in new capital
Polymarket, a decentralized prediction markets platform, is considering a token launch of more than $50M to help operate its crypto betting platform potentially. The prediction platform could use the tokens as a way for users to validate the outcome of real-world events. Meanwhile, Polymarket has not decided on tokens and there’s no guarantee of a launch.
Previously, Polymarket raised $74M in three funding rounds backed by Vitalik Buterin, Founders Fund, Polychain Capital, DragonFly Capital and others.
🔗 theblock.co/post/317782/polymarket-considers-token-launch-to-raise-over-50-million-report
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Celestia Foundation has raised $100M in a funding round led by Bain Capital Crypto
Celestia Foundation has raised $100M in a funding round led by Bain Capital Crypto, bringing its total financing to $155M. Other investors in the round include Syncracy Capital, 1kx, Robot Ventures, and Placeholder. Recently, network developers announced plans to scale Celestia to 1-gigabyte blocks.
Celestia is a modular data availability network that enables developers to deploy their blockchain with minimal overhead. Previously, it has raised $55M in two funding rounds backed by Binance Labs, Polychain Capital, Bain Capital Crypto, Coinbase Ventures and others.
🔗 blog.celestia.org/celestia-foundation-raise
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Ethernity Chain [ERN] launches Grant Program with a $10M fund
Ethernity Chain $ERN announced the launch of the Ethernity Grant Program with a $10M fund to fuel innovation in entertainment. The initiative aims to empower devs, startups, and creators with grants focused on games entertainment, and blockchain infrastructure. The grants will range from $15K to $150K, based on the project's scope and impact.
Alongside funding, grantees receive technical assistance, marketing support, and business development resources to ensure their projects thrive
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 Foresight Ventures, Multicoin Capital, Haun, Binance Labs, Hack VC and others.
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