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Polychain-backed Ethereum L2 Scroll launches Scroll Canvas in collaboration with EAS
Scroll rolls out Scroll Canvas, its open-source, permissionless, community-driven platform. This platform allows users, who interacted with the Scroll ecosystem projects, to collect certain achievements in the form of badges. Users who mint Canvas will receive one Mark as part of Session 2.
Scroll is a zkEVM-based zkRollup on Ethereum that enables native compatibility for existing Ethereum applications and tools. It has raised $83M in multiple funding rounds (last at $1.8B valuation), backed by Polychain Capital, Sequoia China, Variant and others.
🔗 x.com/Scroll_ZKP/status/1812419679136387364
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KIP Protocol [KIP] has announced a partnership with easeflow
KIP Protocol $KIP teams up with easeflow, a Nodes-as-a-Service (NaaS) provider. Through the partnership, Easeflow's AI-powered approach will ensure secure setup and operation of nodes, which will make KIP Nodes accessible for both individual users and professional venture investors. Moreover, KIP announced its upcoming AI Checker Node Sale.
KIP Protocol is an open-source Web3 framework designed to facilitate the creation, management and monetization of decentralized knowledge assets for AI applications. It is backed by Animoca Brands, Morningstar Ventures, SkyVision Capital, Spicy Capital, Purechain Capital and others.
🔗 x.com/KIPprotocol/status/1812036075864621128
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Ta-da [TADA] has announced integration with Axelar [AXL]
Ta-da $TADA has integrated with Axelar $AXL, a universal overlay network, securely connecting blockchain ecosystems. This integration aims to scale $TADA token beyond all Axelar-supported blockchains. Previously, Ta-da has expanded to BNB Chain $BNB and listed on PancakeSwap $CAKE.
Ta-da, incubated by Morningstar Ventures, is a talk-to-earn Web3 app that connects businesses that need datasets for AI training with individuals who could earn tokens by recording and checking voice data. Current $TADA price is $0.07. Current FDV is $70.5M.
🔗 x.com/Ta_da_io/status/1811784348418347409
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Haruko has raised $6M in a Series A funding round co-led by White Star Capital and MMС
Haruko has secured $6M in a Series A funding round co-led by White Star Capital and MMC Ventures. Haruko's platform enables connectivity across CeFi exchanges and DeFi protocols, offering a detailed real-time view of digital asset exposures and risks. In 2022, it raised $10M in a seed funding round backed by White Star Capital and Portage Ventures.
🔗 tech.eu/2024/07/15/digital-asset-management-platform-haruko-raises-6m-series-a
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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 Peak XV Partners (ex-Sequoia India), Dragonfly, Hashkey Capital, Lemniscap, and others.
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zkLink has launched Aggregation Parade Season II with 30M ZKL as prize pool
zkLink has rolled out Aggregation Parade Season II with 3% of total supply as a prize pool. 30M $ZKL prize pool is divided into Holding, Native Boost, Spot DEX, Perp DEX, GameFi, and Lending sectors. Users will be rewarded with Nova Points that will be used to distribute ZKL rewards. Recently, zkLink has announced a genesis airdrop for its community members.
Users can check Airdrop eligibility here 👉 zklink.io/novadrop
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. Also, zkLink raised $4.7M in token sale on Coinlist. Sale price was $0.15, at $150M valuation.
To join zkLink Aggregation Parade campaign, you can use our invite code - 12768C.
a16z-backed Story Protocol will launch IP-focused L1 in 2024
Blockchain startup Story is coming out of stealth with its bespoke Layer 1 network built for IP management. The network will utilize an EVM-compatible blockchain and a custom Proof-of-Creativity consensus algorithm. The team plans to work with third-party experts to provide crowdfunding, community building and licensing guidance.
Story is an open-source repository for intellectual property owners and anyone who wants to access those creations. Previously, it raised $54.3M in two funding rounds backed by a16z, Samsung Next, Hashed Fund, Mirana Ventures, Alliance DAO and others.
🔗 theblock.co/post/304847/story-protocol-plans-to-launch-ip-focused-layer-1-this-year
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Lumia [ORN] will launch HyperNodes Sale on July 18th
Lumia will roll out HyperNodes sale on July 18th, at 12:00 UTC. HyperNodes max supply is 50,000. The initial price will be $1,000 for the first 10,000 Nodes. HyperNode rewards, comprising 50% of newly minted $LUMIA token supply, will be distributed among all holders.
HyperNode benefits will include daily LUMIA rewards, power rewards for active participation, enhanced staking rewards for delegating or staking, and qualification for ecosystem and partner airdrops.
Mantis has opened Waitlist for its L2 rollup on Solana
Mantis has rolled out a waitlist for its L2 rollup on Solana. This waitlist will grant users early access to the deposit period and become eligible for rewards. Moreover, waitlist period will be followed by a pre-launch campaign termed Season 2 during which users will be able to pre-fund their Mantis accounts to be eligible for Mantis credits.
Mantis is a L2 rollup on Solana that is powered by Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol, which facilitates seamless cross-chain transactions and offers chain-abstracted orderflow, secured by the Picasso Network's restaking layer.
🔗 x.com/mantis/status/1811448201263874547
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NATIX Network [NATIX] has announced a partnership with Mapbox
NATIX $NATIX has teamed up with Mapbox, an AI-powered location technology for automakers, mobile app developers, and logistics services. Through this partnership, using the Mapbox Navigation SDK combined with NATIX data will bring the best routes for the smoothest traffic avoidance experience with real-time traffic updates. Previously, NATIX conducted a $NATIX token sale on CoinList.
NATIX Network is the AI-powered dynamic map supercharged by the DePIN and driver community. It raised $9.4M in funding rounds backed by Borderless Capital, Tioga Capital, Big Brain Holdings, Blockchange Ventures, TechStars, Plug and Play, Mulana Capital and others. Current $NATIX price is $0.0007. Current FDV is $74.6M
🔗 natix.network/blog/natix-partners-with-mapbox---bringing-navigation-to-drive
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Ankr [ANKR] has launched no-code deployer app for rollups in partnership with Arbitrum
Ankr $ANKR, a major Web3 infrastructure provider, in partnership with Arbitrum $ARB, has released an innovative no-code deployer app for the Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform. This addition empowers developers to seamlessly launch and manage their own testnet and mainnet blockchains, eliminating the need for complex coding and infrastructure management.
The tool's first functionality will include the ability to launch Arbitrum Orbit rollups in minutes. Current $ANKR price is $0.027. Current FDV is $275M.
🔗 ankr.com/blog/no-code-deployer-app-for-rollups-is-live-in-collaboration-with-arbitrum
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Goldman Sachs plans to launch three tokenization projects in 2024
Goldman Sachs reportedly plans to launch three tokenization projects by the end of the year, focused on U.S. and European markets. Moreover, the firm is planning to create marketplaces for tokenized assets. Rival firms like BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and Fidelity have all recently made splashes in the RWA tokenization space.
Previously, Franklin Templeton has separately launched a yield-paying, on-chain fund and related BENJI token on the Stellar and Polygon blockchains while Fidelity International tokenized shares in a money market fund.
🔗 theblock.co/post/304542/goldman-sachs-plans-to-launch-three-tokenized-funds-this-year-report
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Hypersphere has opened its $130M liquid fund and seeks $75M for new VC fund
Hypersphere Ventures has opened its recently launched liquid fund that has already gathered $130M in assets under management to outside investors. The liquid fund, dubbed Atlas, is a multi-manager fund aiming to provide 40% returns from various trading strategies, including DeFi, quantitative, market making and arbitrage.
In addition to Atlas, Hypersphere is also set to raise a new venture fund to invest in early-stage crypto projects. The firm is eyeing $75M for the VC fund. Hypersphere's investment portfolio includes such projects as LayerZero $ZRO, Berachain, Sentient, Sei $SEI, Worldcoin $WLD and others.
🔗 theblock.co/post/304414/crypto-vc-hypersphere-liquid-fund-new-vc-fund
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Dora has raised $5.5M in a funding round co-led by Dragonfly and Lemniscap
Dora has secured a $5.5M early-stage funding round co-led by Dragonfly Capital and Lemniscap. Other investors in the round include Robot Ventures, Ethereal Ventures, Maven 11, Marin Ventures, Anagram Crypto, Alchemy, Galileo, Dialectic Capital and Arche Capital. Dora is the only multichain search engine that allows for search capabilities and cross-chain transactions in a unified interface.
Dora platform provides a multichain Block Explorer to search blockchain data for EVM chains, APIs for accessing enriched token and NFT information, and efficiently organized data structures for easy data retrieval powered by Goldsky and Simplehash. Dora currently supports over 20 chains including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Celo, Scroll, Rari, Palm, and Xai.
🔗 chainwire.org/2024/07/09/dora-announces-close-of-5-5m-early-stage-funding-round-co-led-by-dragonfly-and-lemniscap
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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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Plume Network has launched Season 1 of Testnet Campaign
Plume Network has rolled out the first season of its Testnet campaign. 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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Top 10 Layer 2 Projects by Number of Transactions in last 30 days
Let's compare the top 10 Layer 2 projects by the number of transactions in the last 30 days and total value locked, according to L2BEAT.
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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 $UNI, $ARB, $STRK, $ZKJ, $MERL, $AXS and $APE according to CryptoRank.io.
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Top Upcoming Events of the Next Week
We compiled a list of top important upcoming events of the next week (July 15th - July 21st) among blockchain projects, including Starknet $STRK, Stacks $STX, Uniswap $UNI, Arbitrum $ARB, Chromia $CHR, READYgg $RDYX, and Lumia $ORN. Stay tuned!
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Blast-based launchpad ZAP has raised over $15M in total funding
Blast-based token distribution protocol ZAP has raised $15.1M in total funding, with the last sale round at a $100M token valuation. The funding was raised in three recent rounds — $900K seed last December, $2.1M private round last month and $12.1M in an ongoing vault sale.
Investors in seed and private rounds included Rarestone Capital, Cypher Capital, Sharding Capital, Luca Netz of Pudgy Penguins, Larry Cermak of The Block and Chelsea Jiang of Foresight Ventures.
Aethir [ATH] has announced a partnership with GameSwift [GSWIFT]
Aethir $ATH teams up with GameSwift $GSWIFT, a modular gaming blockchain based on zkEVM, to create a thriving gaming and AI ecosystem. Through this partnership, GameSwift's gaming-focused chain will enable integration with Aethir's cloud infrastructure while the games from the GS store will be able to leverage Aethir Edge mining AI devices.
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 $128M via Node sale on Impossible Finance. Current $ATH price is $0.07. Current FDV is $2.96B.
🔗 x.com/AethirEco/status/1811412555358970350
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Top Base Protocols by Total Value Locked
The total value of assets locked in Base is around $1.41B, according to DefiLlama.com. Let’s compare the top protocols on Base by current TVL in USD, including Aerodrome, Uniswap, Extra Finance, Moonwell, AAVE, Overnight Finance, Beefy, Morpho Blue, Compound and Cygnus Finance.
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JPMorgan-backed Partior has raised $60M in a Series B funding round
Partior, a blockchain payment network backed by banking giants JPMorgan, DBS and Standard Chartered, has raised $60M in Series B funding. The investment was led by Peak XV Partners with contributions from Valor Capital Group, JPMorgan, Standard Chartered, Temasek and Jump Trading Group.
Partior is a joint venture between DBS, JPMorgan and Standard Chartered aimed at establishing unified blockchain-based interbank payment rails for instant clearing and settlement. Using blockchain-based technology to expedite such banking processes is now fairly commonplace.
🔗 coindesk.com/business/2024/07/12/partior-blockchain-payment-network-backed-by-jpmorgan-and-dbs-raises-60m-series-b
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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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Notcoin [NOT], 1inch [1INCH], and Sign launches accelerator for Telegram and TON ecosystems
Notcoin $NOT, 1inch #1INCH, and Sign partners to launch a new startup accelerator for Telegram and TON’s crypto ecosystems. Called Triangle, the accelerator program aims to attract people looking to build on Telegram and TON. The project is specifically looking to support those wishing to improve TON UX, develop popular tap-to-earn mini-apps, and launch consumer applications bridging Web2 and Web3.
Previously, Notcoin launched a $50M Telegram gaming accelerator in partnership with Helika Gaming. Current $NOT price is $0.015. Current FDV is $1.62B.
🔗 theblock.co/post/304585/notcoin-1inch-and-sign-launch-accelerator-for-telegram-and-ton-ecosystems
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Top 7 TON Protocols by Total Value Locked
The total value of assets locked in The Open Network $TON is around $714M, according to DefiLlama.com. Let’s compare the top protocols on TON blockchain by current TVL in USD, in order to evaluate their adoption scale.
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Top Blast Protocols by Total Value Locked
The total value of assets locked in Blast is around $1.2B, according to DefiLlama.com (and over $2.13B according to Blast site). Let’s compare the top protocols on Blast by current TVL in USD, including Thruster, Juice Finance, Hyperlock Finance, Ring Protocol, Particle, Wasabi, Renzo, SynFutures, Orbit Protocol and Ambient.
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AIT Protocol [AIT] has announced a partnership with Nuklai [NAI]
AIT Protocol $AIT has teamed up with Nuklai $NAI, a Layer 1 blockchain infrastructure provider for data economies. Through this partnership, projects will enhance data annotation and contextualization technologies. Previously, AIT has introduced its Roadmap for 2024-2025.
AIT Protocol, incubated by PAAL AI $PAAL, is a Web3 data platform specializing in data annotations and AI model training, using blockchain technology to create a decentralized labour market. Current $AIT price is $0.066.
🔗 x.com/aitprotocol/status/1810721628692635690
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Hedgehog Protocol has launched its Testnet on Sepolia
Hedgehog, a protocol providing tools for dealing with fluctuating crypto transaction fee prices, has launched testnet on Sepolia. To take part in testing the Hedgehog protocol, users must have Sepolia testnet $ETH and Lido Staked Wrapped Ethereum wstETH in their wallet.
The core goal of Hedgehog is to create an asset with a price that mirrors current transaction fee prices on Ethereum. Previously, Hedgehog raised $1.5M in a pre-seed round backed by Marshland Capital, Tenzor Capital, Prometeus, 3Commas Capital, ZBS Capital and Nothing Research.
🔗 medium.com/hedgehog-protocol/wen-testnet-now-8291b44c2ed5
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Sophon has launched new pools for SOPH token farming
Sophon $SOPH has announced the launch of new farming pools, including Aethir (stATH), DAI (sDAI), Pepe (PEPE) and $USDC. Previously, Zentry (stZENT), ether.fі (ETH, wETH, eETH, weETH), and Lido (ETH, wETH, stETH, wstETH) farming pools were launched. 10% of the total $SOPH supply will be designated as rewards for farming, with 6% for the farming period on Ethereum, and 4% on Sophon mainnet.
Sophon has collected over 20.8K $WETH (worth about $64.3M 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. Node holders may receive potential airdrops from ecosystem participants.