Top Ethereum Protocols by Total Value Locked
The total value of assets locked in Ethereum $ETH is around $56B, according to DefiLlama.com. Let’s compare the top DeFi-protocols on Ethereum chain by current TVL in USD, in order to evaluate their adoption scale.
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Polymarket crosses $1B in cumulative volume, driven by US political bets
Polymarket, a decentralized prediction markets platform, has surpassed $1B in cumulative trading volume since its inception. Polymarket's cumulative volume stood at $663M in June and surged about 58% to reach $1B in July. The surge in trading volume is closely tied to an increasing interest in U.S. political events.
The platform’s user base has seen a large rise, with the number of monthly traders soaring to over 44K from approximately 4,000 in January. Previously, it raised $74M in three funding rounds backed by Vitalik Buterin, Founders Fund, Polychain Capital, DragonFly Capital and others.
🔗 theblock.co/post/309061/polymarket-crosses-1-billion-in-cumulative-volume-driven-by-us-political-bets
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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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Nakamoto Games [NAKA] has introduced its Android mobile app - 8BallNext
Nakamoto Games $NAKA has launched 8BallNext, a mobile app. 8 Ball Next is a pool game that offers exciting gameplay, allowing users to challenge friends or players from around the globe. Currently, the game is available for download on Google Play.
Nakamoto Games is a major play-to-earn gaming ecosystem. Current $NAKA price is $0.91. Current market cap is $59.6M. Current FDV is $165M.
🔗 x.com/NakamotoGames/status/1818652565170798866
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Morpho Labs has raised $50M in a Strategic funding round led by Ribbit Capital
Morpho, a decentralized lending protocol with $1.74B in TVL, has secured $50M in a Strategic funding round led by Ribbit Capital. Other investors in the round include a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Pantera Capital, Brevan Howard, Mirana Ventures, BlockTower, Hack VC, IOSG Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, Robot Ventures and Kraken Ventures.
Morpho is a decentralized P2P lending protocol on Ethereum and Base L2. Previously, it raised $19.35M in two rounds backed by a16z, Variant, Coinbase Ventures Nascent and others.
🔗 morpho.mirror.xyz/bgUB21hQoy-w7T9je7sEpgTp4EsMMkwbO3sFJmWAwGw
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Plume Network introduces a new game on Testnet to earn Plume Miles – Cultured
Plume Network has unveiled Cultured, an RWA oracle prediction game in which users can predict the future prices of various assets, from forex and equities to crypto – and earn Plume Miles. By combining multiple data points, users can now bet on sports matches, predict economic trends, or even create new tradable indexes.
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Sharpe AI [SAI] has announced a partnership with Coin98 [C98]
Sharpe AI $SAI has partnered with Coin98, a multi-chain crypto wallet and DeFi gateway. Recently, Sharpe AI rolled out Sharpe Onramp, a fiat-to-crypto onramp aggregator powered by Onramper. Previously, Sharpe AI conducted IDOs on Ape Terminal and AIT Launchpad. IDO price is $0.02. Initial market cap is $1.62M.
Sharpe AI is an institutional-grade crypto superApp, serving as a unified frontend for intelligence, tracking and investing in digital assets. It is backed by Animoca Brands, GBV Capital, Morningstar Ventures, Maven Capital, Metabros, Contango Digital Assets and others.
🔗 x.com/SharpeLabs/status/1818922082106810658
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Mirada AI [MIRX] has announced upcoming IDO on Ape Terminal
Mirada AI $MIRX will launch its IDO on Ape Terminal. Subscription period for IDO is now live and will last till August 5th, at 5:00 UTC. IDO price is $0.01 ($10M valuation). IDO hardcap is $250K. Initial market cap is $340K. Previously, Mirada AI announced its IDOs on Poolz, Carbon and HyperX Pad on August 5th.
Mirada AI is a decentralized and comprehensive AI tool that offers image generation, face-swap, animation, LLM chat, image upscaling, and more. It is backed by Poolz Ventures, Carbon Ventures and AWEH Ventures.
🔗 x.com/apeterminal/status/1818692954879660373
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Layer2 Financial has raised $10.7M in a Series A funding round led by Galaxy Ventures
Layer2 Financial, a payments and banking as a service platform, has secured $10.7M in a Series A funding round led by Galaxy Ventures. Other investors include Accomplice and Sapphire Ventures. Layer2’s customers include non-bank financial institutions, traditional banks, neobanks (also known as fintechs, such as Revolut and Monzo), enterprise organizations, and other payment companies. The company’s multi-partner platform provides its customers with compliant payments for multiple currencies.
🔗 fortune.com/crypto/2024/07/31/galaxy-ventures-leads-10-7-million-bet-on-layer2-financials-push-to-challenge-swift-on-cross-border-payments
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Daylight has raised $9M in a Series A funding round led by a16z сrypto
Daylight, a DePIN project focused on energy distribution, has secured $9M in a Series A funding round led by a16z сrypto. Other investors in the round included Framework Ventures, Lattice Fund, Escape Velocity and Lerer Hippeau. Daylight is building a decentralized protocol that lets users connect their energy devices, such as thermostats, batteries, electric vehicles and solar inverters, to its app and earn rewards.
🔗 x.com/daylightenergy_/status/1818678077930848578
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Mirada AI [MIRX] has announced a partnership with Cluster Protocol
Mirada AI $MIRX has partnered with Cluster Protocol, a decentralized infrastructure for AI and DePINs. Through this partnership, Cluster Protocol will integrate the Sentinel AI moderator to enhance community management. Moreover, Mirada AI's open-source models will be available on Cluster Arena at the platform launch.
Mirada AI is a decentralized and comprehensive AI tool that offers image generation, face-swap, animation, LLM chat, image upscaling, and more. It is backed by Poolz Ventures, Carbon Ventures and AWEH Ventures. Previously, Mirada AI announced its IDOs on Poolz, Carbon and HyperX Pad on August 5th. IDO price is $0.01. Initial market cap is $340K.
🔗 x.com/miradaai/status/1818283182665462155
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Donald Trump has raised $25M at Bitcoin Conference 2024 fundraiser
Donald Trump has reportedly secured $25M for his presidential campaign at the Bitcoin Conference 2024 in Nashville. This event highlights the growing support for Trump within the crypto community, showcasing the financial backing he’s gaining for his re-election campaign. The conference attracted a large number of people of higher profiles and celebrities like Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, Kid Rock, Jake Paul, and Billy Ray Cyrus.
🔗 x.com/EleanorTerrett/status/1818361503445336360
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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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Movement Labs has joined Polygon’s AggLayer attracting $160M in TVL via Testnet
Movement Labs joins AggLayer, designed to facilitate interoperability across the Polygon 2.0 network of Ethereum Layer 2 chains. AggLayer is an interoperability layer currently under development by Polygon Labs designed to facilitate unified liquidity and security across the Polygon 2.0 network of Layer 2 chains.
Movement Labs claims the testnet has already attracted $160M in committed total value locked ahead of its mainnet deployment, scheduled for later this year.
Binance Labs has invested in aPriori, a MEV-powered liquid staking solutions on Monad blockchain
Binance Labs invests has invested in aPriori through Incubation Season 6. aPriori’s mission is to decentralize Monad’s network and enhance the user experience by reducing gas fees, optimizing network traffic, and driving sustainable incentives for validators. 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.
aPriori is a project focused on Miner Extractable Value (MEV)-powered liquid staking solutions on Monad, a high-performance Ethereum-compatible L1 smart contract platform. Previously, it raised $10M in two funding round backed by Pantera Capital, Consensys, OKX Ventures, CMS Holdings, ABCDE, Gumi Cryptos Capital, Flow Traders and others.
🔗 binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/binance-labs-invests-in-apriori-through-its-incubation-program-to-advance-mev-powered-liquid-staking-5476395444355527254
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KIP Protocol [KIP] is now managing $10M to build Open Campus University [OCU]
The OCP-12 proposal for the Open Campus DAO has been passed, allowing KIP Protocol to fully operate Open Campus University (OCU), an AI-powered education platform to bring decentralized AI learning to the EDU Chain. Through this innovation, KIP Protocol will manage $10M to build OCU, a Coursera-like learning platform. Moreover, $KIP token will be involved in OCU as a currency alongside $EDU.
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/1818532479084773517
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Aark Digital [AARK] has launched Moon Listing Event with ARB Airdrops as rewards
Aark Digital $AARK has rolled out the first week of the Moon Listing event. Users can now trade BOME, SOL, and XRP with 1000x leverage. The first 50 traders to make over $500 in profits will receive 200 $ARB airdrops. Recently, Aark unveiled Reflective Market Maker (RMM) that mirrors the liquidity of CEXs, ensuring deep liquidity and minimizing slippage.
Aark Digital builds a 'Leverage Everything' perpetual DEX for professional traders and LPs. It has raised over $6M in two funding rounds backed by HashKey Capital, Arrington Capital, Cypher Capital, Morningstar Ventures, Delphi Digital, OKX Ventures, IVC, Metavest and others. Current $AARK price is $0.014. Current FDV is $14.4M.
🔗 x.com/Aark_Digital/status/1818905843972403688
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OKX Venture and Aptos Foundation have launched a $10M Ecosystem Growth Fund
OKX Venture $OKT and Aptos Foundation $APT launches a $10M Growth Fund. The initiative aims to accelerate the growth of the Aptos blockchain ecosystem and promote widespread adoption of Web3 technologies. The fund will primarily support an accelerator program, operated in partnership with Ankaa, focusing on nurturing quality projects and applications built on the Aptos blockchain. The fund's main focus will be on projects around DeFi, RWA, gaming, social and AI.
🔗 decrypt.co/242710/aptos-foundation-and-okx-ventures-launch-10-million-growth-fund
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Ethernity Chain [ERN] has launched developer Testnet for entertainment-focused Layer 2 chain
Ethernity $ERN launches the developer testnet for its premier entertainment-focused Layer 2 chain. This innovation allows developers to explore, build, and test their app on the Ethernity L2 testnet ahead of the mainnet launch later this year. Previously, Ethernity introduced its Ethereum Layer 2 with enhanced AI-driven security.
Projects can build next-gen Web3 applications on the Ethernity chain spanning Web3 games, digital collectibles, RWAs, and interactive media.
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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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 $226M 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 Labs has invested in modular blockchain Particle Network [PARTI]
Binance Labs invests in Particle Network $PARTI, a L1 solution for unifying all chains via Universal Accounts, addressing user and liquidity fragmentation in Web3. With Particle Network’s Chain Abstraction infrastructure, users can maintain a single account and balance across the entire ecosystem, eliminating the need for manual bridging or asset management across multiple chains.
Particle Network is the intent-centric, modular access layer of Web3, built with modular smart WaaS, confidential zkStack, and omnichain account abstraction. Previously, it raised $25M in four funding rounds backed by ABCDE, Animoca Brands, HashKey Capital, GSR, and others.
🔗 binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/binance-labs-invests-in-particle-network-to--address-user-and-liquidity-fragmentation-in-web3-2579347885390894943
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Top 10 Crypto Fundraising Rounds in July
Let’s take a look at the top 10 biggest private crypto fundraising rounds completed in July, backed by major crypto venture investors including Pantera, Founders Fund, Dragonfly, Polychain Capital, OKX Ventures, Sequoia, Spartan, Hashed and others.
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XION launches AI-enabled digital asset platform powered by Chain Abstraction - XionSpace
XION rolls out XionSpace on XION - the first truly user-friendly, AI-powered digital asset platform. XION's Chain Abstraction technology is the backbone of XionSpace, enabling the platform to onboard users from all audiences regardless of technical knowledge. Moreover, the integration of NESA brings powerful on-chain AI capabilities to XionSpace, enabling features that were previously impossible in traditional digital asset marketplaces.
To celebrate the launch, XionSpace is introducing a special campaign that showcases the power of on-chain AI. Users can generate a unique digital asset using advanced AI algorithms and mint it directly on the XION blockchain.
Lympid will conduct LYP IDO on Polkastarter
Lympid will conduct the $LYP IDO on Polkastarter. IDO price will be $0.12. Fully diluted valuation on IDO price is $12M. Other details about IDO will be announced soon. Previously, Lympid launched a points campaign and interest form for the upcoming IDO.
Backed by 1inch, Chainlink Build, and Fintech House, Lympid is a real-world assets (RWA) platform built for premium investment products, offering a neo-bank-like app for investing in tokenized assets.
🔗 lympid.io/allthingscrypto/lympid-ido-coming-to-polkastarter
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Icebreaker has raised $5M in a Seed funding round led by CoinFund
Icebreaker has secured $5M in a seed funding round at a 21M valuation led by CoinFund. Other investors in the round include Accomplice, Anagram, Legion Capital, and others. Icebreaker allows users to transfer their existing professional profile and network onto its platform using blockchain technology. The company's founders, who previously worked at Google and Coinbase, want to create an open graph of reputation and identity, challenging LinkedIn's closed network.
🔗 fortune.com/crypto/2024/07/31/google-and-coinbase-vets-raise-5-million-to-build-icebreaker-blockchains-answer-to-linkedin
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Modular blockchain Lava Network launches Mainnet with 55M LAVA Airdrop
Lava Network rolls out public mainnet and airdrops 55M $LAVA tokens, starting with $2M in incentives to pay out to network participants. Filecoin Network, Starknet Foundation, and Cosmos Hub, along with many other previously announced partners, are supporting a modular blockchain startup. The project is experimenting with its tokenomics by starting with a high token float and a capped supply.
Lava is a modular blockchain network focused on providing data access through remote procedure calls and indexing. Previously, it raised $26M in two funding rounds backed by Animoca Brands, Gate Ventures, Jump Capital, Hashkey Capital, Tribe Capital, North Island Ventures, and others.
🔗 lavanet.xyz/blog/eruption
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QORPO World [QORPO] will launch Pre-alpha of AneeMate on August 15th
QORPO World $QORPO announced the pre-alpha release of AneeMate, a Web3 open-world creature extraction shooter with the concept of Pokémon, on August 15th. Users will be avaible to open the portal to the Hidden Islands, collect resources, find Yipeess, fight other players and NPCs.
The game offers extensive customization and utilizes NFTs to impact both player experience and the QORPO token economy. Utilizing NFTs for in-game assets reduces the supply of the QORPO token.
Router Protocol [ROUTE] has launched its Layer 1 blockchain focused on multi-chain dApps
Coinbase-backed Router Protocol $ROUTE launches Router Chain a Layer 1 network designed for the development of decentralized applications that function across multiple blockchains. The network aims to aggregate liquidity and facilitate cross-chain interactions through what’s known as the cross-chain intent framework.
Router Chain is based on proof-of-stake consensus using the Tendermint framework. Furthermore, it utilizes the native $ROUTE token for security, transaction fees and governance. Current $ROUTE price is $2.6. Current FDV is $51.8M.
🔗 theblock.co/post/308245/coinbase-router-protocol-blockchain
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Hyperbolic has raised $7M in a Seed funding round co-led by Polychain Capital and Lightspeed Faction
Web3 AI firm Hyperbolic has secured $7M in a seed funding round co-led by Polychain Capital and Lightspeed Faction. Other investors in the round include Chapter One, LongHash, Bankless Ventures, Republic Digital, Nomad Capital, CoinSummer Labs, and Third Earth Capital.
Hyperbolic aims to reduce AI computing resource consumption by aggregating GPU power. The firm uses blockchain technology to ensure its network runs securely and authentically. In 2022, Hyperbolic raised $725K in pre-seed funding backed by Modular Capital, Samsung Next, Blizzard Fund by Avalanche, and others.
🔗 hyperbolic.xyz/blog/hyperbolic-secures-7-25-million-seed-funding-round
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