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GnosisDAO [GNO] is launching a $40M venture fund targeting RWA, crypto infrastructure and payments
GnosisDAO $GNO is launching a $40M venture fund to support early-stage projects under the Gnosis 3.0 roadmap. The GnosisVC fund has three areas of focus: real-world assets (RWA), crypto infrastructure and payment rails. For its part, GnosisDAO will invest $20M in the fund while the remaining half will come from external LPs.
The fund, which will be partially governed by GNO token holders, has already made preliminary investments in platforms like Monerium, the developers of the EURE fiat infrastructure — and decentralized AI startup Naptha AI. Current $GNO price is $215. Current FDV is $646M.
🔗 theblock.co/post/322895/gnosisdao-is-launching-a-new-40-million-venture-fund-targeting-real-world-assets-crypto-infrastructure-and-payments
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Genius has raised $6M in a Seed funding round led by CMCC Global
Genius, a non-custodial decentralized trading platform, has secured $6M in a seed funding round led by CMCC Global. Other investors in the round include Arca Fund, Ava Labs, SALT fund, Flow Traders, Psalion VC, Cadenza, Public Works, and others. Genius uses a protocol-managed liquidity model that ensures competitive rates and flexible swap sizes across multiple networks, including EVM-compatible chains, Solana, Bitcoin, Cosmos, and TON.
🔗 x.com/GeniusTerminal/status/1849105492754452559
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Party Icons has raised $9M in a Seed funding round led by Bitkraft Ventures
Party Icons, a Web3 mobile gaming platform with three playable modes, has secured $9M in a seed funding round led by Bitkraft Ventures. Other investors in the round include IDG Capital, Gam3Girl Ventures, Leap Capital, Mantle Network, King River Capital, Mask Network, Yield Guild Games, Zentry, 32-Bit Ventures, Ed3n Ventures, and Palm Drive Capital. With this round, Party Icons' total funding has reached $20M.
🔗 x.com/PartyIconsOGX/status/1849316208287375435
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Fluid Protocol has raised $3.9M in a Seed funding round backed by Animoca Ventures
Fluid Protocol has secured $3.9M in a seed funding round to launch USDF, the native stablecoin of Fuel network, a modular execution layer. Investors in the round include Bloccelerate, Animoca Ventures, CMS Holdings, Maelstrom, Veil VC, Builder Capital, Infinity Ventures, RockTree Capital, Wise3 Ventures, Stake Capital, Relayer Capital, and others.
Fluid Protocol is an over-collateralized, decentralized borrowing platform specifically built for Fuel Network. In addition to the seed capital, Fluid previously secured a direct investment and a grant from Fuel Labs.
🔗 x.com/Fluid_Protocol/status/1849082951574700366
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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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Azura has raised $6.9M in a Seed funding round led by Initialized
Azura launched its platform after raising $6.9M in a seed funding round led by Initialized. Other investors in the round include Volt Capital, Winklevoss Capital, Alliance DAO, and angels such as Solana cofounder Raj Gokal, Stephane Gosselin and Meltem Demirors. Azura is a full-stack decentralized platform offering a non-custodial trading app for DeFi assets.
🔗 fortune.com/crypto/2024/10/22/exclusive-defi-platform-azura-launches-after-raising-6-9-million-from-initialized
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0G Labs will launch AI Alignment Node Sale on November 11th
0G Foundation has announced an AI Alignment Node Sale on November 11th. The 0G AI Alignment Node Sale is distributed across 32 tiers, starting at 0.05 ETH. 0G's nodes will offer evolving utility, rewarding participants with emissions for securing the network and contributing to the ecosystem’s growth.
Up to 15% of the total $0G ecosystem supply is allocated to node holders to build and maintain the ecosystem.
Sophon [SOPH] has announced a partnership with Avail [AVAIL]
Sophon $SOPH has partnered with Avail $AVAIL, a Web3 infrastructure layer that allows modular execution layers to scale and interoperate. This partnership aims to enable users and developers to access near-instant transactions with subsecond completion times and low, predictable fees. Sophon has collected over 20.8K $WETH (worth about $54.4M 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.
Karpatkey has raised $7M in a funding round backed by AppWorks and Wintermute
Karpatkey, an onchain treasury management solutions provider for DAOs, has announced a $7M funding round. Investors in this round include AppWorks Ventures and Wintermute Ventures, alongside a cadre of prominent angel investors like Joe Lubin (ConsenSys), Stani Kuchelov (Avara), and Fernando Martinelli (Balancer Labs), and others.
Karpatkey treasury network has grown to over $1.8B in assets, and its risk management infrastructure has been used to execute over 10,000 onchain transactions for partners without incident. It has worked with high-profile clients in the crypto space, such as Aave, Uniswap, ENS, and MakerDAO.
🔗 theblock.co/post/322392/karpatkey-closes-7-million-funding-round-to-expand-dao-treasury-services
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Nakamoto Games [NAKA] will launch Naka Wallet tomorrow, on October 22nd
Nakamoto Games $NAKA will roll out Naka Wallet tomorrow, on October 22nd. Naka Wallet is designed as a user-friendly, multichain wallet. It boasts smooth onboarding via Telegram, Apple ID, or email, and integrates with in-game assets.
Nakamoto Games is a major play-to-earn gaming ecosystem. Current $NAKA price is $1.23. Current market cap is $79.6M. Current FDV is $220M.
🔗 x.com/NakamotoGames/status/1846824779099394106
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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 $RON, $ID, $YGG, $LAZIO, $GTAI, $FP and $WELL according to CryptoRank.io.
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Zerobase has raised $5M in a funding round backed by Binance Labs
Zerobase has secured $5M in a funding round to create a privacy-preserving compute network tailored for ZK use cases. Investors in the round include Binance Labs, Lightspeed Faction, dao5, Matrix Partners, IDG, Symbolic Capital, MH Ventures, Oak Grove Ventures, Web3Port Foundation, 10kventures and others. Zerobase is a real-time ZK prover network rolled out by Salus, providing privacy and access to the fastest decentralized computing infrastructure in the world.
🔗 twitter.com/zerobasezk/status/1847408144424509468
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Top 7 Liquid Staking & Restaking Protocols with a Potential Airdrop
Liquid staking and restaking protocols allow users to stake their crypto assets while maintaining liquidity enabling users to earn staking rewards while still having the flexibility to trade or utilize their staked assets in DeFi ecosystems. We compiled a list of promising liquid staking and restaking protocols that offer additional rewards and potentially conduct an airdrop for users: Solv Protocol, Zircuit, Symbiotic, Mellow Protocol, Lombard, Kelp DAO and Karak.
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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 Pantera, a16zcrypto, Polychain Capital, Animoca Brands, Amber and others.
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Clearpool [CPOOL] has introduced RWA launcher on Ozean L2 - WaveMaker
Clearpool $CPOOL has unveiled WaveMaker, Ozean’s accelerator and end-to-end solution for tokenizing Real World Assets (RWAs). The innovation aims to accelerate RWAs for issuers by streamlining the process with expert support and guidance, launching them on the Ozean blockchain, and boosting their growth through strategic investor connections and increased market visibility.
Ozean, a Layer 2 blockchain for RWA yield launched by Clearpool. 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 $0.16. Fully diluted market cap is $161M.
🔗 clearpool.medium.com/wavemaker-the-rwa-launcher-on-ozean-6f72510d32ef
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Skyfire has raised $1M in Strategic funding from Coinbase Ventures and a16z CSX
Skyfire secured new $1M in strategic funding from Coinbase Ventures and a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX). The fresh contribution increases Skyfire's total seed funding to $9.5M, up from its previous raise of $8.5M. That previous round saw participation from Neuberger Berman, Brevan Howard Digital, Intersection Growth Partners, DRW, Inception Capital, Arrington Capital, RedBeard Ventures, Sfermion, Circle and others.
Skyfire is a financial stack designed for the AI economy, offering an instant, global payment system for AI Agents. It currently runs on Polygon, but the team plans to expand to additional blockchains soon.
🔗 theblock.co/post/322742/coinbase-ventures-and-a16zs-csx-bring-skyfires-total-funding-raised-to-9-5-million
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Kraken plans to launch its blockchain next year
Crypto exchange Kraken plans to launch a blockchain early next year for dApps that allows for trading, borrowing and lending of tokens without intermediaries. The new digital ledger will use similar technology to Coinbase’s Base. 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.
🔗 bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-24/crypto-exchange-kraken-plans-to-launch-its-own-blockchain-early-next-year
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Variational has raised $10.3M in a Seed funding round co-led by Bain Capital Crypto and Peak XV Partners
Variational has secured $10.3M in a seed funding round co-led by Bain Capital Crypto and Peak XV Partners. Other investors in the round include Coinbase Ventures, Dragonfly Capital, North Island Ventures, and Hack VC.
Variational is an Arbitrum-based peer-to-peer crypto derivatives trading protocol. Variational's public mainnet is expected in the Q1 of 2025. The protocol's token is also scheduled for release next year.
🔗 theblock.co/post/322653/arbitrum-crypto-protocol-variational-funding
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Top BNB Chain Protocols by Total Value Locked
The total value of assets locked in BNB Chain $BNB is around $4.65B, according to DefiLlama.com. Let’s compare the top DeFi-protocols on BNB Chain by current TVL in USD, in order to evaluate their adoption scale.
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zkLink [ZKL] has announced the upcoming launch of magicLinks
zkLink $ZKL announced the release of a new set of account abstraction tools as part of its latest development roadmap. magicLinks allows users to seamlessly initiate on-chain transactions in a single click of jumping between DApps, wallets, and networks.
These magicLinks can also be shared by KOLs on various platforms to their followers to foster Web3 usage and cross-chain DApp exploration.
Plume Network has joined Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)
Plume Network joins Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), a member-driven organization that brings together leaders from various industries, including, startups, and blockchain projects. Alliance serves as a platform for organizations to collaborate and share best practices to develop open, enterprise-grade Ethereum technology. By joining this alliance Plume can collaborate with Chainlink, ConsenSys, Microsoft, Ernst and Young, JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., Accenture, Hacken and Trail of Bits.
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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 $1.05B 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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Avalanche [AVAX] has introduced Avalanche Card for cryptocurrency payments
Avalanche Foundation $AVAX has introduced the Avalanche Card, which allows users to make payments using tokens such as $WAVAX, $USDC, and sAVAX at any location that accepts Visa. The card is available in both physical and virtual formats. Initially, the card is being issued in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Users can now join the waiting list to obtain the card. Current $AVAX price is $27.6. Current FDV is $19.9B.
🔗 x.com/AvalancheFDN/status/1848470963672711543
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Scroll [SCR] will conduct initial listing on multiple exchanges tomorrow, on October 22nd
Scroll $SCR will be initially listed on Binance, KuCoin, Bitget, BingX, MEXC, Bybit, Bitfinex, OKX, HTX, Gate, tomorrow, on October 22nd, at 8:00 UTC. Previously, $SCR farming was launched on Binance Launchpool with 55M $SCR (5.5% of total supply) in rewards. Moreover, Scroll has announced an airdrop of 7% total supply. Eligible recipients can begin claiming from October 22nd, 07:00 UTC.
Initial circulating supply is 190M SCR (19% of total token supply). Pre-market SCR price is $1.36. Pre-market FDV is $1.36B.
MetaMask has integrated with Space ID [ID] to simplify sending digital assets
MetaMask and digital identity firm Space ID $ID have announced an integration aimed at simplifying sending digital assets and accessing crypto wallets. The integration will allow users to replace all their public wallet addresses with a single, secure, and customizable handle when making transactions on MetaMask. Users will be able to register a Space ID domain name and map those to all their crypto public addresses.
🔗 theblock.co/post/322159/metamask-and-digital-identity-firm-space-id-aim-to-simplify-crypto
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Sophon [SOPH] has announced a partnership with OPEN [OPN]
Sophon $SOPH has partnered with OPEN $OPN, a onchain ticketing platform. Through this partnership, Open will join Sophon as one of the founding partners deploying on Sophon's mainnet at genesis. Sophon has collected over 20.8K $WETH (worth about $56.2M 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.
Stripe has acquired Bridge for $1.1B in crypto's largest purchase
Payments company Stripe has acquired stablecoin platform Bridge in a $1.1B deal, according to TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. Stripe’s largest acquisition to date, and the largest acquisition in the crypto industry’s history, Bridge had raised $58M from investors (Sequoia, Ribbit Capital, Haun Ventures and Index Ventures) and was previously valued at $200M. Bridge offers software that helps businesses accept payments in stablecoins, signalling an expansion of Stripe’s crypto adoption efforts.
🔗 theblock.co/post/322144/stripe-acquires-stablecoin-platform-bridge-for-1-1-billion-in-cryptos-largest-acquisition-techcrunch
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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 21st - Oct 27th), including Zyfi $ZFI, Scroll $SCR, Ponder $PNDR, Decentraland $MANA, Nakamoto Games $NAKA, Ubisoft, X Empire $X, and Ronin $RON. Stay tuned!
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Scroll [SCR] will conduct initial listing on Binance on October 22nd
Scroll $SCR will be initially listed on Binance on October 22nd, at 10:00 UTC. Previously, $SCR farming was launched on Binance Launchpool with 55M $SCR (5.5% of total supply) in rewards. Moreover, Scroll has announced an airdrop of 7% total supply. The snapshot will be taken on October 19th.
Initial circulating supply when listed on Binance is 190M SCR (19% of total token supply). Pre-market $SCR price is $1.27. Pre-market FDV is $1.27B.
pSTAKE [PSTAKE] has introduced Yield-Optimized Bitcoin LST on Babylon
pSTAKE Finance $PSTAKE has unveiled a yield-optimized Bitcoin LST $YBTC on Babylon. $YBTC gets yields through native BTC Staking, restaking, and liquidity farming across multiple DeFi ecosystems. $YBTC is a representation of users’ BTC deposits into pSTAKE that is in turn staked into Babylon to earn Bitcoin staking yields.
pSTAKE is a liquid staking protocol unlocking the liquidity of staked assets built by Persistence $XPRT. Current $PSTAKE price is $0.049. Current FDV is $24.8M.
🔗 x.com/pStakeFinance/status/1846944134965129220
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