Top 7 Most Active Crypto VCs in June
Let’s take a look at the most active crypto funds by the number of investments in June, with the list including Animoca Brands, Linea Ecosystem Investment Alliance (LEIA), HashKey Capital, Big Brain Holdings, Foresight Ventures, Electric Capital, and Castrum Capital.
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Lumia [ORN] has introduced HyperNodes with 50% of new supply allocated to holders
HyperNodes will play a crucial role in Lumia's liquidity ecosystem, providing the licenses for the operation rights of virtual Lumia machines. 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.
HyperNode rewards, comprising 50% of newly minted $LUMIA token supply, will be distributed among all holders. HyperNodes max supply of 50,000. The initial price will be $1,000 for the first 10,000 Nodes.
NATIX Network [NATIX] will be initially listed on KuCoin, Gate and CoinList on July 2nd
NATIX Network will conduct an initial listing on KuCoin, Gate and Coinlist on July 2nd, at 10:00 AM (UTC). Moreover, $NATIX is still available on KuCoin BurningDrop. Users can mine $NATIX by staking $KCS assets. During the Burning Acceleration period, users who have already staked can mine more $NATIX rewards. Allocation for BurningDrop is 200M $NATIX tokens.
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. Previously, NATIX conducted a $NATIX token sale on CoinList. CoinList sale price was $0.001. Token sale hardcap was $5M.
🔗 kucoin.com/announcement/en-natix-network-natix-gets-listed-on-kucoin-world-premiere
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Sharpe AI [SAI] has announced a strategic partnership with HyperGPT [HGPT]
Sharpe AI enters a strategic partnership with HyperGPT, a go-to decentralized marketplace for advanced AI solutions and offers a seamless SDK for accessing integrated AI services.
Recently, Sharpe AI rolled out Sharpe NFT data, a comprehensive terminal for advanced NFT data, designed for traders.
Redacted has raised $10M in a funding round led by The Spartan Group
Redacted has secured $10M in a funding round led by The Spartan Group. Other investors include Animoca Brands, P2 Ventures (Polygon Ventures), Saison Capital, founders VCs and angel investors. Harnessing the power of blockchain and AI, Redacted is building an ecosystem of products to form an entertainment datasphere, where Web3 users can do what they love most - play, trade, watch, and get rewarded.
Powered by the $RDAC Token, Redacted aims to underpin its entertainment and gamification products with a data protocol, which will provide better, more targeted experiences for users and greater commercial opportunities for web3 companies and Dapps.
🔗 venturebeat.com/games/redacted-raises-10m-for-web3-entertainment-ecosystem
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XION launches Chain Abstraction for Neutron via Abstract
XION has announced the launch of Chain Abstraction solution to Neutron, enabled by Abstract. The integration connects the XION ecosystem to Neutron, a smart contract ecosystem enabling developers to build and scale breakthrough applications.
Now users on XION can interact with Neutron without 'leaving' the chain. Abstract extends XION’s ease-of-use, offering seamless composability of users, apps, and liquidity across connected ecosystems.
Top Ethereum Layer 2 Projects by Total Value Locked
The total value of assets locked in Ethereum Layer 2 systems is almost $43B 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, zkSync Era $ZK, Linea, Mantle $MNT, Scroll, Starknet $STRK, Manta Network $MANTA and others.
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Crossover Markets has raised $12M in a Series A funding round
Crossover Markets has secured $12M in a Series A funding round led by Illuminate Financial and DRW Venture Capital. Other investors include Flow Traders, Laser Digital, Two Sigma, Wintermute, Exness, Gate, GMO, Pepperstone, Trademax, and Think Markets.
Crossover Markets is a digital asset trading technology firm focused on meeting the unique liquidity requirements of institutions in the cryptocurrency markets. Previously, it closed a $6.35M Seed funding round backed by Gate, Wintermute, Flow Traders, Laser Digital, and others.
🔗 crossovermarkets.com/crossover-markets-raises-12-million-series-a-funding-round-led-by-illuminate-financial-and-drw-venture-capital
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Covalent [CQT] has raised $5M in a strategic funding round led by RockTree Capital
Covalent has closed a $5M strategic funding round led by RockTree Capital. Other investors include CMCC Global, Moonrock Capital, and Double Peak Group. The fundings will be used to expand into Asia and bolster the adoption of long-term data availability in countries such as China and Singapore.
Arthur Hayes, a founder of the crypto exchange BitMEX, joined Covalent as an advisor on June 11 and received $CQT tokens as compensation.
Top Exchanges by Liquidations in last 7 days
The vast majority of the casualties were long positions last days, with more than $1.1B 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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Blast Foundation will airdrop BLAST along with initial listings tomorrow, on June 26th
The Blast Foundation will airdrop $BLAST to the community tomorrow, on June 26, at 14:00 UTC. Total $BLAST supply is 100B tokens. 50% of $BLAST tokens are allocated to the community, with 17% initial airdrop: 7% tokens allocated to Blast Gold, 7% to Blast Points, and 3% to Blur Foundation for both retroactive and future airdrops.
$BLAST will be initially listed on Bybit, KuCoin, Gate and MEXC and other exchanges tomorrow, right after TGE.
Enso has raised $4.2M in a funding round led by Hypersphere Ventures and IDEO CoLab Ventures.
Enso has closed an additional $4.2M to support the launch of the first intent engine. The newest funding round was led by Hypersphere Ventures and IDEO CoLab Ventures, with angel investors from Essential, AltLayer, Synthetix, Safe, Socket, Titan, ChainFlip, Sygnum, Pendle, Liquity, Biconomy, The Graph, Dune and others.
Enso Intent Engine is the world's first fully decentralized shared network state for building transactable data across all blockchain frameworks. It can fulfill all request types by having a shared map of all Smart Contract interactions across blockchain frameworks including rollups, appchains, and blockchains.
Solana accelerator Colosseum has raised $60M for its first fund
Colosseum, a Solana-focused crypto accelerator, has raised $60M for its first fund to back early-stage startups in the Solana ecosystem. The fund will only invest in select projects chosen from winners of Solana hackathons. As for its first investments, the fund has backed 10 projects, all of which will be presented at its first demo day on June 27th.
🔗 theblock.co/post/301795/solana-accelerator-colosseum-first-fund
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Top Solana Protocols by Total Value Locked
The total value of assets locked in Solana $SOL is around $4.2B, according to DefiLlama.com. Let’s compare the top DeFi-protocols on Solana by current TVL in USD including Jito $JTO, Marinade $MNDE, Kamino $KMNO, Raydium $RAY, Sanctum $CLOUD, Jupiter $JUP, marginfi, Drift $DRIFT, BlazeStake $BLZE, Meteora, and others in order to evaluate their adoption scale.
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pSTAKE [PSTAKE] has launched Bitcoin liquid staking Testnet on Babylon
pSTAKE’s Bitcoin liquid staking testnet on Babylon is now live. pSTAKE will launch a points program when it launches on the mainnet in the coming weeks and participation in the testnet will give users extra boosted points. The testnet allows users to test deposits and withdrawals of sBTC (testnet BTC).
Users can now access the testnet via our invite code
top7ico
and get extra boosted points
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 Coatue, Paradigm, Dragonfly, Polychain Capital, Spartan, Hashkey Capital, Animoca Brands and others.
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Particle [PTC] will conduct an Airdrop alongside the initial listing on Bybit on July 2nd
Particle has announced an airdrop of 20M $PTC tokens (10% of total supply) to community. Eligible users will get $PTC airdrop based on the points from Particle leaderboard. The snapshot is already taken. Right after TGE, Particle will also be initially listed on Bybit on July 2nd, at 10:00 AM UTC.
Particle is an ecosystem of liquidity restaking protocols that enable permissionless leverage trading and interest rate swaps. Particle is based on Blast L2 and has over $150M in TVL. Previously, it closed a seed funding round led by Polychain Capital with Nascent, Inflection, Neon DAO, Arthur Hayes, and others.
🔗 x.com/particle_trade/status/1806671878834270539
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Vitalik Buterin took part in MegaETH’s $20M seed funding round led by Dragonfly
MegaETH has secured $20M in a seed funding round led by DragonFly Capital, with participation of Big Brain Holdings, Robot Ventures, and Figment Capital. Angel investors, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, ConsenSys founder and CEO Joseph Lubin, EigenLayer founder and CEO Sreeram Kannan, and others also joined the round.
MegaETH is an EVM-compatible blockchain that brings Web2-level real-time performance to the crypto world for the first time.
🔗 theblock.co/post/302271/vitalik-buterin-megaeth-funding-token-valuation
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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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AnchorZero has raised $8M in seed funding round led by Bain Capital Crypto and Spark Capital
AnchorZero has secured $8M in a seed funding round led by Bain Capital Crypto and Spark Capital. Other investors include Robot Ventures, Ethereal Ventures, Mischief, Pascal Capital and angel investors. AnchorZero is a Web3 tax planning solution that provides advanced tax strategies accessible to everyone. In addition, AnchorZero has announced the first product AnchorZero Founder Roth IRA, which can save tech founders and early employees billions of dollars on their exits.
🔗 x.com/anchorzero/status/1805603856287412523
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Ora has raised $20M in a Series A funding round backed by Polychain Capital
Ora Protocol has secured $20M in a Series A funding round, backed by Polychain Capital, Hashkey Capital, SevenX Ventures and HFO. Ora builds a verifiable oracle protocol that integrates AI and complex computations into blockchain environments. Previously, it closed a $3M pre-seed funding round led by HongShan (ex-Sequoia China), with participation from dao5, Foresight Ventures and FutureMoney Group.
🔗 x.com/OraProtocol/status/1805981228329513260
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Blast [BLAST] Airdrop claim is live alongside initial listing on multiple exchanges
Blast has opened $BLAST Airdrop Phase 1 claims. A total of 17B $BLAST (17% of total supply, equivalent to $340M by current price) have been distributed as Airdrop Phase 1: 7% tokens allocated to Blast Gold, 7% to Blast Points, and 3% to Blur Foundation for retroactive and future airdrops. Eligible users have a 30-day period to claim their tokens.
$BLAST has been listed on Bybit, KuCoin, Gate, MEXC, Thruster and other exchanges. Current price is $0.02. Current FDV is $2B.
Aethir [ATH] has announced the ecosystem funding in easeflow
Aethir has revealed an ecosystem funding in easeflow, an official NaaS provider, to make the checker node delegation process reputable, secure, and efficient. As a part of the partnership, Aethir will be running its checker nodes on easeflow. Additionally, users now can start earning rewards by delegating their nodes with easeflow.
Backed by Framework Ventures, Merit Circle, Hashkey, Animoca Brands, and others, Aethir has raised over $32M in private funding for its ecosystem. Moreover, Aethir has collected over 41.9K $WETH (worth $141.5M at current rate) via node sales on Impossible Finance.
Sophon has launched new pools for SOPH token farming
Sophon $SOPH has announced the launch of new farming pools, including Zentry (stZENT), ether.fі (ETH, wETH, eETH, weETH), and Lido (ETH, wETH, stETH, wstETH). Previously, $BEAM farming pool was 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 $70.1M 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.
Conduit has raised $37M in a Series A funding round led by Paradigm and Haun Ventures
Conduit, a crypto infrastructure firm, has secured $37M in a Series A funding round led by Paradigm and Haun Vetures. Other investors in the round include Bankless Ventures, Credibly Neutral, Coinbase Ventures, Robot Ventures, as well as angel investors from Ethereum Foundation, EigenLayer, Uniswap, Celestia, etc.
Conduit plans to use the freshly raised funds to roll out products that help developers build their own “customizable and reliable” rollups, which could lay the groundwork for the development of new use cases for distributed-ledger technology.
KIP Protocol (KIP) has announced a strategic partnership with Rido Protocol
KIP Protocol has partered with Rido Protocol, the Web3 personal data layer for AI, building the next-generation trillion-level trusted data trading market. Through the partnership, projects plan to transform data ownership, privacy, and monetization in Web3 and AI.
By merging KIP Protocol's transparent accounting and revenue-sharing infrastructure with Rido's advanced data control and marketplace capabilities, they ensure a secure, privacy-preserving environment for all AI contributors and creators.
Elfin Metaverse has received strategic investment from Manta Foundation
Elfin Metaverse has announced a strategic investment and partneship with Manta Foundation. Through the partnership, Manta will provide extensive technical support and collaboration for Elfin Metaverse’s development endeavors.
Manta will be distributing airdrops to Elfin Metaverse users. Additionally, both parties will continue to roll out more benefits for the users in the near future. In future Elfin’s game NFT will continuously airdrop to Manta’s users that are in Elfin Metaverse.
Clearpool (CPOOL) partners with Synnax to enable real-time AI Credit Intelligence for RWA markets
Clearpool has announced a strategic partnership with Synnax, a privacy-preserving provider of real-time AI Credit Intelligence for DeFi and RWA markets. Synnax will provide credit intelligence, that includes predictive financial ratios, forecasts for probability of default, and a forward-looking credit signal.
Moreover, by integrating Synnax Credit Signals, the Clearpool Protocol will generate an additional revenue stream through Synnax referral fees and attract a broader network of borrowers and lenders.
Top Exchanges by Liquidations in the last 24 hours - more than $345M liquidated
$BTC price suffered a pullback today, dropping over 5% in daily trading following Mt. Gox's announcement to distribute $9B in Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash repayments starting in early July. That caused a cascade of liquidations.
The vast majority of the casualties were long positions in last 24 hours, with more than $345M 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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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 $86B, 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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