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2023-04-04 19:18:15 Manifold (FOLD) is building its liquid staking platform and acquires Cream Finance’s validator set

Manifold Finance $FOLD is building its own multi-chain liquid staking protocol with omnichain token, called mevETH, that will offer additional yield through MEV opportunities. MevETH token will be built using the cross-chain LayerZero protocol. To kickstart the protocol, Manifold has acquired Cream Finance’s validator set. This will bring around 25,000 $ETH (around $44.5M) under its control when the protocol launches in a few months.

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2023-04-04 18:20:19 Polyhedra has raised $15M in a pre-Series A funding round led by Polychain Capital

Polyhedra Network, a ZK infrastructure startup, raised $15M in a pre-Series A funding round led by Polychain Capital. Other investors include ABCDE, Sparkle Ventures, HashKey Capital, Foresight Ventures, Kucoin Ventures, NGC Ventures and Arcane Group. The fundraise comes a little over a month after the startup closed a $10M strategic funding round from Binance Labs and Polychain. Polyhedra is building a suite of systems focusing on blockchain interoperability, scalability and privacy.

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2023-04-04 16:45:19 LayerZero has raised $120M in a Series B funding round at $3B valuation

LayerZero Labs, a company behind a cross-chain interoperability and messaging protocol Stargate Finance $STG, has raised $120M in a Series B funding round at $3B valuation. Investors in round include a16z, Sequoia Capital, Samsung Next, BOND, Circle Ventures, Open Sea Ventures, Chapter One, Com2uS, Franklin Templeton and others. Last year, LayerZero closed a $135M Series A+ funding round at $1B valuation with Coinbase Ventures, PayPal Ventures, and Tiger Global as the investors.

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2023-04-04 16:31:19 RabbitX (STRP) has announced the Airdrop of its new token for community

RabbitX (ex-Strips Finance), a derivatives DEX built on Starknet, has announced the airdrop of its new token for community. Airdrop will be distributed to early adopters, active traders and community builders of RabbitX. Snapshot will be taken on April 9th, so users still have the opportunity to participate in early-mainnet for a potential airdrop (special code - backthebunny). $STRP holders will be able to migrate to a new token. Previously, RabbitX has raised $19.5M from Multicoin Capital, Sequoia Capital, Morningstar Ventures and others.

twitter.com/rabbitx_io/status/1641408506044780544 Open / Comment

2023-04-04 16:02:53 Bitget has received a $10M strategic investment from Dragonfly Capital

Dragonfly Capital, a major crypto venture firm, has announced a $10M strategic investment in Bitget, a crypto derivatives exchange with current 24-hour open interest of about $2.4B. Recently, Bitget has acquired the crypto wallet BitKeep in March after investing an additional $30M in the startup. The new funding will use used to continue expanding into spot trading, yield-generating products and to grow its launchpad initiative.

theblock.co/post/224702/dragonfly-invests-bitget Open / Comment

2023-04-04 15:38:28 Top Exchanges by Liquidations in last 7 days

The vast majority of the casualties were long positions last days, with more than $629M 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. Open / Comment

2023-04-04 13:45:42 Humans.aі (HEART) will launch Humans blockchain on Mainnet on May 29th

Humans.aі $HEART is launching its blockchain for AIs on Mainnet on May 29th. The Humans chain is a domain-specific blockchain meticulously engineered to host, interact with, and train AI models and networks represented as AI NFTs. It has seamless interoperability with any existing Cosmos blockchain, as well as compatibility with EVM. Humans Blockchain is a sovereign chain supported by 50 validators, such as Ledger, Moonstake, Everstake and others.

twitter.com/humansdotai/status/1642933288259010565 Open / Comment

2023-04-04 13:07:58 Ankr (ANKR) has partnered with ZetaChain to add RPC service

Ankr $ANKR, a leading Web3 infrastructure provider, has partnered with ZetaChain, a decentralized L1 blockchain with built-in cross-chain interoperability. Through the partnership, Ankr is providing a geo-distributed ZetaChain RPC comprised of blockchain nodes running worldwide for low-latency and reliable connections. So users can access ZetaChain Community and Premium RPCs, make request calls, and receive information returns that are identical to the results they would get by running a ZetaChain full node themselves.

ankr.com/blog/zetachain-ankrs-newest-rpc-connection Open / Comment

2023-04-03 19:31:20 Top 6 Projects with ongoing Testnet to participate (Part 7)

Testnet is an instance of a blockchain or protocol, powered by the same or a newer version of the underlying software, to be used for testing and experimentation without risk to real funds or the main chain. Testnet participants can potentially get a token retrodrop, so such opportunities are worth following and trying. Among promising projects on testnet stage are Linea, Sui, thirdweb, Swell, Nautilus Chain and Derivio, according to A2 Finance updates. Open / Comment

2023-04-03 18:48:03 Re7 Capital and Republic Crypto have launched a $100M fund for investing in liquid tokens

Re7 Capital, a venture capital firm, and Republic Crypto, a Web3 advisory and crypto infrastructure firm, launched a $100M fund for investing in liquid tokens. The fund, named RxR Opportunities Fund, aims to provide qualified investors with the ability to get exposure to a group of hand-picked crypto tokens, focusing on those with medium-sized market caps. The fund has a one-year lock-up with liquidity then unlocked on a quarterly basis.

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