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Devs Flock to Ethereum But Fulltimers Still Sorely Needed as DeFi Expands
A new report finds that devs love working in the Ethereum ecosystem.
Osmosis Lights Up the Market with 80% Run in Last 14 Days
Osmosis, a DEX that's part of the Cosmos ecosystem, is hitting all-time highs.
Airdrop Coming for Terra Name Service That Aims To Unite Cosmos
Terra Name Service to airdrop TNS tokens to domain owners.
Terra Blockchain is Set to Connect to the Cosmos Ecosystem
The Terra stablecoin, UST, will be moving over to the Cosmos universe imminently, which should be quite helpful for the progress of DeFi in that ecosystem.
Terraform Labs Creates $150M Fund to Advance Inter-blockchain Communication
Blockchain communities may never get along on Crypto Twitter, but that doesn’t mean the blockchains themselves can’t. Striving towards a world where all blockchains can seamlessly communicate, Terraform Labs has put forward $150M worth of its LUNA tokens. They are…
FTX Breaks Crypto Funding Round Record with $900M Series B
Bucking a bearish crypto market, FTX, the two-year-old cryptocurrency exchange, announced a $900M Series B funding round at a valuation of $18B, the company said in a statement released yesterday. The deal is a clear sign that for all the…
Venture Round Led by a16z Makes OpenSea Latest NFT Unicorn
The NFT marketplace OpenSea has reached a $1.5B valuation after a $100M Series B funding round led by a16z. This makes OpenSea the newest NFT-based unicorn, or a privately held startup company valued over $1B. A16z also led OpenSea’s $23M…
Trading Secretly with SecretSwap
SecretSwap allows users to trade any secret token for any other. It works like Uniswap or SushiSwap, but with lower costs and higher user security.
DeFi Fixed-Lending Protocol Notional Finance Closes $10M Round Led by Pantera
Notional Finance, a decentralized fixed-rate lending protocol built on Ethereum, closed a $10M Series A funding round led by Pantera with participation from ParaFi, 1confirmation, Spartan Group, Nascent, Nima Capital, and others. “Notional’s mission is to bring fixed-rate borrowing and…
Injective Protocol Raises $10M at $1B Valuation From Investors Including Pantera
Injective Protocol, a decentralized derivatives exchange, said it raised a $10M at a $1B valuation from investors including Pantera Capital, BlockTower, Hashed, Cadenza Ventures (formerly BitMex Ventures), among others. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban also participated, while Cumberland, DRW’s crypto…
Step Finance Raises $2M in Round Led by Alameda Research
Step Finance, a Solana app which aggregates users’ DeFi activities across the blockchain’s open finance ecosystem has raised $2M in a round led by Alameda Research, Three Comma Capital and others. “The biggest problem in the Solana ecosystem is how…
Element Finance Raises $4.4M to Boost Fixed Rate DeFi Markets
Element Finance raised $4.4M in a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Placeholder accompanied by SV Angel, A.Capital, Scalar Capital, and Robot Ventures. Angels included Joseph Lubin, Fernando Martinelli, Stani Kulechov, Mariano Conti, Robert Leshner and Tarun Chitra. The…
InsurAce Raises $3M in Round Led by Alameda & HashKey
InsurAce, the Singapore-based insurance protocol, raised $3M in a token-based funding round led by Alameda Research and HashKey Capital. Investors from the project’s $1M seed round, DeFiance Capital, ParaFi Capital, Hashed and Signum Capital, also participated. The round was completed…
dYdX Closes Series B with $10M Investment
dYdX closed its Series B round with an investment of $10M led by Three Arrows Capital and DeFiance Capital. Other investors include Wintermute, Hashed, GSR, SCP, Scalar Capital, Spartan Group, and RockTree Capital. The dYdX exchange, which focuses on derivatives…
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