💰 Mina Protocol Raises $92M in Ecosystem Fund

The round was led by FTX Ventures, Three Arrows Capital and other major funds.

This is the funds' first major investment in the zk-snark zero-knowledge technology that powers the Mina Protocol.

Bitcoin Lightning Network bandwidth comparison with other blockchains and payment systems 💪

Over 2 million ETH burned, at the current rate it is $5.7 billion 🔥

Just-In: EU May Revive Down Voted Proof-Of-Work (PoW) Ban This Week
https://bit.ly/3JxYbEW

📈 Bitcoin price and its halvings - history.

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As we have already said, in the first half of March, the number of Bitcoin addresses with a non-zero balance reached 40 million units. While the maximum indicator is 40.25 million.

For comparison: at the peak of the previous bull run in late 2017 and early 2018, it did not exceed 30 million. Here is the general chart.

Top 3 bitcoin wallet lost 1,500 BTC for the second time in a week and the third time in March 🤨

STEPN will start accepting payments in BNB 😎

Breaking: Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy Borrows $205 Mln To Buy More Bitcoin
https://bit.ly/3tMmycx

Crypto wallet MetaMask has updated its mobile application and now iOS users can buy cryptocurrency via Apple Pay 🦊

disBalancer, a cybersecurity project based in Kyiv, is assembling the world's largest cyber army for powerful DDoS attacks on russian propaganda websites.

Before the war began, the disBalancer team worked on a stress tool that helps businesses make them resistant to DDoS attacks and protect crypto-related projects against fraudsters. After Russia had invaded Ukraine, the team decided to use the app to fight Russian propaganda - Liberator.

The goal is to gain more than 100,000 active users to fight with the most secured propaganda websites.

CoinDesk, Bloomberg, The Times, the Washington Post, Yahoo Finance and BBC Radio wrote about this app. DDOS token doubled in a month.

All you need to do is to download Liberator on your PC or laptop and launch it.

🇺🇦 Help Ukraine win in cyberwar, download Liberator — https://disbalancer.com

🐬 CleanDefi aspires to become one of the leading DEX aggregators that offers the best rates by
discovering the most efficient swapping routes across all leading DEXs. Our scanning module
retrieves the exchange rates among Solana liquidity pools to provide the best exchange rate to our
clients. There is still no such platform on Solana and CleanDefi will be the first.
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✅ Safety and security is matter of great importance in all DEFI projects. That’s why CleanDefi is
currently in process of a security audit of smart contract.
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✅ Features:
• First universal scanning module like 1Inch, but based on Solana
• Low costs and best rates
• User Friendly UI/UX as an appealing interface from the ground up
• Optimized pricing formula for better capital efficiency
• Ultra-fast transactions due to Solana network
• Swap, Stake and Farm.
• NFT marketplace and NFT bonus program
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🔥🔥🔥 IDO of CleanDefi native token CDFI will be held at the beginning of May
Registration is going to be announced soon! 🔥🔥🔥

Fantom Foundation launches $480 million grant to develop the ecosystem 💰

The Foundation has allocated 335 million FTM to some of TVL's flagship projects on Fantom, helping them grow the Fantom ecosystem and build apps.

🔸 What does this mean?
An incentive for the growth of Fantom and its ecosystem. Farming will become more attractive again + new projects on the Fantom blockchain will appear.

Top 3 bitcoin wallet keeps draining, another minus 1,500 BTC 😬

The fear and greed index is back in the fear zone 😬

Breaking: EU Tightens Crypto Sanctions Against Russia and Belarus
https://bit.ly/3JiSXMt

The number of active users on the Ethereum network increased by 22.5 percent compared to the local minimum in January 2022, when the cryptocurrency niche seriously collapsed. This means that blockchain enthusiasts have begun to use it again as the market recovers.

Now the figure is 8.8 million people per month.

Breaking: USDC Issuer Circle To Raise $400 Mln In BlackRock Deal
https://bit.ly/3E5n1tX

The largest stablecoin by market cap share remains Tether’s USDT (blue) with nearly 45 percent of the market. The corresponding UST indicator from Terra (mint) has been the most active recently, which already accounts for 10 percent of the niche.

Blockchain com plans to go public 🤝

The IPO is planned no earlier than 2023. Blockchain previously raised $300 million at a $14 billion valuation.