​​Avalon has raised $10M in the funding round co-led by Bitkraft and Hashed

Avalon gaming studios closes its $10M investment led by Bitkraft and Hashed. Additional round participants included Coinbase Ventures, Spartan Capital, Foresight Ventures, LiquidX, Momentum6, Delphi Digital, Sanctor Capital, Yield Guild Games, MH Ventures, Focus Labs, Mechanism Capital, and others. The project has also unveiled its plans to open the closed, early-access version of the game later this year.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/288349/bitkraft-and-hashed-lead-10-million-round-for-crypto-gaming-studio-avalon

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​​Aethir (ATH) has announced its partnership with Y8U (Y8U)

Aethir partners with Y8U, Humans AI-incubated native decentralized protocol that combines content-addressable storage with smart contract-based consent management. Under this collaboration, Aethir's scalable decentralized cloud infrastructure will empower the extraction and usage of Digital DNA. Aethir builds scalable decentralized cloud infrastructure for Gaming & AI.

👉🏻 x.com/y8udotai/status/1778860690716963102

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​​Polyhedra Network (ZK) announces its partnership with Kelp DAO

Polyhedra Network teams up with Kelp DAO, a multichain liquid staking platform with $350M+ in TVL. Through this partnership, Kelp DAO will allocate $300M in staked $ETH to help secure Polyhedra. Polyhedra Network is building secure, interoperable, and scalable Web3 infrastructure with advanced zero-knowledge-proof technology.

👉🏻 x.com/PolyhedraZK/status/1779888698219450387

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​​BounceBit enables $FDUSD support for Premium Yield Generation

BounceBit integrates $FDUSD into its Premium Yield Generation solution. This innovation allows users to stake a minimum of 1000 FDUSD and earn yield via delta-neutral Funding Rate Arbitrage strategies. Moreover, users can experience a 3X BounceBit points multiplier for Points Paradise.

Users can join the early access phase and claim a free BounceClub on testnet via our invitation link. BounceBit is building a BTC restaking infrastructure that provides a foundational layer for different restaking products.

👉🏻 x.com/bounce_bit/status/1779764959158862126

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​​Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know

This digest provides a quick overview of the most significant cryptocurrency news, that's worth your attention.

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​​bitsCrunch (BCUT) has announced the collaboration with Plasm AI

bitsCrunch has joined forces with Plasm AI, a project that fuses Non-Player Characters (NPCs), NFTs, and AI to transform the gaming industry. This partnership aims to bring next-level AI-powered NPCs to life, while bitsCrunch's AI-enhanced analytics empower gamers and developers.

bitsCrunch is an AI-enhanced data network that delivers NFT analytics and forensic data, backed by Coinbase Ventures, Animoca Brands, Polygon Ventures, Morningstar Ventures, Chainlink, and others.

👉🏻 x.com/bitsCrunch/status/1779843359269355766

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​​RWA Inc. (RWA) has announced its integration into Prom (PROM)

RWA Inc. joins forces with Prom, a developer of the modular ZkEVM Layer 2 that enables interoperability across various chains. Under this partnership, Prom users will now be able to tokenize real-world assets with ease. RWA Inc. is an advanced tokenization ecosystem with unique features.

👉🏻 x.com/RWA_Inc_/status/1778764855006142509

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​​AIT Protocol (AIT) will be listed on the Gate.io exchange on April 18th

AIT Protocol announces its first CEX listing on Gatе.іо that will take place on April 18th. Trading for the AIT/USDT trading pair will go live on April 18th, at 10:00 AM UTC. In the anticipation of CEX listing, users can trade $AIT on the Uniswap exchange. AIT Protocol is the inaugural data infrastructure dedicated to data annotations and the training of AI models, incubated by PAAL AI and Metabros.

👉🏻 gate.io/article/35953

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​​Mirada AI (MIRX) will join the Google for Startups program

Mirada AI has been selected to join the Google for Startups program. Through this innovation, Mirada AI will gain access to Google Cloud AI experts, training tools, and resources, as well as grant funding, and networking with a global community of startup founders. Earlier this week, Mirada AI was also accepted to the Microsoft for Startups program. Mirada AI is a decentralized AI tool, powered by AI via $MIRX, that offers image generation, face-swap, animation, LLM chat, image upscaling, and more.

👉🏻 x.com/miradaai/status/1779098322243821990

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​​TOP DeFi Projects by Social Activity

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​​Puffer raises $18M in Series A funding led by Electric Capital and Brevan Howard Digital

Additional round participants included Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Lemniscap, Franklin Templeton, Fidelity, Mechanism, Lightspeed Faction, Consensys, Animoca, and GSR. The fresh funding will be used to help launch Puffer’s mainnet. Back in January, Puffer received an undisclosed investment from Binance Labs. Puffer Finance is an Ethereum liquid restaking protocol with $1.18B in total value locked.

👉🏻 coindesk.com/tech/2024/04/16/liquid-restaking-protocol-puffer-raises-18m-led-by-brevan-howard-electric-capital

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​​AutoLayer (LAY3R) has announced the integration with Balancer (BAL)

AutoLayer is now integrated with Balancer, a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) protocol. Users can now provide liquidity to LRT Pools on Balancer with just one click. Like other AutoLayer products, these pools are boosted with AutoLayer points while generating EigenLayer points and LRT Points.

AutoLayer is the premier Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRT) finance app on Arbitrum. The project previously closed its $2.5M funding round backed by Morningstar Ventures, Kucoin Labs, Spark Digital Capital, Poolz Ventures, and others.

👉🏻 x.com/AutoLayer/status/1780174579035501033

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​​Sending Labs announces the closure of its $7.5M seed extension funding

Sending Labs, a DePIN project focused on web3 communications has raised $7.5M in a seed extension funding round. Among investors are Nomad Capital, Symbolic Capital, Wеb3.соm Ventures, Galxe, SWC Global, along with several angel investors like one Balaji Srinivasan and Yield Guild Games co-founder Gabby Dizon. The project has previously raised $12.5M in seed funding, led by Insignia Venture Partners, MindWorks Capital, and Signum Capital.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/288617/depin-project-sendingnetwork-crypto-funding

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​​TOP 10 dApps on BNB Chain by Volume (30d)

A decentralized application (dApp) is a program built on blockchain that combines a smart contract and a front-end user interface. We present the top dApps on #BNBChain by volume in the last 30 days, according to the data from DappRadar.

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​​Catamoto (CATA) will be listed on the PancakeSwap exchange on April 19th

Trading for the $CATA token will go live on PancakeSwap on April 19th, at 10:00 AM UTC. The project has previously conducted its IDOs on multiple platforms including Kommunitas, TenseT, Oxbull, BSCPad, and ApeTerminal. Catamoto is a community memecoin project on BNB Chain with the $CATA native token.

👉🏻 x.com/4catamoto/status/1779843073033289995

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​​Apeiron (APRS) goes live on the Gаtе.іо exchange along with the startup pool

Apeiron $APRS will be listed on Gate on April 18th, while the airdrop startup pool is already active. Users can now take part in the airdrop startup pool event and grab a share of 8,044 $APRS. Apeiron is the NFT-based play-and-earn god game, backed by Hashed, Morningstar Ventures, DeFiance Capital, Spartan Group, and others.

👉🏻 blog.apeironnft.com/p/aprs-coming-to-gateio-and-nova-east

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​​OKX (OKB) announces the launch of the X Layer L2 network on mainnet

OKX crypto exchange rolls out the public mainnet of X Layer, an Ethereum-based zero-knowledge Layer 2 network built using Polygon's Chain Development Kit. X Layer will allow users to deposit and withdraw crypto via OKX, with access to over 170 dapps. Moreover, the company confirmed that the $OKB token will serve as X Layer’s native asset to pay transaction fees on the network.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/288372/okx-launches-new-layer-2-mainnet-x-layer

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​​Sekuya (SKYA) has announced a partnership with Immutable

Sekuya teams up with Immutable, a Layer 2 network for NFTs and blockchain gaming. Under this partnership, Sekuya will use the security, optimization, and scaling solutions offered by Immutable X and Immutable zkEVM. Incubated by SingularityDAO, Sekuya Multiverse is an award-winning startup project, offering an immersive MMORPG experience set in the Novae Terrae, a 10-world universe.

👉🏻 x.com/sekuyaofficial/status/1780162839493173252

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​​Runes Terminal (RUNI) announces its partnership with BRC 20 DEX

Runes Terminal has announced a strategic partnership with BRC 20 DEX, the ultimate trading hub for BRC-20 tokens. This integration aims to help the projects deliver on Bitcoin-improving products. Runes Terminal is the first launchpad supporting the new Bitcoin token standard - Runes, to build a gate between EVMs and the Bitcoin network.

👉🏻 medium.com/@runesterminal/standard-bearers-runes-terminal-x-brc-20-dex-7907934ac6ec

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​​Andreessen Horowitz has raised $7.2B for its latest set of funds

Andreessen Horowitz closes a $7.2B round for its newest set of funds. The investment will be divided into different practices within the firm, including $3.75B for the firm's growth fund, $1.25B for its AI infrastructure, $1B for AI apps, $600M for its "American Dynamism" strategy, and another $600M for its second gaming fund. Andreessen Horowitz is one of Silicon Valley’s biggest venture capital firms.

👉🏻 axios.com/2024/04/15/andreessen-horowitz-7-billion-new-funds

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​​Nuklai (NAI) will be initially listed on Gatе.іо and MEXC on April 17th

Trading for the $NAI token will go live on the Gatе.іо and MEXC exchanges on April 17th, at 08:00 AM UTC. The project has previously conducted its token sales on ChainGPT Pad, Gate.io, Ape Terminal, and WeWay. Nuklai is an innovative layer 1 blockchain infrastructure to host a collaborative data ecosystem that will fuel AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) with world-class data.

👉🏻 gate.io/article/35813

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